Category: old blogging

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.

If you’re wondering what I’m looking at on the web today, you can find it here. Just six points needed and we already have two of them.
Meanwhile, Brighton won last night, though not convincingly.

Busy busy busy, but enjoying the luxury of being able to hold business meetings outside in the glorious warm sunshine. Indian summer – don’t you love it?
I’ve also just realised how far it is from Birmingham to Caernarfon.

A successful talk in Rustington tonight, followed by beer, in a blogging birthday kinda way, with Paul F, Ian, Sacha, Lord Percy and Lady Bren, spectating on the karaoke in Chicago Rocks.
Now home, listening to tonight’s excellent Peel show on Radio 1.

United States politics update:

• Californian gubernatorial recall vote delayed. BBC coverage. Sacramento Bee: Analysis – postponement could benefit Davis most. California Insider considers the short term implications.
• Wesley Clark to run for President. BBC News profile. Washington Post coverage.