Tweets on 2008-09-14

Nice man from centre staff just came into my dressing room to run the shower for 5 mins to help guard against Legionnaire’s disease. #
Clegg refused to answer if he would call himself “left of centre” #LibDem08 #
Conference rep asks the same question as current LDV poll 🙂 #LibDem08 #
Clegg: coalition discussions are a game of footsie in a Westminster parlour game. #LibDem08 #
#Libdem08 “our policy is not about stopping muggings by locking up old ladies” #
Bloody linux. Find myself converting audio to MP3 using a command line cos I can’t make Lame play nice. #
Talk in the LDV office (now with a staff of 5) turning around nipples and groynes. #LibDem08 #
Off to a trainers’ reception. Hope leather shoes are ok. #
Starving – just realising I’ve had nothing proper to eat since my pub bacon sarnie breakfast 12 hours ago. #
Bugger, no food shops still open. I’d forgotten it was Sunday. #
Never been so grateful to see a 10″ Hawaiian in my life! #

Tweets on 2008-09-13

My hotel has outsourced breakfast to a neighbouring pub. It feels so wrong! #
#LibDem08 wandering around conf centre trying to work out where our facilities are. #
#LibDem08 Ooh, fabulous, we’re in a room with a telly screen for the main hall. #
#LibDem08 Giving the conference rally a miss – but thanks to the wonders of hashtags on twitter, it’s almost as if I’m there. #
#LibDem08 Hmmph. Come all this way to the sunny seaside, then spend all the daylight hours cooped up in a windowless room #
Well, it looks like I only get a chocolate éclair on my pillow on the first night. #
Sucked in by high drama on Casualty. Blog awards coming next. #
Mental note to self: watch Casualty more often. That was amazing! #

@willhowells No steam pipe trunk distribution venue this year? #
Eek, p12 of today’s Daily Mail is the LDV member survey. #
Prevaricating. I should be packing a suitcase and going to the printers on the way to Bournemouth. But instead I’m distracted by email. #
@willhowells Don’t have superglue in stock, but if need is urgent enough, I can detour… #
Running out of toner halfway through a mailmerge. Sounds like a good metaphor for something. #
#LibDem08 Warning my hotel I probably won’t hit Bournemouth before midnight. #
Completing my last Nottingham errand and heading to Bournemouth. #
Gordon bennet, still on the road, but only 40 more miles. #

Just had really interesting meeting with heads of 6 primary schools about proposed new 3-19 academy. #
Watching Mock the Week. Wondering if the woman ever talks. #

Really, really not understanding this trend for skinny jeans. #
Good grief, 90 mins for council questions is a bit of a record. Don’t think we’ll be done by teatime. #
Barnstorming speech made lots of people laugh but didn’t quite achieve the desired outcome. #
Just called the Labour group as a whole unreconstructed Socialist dinosaurs. Not entirely with a straight face. #
Flaking out in front of Dave and Dave+1 instead of laying out next Focus. #

Combination of being home alone and suddenly remembering I have bacon AND eggs in the kitchen has led to an impromptu late night fry-up. #
Making profiteroles. Hopefully. With pear crumble backup #

Le nouveau Tiger Woods est arrivé! #
Writing speeches for Full Council on Monday and wishing I had Alan Shaw’s speechwriting team. Although I wouldn’t want his cases. #

@mpntod My mum was on Twitter months ago! 🙂 #
As if it hasn’t been disturbing enough to hear my dad’s name on the radio for weeks, now the “dead Fosters” jokes are starting to turn up. #
Ooh – a medium term financial strategy. I love medium term financial strategies. #
Voting to exclude the public for agenda items 20-23. #
@willhowells hope you’ve a coupla days free 🙂 #
@willhowells I found Civ3 had no remaining thrall for me after CivIV #