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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Older and Wiser Been away (Again!) on the Costa Blanca, celebrating a biggish birthday. Great, relaxing in the warm sunshine with good food, booze and company. Far too short if the truth were to be told. Then I return to this rather pleasant viewing:
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posted by timesnewroman at 10:50 AM
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Out ! I am out on strike today, a 1 day strike in action against the employers derisory cost of living offer of 2.5% fixed for 3 years. Effectively its a wage cut. Given the spiralling cost of living and the credit crunch and the impending doom facing the whole planet, you'd think the Governments of the UK and Scotland might want to have a few hundred thousand workers on their side, but their you go. Quite what one day of action is going to achieve though is difficult to gauge. Call me a cynical bastard, but my guess is that the savings from today and possibly a further 2 day show of solidarity in the future will contribute to an increase that will be accepted.Labels: Strike
posted by timesnewroman at 11:42 AM
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Hiatus Over I'm back. Been a while, been busy, very busy. Since that post below, we went to Paris for a weekend, stripped out a kitchen, built a kitchen, got a new motor, went to London for a week, had Rediski and boy up for a few days although we had to go camping in the rain and therefore left them to their own devices, and am now preparing to go to Spain next Saturday for a week on account of I'm going to be old(ish). We also caught that gig below with Reidski which greatly exceeded my meagre expectations. We thought we were going to get the entirety of Surrealistic Pillow, which in fact we didn't we did however get a marvellous night of entertainment where they played huge chunks of it and also huge chunks of loads of my other favourite Jefferson stuff. We had the most amazing vantage point standing just next to the monitors directly in front of Paul Kantner. thewife thought he was shorter than he used to be, I dunno though. The last time I saw them was an eternity ago at Knebworth and I was so far back I have no idea how big he was. Anyways him and David Freiberg and indeed the rest of the band were absolutely spot on. Still politically sound as fuck. Loved it.I loved to the rest of our London sojourn which included much dining out and in. We had a marvellous 5 course meal at the Tate Britain "Late at the Tate" night with Father Bell, partner Jo and their incredibly convivial and funny Brazillian and Czech friends. 5 Courses, 5 different wines, great night indeed. We also went to Thomasina Miers' Wahacca which was both incredibly inexpensive and incredibly good, with Jane and Reidski. All that and a couple of trips to Borough Market thrown in for good measure.
Also there's been the start of the football season and a last minute season ticket purchase, which on evidence of the first game may prove to be a sound investment.
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posted by timesnewroman at 11:36 AM
