Friday, November 02, 2007
I'll Have the Herring
...with New Potatoes and Salad...
World Toilet Summit: "An estimated 2.6 billion people, or about one-third of global population, do not have access to a proper toilet..."
Standby: "Wasted energy from appliances left on standby...accounts for 4m tonnes of excess CO2 each year."
Orchid Watch
iPod-alotry
"You You You You You" - The 6ths
"Glasgow Mega-Snake" - Mogwai
"The Apartment Song" - Do Make Say Think
"Assassination on X-Mas Eve" - Archers of Loaf
"Mirror Ball - Buffalo Daughter
"Ode to Louis Hardin" - Tele:Funken
"For a Moment" - To Rococo Rot/I-Sound
"Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Part IV" - King Crimson
"Plays John Cassavetes" - Ekehard Ehlers
"Love is No Big Truth" - Kings of Convenience
"Hassle" - Sebadoh
"23kid" - 65 Days of Static
"Decoration Day" - John Lee Hooker
""The Streets Where All I Saw" - Dakota Suite
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, energy, environment, iPod, orchid watch, seagulls, toilets
:: Posted by pete @ Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Civic Duty
Civic planting in Barnstaple.
On this evidence, the police in Tampa might not make it on to CSI.
Our local village shop on TV. Click on "Latest Edition" and scroll to 19:10. Lack of local customers hurts, but closure of the Post Office will kill it.
Got your free Radiohead yet? How much did you pay?
iPod-alotry
"I Shall Be Free" - Bob Dylan
"Bittersweet Me" - R.E.M.
"Time to Find Me (Afx Fast Mix)" - Seefeed
"Chronology" - Ornette Coleman
"Djed (Bruise Blood Mix)" - Tortoise
"Song Meat" - Subtle
"Simple Halo" - Shipping News
"Chorale" - Spring Heel Jack
"Saint Stephen" - Grateful Dead
"Wren's Nest" - Vic Chesnutt
"Rockstar" - Sebadoh
"Love is Like Jazz" - The Magnetic Fields
"For Lack of Better Words" - Orso
Labels: Barnstaple, Buckland Brewer, daily bollocks, North Devon, police state
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Autumn leaves
Autumn kicks in along the River Taw.
Great football kits of our time.
Great football quotes of our time:
"...[Avram Grant] is in a no-win situation, unless he wins..." - Graham Taylor
iPod-olatry
"Rain King" - Sonic Youth
"Tak" - Kim Hiorthoy
"Lewis" - Yo La Tengo
"Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása" - Sigur Rós
"New Adventures" - Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia
"Love Detective" - Arab Strap
"That's the Way" - Led Zeppelin
"Big Boss Man" - Grateful Dead
"Solitaire" - The Notwist
"Tjed" - Tortoise
"De Gal Komt in mijn Mond" - Silvester Anfang
"You Set Off My Brain" - Simian
"Afterwards" - Arab Strap
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, football, iPod
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Pay Day
£500,000 (or about 105,000 dozen donuts) for a new playground. Hope the kids enjoy it.
Times are hard. At the end of the pay month, there was enough money in the account to buy about three-and-a-half dozen donuts.
Radiohead playing games with fans.
50 years ago (yesterday): dem bums play the last game at Ebbets Field. By the time I turned up on Long Island, Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds (home of the New York baseball Giants) were memories, though much fresher than now.
I saw all my baseball games at the Big Shea (including a "home" game for the briefly itinerant, hated Yankees). Dodger and Giant series were the big tickets given that both teams had only just left the area. Add to that, there were a couple of favourites from the 50s, like Wille Mays and Don Drysdale, still playing for those clubs.
My first game at Shea was to see the Dodgers on a hot Sunday afternoon in June 1968. We got held up in traffic and missed the first few innings. Sat in the upper deck, which was so high we could touch the sun. Or to be precise, the sun touched us with a severe burn. I did not have a beer (being slightly under age at the time).
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer
Think Rheingold whenever you buy beer
That plastic batting helmet was still around in my parents house in the 80s.
iPod-olatry
"Niger" - Mali Music
"Brandenburg Concerto No.1 (J.S. Bach)" - Muenchener Bach-Orchester
"Shadow Pugilist" - June of 44
"Run! Christian, Run!" - Super Furry Animals
"Vent" - Tricky
"Bird in the Hand" - Sebadoh
"The Girls Want to Be With the Girls" - Talking Heads
"intercourse" - Techno Animal
"Our Way to Fall" - Yo La Tengo
"Trick Bag (Shoppin' for My Tombstone)" - John Lee Hooker
"Falling" - Julee Cruise
"Man Research (Clapper)" - Gorillaz
"Inside Elevation" - Pan American
"Send a Message to Her" - Beck
"Shoes" - Atmosphere
"Leaning Against the Wall" - Kings of Convenience
"Mr. F" - The Sea and Cake
""Peace - a Theme" - King Crimson
Labels: Barnstaple, baseball, daily bollocks, iPod, money, radiohead
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Silent But Deadly
Then sing of Barum, merry town and Barum's merry mayor too
I know no place in a'l the world old Barum to compare to.
Apparently, this is fun: spinning through the North Devon evening after scarfing hot dogs, chips, candy floss, chocolate, fizzy drinks and possibly a nip or two of something stronger. Still, no worse than visiting McDonald's.
By burning waste from McDonald's "restaurants" around Sheffield, the company claims it is making a green contribution. Power for just 50 homes (according to green groups; McD's says 130 "buildings") from a menu of products that already has a staggering environmental impact as well as superfluous packaging. Each McD's produces 100 tonnes of waste a year: tackle the unnecessary waste first.
Vegetarian Society launches its "Silent But Deadly" campaign - i.e. what comes out of the bottoms of cows ain't good. "Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world's entire transport system (13.5%)." Green fields: pretty, but not so green.
Yeuch. I'm not loving it.
iPod-dolatry
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - The Beatles
"New Broadway" - The High Llamas
"Immune" - Low
"Wrinkled Ghost" - Robert Pollard
"Kesson Dalef" - Aphex Twin
Untitled from The Eventual Bow - Sonna
"Tharoman" - Threnody Ensemble
"Dead Flowers" - The Rolling Stones
"Dazed and Confused" - Led Zeppelin
"Spiderwebbed" - Tortoise
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, environment
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Enjoy Your Pizza
Battle between EU Industry and Trade Commissioners over lowering the cost of energy-efficient light bulbs. German protecting his own industry at the expense of consumers and energy efficiency.
Bush pr0n
Another internet 10th anniversary. Yawn. Teh bloggers.
...the medium has radically changed publishing and communication. But not everyone is convinced ...For the blogging tribe, it's more like time to get out the red pencil, and dispute the premise of the anniversary itself.
Props to the Tottenham Massive.
Another football cardiac arrest? As Sevilla holds funeral for Puerta.
Rock Parque
Rubbish food: food rubbish.
iPodolatory
"Just Me and Phil" - Jah Wobble
"Dánarfregnir Og Jarðarfarir" - Sigur Rós
"Soot" - Sam Shalabi
"Cuban" - Sebadoh
"Worlds Melt Away" - Rothko
"Cadriopo" - Stereolab
"Buffalo606 - The Morning After" - Kid 606
"The Individual" - Spiritualized
"81" - The Marquis De Tren And Bonny Billy
"Knife Attack" - Timesbold
"Team Handed" - Mogwai
"Larks Tongue in Aspic Part One" - King Crimson
"Milkman" - Aphex Twin
"Threnody of Souls in Torment" - The Robert Fripp String Quartet
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, EU, food, football, internet, iPod, pr0n, Rock Park, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Headless Chickens
Paul Robinson makes a horlicks of a Schneider cross as England lose 2-1 in a miserable "friendly" to the hated Germans. Steve "Steve" McLaren has completed a year as England coach in which time the "golden generation" has produced a succession of mediocre performances and equally mediocre results. At least he's not Sven Goran Eriksson. Sven is currently riding high in first place in the Premier League - but it won't last. Hopefully, McLaren won't last too much longer either. Hire Martin O'Neill, for f&cks sake. Oh, and Team Beckham was on the pitch.
Firefox is teh suxor and users are thieves.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael "Ron Mexico" Vick in deeper dog poo-poo.
Funny road signs are very funny.
Google offers a calendar - well, I never.
New toilets in the pipeline, no pun intended.
Egg boxes are banned in craft lessons as they might cause salmonella.
Everyday more than 2 million people read the Daily Hate. How would a limp wristed, liberal fare reading the tabloid?
iPod-ology
"What are You?" - Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"Hallucinex" - Stereolab
"Dark FX" - Mouse on Mars
"Accused of Stealing" - The Delagados
"F-Train" - Squarepusher
"Jungle Jim" - Rodan
Rock Parquet
Labels: Barnstaple, Devon, football, iPod, North Devon, Rock Park, soccer, sport
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Barnstaple Western Bypass
Est arrive! Let the fumes increase. And buy the commemorative crap.
Labels: Barnstaple, bridges, North Devon
Monday, March 12, 2007
Dog ate my blog post...
Top ten reasons why this blog hasn't been updated:
10. Down the Coach and Horses winning the pub quiz.
9. Shopping at the Pannier Market. Just what is a Pannier Market?
8. Drying out from the non-stop rain.
7. Planting basil seeds.
6. Painting the kitchen.
5. Watching Tottenham Hotspur blow two goal leads.
4. Assisting the local Constabulary with their inquiries.
3. Planning the vegetable plot.
2. Attending a committee meeting of the newly formed village Gardeners' Club (and designing the club website).
1. Too busy dressing up statues in Barnstaple.
Labels: Barnstaple, Buckland Brewer, North Devon
Friday, February 02, 2007
More dull pictures of the River Taw
It was a nice day, beautiful sunset and nothing ever happens in Barnstaple. Is that a good enough excuse?
Labels: Barnstaple, bridges, North Devon
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Shit Happens
Some suspicious looking gunk in the River Taw.
Labels: Barnstaple, North Devon
Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Bridges of Barnstaple
The Longbridge at Barnstaple across the the River Taw has carried traffic for centuries. But, now the town suffocates in cars and trucks.
Behold, the Downstream Bridge...
Carrying the Barnstaple Western Bypass, this ugly concrete structure is nearly complete. Springtime sees the bypass open and Barnstaple's traffic woes disappear.
Labels: Barnstaple, bridges, North Devon
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Little Fluffy Clouds
The weather has turned. Gone are the gales and rain. It's ice and cold. As the days grow slightly longer, the walk along the Taw is in twilight. This is the Longbridge in the glow before sun up.
Photo effect fun with this picture is an extreme possibility. A Turneresque end product would most likely be the result.
the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and they were long, clear, and there were lots of stars, at night. And when it would rain, they would all turn - They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little.
Labels: Barnstaple, bridges, North Devon, sunrise
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
A good start in the new job
I have no phone.
I'm borrowing a desk.
I work for the wrong boss.
And, now they're going to demolish my office.
Labels: Barnstaple, North Devon, Work
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Content is King
It's been a week of the new life. New job. The content is to be determined.
As the name badge indicates, it rains a lot in Devon. Rain? It sheets down. Add in the wind. Umbrellas are useless.
I work in the ugliest building in town. Believe me, it looks uglier on the inside.
But the view is nice.
Labels: Barnstaple, Devon, Moving, Work