Tweets on 2008-08-08

  • I’m being followed by the Beaver of Bad News. Hope that isn’t some kind of portent. #
  • Trying to work out how you sing the phrase “hasteth to devour” in under 2 seconds. #
  • V tempted to steal the vergers’ doughnuts. #
  • Trying to remember who wrote The Color Purple. Pretty sure it wasn’t Witney Houston. #
  • @dr_nick your’s or patient’s or noah’s? #

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Tweets on 2008-08-07

  • Slightly strange dream involving being rushed to A&E to have inadvertently swallowed 20p piece removed. #
  • @dr_nick it was stuck in my throat and was removed with forceps #
  • Looking at Avebury standing stones. #
  • Sheltering from rain in historic 17th century chapel. #
  • Taking out a second mortgage for an ill-advised National Trust cream tea. #
  • @markpack @willhowells is it something to do with weather? Isobars? #
  • Squirrels are throwing nutshells at me. Trying not to take it personally. #
  • Getting back into the Cathedral close just in the nick of time. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-05

  • This morning’s breakfast was worryingly continental. No bacon, no sing. #
  • To tune of cym rhondda… Mug of coffee! lemonade! All adds up to three pounds ten (three pounds ten!) #
  • Pub menu has something called chessy chips, unfortunately I’m allergic to pawns. #
  • Discussing the merits of Our Saviour Tortoise. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-03

  • Pretty hoarse today. #
  • Had a lovely afternoon with nephew and his parents, now scrambling around the attic looking for suitcases and academic dress. #
  • Setting off 5 hours later than planned 🙂 #
  • Name of the day: herpetologist Blair Hedges, who has found world’s smallest snake. #
  • Depressing news: death, death, death, death, I’m stopping cricket, I’ve found a snake/worm. #
  • Driving through Nether Wallop #
  • Checking into gorgeous suite of rooms at Sarum College. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-02

  • Watching Sooty and Sweep sing Nessun Dorma when I should be getting ready to party. #
  • Muddy paw prints undermining our frantic cleaning efforts. #
  • First guest arrives! #
  • Cats trying to steal tuna sandwiches from out of the mouths of guests. #
  • Cats now guarding the cucumber hoping the tuna will come back. #

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Cake

From today’s B3ta newsletter: Cake Wrecks, another of those mickey-taking blogs from the other day.

I’m posting it because it helps my own cake-disaster look less bad. It’s my birthday party later today, and we’re having an open house. I said there would be cake, so I’m making a few now. But somehow this lot of ingredients simply aren’t going as far as they normally do. I had to put the drizzle cake in a smaller loaf tin so the tiny amount of batter didn’t look stupid. And the chocolate victoria sponge…? There wasn’t even enough cake mix to fill both tins, so the batter didn’t quite make it to the edge.

Quite unintentionally, I’ve made Babycakes.

Here’s hoping this isn’t a harbinger for the rest of the day. I’m afraid people will have to put up with bought cakes after all. A dawn raid of the Cheesecake Shop seems in order.

EDIT: Oh boy – got a little further through the B3ta newsletter and found this hilarious version of Stars in their Eyes – with Sweep, from Sooty and Sweep.

Tweets on 2008-07-31

  • Urk! I need it to rain before a delivery day starts, not halfway round a delivery round! #
  • Watching Denny Crane turn off Barry Manilow’s respirator, whilst inputting canvass data on the other half of the screen. #
  • Rejecting by-election slogan of “Putting the LOL back into WoLOLaton!” #

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