Tweets on 2008-09-10

Just had really interesting meeting with heads of 6 primary schools about proposed new 3-19 academy. #
Watching Mock the Week. Wondering if the woman ever talks. #

Tweets on 2008-09-09

Really, really not understanding this trend for skinny jeans. #
Good grief, 90 mins for council questions is a bit of a record. Don’t think we’ll be done by teatime. #
Barnstorming speech made lots of people laugh but didn’t quite achieve the desired outcome. #
Just called the Labour group as a whole unreconstructed Socialist dinosaurs. Not entirely with a straight face. #
Flaking out in front of Dave and Dave+1 instead of laying out next Focus. #

Combination of being home alone and suddenly remembering I have bacon AND eggs in the kitchen has led to an impromptu late night fry-up. #
Making profiteroles. Hopefully. With pear crumble backup #

Le nouveau Tiger Woods est arrivé! #
Writing speeches for Full Council on Monday and wishing I had Alan Shaw’s speechwriting team. Although I wouldn’t want his cases. #

@mpntod My mum was on Twitter months ago! 🙂 #
As if it hasn’t been disturbing enough to hear my dad’s name on the radio for weeks, now the “dead Fosters” jokes are starting to turn up. #
Ooh – a medium term financial strategy. I love medium term financial strategies. #
Voting to exclude the public for agenda items 20-23. #
@willhowells hope you’ve a coupla days free 🙂 #
@willhowells I found Civ3 had no remaining thrall for me after CivIV #

Strange nightmare dreams in which I had to take the stage in a G&S opera and sing a solo with no rehearsal or time to learn the words. #

Damn you, Archers! “All those in favour?” Pause. “And those against?” Pause. “Right.” Dum-di-dum-di-dum… Bah. HOW DID THEY VOTE? #
Uhuh. Mark Lawson waxing lyrical about sheds. It doesn’t get more Front Row than that. #
@doctorvee @jamesgraham @gavinwhenman I got the distinctly catchy WSJ0SKW4QQFC #

Sorely tempted to cook the pizza in the fridge, but remembering that it’s nearly 4am. #
Hating Facebook: wretched events thing, wretched random sorting of people, wretched arbitrary limits on invites… #
Oh my – that’s some serious weather coming out of the sky right now. #
@meryl_f Attic insulation – make sure they lay it down properly if you want to carry on using it for storage! #
Eep, now it’s raining hard enough to set off car alarms #
Switching to Google Chrome to see what fuss is about. Instantly missing status bar, and plugins for weather, twitter and ad blocking. #
Itching to make LibDemVoice branded biros or something, but not convinced it’s a good use of my money or their money. #
@jamesgraham don’t think I’m patient enough for that! Looking for some sort of cheap merch that you use by your computer. #
@markpack would love to be running the sort of schmooze operation where I can spend £1500 on chocolate, but for now… #
@markpack and those USB thingies – nowhere gives prices, which makes me worry a little. #
@owenblacker yeah, liking @FakeSarahPalin v much #
Finally finishing Christmas cake #

For once, actually awake in sufficient time to walk into town for my 10am. #
Reached the brow of the second hill. Now it’s downhill all the way. #
Horrible squeaky tables they have in the meeting rooms at County Hall. #
Resisting urge to “rest my eyes.” #
Blimey, I thought last year was bad for weather, but Met office is saying it was darkest August since 1942. #
@hughmcguire … But don’t the Republicans want to take them back to 1908? #
@owenblacker Wondering if a transfer window is a window with transfers on it. #