Tweets on 2009-02-10

Full Council well underway. Expecting a long meeting today. Interesting presentations from economics professors. #
@ramtops eek, tread carefully! Doesn’t Lemsip CONTAIN paracetamol? #
Beginning the debate on the Nottingham City Homes scandal. #
Lib Dems moving amendment demanding police involvement in housing scandal. #
Now moving on to approving the Council investment strategy. New strategy should rule out future £42m Iceland probs. #
Discussing economy. Labour deputy leader acknowledges “St Vince” was right. #
@nottstwestival will it be poss to buy tickets on door? #
Cute snow tigers, courtesy of BBC: http://tr.im/fhyo #
@miketd The Wire is ace. Did you know the actor who plays Jimmy McNulty is from Derbyshire? http://tr.im/fi1z #
Amazed how much snow is still on the ground after all those hours of rain. #

Tweets on 2009-02-09

Cleaning the kitchen. A sure sign I should be writing speeches. #
@jamesgraham http://twitpic.com/1e1rw – I was so hoping when I clicked it that it would be a real muppet 🙂 #
Not beating @alixmortimer in the nerdiness stakes and scoring worryingly high as a dork. http://tr.im/fa83 #
Eating leftover beansprout chow mein with leftover chicken korma. #
@helenduffett well… there are still leftover olives needing a home… in reply to helenduffett #
Ooh, Nottm Eye in Market Square is now round. No gondolas yet tho. #
Standing on the stairs in the St Peters tower. Can feel the walls swaying cos of the bells. #
Getting a lot of good-natured ribbing for turning up to ringing things after about 3 years of not doing so. #
Attempting to defend our pub quiz title. #
Losing our pub quiz title. And watching all the more snow fall. #
#uksnow NG5 2/10 Enough to make driving on residential streets and hills a pain, but no more than that. #

Overnight low was -5.7 – at least a degree away from last year’s low http://tr.im/f4y5 #
@lordbonkers Bonkers Hall not investing in grit and salt? #
@cllrtweeps re your website: Cllr Walsh works for Nott City but represents Chesterfield BC. #
Heading to West Bridgford St Giles for district ringing meeting. #
Electric signs say some city car parks are full today and the streets seem as thronged as ever. #
One of those churches where the ringing gallery is open to the church and consequently never warms up. Brrr. #
My bus home suddenly joined by hundreds of footie fans leaving Trent Bridge. Wonder who won. #
@mjmcport Librivox is excellent and they always welcome new help – do join in! in reply to mjmcport #
I don’t make omelettes like this: http://tr.im/f7pr #
@willhowells @libdemvoice @jamesgraham I’ll run a linky piece in the morning with edited highlights of the list. #
@willhowells @libdemvoice @jamesgraham by which of course I mean I will write it now and make it run in the morning. #

Oh, rats. This ain’t my bus. Don’t know where I am. On the plus side, they make good snowmen here. #
#meyersbriggs ISTP http://www.kisa.ca/personality – which is odd as normally INTP. Kisa had me 50/50 on S/N #
Ooh! -5.1 deg. More snow forecast for the morning. Gritters on red alert. http://tr.im/f29j #

At home stuffing envelopes. A third of Lib Dem members live in an address with a number starting with a 1 #
Popped out to clear a path in the snow outside my house with a shovel. Now worrying about liability, damaging tarmac. And I made it snow. #
Doing all sorts of things I’ve never done in wellies before. OMG, cold feet. #
Watch market square webcam and see them building Nottingham Eye! #
@cllrtweeps @caronmlindsay @stephenpglenn A facebook friend pointed out the 1 thing was a famous maths law: http://tr.im/etc0 #
@tomatthechad I was wearing ordinary socks and thick socks – call that 2.8 socks. Still not warm enough. #
Using http://www.itsnottingham.info to check and see how busy the roads are this morning. #
RT @flocktogether @alexfoster added the Modern Slavery Seminar policy discussion on Feb. 14th at 1.30 pm – http://tinyurl.com/cvgzpe #
Off to judging panel to see which City council employees have gone the extra mile. #

“Some Words In Your News Story May Be Spelled Incorrectly: mutagenic, bioaccumulative” #
Stuck on a bus in a long queue of traffic. Too late in day for rush hour and there’s no snow left on main roads. #
@tomatthechad is that 3 pairs simultaneously or sequentially? #
Nottingham: snow is falling snow on snow, snow on #uksnow. #
Wondering if there’s any point putting the bin out. #

Kitteh getting a time out until he shuts up! #
Time out kitteh preferred playing in the garden to waiting quietly in the kitchen until suppertime. #

KISSED BY GANDALF! New gay congressman reveals all! http://tr.im/e7bb #
@miketd Яoving Яolcats! http://rolcats.wordpress.com/ #
@dr_nick tonight’s menu here: Greek chicken in garlic, mint and yoghurt dressing with sundried toms, pitta, salad. Cats frantic for chicken #

Nottingham’s had on and off snow and hail all afternoon. Mostly off. Some settled. V cold out there. Car still won’t start. #
Wahey! Pub quiz victors despite tanking the sports round. #
Last night, our street was pure white. This morning, a horrible gritty mess as people tried to get their cars out. #
Eek. Nobbled by @nottinghamcity in foyer and asked to consider championing paperless working. #
Glad to see that the rude word written in snow across Market Square yesterday is no longer legible. #
Market Square snow nearly all gone now. #

@nottstwestival why not ask @nottinghamcity to help promote event? #
Argh, I hate that horrible Snap preview thing. Trying to turn it off and see how far we get. #
Getting evils off the cat. Not sure what we’ve done this time. #