Tweets on 2009-05-25

Ringing for a wedding. Hilarious in ways I can’t explain in 140 characters. #
Have spent ace evening playing mad boardgames with complicated phases and endless fiddly wooden pieces. Power Grid and Pandemic. #
@jamesgraham Pandemic is brilliant, but the diseases almost always win – we tried on “easy” and still lost. #
Oh, gawd, terrible pun over at b3ta. http://tr.im/mi3r #

Tweets on 2009-05-24

@adamrio as ever, bits of Liverpool look stunning, while other bits of Liverpool are struggling and boarded up. #
Nottingham gets the Manhattan treatment: http://tr.im/mc2C #
Headline says opposite of story in this Evening Post article: http://tr.im/mcd6 #
@adamrio isn’t it fleet week in NY? #
@adamrio the photos certainly look good…? #
Really enjoying this photoset of a hot air balloon ride over Nottingham and Wollaton Park http://tr.im/mcxk #
Doing my little “I’m in @libdemvoice ‘s Golden Dozen” dance: http://tr.im/mda3 #
Brave time for @margaretmoranmp to join twitter. #
Following a birthday party on twitter thanks to the magic of hashtags. #
@thoroughlygood http://twitpic.com/5sv4f – I quite agree. Not sure labelling cheese is necessary, though? #
Cracking open a bottle from recent French trip. Enjoying the fraîcheur de réglisse. Not promising to consomme avec modération. #
Switching mouse hands in an effort to stave off scroll-wheel related RSI. And limiting my solitaire time. #

Really struggling to remember this month’s 4-digit Guildhall door code. #
Early for a meeting. Touring the deserted old courtrooms and cells and taking pics. #
Motoring through my call sheet. #
@stephenbarker – kind offer. I have it in my phone but normally by now I’ve got it automatically in my mind too. #
Today was Nottingham Council House’s 80th birthday. Doesn’t seem five minutes since it was 75, let alone 5 years. http://tr.im/m9df #
@kayray do you know about BookMooch? I’m slowly emptying my house, one book at a time. #
RT @carriequinlan: go and type 54 Great Russell St, Camden Town in to google streetview. NOW. h/t @debaucherydean, @holymolydotcom #
12seconds – Court 1 in Nottingham’s Guildhall http://tiny12.tv/6IUXE #

@owenblacker there is a by-election in Bishopsgate. Euro elections in two weeks on June 4th. http://tr.im/m1xs #
In the middle of too many jobs: laundry, bins, accounts, agendas, filing, mailing, writing, posting, labelling. #
National Library of Wales adding old photos to Flickr http://tr.im/m1E2 #
@ianvisits longstanding LD policy to abolish DTI (now BERR), have 150 fewer MPs, and to have Parliament doing less but doing it better. #
London Euro ballot paper is 1m long! http://tr.im/m2hZ #
Now even the kittehs are claiming expenses. http://tr.im/m2OK #
Writing a #postcrossing postcard to Finland #
Writing a #postcrossing postcard to China #
Writing a #postcrossing postcard to Germany #
Writing a #postcrossing postcard to Netherlands #
Writing a #postcrossing postcard to Italy #
12seconds – File under “why did I buy this?” http://tiny12.tv/0YJJC #

RT @ianvisits: The Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin MP, will be executed at Tyburn Gallows at 3pm this afternoon. http:// … #

@tonytheaker Quimper’s nice, we were there over Easter. Largely Avoided the seafood, quand meme. #
@charlottegore Nothing wrong with being an emotionless psychopath 🙂 Although, isn’t anger an emotion? #
Watching a bubbling pot. Not sure if I’m making compote or marmalade. #

@charlottegore “what am I doing wrong?” Seeing traffic as the goal instead of enjoying the writing? #
Apparently there are two ossuaries in Britain – one is in Hythe, Kent http://tr.im/lBgR #
Battle Stationers, ho ho. http://tr.im/lBlS #
RT @libdemvoice Open letter to Speaker Martin over #MPexpenses http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=14751 #
Enjoying @charltonbrooker on the BNP http://tr.im/lBZX #

@markpack are they .jaypgs? http://tr.im/lwc2 #
Mark V’s question: Q What do Bahrain, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Japan, Nigeria and Suriname have in common? A http://tr.im/lwjL #
@mithomas20 Only just finished my leaflets! But I had a break over lunch for ringing’n’rain. #
@markpack the joke was a felicitous coincidence I doubt will reoccur. #
I will not be tweeting #eurovision because I did that last year and actually found it hard to keep up. #
What is #twumpet? #
Yay, no nul points for us! #
Ooh a progress bar! How geeky. #Eurovision #
Blimey, sacrily bad showing for Germany. #Eurovision #
Actually, Graham Norton has not been as bad as I feared. #eurovision #BringBackTerryWogan #
@stephentall Germany really was robbed. #
Where can we find the Eurovision final scores online… anywhere??? #
@willhowells Ah. You can now. You couldn’t when I asked and was all important for correctly awarding trophy. #
@madamemish, so there’s only one, and Bill Bailey has it? No wonder straight men struggle to find it. #
@adamrio http://twitpic.com/5bsec – That’s pretty impressive. #

Our surgery today has become a “Save Our Library” meeting. #
Watching Hancock’s Half Hour. “To be or not to be. Arrr. That is the question, jimlad.” #
@stephenbarker Western Boulevard library in Beechdale. #
@mithomas20 pls bring your spare leaflets back when you’re done! #
About 20 people showing up for leafleting morning. #
@gesinegesine excellent number! #
Hareing across town to ring for a wedding at Daybrook #
Bride on time. Hymns are Jerusalem and As I Vow to Thee my Country. #