It is not every day that you see a headline like Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum. No giant dogs were involved though – just a lump of art: an inflatable turd the size of a house. A very appropriate exhibit I think, because the organisers’ description of the show has more than […]
Entries from August 12th, 2008
Go Wild In The Country
August 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
As the kids were both otherwise engaged today Jayne and I went out for a drive. The idea was just to get a change of scenery, and we ended up in Worthing. We didn’t know we were going there, we were just heading South and veering West, taking the smaller roads through places like Handcross, […]
Soul Man
August 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Soul Man · Music
Terrible news about Isaac Hayes. I’ll admit that what he was doing in the 70s passed me by: I knew the theme from Shaft of course, and the Hot Buttered Soul LP cover was impossible to ignore, but I didn’t really appreciate his place in everything until a couple of weeks ago when BBC Four […]
Tags: Obituaries
Milk & Alcohol
August 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life
I rarely bother to drink alcohol, but when I was up in London on Wednesday I had a couple of pints at the Foundry Arms for old times’ sake – I used to go there before the Tate Modern opened next door when it was a quiet local pub and not a tourist magnet. Its […]
Where’s Captain Kirk?
August 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life, Music
I went up to London today. As I always do, if possible, I started off by visiting the Chunnel Bar in Lower Marsh for a breakfast and to catch up with gossip from my old workmates. I also popped into the old office to say hello, but the real reason for re-living the hell of […]
Tags: Books·Spizzenergi
Roundabout
August 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Roundabout · Life
While walking back from the shops today I noticed that there are some roadworks on Woodman’s Hill. Dare we hope that these are the long-overdue traffic-calming measures that were part of the S106 planning conditions on the Highwood Park development? Just after that previous post I got a tip-off from Jim McGough that this work […]
Tags: Broadfield·Photos·Town Planning·Traffic
Outside The Wall
August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
There are quite a few walls built like this in the neighbourhood where I live but not, fortunately, in my street. Either it is a serious design flaw or they were just built wrong, but either way they fall down really easily. They all have alternating sections of brick wall and wooden fencing and I […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Photos
Big Pimpin’
August 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Life, Music, Technology
I have now finished (for the time being) a spot of minor tweaking and renovation of this blog: what Westwood would call pimping my blog…Â nothing major, just tidied up a few things that have been bugging me for ages.
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
August 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore · Life
Do you sometimes wonder what you would do if you had a choice between being blind or deaf? Would you get more out of life being unable to hear or being unable to see? Well how about being unable to laugh?  I reckon that would be bad. Imagine being afraid to laugh because it makes […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·TV
Ghostbusters
August 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
Did you know that there was such a thing as the Crawley Paranormal Investigators?
