Over the last few years the cat has stopped bringing dead and dying animals home, but for two years running he made an exception and left a dead mouse outside the back door on my birthday. This year he didn’t and I am feeling very put out. Its not that I actually wanted a dead […]
Entries from September 30th, 2007
Anti-bargain
September 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Anti-bargain · Life
Two examples this week of why you do need to act on impulse when you see something you like for sale at a good price. First is the Creative Zen Vision M 60Gb mp3 player. For what seems like months I have been tempted by Amazon promoting this gadget for £159. Its such a good […]
How the other half live
September 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Politics
In the Guardian today, Polly Toynbee was quoting Norman Tebbit: Lord Tebbit, the party’s deathless Sauron, shot a deadly pre-conference bolt at Cameron with effusive praise for Gordon Brown – “I think he is a very clever man and I have very considerable regard for him” – while damning his own leader: “I think we […]
Tags: Newspapers·Tories
Bargain time
September 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
While looking around town, killing a bit of time after having some birthday drinks, I wandered into that remaindered books-type shop (Book Works?). What a result! I picked up the Rik Mayall autobiography, The Understudy by David Nicholls (who wrote Starter for Ten which I read this month) and a book about Peter Cook and […]
Extreme reporting
September 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
Looking through the Crawley Observer to write the last post, I spotted an amusing juxtaposition. I do hope it was done deliberately. On page 8 there was a story about kids doing the amazingly dangerous trick where they use a motorbike to spin the roundabout in a kids’ playground really, really fast while someone tries […]
Tags: Local Papers·Newspapers
Where do the papers find their news?
September 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
The implication here is that they just get it all of the Interweb, and sometimes it does seem that way. One ex-Crawley News reporter I used to drink with sometimes often complained that all the Observer does is copy & paste from the web to get their stories. A bit of an exaggeration but it […]
Unlikely quote of the day
September 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Unlikely quote of the day · Life
I am grateful to BBC4 for this providing this line, which is not something I could have expected to hear: And what is the connection between this urinal and the Protestant reformation? The answer was not as interesting as the question.
Logos
September 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Its not that I don’t like the proposed new Crawley Borough Council logo It could have been a lot worse. I’m not even too concerned about it’s unfortunate resemblance to an MBNA logo Its just that I like the one I did much more. I would go so far as to say that I am […]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Logos
28 Weeks Later
September 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
Last night we watched the film 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to 28 Days Later. Obviously. Anyone who hasn’t seen it may want to stop reading in case I give the plot away – if such a thing is possible. While I enjoyed the film (of course I did. Its basically a zombie film. I […]
224 and counting
September 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
This is the least original thing I have written (and that is saying something!) because there are at least 224 other blogs saying the same thing – Chicken Yoghurt is keeping track. I’m a bit sketchy on the details, but basically a couple of people (Tim of Bloggerheads and Clive of the UKtoday) wrote a […]
