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Of Squirrels and Atheists

Just a couple of linkies as I still have loads to do and am trying, once again, to get an early night.

Firstly the story of the Grey Squirrel Massacre.  This story was in the Observer last weekend, and the link has gradually been doing the rounds on Lib Dem blogs and facebook updates. It’s in no way a Lib Dem story, and I really enjoyed reading it. 

While Parker tears at the squirrels’ stubborn skins, David Ridley discusses ways of cooking squirrels. ‘They have no fat on them and they live mostly on berries and nuts so the flesh is sweet. I’ve roasted them. I’ve flash-fried them with fresh thyme.’ One restaurant has done well with a confit of grey squirrel served with pine nuts; Ridley and Redesdale have been discussing the possibility of the canapé market. And yes, each squirrel they sell does indeed have to carry the label ‘May contain nuts’.

Secondly, the Atheist Bus Campaign launched today – and raised its target money in a few hours.  By the time I write this, they’ve exceeded their £5,500 target seven times over.  Read all about the plan here in this email I pasted into Lib Dem Voice; and you can still make a donation here.

Tweets on 2008-10-20

  • Hoping for at least four hours sleep before starting a busy day tomorrow. #
  • Busy busy busy. #
  • P asks if I want to see South Pacific on Saturday. Will now be washing men out of my hair mentally for rest of the day. 😦 #
  • Going for a sarnie before planning briefing. (gonna wash that man right out of my hair) #
  • Mmmm, goat cheese ciabatta with tomatoes and a latte (…wash that man right out of my hair) #
  • Well, interesting planning phrase of the day is “iridescent polycarbonate” (…wash that man right out of my hair) #
  • Oh dear – both of the Town Hall lifts are out of action. (AND SEND HIM ON HIS WAAAY) #
  • Town crawling with students in halloween costumes. (Some enchanted evening…) #

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Tweets on 2008-10-18

  • Awake in time for stuff/deliver day. And in time to buy envelopes and soup lunch for 12. #
  • Heating up one soup. And another soup. #
  • Intrigued to be sent a marketing email for type of men’s undies called “Softy” – suspect French co have not quite got image they wanted… #
  • You can see pics of “Softy” at http://tinyurl.com/5vkv7n (only safe for work if they let you look at pictures of nearly naked men) #

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Tweets on 2008-10-17

  • Conducting clandestine exchange of property at Trowell Services. One of the strangest things I’ve ever done at 7.15am. #
  • Heading into cathedral of despair. Hoping for Dido. #
  • Getting 3 of my 5-a-week in the form of a fried breakfast. Getting Fine Young Cannibals, no Dido. #

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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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