I know I spend a lot of time moaning about the queues in Somerfield, but then I do spend a lot of time in queues at Somerfield, but credit where it is due. On New Year’s Eve we heard that a youngster who went to primary school with Chrystal and who Jayne used to look […]
Entries Tagged as 'Heroes'
The Final Countdown
November 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Final Countdown · Life
After all the fuss about dancing competitions, premium phone line scandals, cat-naming competitions, and everything else, it is good to see a TV company making an anouncement that can only be good – Jeff Stelling is to take over Countdown! He may be virtually unknown, except to those who watch, or have ever watched, Sky […]
Ted Rogers
April 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Ted Rogers · Life
It was very saddening to hear today that Ted Rogers died on Saturday. Not the Ted Rogers from the TV but the man many in Crawley think of as “the” Ted Rogers.  I did not know him very well, having only met him properly in the last couple of years, but I had seen him […]
Attenborough
February 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Attenborough · Life
Over at the Assistant Blog, Jonathan is heaping well-deserved praise in nearly equal quantities upon David Attenborough’s new series Life In Cold Blood and Nancy Banks-Smith’s review of it in the Guardian.
Trevor Brooking is magic…
September 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
…and we all agree That used to be the chant at Upton Park. I was amused to find a group on Facebook called All hail Sir Trevor Brooking, but even more amused to see that it is categorised under “Common Interest – Religion & Spirituality”
Gordon Brown’s teeth
March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
There has been plenty of comment about Gordon Brown’s teeth, mostly concentrating on whether it was right to go private instead of using an NHS dentist and whether the treatment was mainly medical or cosmetic. I don’t think enough has been made of the most important little detail of the whole thing – he had […]
Honours
December 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
A small haul of honours for Crawley… OBEs for the Chairman of the driving instructors’ association who lives in Worth, and a couple of foster parents, for services to children and families. That sounds like the sort of thing we should be recognising and promoting. That side of the honours system is something I like. […]
The old ones *are* the best
December 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on The old ones *are* the best · Life
Why is it that I saw a clip of Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn this evening and had tears of laughter in my eyes? How many times must I have seen that sketch? I must have seen it half a dozen times this year alone but it still tickles me as much as the […]
Dymaxion
October 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
Today I found out all about Dymaxion and Buckminster Fuller. Such an interesting character: I can't believe I had never heard of him before. Fuller was an American designer, architect and inventor – and much more. He coined the phrase 'Spaceship Earth' and invented the geodesic dome. But he did so much more. In a […]
Bargain!
October 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on Bargain! · Music
In HMV today I picked up Stevie Wonder's latest album (A Time To Love) for just £3.99. This is the album which came out last year and was widely regarded as his best in a long, long time – possibly his best since Songs In The Key Of Life – so I could not resist […]
