As an Essex boy, from deepest South-East Essex, I was quite pleased to start reading a book called Starter for 10 and find that the main protagonist’s home town was Southend-on-Sea. The book is set in the early 80’s – around the same sort of time I used to spend a lot of time in […]
Entries from September 8th, 2007
New council logo
September 7th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
After two years of work the Crawley Tories have come up with a design for a new Crawley Borough Council logo. The predominance of blue in the logo comes as no surprise, but I wasn’t expecting a tree design. Very original. I wonder where they got the idea from… oh hang on… Or even more […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Logos·Tories
Larger than life
September 7th, 2007 · Comments Off on Larger than life · Music
I am not a huge fan of opera, but I did like Pavarotti. Everyone says he was the best and I can believe it. I saw him when he did that free concert in Hyde Park and he was amazing – making us almost forget that it was pissing down with rain, which was quite […]
Tags: Concerts
Radiolina
September 7th, 2007 · Comments Off on Radiolina · Music
Yesterday my tickets for the Manu Chao/Radio Bemba Sound System concert in Brixton arrived in the post. Today I got my hands on the new Manu Chao album, Radiolina, a week ahead of its UK release. Including bonus tracks the 50-ish minutes of music on Radiolina is spread across 21 tracks. Just like the previous […]
Tags: Concerts
Trevor Brooking is magic…
September 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
…and we all agree That used to be the chant at Upton Park. I was amused to find a group on Facebook called All hail Sir Trevor Brooking, but even more amused to see that it is categorised under “Common Interest – Religion & Spirituality”
New local website
September 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on New local website · Life
I stumbled across the Crawley Portal by accident this evening. it looks like it has only been going for a couple of weeks and therefore has virtually bugger all on it so far, but it could grow and its worth keeping an eye on it just in case. I’m not sure if whoever is in […]
Local politician banged up
September 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
Nobody likes to see a 71-year-old man sent to prison, but when they are an ex-UKIP MEP its a bit harder to find sympathy, especially when they have been flirting with the various far-right groupings in the European Parliament. My favourite bits of the story: Mr Donne said Mote had worked tirelessly for the European […]
Adding insult to injury
September 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on Adding insult to injury · Technology
Our broadband connection has been intermittent since Friday. Sporadic might be a better word. Piss-poor would be an even more accurate description. It has been down a lot more than it has been up and the only improvement is that today it is actually acknowledged on the Virgin freephone information line. No problem for me, […]
Tags: Internet·Virgin Media
Speed
September 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
On Sunday we went over to the playing fields at Creasys Drive to play. “We” means a group of more than 20, including babies, children and teenagers. Everyone had a good time throwing frisbees around, kicking footballs, playing catch, racing, and picnicking. Well… everyone else did. I have some sort of sprain in my right […]
Tags: Broadfield·Traffic
Goals galore!
September 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
There was something like 22 goals in today’s 7 premier league games, with the Liverpool/Derby game and Fulham/Spurs games having 6 each, but the three most important goals were obviously those scored by West Ham at Reading. The last time we went to the Madejski we got stuffed 6-0, so winning there this time was […]
Tags: West Ham
