The other week I finished reading Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker, another of the books Amazon send me for reviewthrough its Vine programme. I wasn’t sure if I would like it, but with free books I feel more inclined to leave my comfort zone and in this case it was worth doing so. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Yorkshire'
Feed the World?
July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Feed the World? · Jane, Politics
Just to show that Skuds isn’t the only one who can use song titles for his posts…. We have been a touch busy recently and, among other things, we spent a very rainy Saturday last week helping the Huddersfield Friends of the Earth Group in their protest against EU Biofuels targets. (I’m holding the % […]
Tags: Environment·UKIP·Yorkshire
Bradford Mela
June 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bradford Mela · Jane, Music
After living here for seven years we finally got round to going to the Bradford Mela. Every other year we seem to have had someone getting married/throwing a party/generally inviting us somewhere else on the Mela weekend and last year it was cancelled (fixture off due to waterlogged pitch…) so this year we made a […]
I don’t want a holiday in the sun
June 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Its always a pleasure to use an old Sex Pistols lyric for a title… anyway, the Skuds family recently returned from a short camping holiday in West Yorkshire, and one thing you can say for certain is that it was no holiday in the sun. We were up there for the half-term break, and travelled […]
Lame Joke
July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Lame Joke · Life
I don’t reckon much of this estate agent…
A night out in Doncaster
July 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on A night out in Doncaster · Work
I feel like such a hypocrite! Last night a few of us who were visiting Doncaster were taken out for a meal in town. After the meal we had a couple of drinks in a bar. After closing time we went on to an 80's club. When that turfed us all out after midnight I […]
Tags: Yorkshire
Doncaster Revisited
July 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Doncaster Revisited · Work
I am back up in Doncaster again, but staying in a different hotel this time. This one is outside the town centre, so there are no crowds of drunks outside in the early hours, nor booming nightclub music. It is also a larger, cleaner room with a smoke alarm installed. On the negative side, being […]
Pink Fish
July 19th, 2006 · Comments Off on Pink Fish · Life
Not an immediately obvious combination of business streams for a company to be in. Was it such a success that they have had to move to larger premises? Somehow I suspect not. On the other hand, the combination does make some sense. I think that tanning studios and IT consultancies are both businesses which attract […]
Doncaster
July 18th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Work
I am writing this while sitting in a hotel room in Doncaster of all places. The reason is that I have to be in our offices in Donny at 9:00 tomorrow for some training on a new switch we are having installed. (Thats a telephone switch AKA a PABX. Not a simple on/off switch. Even […]
Tags: Yorkshire
