Tweets on 2008-10-10

Urgh. Not manflu *again*! #
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Putting on more coffee and wondering if I can bring myself to make a special supermarket trip for NightNurse. #
Yay! QI! #
@dr_nick careful now! #
@helenduffett we’re having a car boot sale in Nov. So much stuff to get rid of. #

Tweets on 2008-10-09

Waiting til Monday for boiler repair. Brr. Thank goodness for the immersion heater. #
setting the cat-flap to stun ^H^H^H^H “in-only” #
Leaving the house later than planned after getting distracted by the internet. For, like, the 18,000,000th time. #
Taking Nottingham liberal Drinks to Nottingham beer fest in Castle grounds. Is huge! #
Changing policy away from full flavorred beers and ciders over 7% as no longer able to walk. #
Loving My Little Chthulu on CuteOverload: http://tinyurl.com/4j4bte #
Did that really happen? Post long link and it is turned into tinyurl? http://tinyurl.com/3jkmm3 #

Off to Liverpool on a coach to see regeneration projects. #
Dido on radio at stoke services. #
We’re going to meet the Eldonians. Must… Not… Make… Dilbert… jokes… #
6am porridge just starting to wear off. #
Eldonians not as muddy as expected. #
Walking around estate. Amazed at high standard of maintenance. 20 yr old houses look new. #
Trying and failing to convince a colleague that Egypt isn’t actually in the EU. #
Sequestering the cats until the Sherwood cat beheader in the next street is caught. #

Thinking it’s mildly homophobic to refer to Evan Davies as Tinsel Tits, and then finding myself unable to resist. http://tinyurl.com/4pm6r5 #
Wondering why there’s a massive queue of skinny teens outside Royal Centre. #
Feeling urge to breeze into meeting and say “Keep your seats!” #
@willhowells was bus yellow and being driven by Ros Scott? #
@willhowells so that’s twice today you’ve been literally stunned? 🙂 hope head not sorely wounded. #

Wondering if a Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg leader is any way related to a Franz Schubert Lieder #
Misreading the calendar. Oct 14th != Day of the Tentacle #
Watching Secret Policeman’s Ball 08 on Channel 4 having failed to catch it at the cinema last night. #
Looked away from screen, heard voice, thought ooh, is Simon Hughes MP. Looked up. Was Eddie Izzard. Hmmm. #
Tim Minchin ftw!!! (is that how you use ftw??) #
@duncanborrowman teehee so when the IT Crowd come on, the TV screen will be delayed 5 mins, then 22 hours, then another hour. #
Wondering what to have for lunch. #
Lordy, save me from all these *terrible* Bells adverts. #

@ramtops 😦 I haven’t even tried to sleep yet. Body clock on GMT+8 or something ridiculous. #
@snapesbabe do you even take a hard line on homebrew and bottle-conditioned? #
Bah, missing Casualty to hear Geoffrey Perkins prog on R4 #
Highly conscious of the slippery sides of the Abyss hemming me in on all fronts. #
Intrigued by weather. It’s a full 10 degrees warmer outside than it was this time last night. Also windier and (Prince) rainier. #

Memo to self: don’t bulk buy catfood as it raises kitteh expectations too high. #
@kayray can send you Death’s Jest Book and Stranger House, but you have 20 other books to read inbetween 🙂 #
Digging through 10-year-old hard drive. Blast from past! #
@kayray Life on Mars totally passed me by 😦 #

Wrong number from an international dialling code 00-617. #
Have you seen what Rick Astley looks like 20 years after “Never gonna give you up” ? http://tinyurl.com/3sd4zn #
Voting for Rick: http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote/ #
Asking iwantSandy.com to remind me about Christina and Britney in 21 years from now, to see if they hold up as well as Rick Astley #
@kayray cough 3 weeks? no, please no! I can’t afford that much Jaegermeister! #
@FakeJoeBiden don’t misunderestimate @FakeSarahPalin #
They’re reading Nottingham author Alan Sillitoe on the radio in a Yorkshire accent! Wrong! #
“It would appear that the sealing plugs were missing from the taper lock muff joint.” #

@willhowells thought it was just me having breakfast at this time of day, nice to be joined by the Lord Chancellor. #
Can’t get out of building – belly dancers blocking the main stairway! #
Google is apparently banning me from saying “chum” in an advert. It’s a trademark, they say. #
Pretending not to know why @bookkake is funny #