The year we called 2010 is nearly over, and it was quite momentous in various ways. Without going on too much I’m going to indulge in a little look back over the year from my point of view.
Entries from December 31st, 2010
Coming back home
December 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on Coming back home · Life
Today was the traditional post-christmas trip to Essex to see the family. As is also traditional, as soon as we get anywhere near the old manor I keep saying to myself “I remember when this was all fields”. Not a bad trip at all. All the queues for Lakeside were on the other side of […]
The horror, the horror
December 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life
I walked round the corner to the County Oak retail park this afternoon, and very quickly came straight back again. It was madness, and I am so glad I was on foot and not part of the bad-tempered, horn-blowing mass of people looking for the mythical last parking space. I think I may be turning […]
Primeval
December 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Primeval · Life
I thought that everybody getting killed or going missing at the end of series three meant that it was all over, but apparently not. That enjoyable nonsense, Primeval, is coming back for a fourth series. The ITV website has a trailer and there will be some preview episodes there next week. It has, necessarily, all […]
Tags: TV
Bad day for trainspotters…
December 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Bad day for trainspotters… · Life
…and for bus-spotters, and plane spotters here in West Sussex anyway. According to the BBC: Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said major roads were prepared for the “extreme cold weather”, which had been predicted, and public transport services were “by and large still working”. Meanwhile in the real world Metrobus who run all the bus services […]
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Mothership
December 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Mothership · Music
When we were in town last weekend we tried to buy the boxset of a specific season of a specific American TV show.  They had umpteen boxsets of that show in HMV, everything except the one we specifically wanted. On returning home I looked on Amazon and found that they also had every season of […]
Tags: Shopping
Steve has bad ideas
December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on Steve has bad ideas · Life
I’d better cancel my plans to do fried gnocchi on xmas day… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Council funding cuts in West Sussex
December 15th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Politics
I have been having a look at the details of the government funding for councils (Excel spreadsheet), and very depressing it is too. Of course it would be even more depressing if I lived in, say, Hackney, Newham, Manchester, Liverpool or any of those other places faced with cuts in spending of more than 10% […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Horsham Council·Local Government·Stop the cuts·WSCC
The perils of the Bruce Willis vest in middle age
December 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on The perils of the Bruce Willis vest in middle age · Music
Let me say straight off that I enjoy Elmer Food Beat enormously, and was overjoyed to see that they returned to the stage in recent years even if it was just to relive past glories rather then produce anything new. All I will say is that perhaps the singer might have considered not wearing the […]
More Mala Vida
December 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on More Mala Vida · Music
I include this video of the Astro Zombies doing a version of Mala Vida not because of the quality of the sound or picture but for two very good reasons. They have ‘zombie’ in their name The drummer If it were not for the fact that I know I have never had a red mohican, […]
