Tweets on 2009-07-03

  • Hamwee: "Lords process: We start, obviously, with Second Reading." yeah, obviously. #
  • http://twitpic.com/91hoi – 02072009133 #
  • @adamrio sorry, I'm busy then 🙂 #
  • On my feet, plugging twitter, ldv and posing a question about anonymity of NightJack and leader writers. #lgaconf #
  • Happy Andrew Neil and Hugh Muir agree with me – outing bloggers kills a source for other journalists. #Lgaconf #
  • RT @alexfoster: On my feet, plugging twitter, ldv and posing a question about anonymity of NightJack and leader writers. #lgaconf #
  • Suprised to find myself shaking with nerves when I stand up and talk to a handful of my cllr peers. #
  • @madamemish clubbers need pastries to buoy them up before catching night bus home. #
  • Apparently, Pepsi only employ 700 people in the entire world – everything else is outsourced. #
  • When men and women live together, men are healthy and happy, women not, and it switches round when relationships. #
  • Prof Scase: "My wife went off with a married man – my best friend. I still miss him." #lgaconf #
  • Scase: entrepreneurs disappeared in yrs when the easiest way to make money was buy-to-let. #
  • http://twitpic.com/91uhz – Empty seats abound for final session, new local gov sec of state John Denham #lgaconf #
  • @documentally I questioned leading journalists Andrew Neil and Alibhai Brown wearing sandals 🙂 #
  • RT @austinrathe: At the British museum (ancient Egypt bit), overheard American tourist asking 'why do they bother keeping all this stuff?' #
  • Wtf @erections ? Automatically (?)Takes post with word election, replaces with "erection" ? How puerile. (keep it up) #
  • http://twitpic.com/91z7l – They've chosen next year's theme already! #
  • I am *SO* gonna swim in the sea this weekend. #
  • RT @erections: British consul says there is a lot of erection joy in Slemani and Kurds are eager to vote #
  • http://twitpic.com/9229o – Attn #ldconf attendees – this is what Harrogate looks like in summer sunshine #
  • http://twitpic.com/922bd – Harrogate roses also rather beautiful. #
  • Just hearing news of Notts Police (?) dogs who died in hot cars. That's inexcusable. 😦 #
  • @viz_top_tips MOTORISTS: avoid costly fines and points on your licence by always driving at or below the speed limit. in reply to viz_top_tips #
  • Just secured a safe house in Tbilisi, Georgia. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy #
  • @cllrtim "Tory and LibDem groups have told their members to go home." Really? This Lib Dem missed that from my group. #lgaconf #
  • It's absolutely hammering it down #
  • Peering at a webcam image to try and work out if it's raining as hard in Wales as it is in Nottingham. #
  • These Torchwood radio eps are they standalones or a series? (@scottm or anyone who knows) #
  • @scottm @jamesgraham so it's OK to listen to today's without hearing the two previous ones? #

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Why does it always raaaaaaaain on me?

A baking hot week followed by a rainy weekend, apparently, just when I intended to head to Wales with the tent.

You half expect it with UK weather, and Wales certainly gets more than its fair share of rain. Something to do with geography, I think.

But this is just taking the mickey. It’s only going to rain in one place, apparently.

Guess where I’m going camping.

rainmap

Tweets on 2009-07-02

  • I don't care if it's a cliche, today is too hot for socks, so out come the sandals. #
  • Blimey – Michael Parkinson and Rosie Winterton at this afternoon's session about dignity and care for the elderly. #
  • Mobile internet just not working for me. Dunno if it's my phone or volume of people here using it. #
  • Apparently the person is already born who will live to 200. #
  • One session says climate change will kill off older people. Another says there will be more older people than ever. Are they both right? #
  • Ooh, Michael Parkinson is angry about the Jacko coverage: "Nelson Mandela he ain't" #
  • The Lib Dem LGA group agm is getting off to a good start to the dulcet tones of Amy Winehouse not going to rehab. No comment. #
  • We appear to have mandated a spokesperson to beat a civil servant to a pulp. #
  • Ooh, a phone message from Susan Kramer MP awaits me. #
  • RT @ianvisits: Delighted to see #MrsSlocombesPussy is trending on Twitter this morning. Quite a send-off for the old girl. #
  • Reform of social housing long overdue. Unacceptable that the minister wants to continue consulting on R2B receipts until after they've l … #
  • http://twitpic.com/9159x – Dr Vince Cable onto Q&A at LGA. #
  • Eek, hadn't heard Tesco wanted to buy out the banks. Aren't they big enough already? #
  • Discovering very late in the day there's a hashtag #lgaconf #
  • Recaffeinating #
  • Speaking to a nice man from the LGiU about e-democracy #lgaconf #
  • Cameron: "no more local government reorganisation" #lgaconf #
  • I keep seeing Nick Griffin (or someone who looks like him) at #lgaconf – thought we'd expatriated him? #bnparetwats #

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Tweets on 2009-07-01

  • Wow. We're applauding Preston bus station. Biggest in Europe! #
  • 3rd Nokia crash of the day 😦 #
  • Popping outside to reacquaint myself with both daylight and the will to live. #
  • Now revisiting the scene of LDV's #ldconf fringe triumph. No-one's moving walls today. #
  • Factoid: land value in LB Kensington & Chelsea is the equivalent of the whole of Northern Ireland. #
  • Such strange weather. Hot and muggy and drizzling. #
  • @kayray he not so bothered by the come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue, then? #
  • This morning, my homicidal thoughts turn to the person in the breakfast room with the mission impossible ring tone #
  • Homicidal thoughts not abating even slightly. Smoothie reception? What a hilarious jape. #Diediedie #
  • @helenduffett are you still off your feet? I recommend starting with series 1, ep 1 and watching in order. #
  • @ukparliament "what is PMQs?" – well, if you don't know, what hope is there for the rest of us? #
  • @helenduffett ps although it's great all the way through, it gets better once they stop making it a star vehicle for Rob Lowe. #

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