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Entries from February 5th, 2009
Hair today
February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
There was a vaguely amusing article/interview in the sport section of the Guardian today about Marouane Fallaini, Everton’s Belgian rising star.  For fairly obvious reasons, the writer kept coming back to that huge perm of of his. Apparently all the Harry Enfield ‘scouser’ wigs are being dusted off now and being worn as Fellaini wigs. […]
Tags: Football
Best job in the world
February 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Life, Work
At the risk of turning into the Horsham Today RSS feed by posting three snow-related things in a row, the end of the last post reminded me of something. It may well be an urban myth because it sounds too good to be true, but somebody at work told me about the best job in […]
Tags: Weather
School’s Out – part two
February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Still on the topic of school closures, and after reading the Guardian’s story more closely I realise that I missed the opportunity to ride one or two of my hobby horses, so let’s try again…
School’s Out
February 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Life
This morning the Guardian managed to simultaneously write about the fuss concerning schools closing due to snow and demonstrate the need for education, by including this line in their story: The anger was most acute in cities where every schools was shut
Tags: Education
Oh the irony
February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
In this week’s West Sussex County Times we have Francis Maude start his column by saying: For the last few months not a week has gone by when I haven’t received a letter or e-mail from someone who is struggling because they now find themselves without a job. It does not help that Maude himself […]
Tags: Greed·Local Papers·Tories
Bullying and harrassment
February 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Work
At the moment my union is involved in helping to draw up a number of documents for our company all related to ‘dignity at work’: policies and guidelines on bullying and harrassment feature heavily. One type of behaviour does not feature at all, and I am not sure whether it is actually bullying or harrassment […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Should have seen it coming
February 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Should have seen it coming · Life
It had to happen. Go to ruletheweb and you can make your own version of the atheist bus advert.  Hours of innocent fun. Well… minutes maybe.  Here is my attempt.
Not obsessed at all
February 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
We Brits are sometimes accused or even stereotyped as being obsessed with the weather. Is that fair? Here are the last 15 items in the West Sussex County Times/Horsham Today RSS feed as of now: Snow set to continue (3 hrs ago) Snow scenes in villages – photos (3 hrs ago) County council gears up […]
Tags: Local Papers·Weather
A world of music
February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Technology
Although I might appear to some people as tech-savvy and into all the latest digital and online fads that is really not accurate. Yes I do have my own website, blog excessively, download music, upload photos to Flickr and kind of keep a Facebook page. I have a couple of digital cameras, a couple of […]
