Tweets on 2008-04-10

  • Planning Inspector: and next I’d like to hear from Cllr Foster, but first I’d like to take a short break so that he can get really nervous. #
  • Phew! Evidence given, tiny bit of cross-examination, now long lunch followed by closing statements. #
  • Wondering if opposing counsel is wearing his lucky tie, or if it’s family tartan. There’s no aesthetic reason for it. #
  • @iaindale that’s a lot of cross-dressers. #
  • Wondering what @markpack has been smoking #
  • seconds away from googling "numa numa ringtone" #

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Tweets on 2008-04-09

  • Heading into town for day 2 of planning enquiry. After yesterday’s dresscode explosion, I’m all dressed up. #
  • @dr_nick planning inspector bollocked council staff for not wearing jackets #
  • Idly wondering if QCs become KCs overnight in the event of a succession. #
  • Rushing home early to see @willhowells naked #
  • Popping dewn to local shop for mint flakes. (type of herb not type of chocolate bar) #
  • bone idle cats not keen on the idea of listening to "Animals on the Move" #
  • Ooh, I’m top of Iain Dale’s Daley Dozen for my smartaleckery about the PEBs. http://tinyurl.com/44vzat #
  • @iaindale now is clearly a good time to get my traffic monitoring thingies working properly again 🙂 #

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Good election broadcasts

OK, so the Lib Dems have a slot on party election broadcasts this evening, for the parts of the country that are up for election.

In London, they have this:

The rest of the country gets this:

Isn’t it amazing that the same group of residents managed to show two Lib Dem VIPs around the same estate without the two of them bumping into each other?

EDIT: hello to all the traffic coming in from Iain Dale!  My smart-aleckery aside, I do quite like the current party election broadcasts.

Tweets on 2008-04-08

  • Watching the London Routemaster bus that now runs past my house run past almost entirely empty #
  • Sitting in a planning enquiry. Bemused by reference to the "I’m your man" judgement. #
  • Oh no! I’ve spilled beans on my planning enquiry papers! #
  • Planning inspector’s stern words about timekeeping after our teabreak mean we’re all back in 10 mins early. #
  • Staring at wall’o ties in M&S, and remembering how much I hate them. #
  • looking at politicshome.com and feeling exhausted #
  • @willhowells you don’t need to peel potatoes to mash them! #
  • @jamesgraham I don’t understand it either. #
  • @libdemjo sometimes 🙂 #
  • "driving a barbed wire bus" he heh, nice one Charlie Brooker #

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Tweets on 2008-04-06

  • Not quite resisting the urge to make jokes about Charlton Heston’s cold, dead hands. #
  • @meryl_f lots of snow fallen in Nott but none settled here. 7 deg outside! #
  • @lfeatherstone Fancy writing up the event for @LibDemVoice? #
  • @lfeatherstone or even phoning in a report to the podcast hotline on 020 7617 7221? #
  • Wondering if I need to catch up with Torchwood before watching the new Dr Who? #
  • reading the next batch of @brianpaddick interview answers as they arrive through twitter – "follow brianpaddick" to read them too #
  • Today’s etymological discovery: gaff and gaffe have different meanings and different roots. #

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