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Tweets on 2008-03-25

  • Thinking I might stop following Clinton on Twitter if she can’t keep under 140 chrs #
  • @miketd "maybe next time" – presumably you’ve already had that joke. #
  • Oh dear. Cat labouring under misapprehension that landing window is new route in. #
  • Printing the next FOCUS leaflet. And reading about Stephanie Plum mud-wrestling. #
  • @jamesgraham I’m seriously considering having some come to phone and all of them through RSS. #
  • @jamesgraham Trouble is, deciding which. Plus I get as many messages from tracks as from contacts. #
  • @jamesgraham as far as I know, you can only get the tracks from a mobile? #
  • @jamesgraham I am, however, struggling to think of owt particularly useful I’ve got from tracks. #
  • Fleeing the crazies in late nite Tesco. Buying Strongbow in a Spongebob Squarepants dressing gown. #
  • @miketd You got the mo! #

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Tweets on 2008-03-23

  • Not a whisper of snow in Nottingham. #
  • Out with my camera taking photos. #
  • Can’t find any lemons anywhere. Might have to make grapefruit drizzle cake. #
  • Making cake #
  • Shouting at radio. We do NOT need more sport on Radio 4 when they have an entire channel for that on MW! #
  • @libdemjo depends what you think of trickle-down economics #
  • Looking at both cakes I made and wondering whether six people can eat all that tomorrow. #
  • Wondering if you can count "parliamentarian" as a double dactyl, if you don’t pronounce the first a. #
  • @pinkdog you can’t go back and correct your spelling, or those of us getting texts get two. You got "preteneding" but missed "neigbours" #
  • Can’t believe I’m teaching a dog to twitter. #

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New high for solar panel

Today’s weather has not been great, with a maximum temperature of about 11 degrees. There has also been a very brief period of snowy sludgy noisy rain that made a huge racket on the conservatory roof.

There has, however, been lots and lots of sun. And bright sunlight, whatever the air temperature, means good performance for the solar panel.

Today’s new high – I believe – takes the solar collector up to 47 degrees, edging closer and closer to the 70/80 degrees I would need to get a full tank of hot water at the right temperature.

Here’s a screenshot of the controller:

Solar controller

Tweets on 2008-03-21

  • Rats, it’s a lovely sunny day. Forecast was icy rain. Now I have to go and deliver leaflets. #
  • Confusion between gay and icy in txt-spk causing hilarity. Mind the gay roads. Gay storms forecast. #
  • Looking at horizontal rain and maybe deciding against more leafleting #
  • Just finishing leaflet. Stopping off en route home to buy beer and chocolate. #

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Vernal Equinox

APOD says it’s the first day of spring today. Brr! We’ve spent most of it doing mop-up leafleting across the city to cover deliveries that have missed either our regular days or their regular deliverers.

We took a break over lunchtime that stretched a little to include the bank holiday showing of the Wallace and Gromit short.  And it’s a good job we did, because during that, the forecast icy shower happened, including horizontal freezing rain.

It cleaned up again almost immediately, but I’m very glad I was indoors when it hit.

Tweets on 2008-03-19

  • Belatedly realising that wannedring around council whistling The Red Flag could be misconstrued #
  • Just giving planning permission for an ice-cream parlour. Sorely needed in Nottingham. #
  • Unbelievable! Residents’ meeting ended in 25 mins with no new issues. Definitely home in time for Torchwood. #
  • Almost relieved to be back to Land of my Fathers again after this afternoon’s red flag incident. #
  • Watching Torchwood. It’s pretty weak. #
  • Ha! Torchwood prop is a Vosene bottle painted silver! #

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