The General Election
As the title indicates, it was the general election yesterday. Labour swept back in to power (by the looks of it) - although they have 100 less seats they still have a very large majority to play with. Very interesting though the breakdown of results - the lib dems have gained further seats - principally from Labour - so we are getting closer to three party politics. I as usual voted Conservative - I did an on-line test and I was hugely conservative with greens second. I'm independent on the local council - do not believe party politics should interfere with affairs at that level - and I think I mentioned before about the local party calling an election for a parish councillor to be elected and cost the parish £1500 - 1.5% of the yearly budget - just to get one of their cronies in. Anyway....
The spending continues, having a new boiler fitted on Monday - we are fed up with repairing the old one so biting the bullet on it. Apparently they are only supposed to last 7 years now - how awful is that.
Also upgraded my NTL connection so I have 2mb - well apparently - I can't spot any difference to be honest. A right palava getting my tv and internet package reloaded on there - meant i was without my internet for about 24 hours.
Went to a couple of meetings on Wed evening - Chamber of Commerce informal get together - good to see so many people wishing to get involved - great news - hope they all pull as one from now rather than the danger of fragmenting as appeared to be happening.
Then went to a sports club meeting in the Sreethi - had a jalapeno chicken - not bad but not spicy enough - was supposed to be simon's last board meeting - but apparently he is turning up to the next one as well. Oh well, hope there's another curry then ;-)
Drove to the Packhorse pub last night with martin, geoff and neil. Martin was voted most valuable player whilst at an international softball tournament in Jersey at the weekend - he is hopefully going to the world championships in florida in the autumn - i felt humbled to be in his presence. In my life I've achieved in sporting circles um... thirds player of the season.
The spending continues, having a new boiler fitted on Monday - we are fed up with repairing the old one so biting the bullet on it. Apparently they are only supposed to last 7 years now - how awful is that.
Also upgraded my NTL connection so I have 2mb - well apparently - I can't spot any difference to be honest. A right palava getting my tv and internet package reloaded on there - meant i was without my internet for about 24 hours.
Went to a couple of meetings on Wed evening - Chamber of Commerce informal get together - good to see so many people wishing to get involved - great news - hope they all pull as one from now rather than the danger of fragmenting as appeared to be happening.
Then went to a sports club meeting in the Sreethi - had a jalapeno chicken - not bad but not spicy enough - was supposed to be simon's last board meeting - but apparently he is turning up to the next one as well. Oh well, hope there's another curry then ;-)
Drove to the Packhorse pub last night with martin, geoff and neil. Martin was voted most valuable player whilst at an international softball tournament in Jersey at the weekend - he is hopefully going to the world championships in florida in the autumn - i felt humbled to be in his presence. In my life I've achieved in sporting circles um... thirds player of the season.
posted by watsy at Friday, May 06, 2005
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