Monthly Archives: October 2008

Tweets on 2008-10-16

  • Lab cllr grumbling that the Audit Commission seems to think red flags are a bad thing. #
  • Labels in Starbucks – machine printed to look like handwriting. What a low trick. I feel deceived. #
  • @po8crg no, I hadn’t heard the Audit Commission has lost money in Iceland, but it has made oi laff. #
  • Hmmm. One of the new “Life Stones” in Trinity Square is flickering. #
  • @jamesgraham is “global crunch crunch” how you explain it to kids? #
  • @jamesgraham Oh noes! teh cookeh monster is in r economy, crunchin r bankers #
  • Reading Yorkshire Gob and starting to wonder if statistically, the average number of arseholes per person < 1. #
  • @jamesgraham I liked the suggestion on Now Show last year that the best broadband came from Vince Cable. #
  • @thoroughlygood they keep telling me to go the gym to lose weight, but that’s spectacular. 🙂 #
  • Stuck in my printing cave with iPod and mobile. Which means Stephen Fry podgram, RadioActive recording and Twitter. #

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Tweets on 2008-10-15

  • Up at the crack of again. 3 hours sleep. Off to inspect a field that might one day be a housing estate. #
  • Excellent. The weather has made up its mind and settled on rain. #
  • Browsing manbags in Debenhams. #
  • Today we’re photographing toddlers in the foyer of the Council House so I’m not the youngest one here! #
  • Eep, the Hubble telescope is 18?! #
  • @stephmog a first preference clearly expressed, including by an x, should be valid, even in an STV ballot #
  • Hmmm. Have just noticed I lost control of my fingers and sent off an email starting Helly Kathy. #
  • @owenblacker I hate him already 🙂 #
  • @willhowells When a girl rings your home to ask questions by phone… that’s a MORI… #
  • Ugg boots for men? Are you kidding? http://tinyurl.com/3mewom #
  • Setting the genre on our recording of C V Stanford’s “For Lo, I Raise Up” to “Christian Gangsta Rap” #

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Tweets on 2008-10-13

  • Bleurgh. Up v early to wait for boiler repair man. Boiler repair man not here. #
  • Looking @stephenfry ‘s rhino pictures. #
  • @jamesgraham dunno bout you, but I definitely was #
  • is 0 for 4 in returning calls so far #
  • Forgiving boiler man for being 2 hrs late cos he fixed boiler. #
  • Good grief, interim Chief Exec. 11 special announcements? Milking the TV cameras more like. #
  • Not entirely clear why 2020 cricket final is being held 11 years early in 2009. #
  • Looking at how much fruit and veg the thin boys have put on the conveyor and wondering if there’s a lesson here somewhere. #
  • Unpacking shopping. Frankly amazed at how much unwanted chocolate seems to have hitchhiked home with me. #
  • Catching up with Stephen Fry in America. Learning that New York state is as big as England and Rhode Island not an island. #

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Things you learn about yourself

I’ve long known I’ve an alter ego who plays jazz saxophone in New York – ever since first putting my name into a search engine.

Recently, hockey player Alex Foster has burst onto the Canadian scene.  He’s six years younger, two stone lighter, infinitely fitter and much better on skates than me.

Then there was the other Alex Foster blogger, who writes “Books and Coffee“.  This Alex Foster is an introvert, and female… and actually a character from a novel, not necessarily a real person.

But today’s surprising news is that Alex Foster is a further character:

Alex Foster is a British interrogator who finds himself in conflict with the interests of the Americans and the local Germans. 

No wonder I’m always tired, what with the jazz and the ice hockey and the interrogating.

Tweets on 2008-10-11

  • @hughmcguire kudos for McCain for saying that – clearly wasn’t popular with his audience! #
  • Eek, heart-failure kitteh has not been having a good night. Not sure he’ll make it through to morning. #
  • Heart-failure kitteh had pulmonary odoema, according to vet. And will probably have more in the future 😦 #
  • Disproportionately excited by the Lib Dem federal elections voting pack that arrived in this morning’s post. #

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Tweets on 2008-10-10

  • Urgh. Not manflu *again*! #
  • TEy676y 011CV ZDSE JLKKJ AKL;SDKKL’KL ASDK;LK;”I CATLIKE TWITTERING DETECTED #
  • Putting on more coffee and wondering if I can bring myself to make a special supermarket trip for NightNurse. #
  • Yay! QI! #
  • @dr_nick careful now! #
  • @helenduffett we’re having a car boot sale in Nov. So much stuff to get rid of. #

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Tweets on 2008-10-09

  • Waiting til Monday for boiler repair. Brr. Thank goodness for the immersion heater. #
  • setting the cat-flap to stun ^H^H^H^H “in-only” #
  • Leaving the house later than planned after getting distracted by the internet. For, like, the 18,000,000th time. #
  • Taking Nottingham liberal Drinks to Nottingham beer fest in Castle grounds. Is huge! #
  • Changing policy away from full flavorred beers and ciders over 7% as no longer able to walk. #
  • Loving My Little Chthulu on CuteOverload: http://tinyurl.com/4j4bte #
  • Did that really happen? Post long link and it is turned into tinyurl? http://tinyurl.com/3jkmm3 #

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Tweets on 2008-10-08

  • Off to Liverpool on a coach to see regeneration projects. #
  • Dido on radio at stoke services. #
  • We’re going to meet the Eldonians. Must… Not… Make… Dilbert… jokes… #
  • 6am porridge just starting to wear off. #
  • Eldonians not as muddy as expected. #
  • Walking around estate. Amazed at high standard of maintenance. 20 yr old houses look new. #
  • Trying and failing to convince a colleague that Egypt isn’t actually in the EU. #
  • Sequestering the cats until the Sherwood cat beheader in the next street is caught. #

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