I’m hearing some worrying things from my old stamping ground of Broadfield. Apparently the sunday school at the church there has some sort of letter condemning homosexuals that they are trying to get the children to sign. It all sounds a bit brainwashy to me, but then so does the whole idea of sunday school […]
Entries from May 31st, 2012
In praise of the OGWT
May 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
Tonight BBC4 showed an edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test in its entirety. Presumably it was there to tie in with the John Cooper Clark documentary that was on immediately beforehand and doesn’t, unfortunately, mean they are going to do what they are doing with TOTP and show them all again in order. It […]
The new council
May 22nd, 2012 · 7 Comments · Politics
I’ll be interested to see how the new council works out. The council is a lot more evenly balanced now, and as a result the committee memberships will be more evenly balanced – to the point where Tories won’t be able to miss any meetings in case they risk being in the minority in committee […]
Tags: Crawley Council
Sussex Thunder vs Essex Spartans
May 21st, 2012 · Comments Off on Sussex Thunder vs Essex Spartans · Life
On Sunday we (me, Jayne, Chrystal and Charlie) went up to Essex to see an American football game. We are not mad sports fans, it is just that Frankie has started playing for Sussex Thunder, they were playing an away game in Billericay, and my family live up there so there were several birds to […]
Tags: American football·Essex·Sport
Rebekah Brooks is innocent!
May 15th, 2012 · Comments Off on Rebekah Brooks is innocent! · Life
Like anybody else she is innocent until proven guilty – a cornerstone of our justice system that her newspapers and other similar papers seem to forget. The way I see it, either she did it in which case she deserves everything she gets, or she didn’t, in which case she might think back to how […]
Tags: Newspapers
Post-election anoraking
May 11th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Politics
Tonight was Crawley Labour’s constituency meeting and, unsurprisingly, the mood was good. I enjoyed congratulating Peter Smith, Colin Moffatt and Chris Mullins on winning their seats and others for holding onto theirs. There was also a new leader of the Labour group to congratulate.
Tags: Elections·Statistics
Local election post mortem
May 10th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Politics
The local elections here in Crawley turned out pretty well for Labour I think. We held all the seats we were defending and took three off the Tories, unseating one of their cabinet members in the process. We came pretty close in our other target seat and looking at the results we did well enough […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections
Apocalypse Cow
May 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on Apocalypse Cow · Life
I just finished reading Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan. It was another advance proof copy (and we all now how much I love reading advance proof copies) from Amazon’s Vine programme. For a change this is one I probably would have bought if I had seen it on sale: how could I resist such a […]
Just Testing 2
May 6th, 2012 · Comments Off on Just Testing 2 · Life
Well – the WordPress plugin which was cross-posting stuff to Facebook stopped working. Apparently it was withdrawn by the author. I found an alternative (WPBook Lite foranybody who is interested) which seems to work but involves creating an app on Facebook. All a bit complicated but it looks like it is working OK so I […]
Tags: testing
Just testing 1
May 6th, 2012 · Comments Off on Just testing 1 · Life
It appears to have worked, despite me not really understanding what I have done. I’ll count that as a success.
Tags: testing
