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Tweets on 2008-03-17

  • @miketd I only found out about Duffy when you blogged about her, and my other half had the same reaction. #
  • Church newsletter says "Alleluia, Christ is risen!" Bit premature, seeing as how he hasn’t been crucified yet. #
  • Still, it has led to Welsh hymn tune Hyfrodol replacing Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau as the thing going round my head. #
  • Parade for St Patrick in city centre looks very busy. #
  • Wondering if there’s something wrong with Nottingham phones – weird things happen when I try and phone out. #
  • Off downstairs to prod the chicken soup again #

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Tweets on 2008-03-14

  • One of those confusing conversations based on a misunderstanding. Carpet-bagging is not the same as carpet-munching #
  • Back to work with tail end of cold. 3 meetings, two simultaneously. Then cllr sugary in library. #
  • Starting to get serious about my birthday party. Caterers not answering phone! #
  • Grabbing a coffee before Member Development Steering Group. #

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Numbers

Here are some numbers from various committee meetings this week

  • 128,300 number of households on the council tax register
  • 103,270 number of households on the electoral register
  • 188,442 number of people registered to vote
  • 28,000 number of  properties owned by Nottingham City Homes (decreasing all the time, partly because of the right to buy.)
  • 86,000 number of properties in the private sector
  • Therefore… 14,300 properties owned by registered social landlords (can that be right?!)
  • 1.5 voters in yer average household – obviously not counting children under 16, foreign nationals, people who haven’t registered to vote, etc.
  • Therefore… 25,030 households not registered to vote.

New recordings from Alex Foster

I have been keeping a careful list of everyone who has been kind enough to email me and tell me they’ve enjoyed my voice recordings of various stories. I’ve been meaning for ages to write and say I’ve finished my next big project, except, erm, for actually having to finish my big project before I can do that.

So today, in the absence of completed big projects, I wrote out to tell people I had completed two small projects instead. Below is the text of the email.

I am writing to all those who have emailed in the past to let me know they have enjoyed one of my recordings. If you would rather not hear from me in future, do please let me know.

I have been somewhat lax at completing my current big project, Jules Verne’s 80 Days Around the World. After over two years, I am only half through the project.  It will be completed some day soon.

In the mean time, however, there are some shorter stories recently recorded you may be interested in:

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
in the Short Story Collection 21 on Librivox

Award winning science fiction short story from the British Science
Fiction Association, and StarshipSofa.com (slightly racy story!)

You can find all of my recordings for Librivox here.

In particular, full works include
The Invisible Man, by H G Wells
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

(may not be available, subject to local copyright laws)

Happy listening,

Alex Foster
http://www.alexfoster.me.uk

The recording for StarshipSofa podcast came about because the author Tony Smith got in touch to commission it. I’m all in favour of people who’ve heard my recordings and liked them getting in touch and commissioning new material. I live in hope someday someone will want to pay me for it!

Tweets on 2008-03-11

  • Busy day. Estate inspection. Scrutiny meeting. Residents’ assoc meeting. Then out to see Richard Herring. #
  • And not approaching work with usual clarity with my head and face acheing, nose running and throat tickling. #
  • Onto final meeting of day – Richard Herring’s "F*ck, I’m 40" tour. #
  • I got cheered at resident for getting a pothole fixed – but I’ve still not moved the bus stop or overturned the planning #
  • @dr_nick quotient? #

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