We all like to think we are not prejudiced, but I will happily confess to a few little prejudices. Mind you a prejudice is supposed to be an unreasonable opinion and, like all prejudiced people, I think these are perfectly reasonable and they save time. The first regards outward appearance. I know you should not […]
Entries from May 31st, 2016
Lets hear it for prejudice
May 31st, 2016 · Comments Off on Lets hear it for prejudice · Life
Tags: Language
Double hats
May 24th, 2016 · Comments Off on Double hats · Politics
I have been meaning to moan about this for a long time now, and tonight I am going to do it. It is the topic of councillors who serve on both a borough/district and a county council.
Tags: Elections·Local Government
The Hateful Eight
May 24th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Hateful Eight · Life
At the weekend I watched the latest Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, which I had a slightly strange reaction to. It is not that I didn’t enjoy it but rather that I enjoyed it more in retrospect than I did at the time. This is partly because it is a very long film which takes […]
Tags: Films
The Internet of Things
May 14th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Internet of Things · Technology
My Blu Ray player packed up recently. Ironically, the real annoyance about this was not that I couldn’t play discs – I also have a DVD player so it was only the few Blue Ray discs I could not play – it was that I could not watch Amazon Prime content on my TV because […]
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Segue Segue Sputnik!
May 9th, 2016 · Comments Off on Segue Segue Sputnik! · Music
Ever since the BBC started repeating old TOTPs on a 35-year delay I have been watching and wallowing in the nostalgia. I think they started with 1976 or maybe 1975 and are now up to 1981. Obviously it is all downhill after the mighty 1979 but there are still some gems in there. The funny […]
Tags: Nostalgia
Painting the town red
May 9th, 2016 · Comments Off on Painting the town red · Politics
The recent election campaign was one I think I will remember for a long time. With Crawley council having a Labour majority of just one seat it was always going to be a fight to keep control. Of the thirteen seats involved, eight were seats we were defending. Two of them were wards where there […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections
