If music be the food of love, play on… This week’s podcast contains music from four exceptional Oxfordshire bands; very talented musicians who you should
Month: May 2009
A woman gets on the bus
no, not an incredibly sexist joke Victoria, the starting point of the homeward leg: The woman got on the bus and, in heavily-accented Eastern-European English
Why am I so knackered?
So today, Friday, I got up at 04.45 and did stuff and went to work and finished and came back to Oxfordshire and drove to
Getting felt
No, not a synonym for touching cotton So I was in the Westminster tube station at 12.59. There was more human traffic around than usual
This is weirdly random but…
I was just wondering how many folk hereabouts hang out within striking distance of Hyde Park? Because… In my head this morning is the weirdly
What Twitter needs…
A user-defined filter which filters on the server not in the client. Genius!
A funny thing happened on the way to the office
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Con artist Fail
This email rolled in to my gmail account: You have been choosen By the Board of trustees of the UNITED NATIONS as a winner of
Not sinning today
Yesterday’s slip in to the fiery pit of hellfirefood could only have been drug-related. It was the sun (or something in it). The serotonin or
Sinning (slightly)
I know you’re busy and I’m sorry to take up a precious few seconds of your time with this – to you – trivial nonsense,
Equine news…
The upshot of my email to the vet is, unsurprisingly, a swift diagnosis that Vin is a photic headshaker; he has a sensitivity to light.
That was then, this is now
I am having the time of my life, and I should explain why I happen to be sitting here chuckling loudly whilst sharing secret glances
Blah blah blah blah
Whenever I see this kind of footer in an email: P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail I usually think ‘Yeah, I’ve considered
The sound of embarrassed silence
I have a big, big, big rant about our boys in blue in the pipeline. I was going to uncork the rant today but Bulldog
KFC and halal food
So it’s been announced that KFC are trialing an all-halal menu. If successful (!) the menu will be rolled out nationally. I’ve got just one
I do not have Sars
Nor do I have Swine Flu (aka Pig Flu. Why did it become renamed from Pig to Swine?), Avian/Bird Flu, Dog Flu, Budgerigar Flu or
An email to Vin’s vet
Hi Folks, You look after my horse Dubious Deal (aka Vin or Big Vin); Vin has started headshaking and I need to speak with a