Sorry punk fans – another song title red herring there. Today I spent an interesting day in Guildford at the University of Surrey, attending a political seminar with my trade union, Unite.
Entries from November 30th, 2008
La Vida Tombola
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on La Vida Tombola · Music
Christmas really has come early this year… Manu Chao is playing an ‘unexpected show’ in London on Dec 16th. And it is at the Forum. If I am not getting confused by all the re-namings, that is the same place where I first saw MC when he was with Mano Negra. It is going to […]
Tags: Concerts·London·World music
One Way Or Another
November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
What a scary season it is in the Premier league this year. We are a third of the way through and for most ofthe teams it could go one way or another. This is not one of those years wherea gap has opened up at thebottom – not since Harry moved to Spurs anyway – […]
Taxman
November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
A lot has been written about Darling’s pre-budget statement. In fact more has been written than anybody could manage to read, and that is a good thing: knowing that it is imposible to read it all means you don’t have to try – but one particular thing well worth reading is Snowflake’s comment on the […]
Tags: Taxation
Hairless Heart
November 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hairless Heart · Life
This month I actually managed to get some electronics from the Amazon Vine programme. There are sometimes some more expensive electrical gadgets on offer like electric razors, USB hard drives, video cameras and so on but either I do not get offered them or I am too slow off the mark to get one – […]
The Final Countdown
November 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Final Countdown · Life
After all the fuss about dancing competitions, premium phone line scandals, cat-naming competitions, and everything else, it is good to see a TV company making an anouncement that can only be good – Jeff Stelling is to take over Countdown! He may be virtually unknown, except to those who watch, or have ever watched, Sky […]
Song with no title….
November 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Jane
After only one very small cheat ( I am a bit anal with my photo folders and like them it proper alphabetical order but I hadn’t tidied them up for a few weeks so I sorted them before I chose the picture…) I found the 4th picture in my 4th folder. These are himalyan blue […]
Tags: flowers
Philadelphia Freedom
November 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Philadelphia Freedom · Politics
Earlier in the month I was rambling about the US political system and its differences to ours. I forgot a couple: one good and one bad.
Hitler’s in the Charts Again
November 21st, 2008 · 7 Comments · Life, Politics
This is the funniest thing I have seen all week…Â thanks to the comedy genius who did and for Paulie and Damian, without whom I would not have been aware of it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I have now seen so many Downfall parodies I feel I […]
Fanfare For The Common Man
November 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music
Tonight I took advantage of the fact that we now have some Sky channels available on our Virgin box and watched an ELP concert from 1997 on the Sky Arts channel, with mixed emotions.
