This afternoon Jayne brought to my attention the website lovebeanbuffet.com. Crawley locals may well be familiar with the Love Bean cafe in the town centre, especially if they are anything to do with the council. It is the nearest food place to the Town Hall and so is almost the staff canteen for the place. […]
Entries from February 13th, 2019
Shameless Plug for a local business
February 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on Shameless Plug for a local business · Life
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1976 – Lido Shuffle
February 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on 1976 – Lido Shuffle · Music
The year of punk, at last! For many people punk rock appeared in 1977 with the silver jubilee and all that, but the first stirrings were in 1976 hen those of us who religiously read the NME and Melody Maker every week and listened to John Peel after lights out had heard about all the […]
Tags: 1962Onwards
Think Local, Work Local
February 12th, 2019 · Comments Off on Think Local, Work Local · Life
The Manor Royal BID people are holding a ‘careers expo’ in April. It is at the Arora hotel from 3pm to 8pm on April 4th and there are so many reasons why this is a good thing.
1975 – You Sexy Thing
February 11th, 2019 · Comments Off on 1975 – You Sexy Thing · Music
I’ll be honest, I was going to pick Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir to sum up 1975, or shine on you Crazy Diamond, but realised that Hot Chocolate just brings back the memories of that year so much better. Bohemian Rhapsody would have been just too obvious, and I’m a bit tired of it now anyway.
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1974 – Autobahn
February 11th, 2019 · Comments Off on 1974 – Autobahn · Life
By 1974 I was away at boarding school so surrounded by older boys and their musical choices, which made up for the lack of older siblings to introduce me to music. Yes we may have been a dormitory full of 11/12 year-olds but we had some 16-year-olds as dorm monitors to expose us to their […]
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The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
February 11th, 2019 · Comments Off on The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis · Life
I have had this book sitting on my Kindle for ages, having snapped it up as the £1 deal of the day some time ago. Last week I finally got round to reading it, and what a book it is. It was, at the same time, exactly what I expected but also nothing like what […]
All Killer – Close to the Edge (1972)
February 11th, 2019 · Comments Off on All Killer – Close to the Edge (1972) · Music
I have been a big fan of Yes for ages, since about 1976, back when John Peel was still playing them on his radio show alongside the emerging punk music. In fact I can remember Peel playing tracks from Going For The One when it was released in 1977. A year later and Yes were […]
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1973 – Living For The City
February 10th, 2019 · Comments Off on 1973 – Living For The City · Music
What a year 1973 was for music, but then so were all years in the 1970’s really. For a start it was a great year for glam rock, with great tunes from Suzi Quatro (Can the Can & 48 Crash), T. Rex (20th Century Boy), Sweet (Ballroom Blitz and Blockbuster), Slade (Cum on Feel the […]
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Working Out
February 8th, 2019 · Comments Off on Working Out · Life
Today I did something I have never done before. I joined a gym!
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All Killer – Entertainment! (1979)
February 8th, 2019 · 1 Comment · Music
When thinking about albums that meet the criteria for being all killer/no filler, there is only one place to start and that is the 1979 album Entertainment! by Gang of Four. I may sometimes change my mind about what my favourite song or single is, depending on mood, but if anybody asks me what my […]
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