This afternoon we were coming out of the multi-storey car park and there was a bit of a queue. It turned out to be that somebody had stalled their car. I’m sure we have all managed to stall a car on a steep ramp ((even if we won’t admit it)) but not when going downhill. […]
Entries from April 11th, 2008
Ted Rogers in the Guardian
April 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Ted Rogers in the Guardian · Life
The Crawley Observer gave almost a page to Ted Rogers this week and today’s Guardian featured an obituary in it’s ‘Other Lives’ section. What a great idea that feature is because it gives space to recognise the lives of those who were perhaps not known widely beyond a specific area or community of shared interests […]
Tags: Local Papers·Newspapers·Obituaries
Sheer optimism
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sheer optimism · Technology
I decided to have a little look at some statistics for this server today. Sometimes I have a glance at the top twenty search strings that people have used to get here but today I thought I would have a look at the full list of 100s and I am still eeling from the sheer […]
A Bullseye moment
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on A Bullseye moment · Life
I really enjoyed watching the Liverpool/Arsenal game the other night. I had been out at a Unite Against Fascism meeting and only caught the last 15 minutes but I was disturbing the rest of the family in the next room with all my shouts of disbelief.
Two totally unconnected stories
April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
It was with some dismay that I came across a story in my newspaper today about pub closures. Not that I am much of a pub-goer these days but, the story was illustrated by a photo of one of the pubs I particularly enjoyed when I did visit them more often – the Intrepid Fox […]
Going down in history?
April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Going down in history? · Life
John Loughrey reckons he will go down in history for being the only member of the public to have attended every day of the Diana inquest. Not so sure about that. A few years down the line the inquest will be a small footnote in history at best.  Its a good story though, supplying a […]
Tags: WTF
Pompey time
April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Pompey time · Life
Its good to see Portsmouth in the FA Cup final, and I wish them well there, but it would be good to see them trip up at West Ham tomorrow night. Not that there is a lot of excitement about the result of the fixture.
Canvassing
April 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Canvassing · Politics
Political campaigning is a funny old game. Everyone has their own opinion about the best or worst times to go out, as if there is some sort of magical time when you can go down a street and find that everybody is not only at home but willing to answer the door and spend a […]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party
Ted Rogers
April 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Ted Rogers · Life
It was very saddening to hear today that Ted Rogers died on Saturday. Not the Ted Rogers from the TV but the man many in Crawley think of as “the” Ted Rogers.  I did not know him very well, having only met him properly in the last couple of years, but I had seen him […]
Brrrr…
April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
We do like to talk about the weather don’t we? I try to resist the temptation, but its hard when you get a day like today. This was the view out of our back windows today. Proper snow. Not a light dusting that is there in the morning but disappears after an hour or so, […]
