• Home safe to enormous thunderstorm, lightning and even more tipping it down. #
• Sending e-toddies to lurgified colleagues. #
• Crippled by indecision. Or am I? #

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• Playing and losing Wet Tent Roulette. #
• As ever, leaving Wales both sunburnt and soaking wet. #

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• Turned to sat nav to avoid getting lost in Stoke. So instead, I've been stuck in motorway traffic jams and am nowhere near Wales. #

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• Hamwee: "Lords process: We start, obviously, with Second Reading." yeah, obviously. #
• http://twitpic.com/91hoi – 02072009133 #
• @adamrio sorry, I'm busy then 🙂 #
• On my feet, plugging twitter, ldv and posing a question about anonymity of NightJack and leader writers. #lgaconf #
• Happy Andrew Neil and Hugh Muir agree with me – outing bloggers kills a source for other journalists. #Lgaconf #
• RT @alexfoster: On my feet, plugging twitter, ldv and posing a question about anonymity of NightJack and leader writers. #lgaconf #
• Suprised to find myself shaking with nerves when I stand up and talk to a handful of my cllr peers. #
• @madamemish clubbers need pastries to buoy them up before catching night bus home. #
• Apparently, Pepsi only employ 700 people in the entire world – everything else is outsourced. #
• When men and women live together, men are healthy and happy, women not, and it switches round when relationships. #
• Prof Scase: "My wife went off with a married man – my best friend. I still miss him." #lgaconf #
• Scase: entrepreneurs disappeared in yrs when the easiest way to make money was buy-to-let. #
• http://twitpic.com/91uhz – Empty seats abound for final session, new local gov sec of state John Denham #lgaconf #
• @documentally I questioned leading journalists Andrew Neil and Alibhai Brown wearing sandals 🙂 #
• RT @austinrathe: At the British museum (ancient Egypt bit), overheard American tourist asking 'why do they bother keeping all this stuff?' #
• Wtf @erections ? Automatically (?)Takes post with word election, replaces with "erection" ? How puerile. (keep it up) #
• http://twitpic.com/91z7l – They've chosen next year's theme already! #
• I am *SO* gonna swim in the sea this weekend. #
• RT @erections: British consul says there is a lot of erection joy in Slemani and Kurds are eager to vote #
• http://twitpic.com/9229o – Attn #ldconf attendees – this is what Harrogate looks like in summer sunshine #
• http://twitpic.com/922bd – Harrogate roses also rather beautiful. #
• Just hearing news of Notts Police (?) dogs who died in hot cars. That's inexcusable. 😦 #
• @viz_top_tips MOTORISTS: avoid costly fines and points on your licence by always driving at or below the speed limit. in reply to viz_top_tips #
• Just secured a safe house in Tbilisi, Georgia. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy #
• @cllrtim "Tory and LibDem groups have told their members to go home." Really? This Lib Dem missed that from my group. #lgaconf #
• It's absolutely hammering it down #
• Peering at a webcam image to try and work out if it's raining as hard in Wales as it is in Nottingham. #
• These Torchwood radio eps are they standalones or a series? (@scottm or anyone who knows) #
• @scottm @jamesgraham so it's OK to listen to today's without hearing the two previous ones? #

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• I don't care if it's a cliche, today is too hot for socks, so out come the sandals. #
• Blimey – Michael Parkinson and Rosie Winterton at this afternoon's session about dignity and care for the elderly. #
• Mobile internet just not working for me. Dunno if it's my phone or volume of people here using it. #
• Apparently the person is already born who will live to 200. #
• One session says climate change will kill off older people. Another says there will be more older people than ever. Are they both right? #
• Ooh, Michael Parkinson is angry about the Jacko coverage: "Nelson Mandela he ain't" #
• The Lib Dem LGA group agm is getting off to a good start to the dulcet tones of Amy Winehouse not going to rehab. No comment. #
• We appear to have mandated a spokesperson to beat a civil servant to a pulp. #
• Ooh, a phone message from Susan Kramer MP awaits me. #
• RT @ianvisits: Delighted to see #MrsSlocombesPussy is trending on Twitter this morning. Quite a send-off for the old girl. #
• Reform of social housing long overdue. Unacceptable that the minister wants to continue consulting on R2B receipts until after they've l … #
• http://twitpic.com/9159x – Dr Vince Cable onto Q&A at LGA. #
• Eek, hadn't heard Tesco wanted to buy out the banks. Aren't they big enough already? #
• Discovering very late in the day there's a hashtag #lgaconf #
• Recaffeinating #
• Speaking to a nice man from the LGiU about e-democracy #lgaconf #
• Cameron: "no more local government reorganisation" #lgaconf #
• I keep seeing Nick Griffin (or someone who looks like him) at #lgaconf – thought we'd expatriated him? #bnparetwats #

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• Wow. We're applauding Preston bus station. Biggest in Europe! #
• 3rd Nokia crash of the day 😦 #
• Popping outside to reacquaint myself with both daylight and the will to live. #
• Now revisiting the scene of LDV's #ldconf fringe triumph. No-one's moving walls today. #
• Factoid: land value in LB Kensington & Chelsea is the equivalent of the whole of Northern Ireland. #
• Such strange weather. Hot and muggy and drizzling. #
• @kayray he not so bothered by the come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue, then? #
• This morning, my homicidal thoughts turn to the person in the breakfast room with the mission impossible ring tone #
• Homicidal thoughts not abating even slightly. Smoothie reception? What a hilarious jape. #Diediedie #
• @helenduffett are you still off your feet? I recommend starting with series 1, ep 1 and watching in order. #
• @ukparliament "what is PMQs?" – well, if you don't know, what hope is there for the rest of us? #
• @helenduffett ps although it's great all the way through, it gets better once they stop making it a star vehicle for Rob Lowe. #

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• Something has gone wrong with my sync regime – multiple copies of loads of things are starting to show up 😦 #
• Re-using a padded envelope that, judging by the address, has been in my possession 10 years and 5 house moves. #
• Arriving at the hotel in Harrogate. #
• Rather nice hotel, but unfortch, the only internet appears to be dial-up access at £1.50 a minute. #
• @adamrio I love Drawn Together. Are there new ones? #
• Wandering around exhibition trying not to take mickey. "What if Northants wasn't there?" faster journey times to London? #
• Omg, http://www.localgovernmentchannel.com ? Srsly? #
• Later this week, we apparently get to hear Dr Vice Cable. #
• Blogger clique muttering about no more Ros Scott blog. #
• I am also twittering from the @libdemvoice account this week. #
• Blogger clique muttering about no more Ros Scott blog. #
• @rfenwick she pulled her blog when she got firestorm of critical comments during expenses row. #
• Looking wistfully at what was the LDV office last time we where here. #
• Omg. Tories! Faaasends of 'em. #

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• Pleased to see none of English Heritage's "at risk" sites are in the city of Nottingham http://tr.im/q3dK #
• RT @scottm Iain Dale is one of the top gay men in the UK? The rest of us clearly need to buck our ideas up! #
• P says 8 of the top 10 in the download album charts are Michael Jackson #
• Eek. Have left it very late to join Inclosure Walk. So planning to go to end point and walk route in reverse. #
• Standing at bus stop and already really regretting not having sunscreen. #
• Bumped into a marshall. I haven't missed the main group yet. Some of the middle bits sound quite complicated and I'm missing all the talks. #
• Have met t'group at foot of Robin Hood Chase having ice-cream – and I'm sneaking past unnoticed. #
• Not entirely sure where to go now I've hit St Anns Well Rd #
• Checking Twitter, I see my pics apparently not getting though so there will a flurry at some point. #
• Lots of smartly dressed people leaving Arena, name badgers all say "keep on the watch" #
• Popping into a hostelry to make use of the facilities. Specifically the beer pumps. #
• Barkeep says the event was 28,000 Jehovah's Witnesses. Must have misheard – don't think arena is that big. #
• Ok. Have had me pint. More walking or home? #
• Oh, I didn't realise @maggiephilbin's #summertart comp was open to everyone. Next time! http://tr.im/q4h7 #
• @chrishughes the whole point peggle mastery is that you choose different masters for different levels! #
• OMG @maggiephilbin tweeted me! Cue lots of excited running up and down stairs. I would have made this: http://tr.im/q4kK – but away nx wk #
• @willhowells you have spymaster invites…? #
• This made oi laff http://tr.im/q4mE #
• Is Costigan starting to help manage expectations re LD by-election performance? http://tr.im/q4ns #
• Blog from @joemygod has 1969 article from NY Daily News re Stonewall riots http://tr.im/q4pi <- seems quite sedate! #
• "Help – dog urine is seeping into my flat" – http://tr.im/q4rZ #
• Belatedly setting off for Print Cave. Print Cave Owner wryly asking if this is what counts as "the morning" on planet Niles. #
• @norwichnorthld you do know that weather forecast is for Norfolk, Virginia, United States, yeah? #
• @kayray "Deputy sheriff said to me. Tell me what you come here for, boy" #
• I was a bit obsessed with S&G as a teenager, @kayray, so I'm with you on the harmonies and lyrics, but have heard it a bit more recently. #
• On a break from Print Cave, in garden. Swallows hurtling around head at alarming speed, nearly hitting house! #
• Just popping downstairs to make a cuppa tea. When I get back, I might assassinate another ambassador. #
• Received a #postcrossing postcard from U.S.A. – http://bit.ly/3RD5M #
• Received a #postcrossing postcard from Finland – http://bit.ly/edp61 #
• Just secured a safe house in Berlin, Germany. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy #
• How to properly fold a cat for storage in a sweater drawer. http://tr.im/q6DK #
• I just reached level 9. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy #
• Warning Harrogate hotel I probably won't be checking in til gone midnight. #

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