I had to attend a training session today on the subject of business ethics. The trainer and one of the other attendees had lisps so it was probably the first event of its kind that I have been to where nobody made the predicatable ethics/Essex jokes. OK, so it is usually me making the ethics/Essex […]
Entries Tagged as 'Essex'
Mystic Ivy
March 6th, 2015 · Comments Off on Mystic Ivy · Life
Today we went out to Essex for our second funeral of the week. This time it was Auntie Ivy. In terms of strict biology she was not actually my auntie, but on the other hand she was because she was sort of everybody’s auntie, having had 105 years to accumulate honorory nephews and neices. Despite […]
Tags: Essex
The circus comes to Clacton
August 28th, 2014 · Comments Off on The circus comes to Clacton · Politics
Today’s ‘shock’ announcement of a Tory MP defecting to UKIP has been a bit of fun for all the non-Tories, but not entirely a shock in some respects. OK, so it wasn’t expected or even hinted at, but once you saw the headline, the identity of the MP in question was far from a shock. […]
Sport wins
August 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
What a good weekend. Obviously there were lashings of sport on TV, but there was also a trip out to Essex on Saturday for a 103rd birthday party. It was quite a big event, even if it was just in a back garden – an excess of food and drink, a bluegrass band playing on […]
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
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 […]
Don’t it make you Feelgood
August 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on Don’t it make you Feelgood · Life, Music
This week’s Word podcast features the legend that is Wilko Johnson reminiscing, philosophising and playing a bit of guitar. At one point he talks about the dynamics of the relationships within Doctor Feelgood and whether there was any competition between him and Lee Brilleaux about who was the frontman and says: If we were a […]
Tags: Essex
New ways to feel old
February 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
There was another of life’s little milestones today. It is one thing when your own children hit eighteen, that is bad enough, but when your little sister’s kids reach eighteen… A much bigger milestone for my niece Annie though. We went back to Essex for her 18th birthday party tonight. It was a good family […]
Best day of the year
December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Yesterday was my favourite day of the year, one that I always look forward to. It does not always fall on the same date, but is normally a few days after December 25th. The timing depends on when the Northern sister can get time off work. It is the day we go up to Essex […]
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Essex·Family
Reasons to be cheerful – part 100
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
A few more photos from and thoughts about Tuesday’s big event – Auntie Ivy’s 100th birthday party. In retrospect I wish I had taken the day off rather than going straight from work, hitting the rush hour traffic and getting there an hour late. Since my own commute is a mere five miles I underestimate […]
