A third journey to Letchworth in a week, and we have found the secret – leave at 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Unfortunately it only works one-way unless you are going to wait seven days before coming back. We spent the day trying to tidy dad’s house up. I made three runs to the tip […]
Entries from October 29th, 2007
Gridlock
October 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
This afternoon I was reminded, with far too much emphasis, of one reason why I didn’t see dad very often – the M25. The idea was I would go up to Letchworth so that sister 2 would have some help with all the various arrangements, but after 3 hours on the road I had only […]
Unexpected
October 26th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Life
On Monday we went up to visit my dad and introduce him to his first great-grandson. On Wednesday I had a call from my sisters to say that he had been found dead in his house. There will be a post mortem, but it looks like he may have died on Tuesday night from a […]
Tags: Family
A great weekend for British sport!
October 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
I can’t understand why everyone is so gloomy about sport this week. West Ham won and avoided slipping down the table, the English rugby team turned around a tournament which they started by losing 36-nil and ended up almost winning it, and Lewis Hamilton came within a point of winning the F1 title in his […]
Visits
October 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
We have the grandson staying with us for a few days, and today I took a day off work so we could go round introducing him to my family. Though he is only small, it requires enormous resources and some logistical feats to move him from one place to another. By the time we put […]
Tags: Family·Medicine/Health
Unclassified
October 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Music
How many times have you seen in an interview with a band or musician somebody saying something like “our music does not fit neatly into any category? All these classifications, categories and labels exist like punk, rock, reggae, soul and no musician will ever admit to fitting into any of them.
Arnos Grove??
October 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
I was sharing some idle speculation with others, mostly Danivon, about which buildings would feature in the Guardian’s series of ‘Great Modern Buildings’ when neither of us were aware it was a two-week feature and not just one week. So I was a little peeved when it featured the Gherkin (his guess) instead of the […]
Tags: Buildings·Newspapers·WTF
Trident
October 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Trident · Politics
I left work a little early this afternoon and went to see Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defence. He was visiting Crawley to talk to the CLP about the decision to renew Trident. It was a bad time to have a meeting – 4pm – but I guess he has to fit us in […]
Tags: Labour Party
3 Daft Monkeys
October 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Music
Go Tell The Bees – a four-track EP by 3 Daft Monkeys. The advance publicity for this says that "Celtic, Balkan, Gypsy, Latino, Cornish. All these influences and more are in evidence within 3 Daft Monkeys' music." It also says that the music is "too diverse to be pigeonholed into one genre" and that the […]
Give me a break!
October 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Give me a break! · Life
Up early. Work. Home. Snack. Meeting… Again. I really fancy being able to finish work and just chill out for a while. Maybe next week.
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