Monday, July 30, 2007
Hertford rules
Hertford also boasts the first new build Witherspoons I have come across. At least it will be a new build when it is finished, a rather large affair tucked into the entrance to the Castle Park (which contained at least two young DSS types with tinnies when we visited). Amazing what the man has done in less than twenty years. I am still going to one in Tooting which has a Witherspoons party number in single digits - back from the days when he was buying up seedy premises in seedy areas and flogging very cheap beer in them. Does he keep these old ones for sentimental reasons or is he recycling them so as not to damage his posh heritage restore image?
And one moan: in Tooting and elsewhere he was a bit previous over moving his no smoking signs up through the bar - especially since he had grown rich on a generation of seedy old puffers.
The Oxfam ship in Hertford had quite a lot of classical LPs - which was good as they are getting increasingly hard to come by and I am still soldiering on with a turntable. Don't see why I should change while my turntable turns and my tastes don't change. Too much investment in the stuff. So I get a boxed set of Beethoven piano concertos (oddly missing from my stack) for 99p - and declined other single record offerings they had for £30 and more. Presumably there is a market for special recordings - but not with me. Hard put to tell one recording from another never mind about paying £29.01 extra for one.
And one more moan. I have complained about flailing hedges in suburbia before - but now the flail has reached the hedge running along one side of our local recreation ground. One might of thought that a recreation ground counted as a park - more or less a garden - and deserved better than some job-seeker thrashing around with a flail on the end of a tractor and the resulting ugly mess. I vote for the job-seeker doing it by hand with supervision from someone who has seen a garden in his time. One might have thought with the amount of effort going into matters eco, someone might have thought that having someone doing it by hand without the benefit of expensive, noisy and petrol consuming machinery might be the way forward. Set a good example to the rest of us.
I suppose the trouble is that until they get around to putting a punitive tax on petrol to cut consumption, the expensive machine is cheaper. Certainly true when it comes to mixing concrete. Machine wins over breaking back every time!
And one moan: in Tooting and elsewhere he was a bit previous over moving his no smoking signs up through the bar - especially since he had grown rich on a generation of seedy old puffers.
The Oxfam ship in Hertford had quite a lot of classical LPs - which was good as they are getting increasingly hard to come by and I am still soldiering on with a turntable. Don't see why I should change while my turntable turns and my tastes don't change. Too much investment in the stuff. So I get a boxed set of Beethoven piano concertos (oddly missing from my stack) for 99p - and declined other single record offerings they had for £30 and more. Presumably there is a market for special recordings - but not with me. Hard put to tell one recording from another never mind about paying £29.01 extra for one.
And one more moan. I have complained about flailing hedges in suburbia before - but now the flail has reached the hedge running along one side of our local recreation ground. One might of thought that a recreation ground counted as a park - more or less a garden - and deserved better than some job-seeker thrashing around with a flail on the end of a tractor and the resulting ugly mess. I vote for the job-seeker doing it by hand with supervision from someone who has seen a garden in his time. One might have thought with the amount of effort going into matters eco, someone might have thought that having someone doing it by hand without the benefit of expensive, noisy and petrol consuming machinery might be the way forward. Set a good example to the rest of us.
I suppose the trouble is that until they get around to putting a punitive tax on petrol to cut consumption, the expensive machine is cheaper. Certainly true when it comes to mixing concrete. Machine wins over breaking back every time!
# posted by Jim @ 4:05 AM 
