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Entries from July 18th, 2008

Superstars

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Superstars · Life

I don’t usually find myself watching Five, but tonight I had a look at Superstars.   I tuned in because I half-remembered reading somewhere that the show was going to be in Crawley’s K2 leisure centre at some point: I kept watching because the format is pretty compulsive.

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Rhododendron bashing

July 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Ian Irvine is offering the prospect of rhodendron bashing for anyone who wants to become a friend of Broadfield Park.   If I can get assurances that bashing the rhododendron is not an alternative for bashing the bishop I might join up.  As I was passing through on the way home the other day I noticed […]

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Best quiz story ever?

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Best quiz story ever? · Life

I have just seen this anecdote over at the Word website, about the perils of playing the joker in a pub quiz.  Is it the best quiz story ever?

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Raptor

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Raptor · Life

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video If all war suddenly ended, and peace broke out all across the world, it would be nice to think somebody would still build one of these just because they could.  What this plane does at about the 1:35 point is simply amazing.  The […]

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