Personal Blog

Thursday was a quiet day. After all, some people have blogs to write and I decided to get up early and get it done fast. I can work quite...

If you drive or cycle along the Great West Road you might notice that there are a lot of car company installations across the East part...

I got very emotional last week about the delay of redeveloping Charlton House. Well, I am emotional about it. I recognise this is a very...

As promised I was off to the Museum of Water and Steam. There were plenty of members there and a brief speech from the artist and the...

On Thursday evening I had a Teams session. This was about the Resident Experience and Localities Service. This has been cooking for a...

Well, that cold played havoc with my ambitious plans for reshaping the known world over the Easter weekend. I was reduced to lie...

On Friday I was invited and attended a school age football tournament in Gunnersbury Park. Good to watch for a bit and I congratulate the...

On Friday I started with a visit to the FoodBox place in Brickfield Close, behind Pets at Home. This was to pick up a bank card that the...

On Friday I had one of my periodic wanders around the ward, or a lot of it. To start it I made a very short walk onto my balcony. Soon...

When I was a yoof my dad was the owner of a small business. He called himself the Manager or Owner. It expanded a bit and he became known...

On Friday I went up to Layton Road to look at the work that had been promised by Hounslow Highway to clear the mess underneath the...

At some time during all this – my memory of dates is hazy, a bit like when I did History at school – I had a temp job at Honeywell in...

Yes, that was me. My school was literally next door to my home, but boarding was heavily encouraged for two reasons: being a day boy...

For some reason this website from time to time decided to turn my writing inside out. It annoys me. I quite like the normal green type on...

This blog was posted on my Facebook blog page but I had forgotten about this story, or that I had the Facebook page . I have resurrected...

As I said, not much happened this week. I was still in Brentford on Friday and Saturday but the only excitement (mild) was meeting with...

On Friday I attended a funeral at Mortlake Crematorium. This was for Sue Casey. Sue was a former teacher but whilst I have been active...

On Friday I had a brief meeting and a beer with a local man about problems with the back part of the old Charlton House, where it butts...

I won't bore you with old cars again this week, but I went on Friday to something called Race Retro. Surprisingly, old racing cars....

Well this has been a dispiritingly quiet week. I'm not sure whether this is because people are on holiday (certainly quite a number...