Every Day Life Blog Index

• - Alan's Other Blogs (2023-08-22)
• 2009 August / September : BGT Anecdote / Book Reviews (2009-09-20)
• 2009 December : deer, chain reaction, ornamental duck, snow M1, (2009-12-28)
• 2009 October / November: X-Factor (2009-11-12)
• 2010: Clegg, Beechnut, Palin (2010-04-24)
• 27 Months For A Life (2009-05-20)
• A Question of Gay Marriage (2013-02-05)
• A Solution To "Current" Problems (2010-08-04)
• A Trip to the Isle of Wight - 2000 (2000-09-03)
• A collection of notes: 2007-2008 (2009-01-31)
• Adora Svitak (2009-01-31)
• Alan's Winter Wonderland - in Spring 2013 ! (2013-03-26)
• Alfred Danby Winter (2006-05-21)
• Alt-Right America: Trump's Out of His Depth and Winging It (2017-01-21)
• Alternative Vote (2024-02-02)
• Americanese? - That old chestnut (2016-02-13)
• Another Year Over And What Have We Done? (2007-12-16)
• Apple iPad Price - It's All Supply and Demand (2012-10-25)
• Ashridge (2018-05-13)
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Campaigners welcome smoking ban (2006-02-15)
• Barack Obama (2008-11-23)
• Bees: Hey! Buzz Off Pesticides Companies! We Need the Bees! (2015-08-03)
• Being A Councillor: Dealing with Casework (2009-09-10)
• Bereavement Case (2007-03-25)
• Biggleswade Memories (2022-01-25)
• Book Review: Do The Birds Still Sing in Hell? (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: Hitler's Hangman, The Life of Heydrich (2021-04-25)
• Book Review: In The Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson (2021-04-25)
• Book Review: Journey's End, Kevin Wilson (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: The Last Escape (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: The Long Walk Back (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: The Saboteur of Auschwitz (2021-12-23)
• Book Review: The Soldier Who Came Back (2021-12-23)
• Book Reviews: Eric Sykes, David Jason, Neil Armstrong, The One Hundred Year Old Man (2020-03-25)
• Brexit: Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? - video (2016-04-27)
• Brexit: Remoaners, Exiteers, and Me ; Basically it was a Marriage Gone Bad. (2017-01-05)
• Brighton: Finally, a graduation ceremony for Robert (2022-07-18)
• British Coin Designers (2025-03-01)
• Building developments around Central Beds versus LBC And A "Duty To Co-operate" (2015-02-20)
• Buncefield Oil Depot Explosion (2005-12-16)
• BusWay - A Question over Contracts (2010-03-01)
• Busway Route Too Narrow for Wheelchairs (2012-10-28)
• Campaign Notes: Knocking on Doors (2011-08-25)
• Camping In North Wales, August 2005 (2005-08-31)
• Central Bedfordshire Council: Where to Hold Planning Meetings, And When? (2015-02-21)
• Central Bedfordshire Council: CBC's Pre-Submission Local Plan to 2035 (2018-01-05)
• Central Bedfordshire Council: Polling day questions finally answered (2015-07-07)
• Central Bedfordshire Council: Questions About Stray Dogs (2014-11-08)
• Central Beds Website (2009-04-05)
• Cockney Rhyming Slang (2024-02-27)
• Cockney Rhyming Slang (2024-02-27)
• Cockney Rhyming Slang (2024-02-27)
• Cockney Rhyming Slang 3 (2024-02-27)
• Comic Show Writers Need to up their Game. #banfword #bancword (2013-01-01)
• Consultation Exercise: East of England (2009-09-13)
• Corgi Appointment (2023-09-19)
• Coronavirus: 83% Think We Will Have A Second Coronavirus Wave (2020-05-16)
• Coronavirus: Clapping & The Corona Parliament (2020-05-15)
• Cost of Council Websites & Xenu (2012-12-29)
• Council Chiefs Salaries - Are they Just Creaming It? (2009-07-20)
• DOG LOST (2006-01-31)
• Death Crash Drivers Dossier (2001-02-24)
• Ding Dong! (2013-04-08)
• Do People Mean To Say Those Words? (2006-01-11)
• Domain Address Problems of moving my Domain Names to different Webspace (2007-10-09)
• Double Glazing Quoation (2007-03-11)
• Down the Plughole One By One, or Brace Together? (2012-08-22)
• Dream: THE MUDDLE OF LIFE (2022-11-20)
• Dream: The Auditorium (2020-10-06)
• Drinking Den (2014-07-17)
• Dunstable Northern Bypass (2009-12-15)
• Dunstable: 83 Year Old Lady Fined For Having Her Dog in A Playground (2015-08-15)
• Dunstable: Anecdotal Evidence - Ashton Site Set To Go Ahead Despite Inadequate Parking (2016-10-08)
• EURO ELECTION (2009-07-07)
• East of England - G & T Policy Changes (2009-06-02)
• Election Boundaries (2012-08-11)
• Electric and Gas Bills (2008-11-23)
• Environment: I asked my local council 'where does plastic waste go'? #WarOnPlastic #DrasticOnPlastic (2019-07-11)
• Farriers Way & Millers Way (2009-07-25)
• Flags: So, If Scotland Does Go Independent, What Will Our New Flag Look Like? (2014-09-14)
• Fly-tipping M1 motorway, Near Toddington (2017-08-26)
• Food Tips: Coconut - Removing the Nut (2013-09-03)
• Food Tips: Homemade Ice Cream Without A Machine (2013-09-03)
• Funding Gap for Luton Dunstable Busway (2013-02-24)
• Get A Job: Interview Guidance | Be Prepared to Answer Obvious Questions (2012-10-26)
• Get Funded! (2013-03-30)
• Gordon Brown's not all that bad (2009-06-07)
• HRN1 Comments: More Needs Doing to Decrease Car Dependency (2013-02-11)
• Hail Nick The Negotiator ! (2010-05-12)
• Hammer and Nail (2009-05-14)
• Happy New Year 2024 (2024-01-01)
• Harriet wants a Work Programme (2013-04-05)
• Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire (2005-12-01)
• Haven. Visit the Haven site (2006-01-26)
• Help, I'm Falling, Falling (2014-11-19)
• Helpdesk (2024-04-23)
• Hemel Hempstead Magic Roundabout (2008-11-20)
• Hemel Hempstead: Car Crash (2023-01-22)
• Hemel Hempstead: Labour Waste Public Money on a By-Election (2013-02-10)
• Hemel Hempstead: Parking Woes (2021-04-19)
• Home Rentals: Local Councils Out-Priced By London Councils (2015-08-02)
• Homeless Boy Steals The Talent Show (2012-10-31)
• Hostility Towards Travellers? (2014-06-28)
• Houghton Regis : New Names Wanted for New Neighbourhoods (2012-07-15)
• Houghton Regis: Petrol Filling Station Cemetery Road (2012-09-10)
• Houghton Regis: Plymouth Brethren - Christian Religion or Secret Sect? (2013 article) (2013-04-08)
• Houghton Regis: Time For Some Action In Town ! (2013-01-16)
• House Moving: Ready To Go Nowhere (2006-10-25)
• How Do Pubs Survive These Days? (2016-06-14)
• How Do You Make Shared Space Blind Person Friendly? (2013-04-03)
• How To Choose A Band Name, Album Title, And Cover Picture (2024-01-03)
• I Dish the Dirt on our local Election Campaign! (2009-09-01)
• I knew a girl that was so stupid... (2008-02-02)
• I'm On A Committee (2011-01-11)
• Is that Snow, or Foam? ... Melting Away (2013-09-24)
• Its 30mph on Dunstable Road! (2012-02-18)
• Jacko Dead (2009-06-26)
• Job Ad Says I Need to "long closely" ? (2013-01-01)
• Join Us (2012-04-22)
• Ketchup On Your Finger? (2013-01-12)
• Kings Langley School (2021-06-09)
• Learco Chindamo (2007-08-21)
• Liberal Democrat Leaflet: Northfields By-Election (2013-09-12)
• Litter Patrol (2023-08-25)
• Luton Airport (2012-03-25)
• MPs Expenses Must Be Reformed (2009-05-18)
• Memories of COOLI (2024-05-24)
• Misheard Lyrics (2024-03-02)
• Month By Month on Every Day Life (2024-01-04)
• Most Annoying Programme on BBC3 (2008-12-31)
• Motorway Cockneys (2004-11-11)
• Mum's 85th (2021-09-29)
• Musical Interlude - Google Experiments in Chrome. (2018-06-15)
• My Relationship to Alexander Charles Frederick Douglas-Home (2024-01-02)
• My Relationship to Helen Keller (2023-12-27)
• My Relationship to Jane Austen (2024-03-21)
• My Relationship to Marilyn Monroe (2024-04-01)
• My Relationship to President Abraham Lincoln (2023-12-28)
• My Relationship to Prince William, Prince Harry and Diana Frances Spencer (2023-12-29)
• My Relationship to Sir Winston Churchill (2024-01-01)
• My Relationship to Walt Disney (2024-01-23)
• My X-Factor Verdict 2012 (2012-12-17)
• Navigating Planning Applications: A Developer's Guide to Success : Handling Those Pesky Planning Objections (2024-02-05)
• New (Temporary) Roundabout at Houghton Regis High Street (2012-10-30)
• News from Number 13 (2023-10-08)
• No Death Sentence for Anders Brievik, Then? (2012-08-26)
• No holes in this argument (2009-06-26)
• No, Paul, We Don't Want to Means Test Pensioners! (2013-01-03)
• Norway: With CVU in 1980 (1980-08-31)
• Notes from 2012 (2012-12-31)
• On Litter Patrol (2023-09-12)
• Only 3% of DWP Budget Goes on Job Seekers Allowance (2013-04-15)
• Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulation 2014 (2014-09-22)
• Overnight Snowfall Houghton Regis 18th December 2009 (2009-12-31)
• Parkside Drive Resurfacing: Traffic Chaos Tonight! (2012-10-04)
• Petition Date 23rd June (2009-06-16)
• Pets: CATS - NO THANKS! (2023-01-22)
• PhotoSpot: Landpark Wood (2013-02-13)
• Pixel Explosion Fizzles Out - The Million Dollar Home Page (2024-01-03)
• Planning in Houghton Regis: Monumental failure? (2023-02-25)
• Plant (2023-09-04)
• Politics: Can You Really Have An Independent Party? (2014-04-22)
• Politics: Just For the Record ... (2014-09-10)
• Politics: You Can Live on £53 a Week Says BBC DJ #IDS #Benefits (2013-04-15)
• Postcards 1990s (2013-10-31)
• Pot Holes In Herts (2009-06-14)
• President Trump Linked with The Boring Company (2025-01-11)
• Public, Councillors, and Developers: Think! Before You Plant! (2015-10-12)
• Pubs and Drinking (2008-01-17)
• Reporting vehicles without TAX or MOT (2023-10-19)
• Result on Gas and Electric (2009-01-16)
• Roads, Roadworks and Buses (2012-11-14)
• Robin - Christmas 2004. Times Change - We Change with It (2004-12-24)
• Rossall Beach (2023-09-05)
• Round Robin : URLs I Owned (2005-04-26)
• Round Robin written 10th June 2003 (James the Cat) (2003-06-10)
• Round Robin written 14th December 2002 (2002-12-14)
• Round Robin written 26th January 2003 (2003-01-26)
• Round Robin written 5th April 2003 (2003-04-05)
• Royal Baby (2013-07-22)
• Royal Mail Redirection (2023-12-27)
• Rubbish Strewn Everywhere. Is This How People Treat Their Homes? (2013-04-03)
• SCANDAL OF MPs EXPENSES (2009-05-08)
• SO, What Are The Liberal Democrats Doing? (2009-03-31)
• SORN - If Its Off Road Surely That's Enough? (2009-03-31)
• STV - Are Votes Fair? - Something I wrote in the 1980s (2023-01-22)
• Satire: Hard Hrexit, Or Soft Hrexit? Houghton Regis Votes to Leave Bedfordshire (2017-01-20)
• Satire: Mr Russ and the House Nextdoor (2022-03-08)
• Scotland: My Lochearnhead Mug (2019-10-02)
• Seafoam (2024-01-22)
• Secondary School Selection - Not! (2006-03-06)
• Security Vulnerability Alert! (2023-12-14)
• Shared Space and Blind People (2013-03-26)
• Shaved Head for New Homes (2008-06-23)
• Shopping at Lidl's (2008-06-30)
• Shops and Retail Evolution (2013-01-15)
• Shortcuts (2015-05-01)
• Shuffle Around (2021-08-18)
• Skegness: Butlins 1974 (2021-04-19)
• Slade: 178 Versions of Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody - never fails to please (2016-10-30)
• Smoking Ban Scotland (2006-03-22)
• So the Central Beds want the parishes to do more... (2009-11-05)
• South Bedfordshire: Caddington ... (2013-11-03)
• South Bedfordshire: How Can Holywell, Studham, Fire Be Not Treated Suspiciously? (2013-11-02)
• South Bedfordshire: The Wrangle of Parliamentary Boundaries (2016-09-14)
• Southfork Gazette (1992-05-12)
• Speed limits gone mad? (2006-04-08)
• Speeding on Britain's Roads (2006-01-03)
• State of Palestine: Time it was recognised (2014-10-13)
• Stop Horsing Around (2013-01-20)
• Student Fees: Tuition Fees Must Go (2014-09-30)
• Students (2010-11-09)
• Sunday Blog 16th September (2012-09-16)
• TECHNO HIGHS (2008-02-02)
• Techno Blues: Struggling with Windows (2008-02-02)
• Ten Star Ideas on How to Object to Planning Applications (2024-02-05)
• Thatcherism or Scargilism - No Choice, had to be Liberals (2013-04-08)
• The Allure of Black Squirrels in Houghton Regis: A Rare Sight to Behold (2015-07-31)
• The Best Put-Downs from Weakest Link (2024-02-14)
• The Data Protection Act 1998 (2009-09-04)
• The Day it Snowed On The Way Home (2003-01-31)
• The End of A Local Alliance - 1989 Hertfordshire County Council Elections (1989-05-24)
• The Home of Little S***t (2008-02-21)
• The Pea Bucket (2024-01-18)
• The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (2009-09-08)
• The Tax Payers Alliance: Time to Call Time on the Snoopers (2010-05-24)
• Thetford: Touring (2022-08-20)
• Those Political Boundary Lines - Dunstable and Houghton Regis (2012-03-15)
• Those nuisance Calls (2015-08-13)
• Thoughts on Carnival-Type Events (2007) (2007-06-21)
• Thoughts on Proportional Representation (2024-07-09)
• Thurlstone Memories (2022-01-07)
• Thursday 7 May 2015: Election Day (2015-05-07)
• Time Banks (2012-07-15)
• Time to Renew My Royal Mail Opt-Out (2015-07-27)
• To Remove Graffiti (2024-05-04)
• Tories Are Doomed (2009-05-24)
• Totternhoe: Motte & Bailey Castle Remains (2022-07-18)
• Towns Annual Meeting (2009-04-06)
• Trees On My Mind (2024-02-25)
• Turkey: Dim Cave, Alanya, (2015-10-17)
• Turkey: Mahmutlar Attacks On Kurdish Businesses - 8 Sept 2015 (2015-09-11)
• Turkey: Would Turkish Builders Ever Be Allowed in The EU? (2013-05-29)
• University Technical College - CBC in Urgent Funding Approval Request (2012-03-25)
• Use Someone Else's Poop to Cure Your Diarrhoea (2013-01-12)
• VoteLibDem.Com (2012-02-19)
• Wash and Squash, Stack and Pack (2013-03-29)
• What Does Houghton Regis Want? (2010-10-19)
• What we did in 2004 (2004-12-31)
• X Factor USA - 13 year old Carly Still On Top (2012-11-25)
• X Factor: Louisa Johnson - Playlist - 2007 to 2015 (2016-10-29)
• ꧁ The Elusive Promise ꧂ (2024-05-04)

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