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Tweets on 2008-09-20

  • Not keeping track of the puppet show plot. Went away and suddenly the Sheriff of Nottingham was Mr Punch and there was a dragon. #
  • Back home and sweeping leaves after lovely afternoon cutting the ribbon at new community play park in Beechdale. #
  • Catching up with last week’s second part Casualty thanks to iPlayer. #
  • @willhowells it may indeed be bad landing on your head, but could it chop carrots? #
  • Well, it’s not the most successful rice pudding anyone’s ever made, but the layer under the burnt bits are not too bad. #
  • Now absolutely shattered, bunged up, hoarse, eyes streaming, coughing like crazy, and have to be up at the crack of 11am tomorrow. 😦 #

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Tweets on 2008-09-17

  • Watching Jonathan Wallace wrestle in plastic bags. #
  • Enjoying the endorsement from Nicholas Parsons on Daily Politics #libdem08 #
  • @HelenDuffett Woo – snaps for the hashtag taxonomy #LibDem08 #
  • @helenduffet go go go ! #
  • Switching to buzz kill Nic Robinson on BBC2 #libdem08 #
  • Struggling to insert an umlaut into a plugin #
  • A little puzzled about how a campaign tactic being discussed on the One o’clock news could possibly be a secret weapon. #
  • Just leaving Soton now after a quick visit to bro and missus for some nephew-dandling. #
  • Getting back on the motorway after a wrong turn led to Sainsbury’s. #
  • Blimey, a 24-pump petrol station. #
  • Any recommendations for mobile traffic news services that actually work? #
  • Stopping at Leicester Forest East to try and work out wtf is happening at M1 J22-23 that’s causing 30 min delays #
  • Also trying to work out if alternative routes would be more than 30 mins longer. #
  • Traffic still moving normally at J21a. Services staff know neither what’s going off or how to find out. #
  • Internet says vehicle fire. #
  • Wishing @willhowells had done @M1 🙂 #
  • Paying my money and taking my choice – M1 with deff long delays or A46 poss drowning under diverted traffic… #

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Tweets on 2008-09-16

  • Oh, you are kidding me, how did it get to be 2.30am while I was standing chatting to colleagues? #
  • Tim Farron MP asks if anyone has a bottle opener, so I open his beer with my teeth. #
  • Returning to LDV cupboard after spending hours talking to exhibitors. Voice running out. Shares plumetting. World ending imminently #
  • Asking colleagues to brainstorm vox pop questions. You can play too! #LibDem08 #
  • @markpack great minds… #
  • Memo to senior party talking head – “15 minutes of fame” was Andy Warhol not Woody Allen. #
  • Sitting next to a mother videoconferencing with her kids, which is all enormously sweet. #libdem08 #
  • Trying very hard – and failing – to think of a favourite bus route. http://tinyurl.com/5w7y3y #
  • Watching @markpack ‘s head explode http://tinyurl.com/552knq #
  • Eschewing glee club this year on basis that I already injured my voice in the car last night, just by talking. #

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Tweets on 2008-09-15

  • Watching someone cycle over big letters on road saying “no cycling” #
  • @Toranika Join the liveblog of Make it Happen on http://www.libdemvoice.org #LibDem08 #
  • Googling “pachyderm” repeatedly and not getting the desired result. #
  • Criticising Iain Dale’s hashtag taxonomy. Or <em>lack of it</em> #
  • @markpack not while they’re still taking impressions of fluffy feet as a visa entry requirement #
  • @markpack the person sitting to my right #
  • @markpack I don’t know – why *are* hard-boiled eggs often more useful than sledgehammers in the educational process? #
  • @markpack Microphone works better than speaker realises – common problem: http://tinyurl.com/5cefdm #
  • @iaindale It’s the very model of a modern Zoom H2: http://tinyurl.com/69cp6n #
  • Needlessly retyping Amendment One while someone effortlessly finds it on the internet. Don’t like phrase “after ‘struggling’, insert” #
  • Moving to hall after watching debate onscreen. Room packed. Extra seats opened. Many standing. #
  • Eep. Tax-cuts ho! #LibDem08 #
  • Steve Webb “Chris Davies MEP – a household name (in Liberal Democrat households)” #LibDem08 #
  • Googling Pachyderm still not working, although there is now an advert for Elephant Car insurance which is quite funny. #
  • @GavinWhenman I’m stuck doing a computery job that will finish imminently, at which point I’m a 15 min walk away… but deff headed there #
  • V pretty moonlight on sea. #
  • Can anyone review the Revue for LDV? #LibDem08 #
  • Ouch – not sure they should let him sing in public at the revue #libdem08 #

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Tweets on 2008-09-14

  • Nice man from centre staff just came into my dressing room to run the shower for 5 mins to help guard against Legionnaire’s disease. #
  • Clegg refused to answer if he would call himself “left of centre” #LibDem08 #
  • Conference rep asks the same question as current LDV poll 🙂 #LibDem08 #
  • Clegg: coalition discussions are a game of footsie in a Westminster parlour game. #LibDem08 #
  • #Libdem08 “our policy is not about stopping muggings by locking up old ladies” #
  • Bloody linux. Find myself converting audio to MP3 using a command line cos I can’t make Lame play nice. #
  • Talk in the LDV office (now with a staff of 5) turning around nipples and groynes. #LibDem08 #
  • Off to a trainers’ reception. Hope leather shoes are ok. #
  • Starving – just realising I’ve had nothing proper to eat since my pub bacon sarnie breakfast 12 hours ago. #
  • Bugger, no food shops still open. I’d forgotten it was Sunday. #
  • Never been so grateful to see a 10″ Hawaiian in my life! #

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Tweets on 2008-09-13

  • My hotel has outsourced breakfast to a neighbouring pub. It feels so wrong! #
  • #LibDem08 wandering around conf centre trying to work out where our facilities are. #
  • #LibDem08 Ooh, fabulous, we’re in a room with a telly screen for the main hall. #
  • #LibDem08 Giving the conference rally a miss – but thanks to the wonders of hashtags on twitter, it’s almost as if I’m there. #
  • #LibDem08 Hmmph. Come all this way to the sunny seaside, then spend all the daylight hours cooped up in a windowless room #
  • Well, it looks like I only get a chocolate éclair on my pillow on the first night. #
  • Sucked in by high drama on Casualty. Blog awards coming next. #
  • Mental note to self: watch Casualty more often. That was amazing! #

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Tweets on 2008-09-12

  • @willhowells No steam pipe trunk distribution venue this year? #
  • Eek, p12 of today’s Daily Mail is the LDV member survey. #
  • Prevaricating. I should be packing a suitcase and going to the printers on the way to Bournemouth. But instead I’m distracted by email. #
  • @willhowells Don’t have superglue in stock, but if need is urgent enough, I can detour… #
  • Running out of toner halfway through a mailmerge. Sounds like a good metaphor for something. #
  • #LibDem08 Warning my hotel I probably won’t hit Bournemouth before midnight. #
  • Completing my last Nottingham errand and heading to Bournemouth. #
  • Gordon bennet, still on the road, but only 40 more miles. #

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