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Falmer for All
Posted Sep 26, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4284402.stm
I've just come back from a very happy demonstration along the seafront outside of the Labour Party Conference. There were four to five thousand people demonstrating in support of Brighton & Hove Albion FC getting a new football stadium at Falmer to the north east of the city.
I attracted quite a lot of attention along the route because I was one of the few not wearing Seagulls colours, I was of course wearing a Sheffield United top. A number of folk came up to me and thanked me for my support.
Now all we need is for that fat git, John Prescott, to get off his arse and make a decision as to whether the new stadium can be built at Falmer or not. He's been prevaricating for two years now, and that is long enough.
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I'm stunned that this hasn't been grabbed already
Posted Sep 22, 2005
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GMail Spam
Posted Sep 20, 2005
I'm annoyed 
It seems that the GMail account I have in my real name has attracted the attentions of some porn spammers. For the last week I've been clearing about 40 messages a day from the spam box. And I'm not happy about it.
The bit that I don't understand is how they've got this address. I use it to communicate with family and work and, you know, proper stuff. I've never used it to sign up to random sites where you get the feeling they might sell your address onwards. For those sites I'd either set up a new GMail account or use a Mailinator one.
I wanted to have my real name account pristine, and now it's not 
The greydesk account which I am much more fast and loose about giving out - friends have it, the BBC has it, h2g2 has it, Yahoo and MSN have it, some poker and gambling websites have it - remains totally spam free.
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Queuing up at Tescos they were
Posted Sep 14, 2005
At about 10pm, on my way home from last night's football match, I noticed some pretty large queues of cars on the roundabout outside the town's main branch of Tescos. They were all trying to get into the 24 hour garage to top up their fuel tanks. I reckoned that the ones at the end of the queue would have a 2 hour wait before they made it to the pumps, so I didn't bother joining them.
I saw a number of other garages that evening, all with signs saying "no fuel", or "Diesel only" and the like. I wasn't that panicked by the whole thing, as I knew I had a quarter tank of petrol and I don't need to do any long journeys until the weekend.
This afternoon I was out and about, and I passed a garage that had fuel and didn't have a queue of cars trying to get in. So I thought I might as well top up seeing as I was in the area.
30.11 litres of fuel cost me £30.08. That's 99.9p per litre. That's appalling!
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Gardening
Posted Sep 7, 2005
Today I have been ripping up weeds from the spaces between the concrete tiles; cutting back the vines and ivy that run all along, over, round, and down the garden wall, and then out over the tiles; dicing with death with the brambles that are hidden in that lot; and generally getting intimidated by some unbelievable thorny dog-rose type of an affair that grows through the wall from my neighbour's garden.
God I hate gardening with an absolute passion.
It set me thinking as to what I use my garden (back yard is actually a more accurate term) for. The answer is absolutely nothing. It's primary role in life is to stop my house being a back-to-back house with the people who live in the next street!
Then I thought when was the last time you went into your garden prior to today. Well I reckon it was back in late May when I was...
"ripping up weeds from the spaces between the concrete tiles; cutting back the vines and ivy that run all along, over, round, and down the garden wall, and then out over the tiles; dicing with death with the brambles that are hidden in that lot; and generally getting intimidated by some unbelievable thorny dog-rose type of an affair that grows through the wall from my neighbour's garden."
...and that is the only other time that I've been out there this year.
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