One thing that I sort of knew but didn’t really mentally prepare myself for when putting myself forward as a candidate was the amount of mail that would arrive both through the letterbox and through the email inbox. It is especially difficult when you don’t have an office to deal with that sort of thing […]
Entries from April 15th, 2010
Debatable television
April 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Politics
Tonight’s leaders’ debate on TV should be interesting, if I can remember to watch it. The debates have already divided opinion between those who like the idea and those who don’t. The objectors object because they say it turns the election into a contest of personalities rather than policies and on the grounds that it […]
Meet Diego
April 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Life
At last the new kitten is old enough to leave his mother and has come to fill our house with squeeks. I have a 76-page election manifesto to read, understand, and familiarise myself with so may not be able to take the 200 photographs I want to take tonight, but I’m sure I will be […]
Busting a nut
April 9th, 2010 · Comments Off on Busting a nut · Life
The decorating is done, with minimal damage. The emulsion should come off the kitten’s face eventually. The only significant casualty seems to be my bass guitar. It was propped up in the cupboard and allowed to fall to the floor, strings down, which broke the nut. Only one end of the nut, so three strings […]
Tags: Doh!
Fill that hole!
April 9th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Technology
Can I recommend this new website – fillthathole.org.uk? Just the other day somebody was telling me how somebody at the county council (I think it was a member, but might have been an officer) was saying how potholes are not really such a big problem because modern cars have suspensions that can cope with them, […]
Both the Tories?
April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Political parties don’t have the membership they once did, but I didn;t know things were this bad…
Tags: Local Papers·Tories
We have lift-off
April 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Politics
We had a little launch party in Horsham this evening: a chance for members to get together, raise some funds, do a bit of Tory character assassignation, and sign my nomination papers. We have received the necessary certificates from Labour HQ for me to describe myself as “the Labour party candidate” and to use the […]
Google 3D
April 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life, Technology
Love the 3D version of Google Street View – just need to find one of the many pairs of 3D glasses that are knocking around the house somewhere. Talking of Google, this advert popped up the other day… My first thought was to doubt the expertise of so-called experts in Google analytics who can’t even […]
Less than perfect start to the campaign
April 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Less than perfect start to the campaign · Politics
I don’t think anybody was surprised by today’s events, but it was still a relief to get confirmation that the ‘cold war’ is over at last.  During the day I had a few phone calls, texts and voicemails, hits to the Horsham Labour website started really taking off and emails were piling up waiting for […]
Tags: Elections
Timeshifting news
April 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
I think this story more or less sums up the futility of reading newspapers now. Just about the whole thing is saying what is going to happen, and who is going to say what. If I bought a newspaper I would not really get a chance to read it until I got home in the […]
Tags: Newspapers
