Squeak, squeak, squeak

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.

Wow. Cats, weather, Germany

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”. #

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. #

My Twitemperature is a cool 51°F (11°C)! http://twitemperature.com/alexfoster #
Aha, first three books mooched already. #
Not watching TV for the new doctor – relying on Twitter. Don’t let me down! #
“And now we interrupt the Shipping Forecast with urgent breaking news. The new Doctor Who is…” #
@willhowells Paterson Joseph fit better into a song I was writing, and was easier to turn into a double dactyl. in reply to willhowells #
@owenblacker have you seen 1 man 1 jar ? (Extremely horrid and NSFW) in reply to owenblacker #
@helenduffett no that’s CHF Kitteh, UTI Kitteh is long haired and brown. in reply to helenduffett #
@helenduffet I never found a way and just used screenshots #
@dr_nick +0.8 here but we have had several days below freezing. in reply to dr_nick #
@helenduffett see the FAQ – how about making a PDF or SVG? What’s your end use for the wordle? in reply to helenduffett #
Thinking Matt Smith would probably be better cast as the Elephant Man. #
Reheating pie. #

Today’s factoid – the original words to 1978 hit FREAK OUT! were NSFW – http://tr.im/2u8l #
@meryl_f the new shortcut leaves the old way unchanged. in reply to Meryl_F #
@willhowells Catchy. in reply to willhowells #
P is tipping Paterson Joseph for next doctor http://tr.im/2ud6 #
Off to supermarket clutching 1click2cook list. #
Finally back from shop by way of massive detour when I heard local bell practice short of people. #
Making a chicken and ham pie out of leftovers and feeling very domestic. #

Totally clear headed after sleeping for 12 hours. May have to try being designated driver next year too 🙂 #
Bottom of garden crept above 0 deg but not above 1 briefly this afternoon – and is now back below freezing again. #
@hannahvictorius @helenduffett this is what lives at bottom of garden http://tr.im/2t81 in reply to hannahvictorius #
@willhowells basic guitarring is fairly easy, but getting to any sort of standard I could play in public still eludes me. in reply to willhowells #
@willhowells and I guess learning to play with the tab legal dispute ongoing is much harder as you can’t find the music you like – olga.net in reply to willhowells #
@willhowells I bought a £10 guitar from a junk shop with bent tuning pins and learnt for free on t’internet. Your approach prob better 🙂 in reply to willhowells #
Trying to work out if there is any sense in my annual blog readership statistics. #
@artesea good luck with the move. in reply to artesea #