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Entries from September 29th, 2011

Crete Uncovered

September 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Crete Uncovered · Life

As teachers used to say “this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you”. I’m sure nobody wants to read all about my holidays, and I’m not sure I want to write about them but it needs to be done so I can move on, so here are a few thoughts about Crete, […]

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No more Confidential

September 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life

According to the Guardian, the BBC is going to scrap Doctor Who Confidential to save costs. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I would have thought it was a fairly cheap way to fill that much airtime, and bulk out the DVD releases that make so much cash for the BBC. I think […]

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Back to normality

September 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on Back to normality · Life

Well we are back from Crete and alomost ready to face normality again. Although the holiday was only a couple of weeks it has been a lot longer than that since everything has been normal here. Right up until we went away Jayne was still off work recovering, and before that of course she was […]

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Been a long time

September 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Been a long time · Music

It has been a while since I wittered on about prog rock hasn’t it?  Just time to mention the new album from Levin Torn White.  There are some tasters available on Soundcloud.

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Holiday fever

September 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life

I think I should take more holidays. If I did then I would not get so absurdly excited about it when I do go anywhere. As it is Jayne and I are practically stopping strangers in the street to tell them we are going away.

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Private police at public meetings

September 1st, 2011 · 18 Comments · Politics

There is an interesting post over at Accessdocs about councils using private security firms to police public meetings. Tucked away towards the bottom is the information that Crawley council paid a private firm £2,475 to provide security at a single development control meeting last year. Anybody know what that meeting was about? I can’t remember […]

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Unsolicited testimonial

September 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Unsolicited testimonial · Life

I figure that if I’m happy to moan about companies that mess me about or rip me off I should be equally happy to praise companies or products that impress me, and today I was mightily impressed by Fireplace World.

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What a difference four years makes

September 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on What a difference four years makes · Life, Music

Midge Ure 1976 with Slik You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Midge Ure in 1980 with Ultravox! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Is it OK to admit that I not only remember Slik well from then, but quite liked them and still […]

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