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Tweets on 2008-04-14

  • Fascinated to hear Martha Kearney keeps bees. #
  • Good grief, it’s snowing again. #
  • Looking at the damage the burglars did to my office over the weekend. The antique panelling is spilt and damaged. #
  • @dr_nick don’t think they got anything from our office but some laptops gone from down the hall #
  • Booking a place on a cllr day trip to see what happens to the contents of our recycling bins. #
  • Grinning like a loon all through Jonathan Calder’s Statesman article http://www.newstatesman.com/200804140006. Now to public ward meeting #
  • @miketd i passed on you free Nottingham Elbow ticket offer to my other half who likes that sort of thing, but no response. #
  • I think @artesea should pick a harder numberplate. #
  • Remembering why I usually go to supermarket on my own. #
  • *still* shopping. Bah. #
  • Cats concerned the MGM lion is coming to get them. #

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I’m not sure I entirely like the way this twitter plugin that posts the day’s tweets has the unexpected consequence of highlighting how many days it’s been since I last wrote a real post.

On the plus side, it does mean I’ll easily be able to blog when I go away on holiday, something I’m planning to do, erm, four times in the next three months.

After a little indecision, we’ve plumped for a week in Cyprus visiting friends who work as holiday reps out there; ten days with the tent in Glasgow, Glencoe, Hadrian’s Wall and Scarborough, hopefully fitting in six friends en route. Somehow, the Eurovision Song Contest will have to be factored in as well. Then I will have a week in Munich in July before we both go singing in Salisbury in August.

I did have an informal personal policy about not flying more than once a year. I have easily kept this over the last few years, mostly because the opportunity to use a plane more than once simply hasn’t arisen. I’ll be breaking it this year: both Cyprus and Munich are a pretty long way away, so that’s two lots of flights. Three if you count the fact that I couldn’t find a sensible direct route to Munich so will be making stopovers in Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. Not looking forward to that journey much – it will take a long time, mean lots of hanging around in airports, and on the outward journey, means setting off at the crack of dawn as well.

Tweets on 2008-04-12

  • Wondering whether to prune the bamboo, or just get a panda for the garden. #
  • Pluging in the sandwich toaster #
  • Making Manda’s minty lentil bulghar soup to go with the toasted sandwiches #
  • Settling down for Dr Who… After watching Dr Evan on C4. #
  • Two amphoras for the price of one, hehe #
  • Calling P down to dinner via facebook #
  • Pluging in the sandwich toaster #
  • Eating cheesey chips on way home #

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Tweets on 2008-04-10

  • Planning Inspector: and next I’d like to hear from Cllr Foster, but first I’d like to take a short break so that he can get really nervous. #
  • Phew! Evidence given, tiny bit of cross-examination, now long lunch followed by closing statements. #
  • Wondering if opposing counsel is wearing his lucky tie, or if it’s family tartan. There’s no aesthetic reason for it. #
  • @iaindale that’s a lot of cross-dressers. #
  • Wondering what @markpack has been smoking #
  • seconds away from googling "numa numa ringtone" #

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Tweets on 2008-04-09

  • Heading into town for day 2 of planning enquiry. After yesterday’s dresscode explosion, I’m all dressed up. #
  • @dr_nick planning inspector bollocked council staff for not wearing jackets #
  • Idly wondering if QCs become KCs overnight in the event of a succession. #
  • Rushing home early to see @willhowells naked #
  • Popping dewn to local shop for mint flakes. (type of herb not type of chocolate bar) #
  • bone idle cats not keen on the idea of listening to "Animals on the Move" #
  • Ooh, I’m top of Iain Dale’s Daley Dozen for my smartaleckery about the PEBs. http://tinyurl.com/44vzat #
  • @iaindale now is clearly a good time to get my traffic monitoring thingies working properly again 🙂 #

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Tweets on 2008-04-08

  • Watching the London Routemaster bus that now runs past my house run past almost entirely empty #
  • Sitting in a planning enquiry. Bemused by reference to the "I’m your man" judgement. #
  • Oh no! I’ve spilled beans on my planning enquiry papers! #
  • Planning inspector’s stern words about timekeeping after our teabreak mean we’re all back in 10 mins early. #
  • Staring at wall’o ties in M&S, and remembering how much I hate them. #
  • looking at politicshome.com and feeling exhausted #
  • @willhowells you don’t need to peel potatoes to mash them! #
  • @jamesgraham I don’t understand it either. #
  • @libdemjo sometimes 🙂 #
  • "driving a barbed wire bus" he heh, nice one Charlie Brooker #

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