Close the headline of the year competition – a late entrant has surely beaten off all comers… MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed (from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph)
Entries from December 18th, 2009
Winter wonderland
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
Lots of snow tonight. Not looking forward to the journey to work tomorrow. Most of it will be OK, but the first few hundred metres involve a hill that has never been gritted in the ten years I have lived here.
Tags: Weather
Hotting up
December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
Must be an election on the horizon or something.  I have started to get a flurry of messages, calls and emails asking for contact details from the party and from people wanting to make sure they can arrange hustings at short notice. Also a request for volunteers for a live phone-in politics show that wanted […]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections
Rage against the Facebook
December 17th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Life, Music
Not the best of the Downfall parodies, but not the worst either. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Me? Since you ask, I joined the Facebook group for the craic, but didn’t download the track. Still got the CD from when it came out.
Delivery disaster. Nearly.
December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Today, when everybody was out, I had a delivery from Amazon which was a bit too big to fit through the letterbox. With Royal Mail this would normally mean a “while you were out” card and a trip to the sorting office. With couriers it usually means a note saying there is a parcel in […]
Tags: Shopping
Snap away
December 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Snap away · Life
Lets hope that this means that stupid things like this won’t be happening in the future- but just to make sure you could always go to Trafalgar Square on January 23rd for what could be one of the most photographed events of the year and an ideal opportunity to show off all those camera-related xmas […]
Playing the pink recorder
December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
It sounds like a euphemism, a variation on the famous Private Eye ‘pink oboe’ line, but it is for real – you can buy a pink descant recorder at Amazon. An ideal ‘secret santa’ gift for a gay friend with a sense of humour and no love of music.
Tags: Shopping
Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs
December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs · Music
When I finally caught up with reading Friday’s Guardian I learned something unlikely today in this article about what happened to several music acts that looked like being the next big thing but never were. Not only that but it gives me an excuse, as if one were needed, to put up a link to […]
Paranoid
December 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
A slight return to the song title subject lines for this one – though there is another Black Sabbath song that I could have chosen instead.  This is old news (it appeared in the Crawley Observer on Dec 2nd) but I never got round to writing about it at the time, being more interested in […]
Tags: Blogger·Blogging·China·Local Papers
Abandoned and let down by West Sussex county council
December 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
What am I going to do? How am I going to learn how to use my mobile phone now? WSCC went to all the trouble and expense of producing a (presumably) excellent video tutorial on how to make a phone call, but before I get a chance to watch it they take it down! (According […]
