Outside Waterloo Station this afternoon as I made my way home a homeless guy shouted out “got eight quid for a bottle of whisky?” I almost gave him the money.
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
A few months ago I guy stopped me outside the FiestaMart down the road and asked me if I had any spare pennies. Before turning over the loose change in my pocket I berated him for setting his sites too low. But £8 is a bit more than I would have suggested! Nonetheless, the man’s honesty is a good sign – sometimes you give a dollar thinking the poor indigent will actually spend it on something nutritional. . .
brrr! Boston is cold. Not snowy yet. But I got here OK. Blogger doesn’t like OmniWeb apparently, just tried to update but it didn’t work.
Hope the neighbours aren’t being too arsey about their kitchen. ‘Course, you never guess what happened here… Gah.
brrr! Boston is cold. Not snowy yet. But I got here OK. Blogger doesn’t like OmniWeb apparently, just tried to update but it didn’t work.
Hope the neighbours aren’t being too arsey about their kitchen. ‘Course, you never guess what happened here… Gah.
brrr! Boston is cold. Not snowy yet. But I got here OK. Blogger doesn’t like OmniWeb apparently, just tried to update but it didn’t work.
Hope the neighbours aren’t being too arsey about their kitchen. ‘Course, you never guess what happened here… Gah.
oops. OmniWeb also doesn’t appear to automatically refresh. Sigh.
Anna, why are you posting this in the comments for a post on begging? I know you’ve been up for like 48 hours but even so…
Was promted to post about the beggar because of this news piece: “Big Issue founder says begging is bad”
in southampton recently someone asked me for a pound for a cup of tea. it made me feel old, i remember when they used to ask for 10p…
in southampton recently someone asked me for a pound for a cup of tea. it made me feel old, i remember when they used to ask for 10p…
What is it with these multiple posts? What are you people doing? Hitting the button over and over?
When you press the POST button not much happens for quite a while. I usually get on with something else in the meantime (OS X being what it is)
It’s because every time someone posts, the front page is rebuilt. When the front page is rebuilt, all the RSS feeds on the sidebar for the blogs are updated. That takes a bit of time. No way round it really. Hopefully the message by the Post button should do the trick!
In my case, I was waiting, and the progess bar would complete and nothing showed, because I didn’t know that with that particular browser I had to refresh the comments window to see the new message. You could always delete the multi-posts if it bothers you that much.
And sorry you got so narked that I posted next to this post, but it was the most recent, so it made most sense. And while I’m here, I’m going to wish you a happy crimbo too! So there. :)
I’m not narked! Stop taking offence! Just amused that you jumped in like that. ;)
All happy now.