Quote of the day

From Jonathan Calder’s Lib Dem News column, Housepoints, which he kindly duplicates on his blog each week, thus helpfully removing the need to open the envelope with Lib Dem News in it:

But Kenneth Horne was not without a puritan streak too. He once said: “I am all for censorship. If ever I see a double entendre I whip it out.”

Tweets on 2008-05-08

  • @iaindale It’s hardly a full time occupation! #
  • Sign outside church says "What is love?" Someone wrote in what we all thought: "baby don’t hurt me, no more" #
  • @miketd what a shame – you’ll miss Liberal Drinks #

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Tweets on 2008-05-07

  • Packing, getting ready to leave. #
  • How warm is it in Blighty? Can I pack my coat away? 🙂 #
  • Phew. I’m actually feeling ready for sitting down for 7hrs on plane and in airport. #
  • U #17 @todo #
  • Being herded into an airport holding pen with seats for only a small fraction of the spaces on the plane. #
  • Airport buses circling around on the tarmac like hungry lions stalking gazelles. #
  • Just landed. Oh, god, aargh, my ears are killing me. #
  • Not clear why an airport is supposed to be "visual experience" but apparently EMA is to be transformed into one. #
  • Assessing burglary damage. Actually appears slightly less bad than we’d pictured. #
  • Cats pacing up and down angrily and talking about renegotiating service level agreement. Once daily feeding not enough! #

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Tweets on 2008-05-06

  • Struck down by hayfever. Eyes, nose, breathing, achey jaw. #
  • Carefully writing the Greek for Hayfever on a slip of paper and heading to pharmacy. Alleriko thuvaxi #
  • Sitting in seafront cafe drinking coffee and writing postcards. Stray cat sauntering in nonchalently. #
  • Spending small bits of my hol reading "Getting Things Done" and sending reminders of things to Sandy. #
  • Knocking back a can of "Mr Brown" iced coffee. #
  • @willhowells woss your specialist subject? #
  • Disturbed by the Greek thing of not flushing toilet paper. #
  • @po8crg they get you put it in a bin next to the toilet. #

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Tweets on 2008-05-05

  • Setting off on epic road trip round Cyprus #
  • Heading into the mountains listening to Camp as Tits FM. #
  • Drinking Greek coffee in Omados. #
  • Scary moment on single track mountain road when what should come around the hairpin bend but a Somerfield lorry! #
  • Extremely hairy drive through Cedar Valley, on road that’s only recently had safety barrier and tarmac added. #
  • Now settled in taverna in remote valley with amazing view and apologetic, generous hostess. #
  • "This is local wine from my grapes, this is juice from my oranges. This is cake." #
  • Cocks crowing on either side of road, next to no traffic, fig tree, vines and cherries everywhere. #
  • At the beach near Aphrodite’s Rock. Throwing stones into sea. #
  • Teaching P to duck fart. #
  • Getting back in after about 12hrs on the road. Shaking the sand from my boots. #

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Tweets on 2008-05-03

  • Sitting in the shade in a tabepna watching a local couple get married. Horns, veils, traffic nightmare, #
  • Early evening sea swim now the worst of the sun has passed. #
  • Sunset cruise from Larnaca marina round the headland. #
  • Dios mio, Larnaca’s only gay bar is huge, and heaving. #

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Tweets on 2008-05-02

  • In a pottery workshop on Cyprus – where they import clay from Stoke on Trent! #
  • In internet caff checking election results. Thanks for burglary sympathy. Can’t receive any mnore Twitter messages til Monday on phone. #
  • Looks like dataflame has crashed – my blog and libdemvoice are down? #
  • Getting totally confused with Greek. Bill please: Lepidoptera por favor! #

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Tweets on 2008-05-01

  • Iced coffee in the shade before strolling down to swim in the sea… Good luck to anyone fighting an election #
  • So THAT’S what bougainvillia looks like. V pretty. #
  • Walking on Larnaca’s dried up salt lake. #
  • Eep! iwantsandy has just sent 60 reminders for the same thing. That’ll wipe out my twitter allowance 😦 #
  • Shit shit shit! Cat feeder says house burgled. My laptop gone. Twitter messages have run out. #
  • Getting there with Greek alphabet. Picked out "apocalypse" on news titles, and found in dictionary. Means "revealed" #

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