Tweets on 2009-01-11

At the AGM of the Nottingham District of the Southwell and Nottingham Guild of Bellringers. Tea, service, ringing. #
Item 17 – AOB. #
@helenduffett sorry but church bells don’t work like that, and I’m a long way behind in the favour stakes in reply to helenduffett #
Idly wondering if my refound enthusiasm for ringing will get me up for services at 9am tomorrow… #
Fast forwarding through station ident which is presumably only so long because everyone fast forwards through it. #
@adamrio Everyone has snow but us 😦 in reply to adamrio #
Back on the Wii fit yoga after an age away. Unlocked Zazen thingie – sit on your bum watching a candle. Can do. #

Tweets on 2009-01-10

@rfenwick cake only brings fleeting happiness, but a resurfaced pavement is a joy forever ^w until the water board comes along to dig it up in reply to rfenwick #
@kwisstan I don’t do that website for BND but have emailed him to let him know there’s a problem. in reply to kwisstan #
-4 outside. The way my feet feel, -4 inside too 😦 #

This is one of nephew’s pop-up books:

Tis great – you put your head through the hole and get transformed into all sorts of critters.

Sometimes it’s like they’re making the news just for me!

This story has everything! Weather, cats, and not only that… it’s in German, too!

Spent the morning going around our ward with highways inspector deciding how to spend pavement budget. #
Goodness me peeps! Pavement budget is a big deal! Loads of people want resurfacing, we have to decide between lots of similar roads! #
@ramtops Arial is Council’s default font… on everything. Absolutely everything. Arial bold occasionally for headings. in reply to ramtops #
Installing new superfast duplexing printer. So now I have a perfectly serviceable slower laser printer going begging if anyone wants it. #
Hello PagePlus my old friend #

Trudging home from garage on foot. Pesky windscreen wipers stopped working. #
Trudge, trudge, trudge. #
RT @miketd As oxymorons go, “productivity bloggers” is up there with “sports personality” and “gay culture”. #

This is the terrible pun you have the rest of the year to beat…

(Since I last posted about the Will Howells guitar method, we’ve had Spacetime Vortex, Pink Dog and iPhone, making Will’s original video one of the most-responded-to vids on Youtube.)

Really loving the phrase “Woo Woo, here’s the Clue Train” #
2008 according to MET office: third wettest year since 1914, fifth wettest summer, second wettest January and dullest summer since 1922. #
@rfenwick food processor? Mandolin? V slicer? The time you save in slicing you lose in cleaning the bloody things and bandaging hands in reply to rfenwick #
W00t! Senator Al Franken DID win Minnesota! http://tr.im/2ysk (but may lose it again) #
@dustytrice Ta for the follow – we’ve been watching Minnesota carefully http://tr.im/2zbu #mnrecount in reply to dustytrice #
Doing just fine with fiddly recipe until the “arrange slices neatly on top” stage at which point it looks like a dog’s dinner. #
Having that recurring dream about sitting French or German final exam after no reading or preparation and not understanding questions. #
Why you shouldn’t have hot babes wrestling in chocolate pudding in your basement: http://tr.im/30er #

Hehehe. Which kitchen appliance thinks heaven is a place on earth? Blender Carlisle! #
@toranika apart from going to eg google.fr and clicking “pages francophones / pages frances” ? in reply to Toranika #
@meryl_f Much? Snow forecast here but not arrived. in reply to Meryl_F #
Oh, lordy me – I won a Bad Taste Award! #
It’s raining here – yet again it’s very slightly too warm for snow. #