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Some thoughts about flooding

February 11th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics

I’ve always had a sort of morbid fascination with floods. Wherever I have lived I have always found myself at some point trying to mentally work out contours and relative heights to reassure myself that I am on high enough ground to not be likely to have my house flooded. I can remember even as […]

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Out in the sun

March 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Out in the sun · Life, Politics

I picked a good day to take a day’s holiday from work today.  After what seems like weeks of relentless rain and high winds it was sunny and warm, which was just as well because I had decided to spend part of my day off helping with canvassing in Crawley and had been dreading going […]

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LA Rain

February 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on LA Rain · Life

I can’t say I was surprised by this story.  When I went to Los Angeles it rained for a couple of days.  There were roads closed, and on one journey we were on a freeway and where it dipped under a junction there was a good 40cm of water to get through. I guess the […]

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More rubbish?

January 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on More rubbish? · Life

Just seen that the forecast is for heavy snow around here tomorrow afternoon.   Timed to perfection to interfere with our weekly (I wish!) rubbish collection.  I honestly can’t remember when our trash was last collected – is it two weeks? Three weeks?  Is it longer than three weeks or does it just feel like it? […]

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Vive la difference

January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Vive la difference · Life

Another dull, weather-related post, but I thought it might be fun to compare the response to snow(balls) in two different places. In Crawley: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And in Washington: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’m so glad we have […]

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Wrong kind of snow?

January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Wrong kind of snow? · Life

Maybe the railways had a point with their now-notorious complaints about ‘the wrong kind of snow’ after all.  We had a little bit of the white stuff here overnight and although there was nowhere near as much as last week it seems to have had more of an impact.

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I’m black and I’m proud

January 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Life

I am trying to resist the temptation to write about the weather, but really nothing much else is happening here.  Today I decided to spend the day at home reviewing a huge pile of HR policies instead of walking either one mile or five miles to work (depending on whether the buses are running).  I […]

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A bit of a trek

January 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on A bit of a trek · Life

Sometimes even I am astonished by my naivety.  Perhaps misplaced optimism is a better alternative. After last night’s walk I knew there would be no buses up Tollgate Hill (no problem as I don’t want them anyway) but I just sort of presumed the more level roads would be better anyway and that the main […]

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I don’t want to complain, but…

January 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on I don’t want to complain, but… · Life, Work

Everything looks so clean and white outside so I don’t want to complain about the weather, but I think I may moan a bit about the timing of it.  It is only about 8 or 10 centimetres here at the moment.  Hardly Arctic conditions, though it has made our street impossible again.  This time our […]

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Its the way he tells them

December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Its the way he tells them · Life, Work

There was a bit of an end-of-term atmosphere at work today – which is going to make going in tomorrow feel like a real anti-climax.  A major contributory factor was our xmas lunch in the canteen restaurant.  Queueing up to get in there we noticed a picture of the incident at Prestwick where a Ryanair […]

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