Month: September 2003

Am I the only one who thinks that the world is going mad? A man in a perspex box, hanging a little bit above the ground by Tower Bridge for 44 days. An incredibly wealthy former member of a popular beat combo. And a newspaper photographer. Add them together, and what do you get? The most ridiculous waste of energy and police time you could possibly imagine.

Yarr!

More on Sussex winning the county championship:

• Angus Fraser in the Independent
• CMJ in The Times
• The Guardian carries interviews with some of the major people involved at Sussex. Peter Moores, the coach, is quoted as saying "we won because we were better than anyone else". Wise words indeed.

Beer with Hamish (happy birthday!), Ruth, Nicki, Jonathan, Greg, Arron and Matt. And tonight I learned that Bora is in France. I expect him to turn up on my doorstep any time soon.

Don’t forget to vote. Less than 24 hours to go.

Chichester District Council have asked for yet more drawings to go with my planning application, in spite of no specific requirement being specified in the application pack and guidance notes. This on top of last week’s request for more money. This process is getting on my nerves.

The Chichester Observer has a headline this week on a story about the memorial service held recently at Westminster Abbey for Dame Thora Hird, who "had a home near Chichester":

Yet more evidence that the editor of the paper is a prat (other than when he prints my letters, obviously).

Murray Goodwin has just struck the winning runs to ensure that Sussex have won the Frizzell County Cricket Championship for the first time in the team’s 164 year history. Brilliant!
BBC Sport coverage.
Sussex County Cricket Club official site.

Lots to do today, so expect quiet. But in other news:

• There is still time to vote in the header graphic poll. "Palm House Door" continues its charge, now with four votes and clear of "City Café", but surely too late to gain the prize?
• Sussex need just 167 runs today to seal victory in the cricket County Championship for the first time in the team’s long long history
• Happy birthday to Hamish
• Hurricane Isabel is passing directly over the area that I will be visiting in two weeks time

And how are you?

Voting in the header graphic poll continues, with "Railings" still in the lead, with a comfortable cushion before second placed "Warning". "Palm House Door" doubled its tally today – it now has two votes.