June 29, 2006
Ride Kashmir 151
After my successful trial of a Ride Kashmir 151 whilst in Colorado I decided to buy one. So, I had a search on the internet and found one at SportShop.com and ordered it. In under a week it has travelled from the U.S. to Brighton. And here it is:
Posted by Jane at 8:12 PM
So, Hull City have finally got their man Phil Parkinson. He has cost the club £400,000 in compensation to Colchester, but at least £300,000 of that came from Crystal Palace for Peter Taylor.
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Posted by Jane at 8:45 PM
June 28, 2006
Probably the most famous footballer in the world, Pele, is to visit non-league Garforth Town because the football ground is being named as "Estadio Edson Arantes do Nascimento". Simon Clifford, the owner of Garforth Town, has contacts with Brazil and other South American footballing nations, which has led to Socrates coming out of retirement to play for Garforth Town in 2004, and according to the Yorkshire Post both Carlos Alberto and Luiz Felipe Scolari are due to visit over summer.
Posted by Jane at 11:12 AM
June 26, 2006
Hull City get a caretaker manager
After a lot of press coverage in the last couple of days, it seems that Hull have appointed Nottingham Forest coach Frank Barlow as caretaker manager until Phil Parkinson has his resignation from Colchester accepted.
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Posted by Jane at 12:53 PM
June 25, 2006
Adam & Joe fans: subscribe immediately to Adam Buxton's blog and compulsively download everything. Also don't forget the Adam & Joe XFM podcast and the DVD.
Posted by Richard at 10:35 PM
June 23, 2006
Separated at birth?
As we were watching the Portugal v Holland game we realised that the referee Valentin Ivanov reminded us of Whose line is it anyway? contestant Ryan Stiles. With 16 yellow cards and 4 sendings off it might as well have been a comedian doing the refereeing.
Posted by Jane at 9:07 PM
June 22, 2006
The Tour de France is coming to England next year. On Saturday 7th July there will be a Prologue time trial in London, and on Sunday 8th July there will be the first stage which will be London to Canterbury. There will also be the Opening Ceremony in London on Friday 6th July.
The Tour de France was last in the UK in 1994, and has only been here once before that in 1974.
Posted by Jane at 9:20 AM
June 20, 2006
We spent Saturday at the Kent Air Show with the family watching some impressive air displays.
Posted by Jane at 7:38 PM
June 16, 2006
South Down cycling
A few weeks back we attempted to cycle a chunk of the South Downs Way, managing to do the 16-ish miles from our house to Falmer—which was a continuation for Jane and Jeremy of the route they started 3 years ago. You'd think once you got up onto the Downs it's be relatively flat. But no...and to show it, here's the elevation for the route we cycled:
Some of those climbs are impossible on a bike (well, for me). We need more practice on easier routes.
Which reminds me...back in September we were cycling an easier route along a different part of the downs and came across this vandalized structure along a small track:
It reads: "John Harvey ESQ. of Ickwell Bury in the Country of Bedford died suddenly on this spot on the 20th Day of June 1819. This plaque commemorates the restoration of Harvey's cross on the 20 June 1999 made possible through funding by the Harvey family to perpetuate John Harvey's memory and preserve the something of downland."
Makes you wonder who the person was, especially given that Ickwell isn't exactly close to Brighton (and the first rail line into Brighton wasn't running until 1841). But unbelievably in this day and age, there's very little information on the internet about it. Why commemorate the place where he died, far from home? Was he known to the area or a frequent visitor? Something as recent as the restoration in 1999 is not a simple google away, which is absurd.
Freakily, someone else was on the same spot one week before us and were equally baffled.
My first thoughts were that it'd be something to do with the local Harveys brewery, but I'm not sure that's the case. I had to use a search engine other than google (gasp!) to find out anything. What I did find was some family tree information: "Mr Harvey was a deputy-lieut. for Bedfordshire, and served as its high-sheriff in 1795. At the period of the French Revolution he raised and supported, chiefly at his own expense, a troop of volunteers, called the Dismounted Bedfor[d]shire Horse Artillery." Hmm...Just makes it more intriguing.
The cause of death is given as a fall from his horse, and his will is online.
Posted by Richard at 9:13 PM
- John Harvey of Ickwell Bury
I'm not a relative of the late John Harvey but have coincidently found myself helping to restore the gardens at Ickwell Bury. I'm doing some research myself - mainly to try to find what his back yard used to look like - if I find anything interesting, I'll let you know!
Posted by Su Harvey on 2006-07-17 21:54:26
- Harvey's Cross
Hi
I am the local historian for the Saltdean area and the restoration of the Cross was my project back in 1999. I can send you detailed information as an attachment if you care to come back to me and confirm that it would be of interest.
Posted by Douglas d'Enno on 2007-06-06 21:49:22
June 13, 2006
Last time I visited my parents we headed back from Filey via Bridlington, and happened to stumble across the Bayle Gate. My Grandfather was a stonemason by trade, and Dad told me that the Bayle Gate was one of many buildings he'd played a small part in preserving. I wish I knew other things he'd worked on, or what his mason's mark was.
Posted by Jane at 6:34 PM
June 09, 2006
Well its not quite a month since I blogged with relief that Peter Taylor wasn't joining Charlton, unfortunately he isn't going to stay at Hull either and is joining Cystal Palace instead
. The only positive is that Hull gets compensation for him going. Mick McCarthy, Joe Royle, Dave Penney, Martin Allen, Steve Tilson and Phil Parkinson are the names currently being lined up with the job.
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Posted by Jane at 5:19 PM
One of the non-spam emails I had waiting for me was about a new Brighton based site Green Brighton which uses google maps to be a directory of all things green in Brighton - "vegetarian and vegan restaurants, organic veg boxes, recycling centers, permaculture gardens and meditation classes". Looks like it could become a good resource.
Posted by Jane at 4:41 PM
- I made Green Brighton
I'm glad you like the new Green Brighton site. Its been getting a lot of action and people have been adding lots of locations. In fact, an unexpected side effect of creating the site is that I have discovered some great new green places myself!
Hopefully people will continue to add locations. I'll certainly continue to add features and refine the service.
Posted by Chris Anderson on 2006-06-16 15:43:21
June 03, 2006
We've just got back from a really pleasant few days break in Prague (of which more later I'm sure). As is now traditional, we had to find a wall chart for the world cup, and having failed to find one before we left the UK, this years is from the Czech magazine HATTRICK. The special World Cup issue also contains team information, and their predictions. So, according to HATTRICK the winners will be Argentina, with the Czech Republic in 2nd place. Third will go to the Netherlands and 4th to Brazil. And what do they say about England? We'll go out in the 2nd round.
Posted by Jane at 2:01 PM
- Update
Well, looks like HATTRICK got it pretty wrong then. Not one of their top 4 teams got through to the semi finals.
Posted by Jane on 2006-07-10 22:50:25
June 01, 2006
Last Sunday we headed out to the Ridgeview wine estate near Ditchling to see what tastings they were doing to celebrate English Wine Week. Ridgeview specialise in sparkling wines, so the best comparison from last years vineyard visits was our visit to Nyetimber. The major difference is that Ridgeview is open to the public 6 days a week for tastings throughout the year, something we may take advantage of next time we have visitors. We tasted the Grosvenor, the Cavendish, the Fitzrovia and their special, limited red, the Pimlico, and left with 4 bottles to enjoy over summer.
Posted by Jane at 4:21 PM
My bank knows my email address and mobile phone number. It can send me emails, and it can text me -- in fact it does both already. So when I go to a cash machine (ATM), why am I offered a printed receipt? Why not just SMS or email me the receipt? There's no a security issue, because I've seen people leave those receipts in the machine or on the floor near the cash point.
If I'm going to be emailed a cash withdrawn receipt, why not attach something to the email I can drag and drop into my financial software. And if the banks could do it, why not the credit card companies for every transaction I make.
Not only would this be useful, we'd also save the 10 kerjillion megakilos of paper used every year by receipt printers.
Posted by Richard at 9:49 AM
