Two of my favourites together on stage: Carlos Santana and Angelique Kidjo  When Jayne treated me to Santana tickets for my birthday (quite a long time ago) Angelique Kidjo joined him for this song – which she wrote and he covered on his Shamen album.  It made my day then, and finding this clip […]
Entries from January 18th, 2010
Kidjo and Carlos
January 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Kidjo and Carlos · Music
Tags: World music·YouTube
Did somebody say recession?
January 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Did somebody say recession? · Life
Apperently times are harder for some than for others if Selfridges reckon they will sell a leg of ham at a price of more than £250 a kilo (and than includes the bone!) according to the BBC. You would want to be sparing with the Branston on that wouldn’t you?
BNP Algebra
January 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Politics
Either Nick Griffin is barking mad or he thinks that one white person is worth about 2272 non-white people. The two are not mutually exclusive though.
Rise in hate crime follows BNP council election victories
January 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Well that is the headline in this Guardian story, which doesn’t come as any surprise at all – it is inevitable really. Even the BNP don’t deny that the numbers of racially-motivated crimes has risen where they have won seats – they just have a different explanation for it. According to them it is not […]
Vive la difference
January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Vive la difference · Life
Another dull, weather-related post, but I thought it might be fun to compare the response to snow(balls) in two different places. In Crawley: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And in Washington: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’m so glad we have […]
Wrong kind of snow?
January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Wrong kind of snow? · Life
Maybe the railways had a point with their now-notorious complaints about ‘the wrong kind of snow’ after all. We had a little bit of the white stuff here overnight and although there was nowhere near as much as last week it seems to have had more of an impact.
Tags: Weather
Baionarena
January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Baionarena · Life, Music
After Christmas I treated myself to a couple of things on Amazon, notionally using some xmas money from Mum (happy birthday today BTW – 70 candles!). Unfortunately they had not quite arrived when the snow fell and so they didn’t get delivered here until today, when the postman brought a huge backlog of mail – […]
From each according to their ability…
January 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
I did like what I read in this story from Switzerland. Basically, a bloke got a speeding ticket and was fined £182,000 for doing 55mph in a 55mph zone. It might seem a bit harsh, but the amount was decided based on the man’s ability to pay and not the scale of the offence. Some […]
I’m black and I’m proud
January 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Life
I am trying to resist the temptation to write about the weather, but really nothing much else is happening here. Today I decided to spend the day at home reviewing a huge pile of HR policies instead of walking either one mile or five miles to work (depending on whether the buses are running). I […]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers·Weather·WSCC
A bit of a trek
January 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on A bit of a trek · Life
Sometimes even I am astonished by my naivety. Perhaps misplaced optimism is a better alternative. After last night’s walk I knew there would be no buses up Tollgate Hill (no problem as I don’t want them anyway) but I just sort of presumed the more level roads would be better anyway and that the main […]
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Fastway·Weather
