A few more photos from and thoughts about Tuesday’s big event – Auntie Ivy’s 100th birthday party. In retrospect I wish I had taken the day off rather than going straight from work, hitting the rush hour traffic and getting there an hour late. Since my own commute is a mere five miles I underestimate […]
Entries from August 7th, 2009
The funny side of… Clive Anderson
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on The funny side of… Clive Anderson · Life
What a strange programme that was on TV tonight – Clive Anderson presenting something called The Funny Side of Talent. Clive has been presenting TV shows for over twenty years, and radio shows before that.  Whose Line Is It Anyway ran for 10 years, he had his own chat show on Channel 4 and another […]
Digital Apocalypse
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Digital Apocalypse · Life, Technology
With Twitter sporadically up and down due to DDOS attacks, Facebook playing up enormously to the extent it is unusable for some people, and even Livejournal being unavailable, it is not a good day for social networking – but its not the end of the world: Spotify and Flickr are fine and that’s all that […]
Tags: Internet
The Capitol – also better than the O2?
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Capitol – also better than the O2? · Life
The Capitol in Horsham was not mentioned in that list of the 100 best music venues, and this is not about that anyway, but about one way in which many of the country’s bigger venues could learn a lesson from Horsham.
The Hawth – better than the O2 Arena?
August 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Hawth – better than the O2 Arena? · Life
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have issued a press release which ‘reveals’ the 100 best music venues in the country. The list is topped by the Southbank Centre in London, and Crawley’s Hawth Theatre is at number 69, above such places as the Brixton Academy, the Roundhouse, the Carling Apollo, Manchester and the Cliffs Pavilion, […]
100 not out!
August 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Arrived home from Essex after 1pm, and want to be in work by 7:30 in the morning, so not really any time to write about Auntie Ivy’s 100th birthday party tonight, nor to go through the 111 photos taken. Just this one photo for now, best wishes to Ivy and a curse on the M25 […]
More plinthness
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
A few thoughts about the One & Other project: I have been looking at a few of the archives of plinthers and it occurs to me that the whole thing has the potential to be like a bite-sized Big Brother. This is not a bad thing… imagine being in Big Brother. It goes on for […]
Ferrets
August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Ferrets · Life
We are toying with the idea of getting a pet ferret after seeing a bloke taking his ferrets for a walk in Croydon at the weekend. They appear to be adorable, affectionate and entertaining but really I know nothing about them. Specifically I don’t know how well they get on with cats. Anybody got any […]
Tags: Pets
Zombies in Trafalgar Square
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
This afternoon I made the short journey up to London to go and see Andrew do his thing in Trafalgar Square as part of Anthony Gormley’s One & Other project. I went for several reasons: to support Andrew, to support a good cause, to get some use out of my cameras, and because…Â well I […]
I love it when a plan comes together
August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on I love it when a plan comes together · Jane
We spent this evening at East Riddlesden Hall, near Keighley at an open-air production of The Three Musketeers. Given the weather this week we were very lucky and had a very fine evening – if only the rest of the audience hadn’t used the good weather as an excuse to ignore their children’s bad behaviour… […]
Tags: Theatre
