Tweets on 2008-10-05

Wondering if a Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg leader is any way related to a Franz Schubert Lieder #
Misreading the calendar. Oct 14th != Day of the Tentacle #
Watching Secret Policeman’s Ball 08 on Channel 4 having failed to catch it at the cinema last night. #
Looked away from screen, heard voice, thought ooh, is Simon Hughes MP. Looked up. Was Eddie Izzard. Hmmm. #
Tim Minchin ftw!!! (is that how you use ftw??) #
@duncanborrowman teehee so when the IT Crowd come on, the TV screen will be delayed 5 mins, then 22 hours, then another hour. #
Wondering what to have for lunch. #
Lordy, save me from all these *terrible* Bells adverts. #

Blood in the streets

Two people separately have mentioned to me that they have seen blood spatter on a building in town, close to the Victoria centre.

There’s a story about in in the Evening Post – it seems no-one knows where the blood came from.

POLICE are today continuing their enquiries into a pool of blood found on a city street.

An area around York House in Mansfield Road was cordoned off yesterday as forensic officers took samples.

Inspector Gordon Fenwick said he didn’t know where the blood had come from.

“Officers found the blood on the pavement at around 4am,” he said.

“We have no reports of anything happening, there is nothing on CCTV and we have contacted the hospitals as well but they don’t know anything about this either.

“We are just taking the evidence in case something comes to light later on.”

Mansfield Road was still passable to vehicles and the area was reopened yesterday.

Both people who saw it said they saw it from the bus. That must be quite a lot of blood.

Tweets on 2008-10-04

Oct4

@ramtops 😦 I haven’t even tried to sleep yet. Body clock on GMT+8 or something ridiculous. #
@snapesbabe do you even take a hard line on homebrew and bottle-conditioned? #
Bah, missing Casualty to hear Geoffrey Perkins prog on R4 #
Highly conscious of the slippery sides of the Abyss hemming me in on all fronts. #
Intrigued by weather. It’s a full 10 degrees warmer outside than it was this time last night. Also windier and (Prince) rainier. #

Tweets on 2008-10-03

Oct3

Memo to self: don’t bulk buy catfood as it raises kitteh expectations too high. #
@kayray can send you Death’s Jest Book and Stranger House, but you have 20 other books to read inbetween 🙂 #
Digging through 10-year-old hard drive. Blast from past! #
@kayray Life on Mars totally passed me by 😦 #

Secret Policeman’s Ball

Oct3

Amnesty International’s famous comedy fundraising gig at the Albert Hall is tomorrow night.

This year, it’s also being cinecast to local cinemas, including the city centre cinema in the Cornerhouse Nottingham.

Wonder if I can drum up any friends to go and see that with me tomorrow. It might have been easier if I’d found about it before today. It dropped into my inbox through the advertising slot in the b3ta newsletter (NSFW!).

Tweets on 2008-10-02

Oct2

Wrong number from an international dialling code 00-617. #
Have you seen what Rick Astley looks like 20 years after “Never gonna give you up” ? http://tinyurl.com/3sd4zn #
Voting for Rick: http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote/ #
Asking iwantSandy.com to remind me about Christina and Britney in 21 years from now, to see if they hold up as well as Rick Astley #
@kayray cough 3 weeks? no, please no! I can’t afford that much Jaegermeister! #
@FakeJoeBiden don’t misunderestimate @FakeSarahPalin #
They’re reading Nottingham author Alan Sillitoe on the radio in a Yorkshire accent! Wrong! #
“It would appear that the sealing plugs were missing from the taper lock muff joint.” #

Tweets on 2008-10-01

Oct1

@willhowells thought it was just me having breakfast at this time of day, nice to be joined by the Lord Chancellor. #
Can’t get out of building – belly dancers blocking the main stairway! #
Google is apparently banning me from saying “chum” in an advert. It’s a trademark, they say. #
Pretending not to know why @bookkake is funny #

Excellent parody blog

Oct1

Dave nice but knave has an excellent parody of the Tory leader’s speech. Here are some snippets I liked.

Tony Blair spoke of the 24 hour media world. But this is a country not a television channel. We have some bad policies for our long term future, and I am ready for that.

What matters more than experience, is having the character, and the judgement of of a shallow PR man. Experience is the excuse of everyone who wants to stop change – it was our excuse in 92 and 97, except it was right then.

The risk is not speaking in platitudes, the risk is that people won’t mistake platitutes for wisdom.

Tweets on 2008-09-30

Sep30

Pah. Suddenly remembering the Jaegermeister in the freezer and wondering if it will work as cough mixture as well as you’d think. #
Now coughing a sickly sweet secret blend of herbs and spices. #
@meryl_f eek! (taking photos? 🙂 #
Neologism of the day: Brushling (=Broxtowe, Rushcliffe & Gedling districts) #
Hmmm. This sounds like Diana Krall covering “I can see clearly now the Rain has gone” at half tempo. Surely not?! #
Mentally making up smutty jokes about the woman in Thornton’s brandishing an Archimedes Screw. #
Sitting in retail park slightly longer than strictly necessary to watch people trying to fit dining suite into small car. #

Tweets on 2008-09-29

Sep29

@kayray “It’s never lupus” – I knew instantly you were talking about House 🙂 🙂 🙂 #
Finding a mystery half-eaten packet of Jacobs Cream Crackers behind my monitor. Don’t remember those. Happily only slightly soggy. #
Good grief. This Trillian MSN client makes quite a lot of surprising pings when you’re not expecting it. #
So… 5am… we meet again. #
Hoping no-one was watching that dismal attempt at parking. #
@jamesgraham That’s a tory lapdancing scandal I really don’t want #
@markpack Tories have had a good idea about memory sticks: http://tinyurl.com/433ws3 #

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