Archives for 2009
Time is running out for Akmal. Please join the campaign to try to save Akmal’s life by writing to Gordon Brown and the Chinese Ambassador to the UK Madam Fu Ying using the text below: “Dear Prime Minister Brown and Ambassador Fu Ying, I write to express my deep concern for Akmal Shaikh, who faces [...]
Last season I was very pleased with my August predictions for the 2008-09 English Premier League. OK, I admit that I was a couple of points out with Liverpool’s lead at Xmas. But still, extremely satisfying. To give myself more chance of being right this time, I procrastinated long enough for almost half a season [...]
Tomorrow Later today, I’m giving a talk to EMU (Enfield Mental Health Users’ Group) on the subject “A Day In The Life” of David Marsden (that’s me), Chief Executive of Enfield Clubhouse (my day and night job). Their request, not mine. So I thought I’d better think about what I’m going to say. I could [...]
Please write to the Lords about the Digital Economy Bill, today Jim Killock, 01 December 2009 Tomorrow, the Digital Economy Bill is debated by the Lords in its Second Reading. This is the first serious discussion of the contents of the Bill: so we need to make sure the Lords know that this Bill is [...]
Recently, I’ve been spending time going through dusty boxes and transferring to my hard drive demo and rehearsal tapes of my old bands. Such was the lack of acclaim and clamour for more – strangely reminiscent of the actual times themselves – I decided now would be as good a time as any to upload [...]
I posted yesterday about a visitor to my home – a golden Autumn leaf specked with raindrops – and took some nice photos of it. I connected it to some reminiscences I’d had about a crying boy in my childhood. During this time, I also had to reset the time and date on my camera [...]
Yesterday, I took some photos of the golden Autumn leaves outside my window. This morning, it was miserable weather, rain and wind, and there were more leaves than ever before on the ground as well as swirling around. Overnight, the leaves seem to have become even richer in colour (or is that just me messing [...]
Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 is released today, Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu has been around for a while, of course. I’ve been using it as my operating system of choice for about four and a half years and I’m writing this post because I’m so totally impressed with the new version. I just want to say [...]
How To Make Pizza (In 36 Easy Steps And Two Hours!) http://post.ly/95kR Uncle dmarsd : How To Make Pizza (In 36 Easy Steps And Two Hours!) Splendid! Apologies in advance for auto-posting twice everywhere my next dent/tweet #idiot #sorry dmarsd : Apologies in advance for auto-posting twice everywhere my next dent/tweet #idiot #sorry Time for [...]
I’m posting this to give people who want to write some idea what you can say to personalise your email. The quoted bit is Reprieve’s standar email. I added the bit below in bold. From David Marsden <david.marsden@enfieldclubhouse.org.uk>To Andrew Love MPSubject URGENT: protect Akmal ShaikhMessage Dear Andy Love, MP I am very concerned at the [...]
I am rapt! Tight and warm in my sleeping bag, I stare out at the night sky. Everything is perfectly clear. My fellow hikers are nearby and in the distance we can hear coyotes. They are neither barking nor howling, something in between. Calling to each other. Louder. LOUDER! In the corner of my eye [...]
This is really a follow-up to my earlier Once A Red, Always A Red post from three and a half years ago. I was going to leave it as a comment to Andy’s reply to my original post, but figured it probably merited it’s own permalink! The only United match I’ve been to in recent [...]
As it’s almost four years and three months to the very day since the 7/7 London bombings, I thought this was as good a time as any to look back into the internet archive and see what I was thinking and blogging about then. I guess what’s got me thinking about this is the recent [...]
Suffice it to say, no one should have so much alone time that few of his friends knew what was bothering him. Isolation is a set up for future problems. Source Interesting point about isolation. Some pretty shocking research statistics from Australia here, too: “Mentally ill endure lives of loneliness and exclusion“. I don’t think [...]
via current.com So we bailed out the banks so they can continue to fund the “War on Terror” and keep the likes of Tony Blair in a job as the Middle East “Peace” Envoy. Posted via web from David Marsden
Ok, so this would have been better if I’d posted it before the start of this season, but here goes! Back in August last year I made my predictions for the 2008-09 Premier League season, then at the half-way stage on Boxing Day I had a look to see how things were going. Now the [...]
The deadline for buying raffle tickets for the Small Charity Car Draw is tomorrow Friday 4 September. So, please, if you’d like to help Enfield Clubhouse support some of the most disadvantaged and socially excluded members of our community get their lives back buy a ticket or ten or as many as you want. It’s [...]
Pompey Manager, Paul Hart: Chad: I really like Paul Hart as a football manager. He does great interviews, thoughtful with an understated, wry sense of humour and realism: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8227381.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7889082.stm Posted via web from davidmarsden’s posterous
Ok, I know I’m a little behind the “News” here in my own little world. But, hey, so what? To be honest, I try to avoid watching or reading the “News” whenever possible. It’s bad for my anxiety. A couple of months ago I read the copy of The Times that was delivered free with [...]
While they are at it, why don’t insurers discriminate against other disadvantaged groups, too? http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=8401047 Posted via email from davidmarsden’s posterous
Via the BBC – image 3 is the one. Posted via web from davidmarsden’s posterous