Don Paskini has a depressing vision of the future: Redwood’s vision is one in which increasing numbers of elderly people spend the last years of their lives in unregulated care homes, vulnerable to abuse in institutions whose first duty is to maximise profits for their shareholders, and then when they die, their beneficiaries receive tax-free […]
Entries from August 19th, 2007
Something to look forward to
August 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Something to look forward to · Politics
Tags: Tories
A pox on Essex
August 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on A pox on Essex · Life
How good of Jams to point out yet another claim to fame for the county of my birth… it deserves a round of applause. Or at least a dose of the clap.
Tags: Essex
Authors signing books
August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
When staff at a book shop in Australia saw a bloke taking books off the shelf and writing in them they thought it was someone vandalising their stock, but it turned out to be Stephen King surreptitiously autographing his books. The manager of the shop said that this is quite common: Ms Ellis added that […]
Tags: Books
Badger graphics
August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
With all the to-ing and fro-ing to visit poorly relatives recently it made a change to go down to visit all the healthy ones tonight. My mother and sister both belong to a painting club and tonight they were having an exhibition in Southend to which we were invited. The place was even more packed […]
On the road again
August 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on On the road again · Life, Work
I have been doing a lot of driving in the last couple of weeks, at least by my standards. Under normal circumstances I can often go a week without getting behind the wheel, but with trips to visit the old man in Herts and visits to Raynes Park and Basingstoke for work, and a family […]
One under
August 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on One under · Work
On Tuesday one of my colleagues was telling us over lunch about how he used to be a train driver. We were all a bit surprised and thought he was winding us up, but eventually we believed him. He said that he finally left the job after the third time he had someone throw themselves […]
Crawley Town v Spurs
August 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
What is going on? Next week a Spurs XI are coming down to play Crawley Town. Its unlikely that we will see Defoe, Bent or Berbatov down the Broadfield stadium but the team is supposed to contain a lot of first team players who aren’t getting much real action. In other words, its a pre-season […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football
Politics is boring!
August 15th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Politics
Anyone who has done around knocking on doors for a political party will have heard the complaints many times: "politics is boring", "its not relevant to me", and "they are all the same anyway". There is some truth in that of course. Even those of us involved in politics, albeit in a small grass roots […]
Tags: Canvassing·Tories·Trade Unions
Tables
August 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Tables · Life
It really is pointless having any league tables produced until everybody has played at least three or four games each. BUT It is OK now that West Ham are off the bottom thanks to Spurs losing another game. What happened to all their talk of finally breaking into the top four this year? Its early […]
Tags: Football·Statistics
Welcome to Tijuana
August 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Music
Welcome to Tijuana Tequila, sex and marijuana” With a new album about to be released, and a visit to Britain scheduled for October, the media are starting to show some interest in Manu Chao again. I have seen two articles/interviews already this week, but can’t help adding a comment or two myself. Its almost a […]
Tags: Concerts
