Yesterday we: * left the house at 05.30 * arrived at my place of work at 06.45 * left the workplace at 18.50 * arrived
Month: October 2007
When in Rome
An email flutters in from the University of Open. It asks if I fancy a November weekend in Rome studying things Roman and erm stuff?
You know you’re cracking up when
You come downstairs to make a cup of tea, you fill the kettle and… … put the kettle in the microwave. Danger Will Robinson, danger!
Web designer wanted (pimp up my webspace)
I’m thinking of revamping my ‘proper’ website (as opposed to this very improper place, 🙂 ) because it looks a little… tired. Does anyone know
Great Tits!
A pair of them (natch). In the garden, hopping about on top of the garden shed. Aren’t they supposed to be in Africa or somewhere
Holding out for a hero
Heroes: just in case you’ve avoided the programme thus far and don’t know the plot… The story revolves around the regenerative powers of the world’s
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting geriatric
There is a garden centre (aha, gotcha! You didn’t see this one coming did you?) on the outskirts of Droitwich that tells everyone – via
Sometimes I’m not good company
Right now being one of those times. There are two sides to every story and here’s my side. If you divided this evening up in
I didn’t watch the rugby
I don’t care who won. I didn’t watch the grand prix (though I am slightly disappointed Lewis Hamilton failed to rub Alonso’s face in it).
A day of equine-ness
The three of us (Big Vin in the back, mummy and daddy in the front) set off for Allenshill this morning. Vin and I were
Headline news
There is a story in today’s Daily Mail online that gives us – in length at least – a most un-tabloid headline: eighteen words long.
The new intelligence test for drivers
It’s just been announced that car drivers are to be tested on their IQ… And the result will then be divided by the number of
Nobody learning anything here
Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here and nothing to learn. Kevin Reynolds, the 44-year-old man who punched Sir Alex Ferguson (love him, hate
Jobs for the yobs!
Driving home this evening it came to me, the solution to three of our problems. 1. Police Community Support Officers (aka Blunkett’s Bobbies) are clearly
Brilliance shining
Still not blogging. Still not getting Facebook either. But if you can, flip down and click on this musical delight. Bobby McFerrin meets Enrique Iglesias
Setting the record straight
I don’t much feel like blogging at the moment but I feel a compulsion to get the truth about something aired… My wife has been
Decisions of life and death
This afternoon, Saturday 13th October 2007 I’m feeling very melancholy. No other word seems to fit; not adequately describe the sense of… Sense of loss,
Some are born great, some achieve greatness
and others just muddle their way through life, knocking over bicycles as they go My blogging awards from Mya have finally arrived. I blame their
The ghost of Christmas presents
No, this isn’t a Christmas post, I know it’s only October. It’s a post about random gifts that just happen to have been given at
The wrong name, Orson!
The group Orson have given their new single the unfortunate name: ‘Ain’t no Party’. Don’t they know that whenever anyone in the UK hears the
Vicky on Fridays early breakfast, BBC Radio 1
The BBC ‘powers that be’ have given us this talentless, bland, vapid, uninspiring, boring, tedious, mind-numbing, airhead who is only capable of talking in soundbites
Notice to HGV drivers
There is a fundamental rule that you all seem to be ignoring. The rule is enshrined in the Road Traffic Act. Supplementary information can be
Another piece of tedious pop trivia
The former bass player for Lloyd Cole and the Commotions is now the Golfing correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. Humour me, there won’t be much
Poptastic trivia!
Humour me, I’m not feeling well… Scritti Politti’s excellent track: ‘Oh Patty (Don’t Feel Sorry for Loverboy)’ features a truly amazing piece of trumpet virtuosity.
Mapping the genome (stupidity sectors)
OMG, he’s doing ‘driving’ again… I’ve lived in a bunch of other countries, yet it’s only in the UK (in general) and England and Wales
Calling Open University students
We know you’re bright, you know you’re competitive. You’ve also probably experienced a little of life, you might have been around a little, you may well have
After the Fire
Look, I really don’t know why I’m being random with my blog titles tonight; it’s a Neil Young track FFS… So I’m on the move
You are in a classroom
Cue: Twilight Zone music It isn’t any normal kind of classroom. It’s full of ghosts, the spirits of students past. The radiator clicks and buzzes
A103 update
Well there’s news and there’s not news, in a peculiarly ‘messed up’ kind of way. The big development is that I’ve switched tutor groups. The sole
My parents went to Majorca and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
Remember those T-shirts? They used to be on sale everywhere – at every beach-front retail outlet between Cumbria and Gran Canaria. And good old Mum
The Spice Girls – World Exclusive!
thanks to Mya for the prod We can now – in a World Exclusive – reveal that despite saying it would never happen again The
Poetry for the masses
Hey! It’s National Poetry Day. Ah, poetry… drifts off with a dopey expression I must go down to the sea again To the lonely sea
A103 blues (a bit like an Oxbridge blue. Not)
The Open University Internet bulletin board specific to the current module (A103) of my course carries two posts in particular that have irritated the hell
Everything in life is not a goal
You know those motorway signs that dispense helpful information about travel time and distance? The ones that say things like: ‘Time to J15 (for M4)
Danger Will Robinson, danger!
Driving past a college last night I was forced to take emergency avoiding action as an L-plated female motor-scooterist drove straight out of the college
Things seen on the Motorway (Part 387)
This morning on the hard shoulder of the M5 southbound approaching Gloucester, near a parked car was… A man walking his dog. No kidding! B.
Notice to Jaguar drivers
especially the driver of the S-Type, registration number: R16 EST Driving in the left-hand lane when there is no traffic on your inside is not
A public service announcement
To the driver of Ford Focus registration number: VK07 DKV Please be advised that your Ford Focus has special features that include: Indicators that enable you