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Tweets on 2009-06-04

  • http://twitpic.com/6j3hf – Hmmm – looks like cat and Roomba are competing for food. #
  • Is http://www.libdems.org.uk down? @libdems #
  • Wondering if the phrase status ante quo is too pretentious for facebook. #
  • http://twitpic.com/6l2f9 – Good morning, voters! #
  • Seen more smokers than voters this morning. #
  • Oh, this is gonna get complicated – there’s an exam in same building as polling station. #
  • Ever since asking what sort of exam it is, I’ve been humming “it’s fun to charter an accountant…” #
  • Ominous thuds from radio as academics discuss decapitation of King Charles I. #

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Tweets on 2009-06-03

  • “the Liberal Democrats […] gave consistently strong answers to our questions” (on science) http://tr.im/n9WM #
  • Dropping leaflets off. Listening to radio. Thinking “interesting question” but lost in thought before answer came. #
  • @mawawa Nottingham’s Lib Dem candidates for Europe: http://tr.im/naEd see also http://tr.im/naEt #
  • Nottingham’s Lib Dem candidates for Europe: http://tr.im/naEd see also http://tr.im/naEt and newton-dunn.com #
  • Dismantling roomba. #
  • Urgh. Cat hair caught in grease around cogs that drive brushes. #
  • Reassembling roomba. #
  • @miketd for a few horribly confused hours, I thought you’d recently interviewed Danny la Rue. #
  • Roomba happily chuntering around the downstairs and working a great deal better than before. Spookily appears to have learned to open doors #
  • People struggling with poster: are you downloading it to your computer then re-uploading it to your twitter account? If so, dunno woss wrng #
  • Maybe we’re not more neighbourly than we used to be? http://tr.im/ncHu #
  • Did someone forget to order the sun today? #

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Tweets on 2009-06-02

  • #5aday by lunchtime. Healthy woot. #
  • Former MP Richard Allan explains why voting Tory or UKIP on Thursday is not in Britain’s best interests. http://tr.im/n2qK #
  • More information about why I’m “(ab)us[ing] Twitter ID pics” here: http://www.libdemvoice.org/15213 #
  • RT @CamillaZajac: for wordspotters: RT @picofeed:The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrighta … #
  • Yay! ISIHAC returns, 15 June, with @stephenfry in the chair and guest Victoria Wood. #
  • @CamillaZajac Devon town of Buckfastleigh uses exactly half the letters of the alphabet with no repetition. Facetious has vowels in order 🙂 in reply to CamillaZajac #
  • @adamrio have you heard about Susan Boyle’s nervous breakdown today? #
  • @helenduffett you mean that feeling doesn’t wear off after you’ve been driving for a while? #
  • http://twitpic.com/6fa7c – Lovely summery evening. #

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Tweets on 2009-06-01

  • Hmmm, interesting. 2 detailed questions today boot our Freedom Bill, both about double jeopardy. #
  • Mugging up on the details at freedom.libdems.org.uk #
  • This 65yr Normandy anniversary. Beeb news saying “likely last commemoration.” Isn’t that how everyone described the 60yr one? #
  • Starting to wonder whether giving away the few remaining plants and cakes technically counts as treating. #
  • Phew worra day. And despite our concerns about the public, politicians and expenses, only one nasty comment all day. #
  • @philrandall sorry, didn’t see your comment til now. Green Fest was in Nottingham’s Arboretum park today, but prob nearly done by now. #
  • Pleased to see “Vince Cable rejects Telegraph speculation of deal with Labour” http://tr.im/mY88 #
  • @susioneill wow, that’s a fantastic sum – several orders of magnitude better than ours! #
  • Dammit, @helenduffett, am gonna have Abba on the brain all day after your @libdemvoice post this morning. #

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Nottingham Inclosure Walk – 28/06/09

The flier arrived a few days ago from the Friends of The Forest with details of this year’s Inclosure Walk.

Last year, I said that it sounded interesting, but in the end I chickened out of going on the grounds of torrential rain on the afternoon in question.

As I said in last year’s post, it always sounds interesting, and a five mile walk is good for me. Yet somehow in six years I’ve been a councillor, I’ve been invited every time and not yet made it along to the walk.

Here’s hoping it works out better this year!

I retyped the details of the walk to put it in the events on the Nottingham Lib Dem website events calendar (which, along with listing the events we organise as a local party, also includes listings of things happening in Nottingham that I know about and think sound interesting) so here they are:

The 7th Great Nottingham Inclosure Walk

Meet at the river end of Queens Walk at 2pm on 28th June when the walk will be started by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Jeannie Packer.

This free walk passes through the historic green spaces of central Nottingham finishing on the Forest Recreation Groun at the Inclosure Oak. Short talks will be given at places of interest. You can join the tour at at any point along the route – look out for the placards and yellow tabards.

We celebrate the 1845 Inclosure Act which allotted 130 acres of recreation ground in perpetuity to the people of Nottingham and honour the memory of the Mayor and Corporation of 164 years ago who had the foresight to lay it out to the highest standards.

5 miles of of smooth surfaces suitable for powered wheelchairs. The tram or bus can take you back to the city centre of station.

The route takes in:

  • Queens Walk
  • The Station
  • St Mary’s Church
  • Victoria Park
  • Robin Hood Chase
  • Mapperley Reservoir
  • Corporation Oaks
  • Elm Avenue
  • Arboretum
  • General Cemetary
  • Waterloo Promenade
  • The Forest.

Contact: Friends of the Forest: 0115 960 9221

The City Council also has another whole page of interesting city centre walks you can do in your lunchbreak on sunny days like today.  I haven’t done any of those, either.

Tweets on 2009-05-31

  • @iaindale you #justdoit and hope people catch on. Or do behind scenes work to help it catch on. #
  • Today’s unsubstantiated Telegraph story: “Watch out Tories, it’s those Labour-loving Lib Dems again!” An election coming? http://tr.im/mThE #
  • @willhowells Football you say? I hadn’t noticed. #
  • Ah the delights of summer. Wandering down the freezer aisle to feel the coolth on your shorts-clad legs. #
  • “Never apply bbq lighting gel to hot coals.” squirt-squirt-squirt. FOOM! #
  • http://twitpic.com/6aobv – Getting ready to make industrial quantities of Lemon Curd to sell at tomorrow’s Green Fest. #
  • http://twitpic.com/6aobx – 31052009049 #
  • Eek. A pound of sugar and 6 eggs only makes 2 jars. Am going to have to increase the quantities. #
  • http://twitpic.com/6arw4 – Take the juice and zest of eight lemons… #
  • Now the Sunday Telegraph is claiming Lab and LD to do a deal. Source? Erm…, The Telegraph… http://tr.im/mVrd #
  • Wow, a Euro endorsement from the Observer “Lib Dems have a record of taking minority stands that are later vindicated” http://tr.im/mWsD #
  • http://twitpic.com/6bqw6 – Lib Dems – coming atcha from the wonky gazebo #
  • http://twitpic.com/6bu5q – Sold all but two pots of the lemon curd in the first hour. #

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Tweets on 2009-05-30

  • Oh, gawd, a busking bag piper on Clumber St. #
  • Nottingham / East Midlands Euro MEP Bill Newton Dunn publishes his expenses on his website: http://tr.im/mQPY #
  • Ooh, interesting – David Hyde Pierce is one of the few allowed to stay gay-married in California: http://tr.im/mQWw #
  • Two ace vids on why we don’t *really* want “traditional marriage”: http://tr.im/mR92 http://tr.im/mR91 #
  • I’ve watched half the Google Wave vid, and it looks interesting. But I bet 90% of my friends and colleagues won’t touch with bargepole. #
  • @helenduffett they ok here? try Youtube IDs QNiqfRyoAyA or ntC0PNHFRgU #
  • Plus Google Wave is gonna need a massive server resource. And concerns about how blog spam and flame wars would look on Wave. #
  • PS @helenduffett good news about Schuba 🙂 🙂 #

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Tweets on 2009-05-28

  • Please follow @unepandyou – for every new follower before 5th June, they will plant a tree. #
  • RT @TomattheChad Now, DON’T PANIC, but . . . first case of swine flu confirmed in Notts. http://is.gd/H1Hq #
  • @ramptops ask him to surf his site on a mobile phone or eeepc? #
  • #LibDem bar chart features in university statistics exam: http://tr.im/mzvR #
  • Sat in the comfy conservatory chair with the cat, coffee and a book: Mark Forster’s “Do it tomorrow” #
  • Liking this coverage of Clegg loads and loads RT ldv Clegg unveils 100-day plan to abolish Lords and reform voting http://ldv.org.uk/15175 #
  • Is it me, or is twitter majorly flakey this evening? #

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