Category Archives: Twitterings

• Although it’s on three times a day, my daughter still points in astonishment each time “In the Night Garden” comes on TV. And I play along. [#]
• That wooden board covering the smashed window at The Old Vine has been painted black. So temporary repair becomes permanent feature? Nice. [#]
• Almost worth starting a Telegraph subscription, so I can leave a comment saying I’m cancelling my Telegraph subscription. http://tr.im/j9GN [#]
• Listening to House Tornado by Throwing Muses. Utterly fantastic. I urge you to buy it at the first opportunity. You can’t be disappointed. [#]
• Our house has more lime juice than we’ll ever need. In that we have some. [#]
• I would “live tweet” the budget, but my radio seems to be switched off and I feel no inclination to switch it on. [#]
• Blimey. Phoned the council 20 minutes ago reporting a missing lamp post cover, and they’re already out sorting it. Well done Stockport MBC! [#]
• Shit! Is it that time already? But all I’ve done all day is a bit of faffing about! Quick: find something useful to do, before it’s too late [#]
• Ooh, Flight Of the Phoenix is on tonight. [#]
• Oh, it’s the remake. [#]

• del.icio.us/obscurer | The Economist: “63% of people think the economic situation is a major cause of fearfulness in others, but only 12% of respondents confessed to feeling “quite” or “very” scared about it personally “. Which pretty much supports what I’ve said all along about the media’s continued and distorting scaremongering. http://tr.im/jA0y [#]

• What is it with Macaroni Cheese in Scotland? Is there a single pub in the country that doesn’t have it on its menu? Not to mention the pies. [#]
• If you’re ever in fear of falling asleep at the wheel on the A74(M), try a can of Relentless and a Boost bar. Worked for me. [#]
• Is there such a thing as leftover bread? Or is there only bread we have yet to eat? Or feed to the ducks? [#]
• Another episode of Lewis, another bit of product-placement for The Randolph Hotel. [#]
• A house full of chocolate, and still the kids want to stop off at the sweet shop on the way back from the park. [#]
• Just deleted my intended blog post on the G20 demos, then all the other drafts I know I will never get around to writing. Feel better now. [#]
• Further to the last, those “fed up with blogging” moods of mine seem to be getting more frequent, and the gaps in-between getting briefer. [#]
• First mention of “you know, I don’t think I give a shit about this anymore” on #apprentice. By me. [#]

• del.icio.us/obscurer | Shuggy: “All [police] are not bastards – they're just like the rest of us, which is to say for the most part complete assholes.” Yup. http://tr.im/iz7j [#]

• RT @michael_dennis has a new ironing board. Without Twitter fewer people would know. Printed media FAIL. Twitter WIN! #newironingboard [#]
• RT @michael_dennis: Because you demanded it http://twitpic.com/2rcrd #newironingboard [#]
• Scotland’s not ready for my toes so I left them behind. They’re in the kitchen, third drawer down. [#]

• del.icio.us/obscurer | Local Libertarian Astonished By “Atlas Shrugged”: Flying Rodent: “When I read the 73rd contrived miniature morality play, unconvincingly deployed to illustrate the cruel persecution of a small clique of honest, beautiful, hard-working, plutocratic, billionaire capitalist ubermenschen at the hands of a horde of jealous, dim-witted, socialist ogres, I just thought to myself – this is my life I’m reading about here” http://tinyurl.com/d67kpa [#]

Shortly I will get around to posting something here other than a weekly Twitter digest. But in the meanwhile…

• Tory internet sensation Dan “The Man” Hannan’s had a rough life, hasn’t he? 37 years old you say? Yeah, right. And the rest! [#]
• Driving through the Cotswolds while listening to Fleet Foxes. [#]
• Just witnessed a dramatic harris hawk rescue at Warwick Castle in the blazing sunshine. [#]
• One of my WordPress plug-ins has a new version out. Hopefully I’ll remember how I hacked the old one *before* I install it this time. [#]
• My daughter has just spurned an own-brand Custard Cream in favour of a McVitie’s Jaffa Cake. Oh dear. It’s started. [#]
• Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there? [#]
• Chased after a woman to return her dropped baby sock, all the while fearful that as I reach her she may spray me with mace out of shock. [#]
• First mention of “passionate” that I’ve spotted in #apprentice. [#]
• You know, I’m not sure these anti-histamines are doing a damned thing. But then the pills do look disturbingly homeopathic. [#]

• @hackneye Great stuff. I’ve got “Kingdom Of Rust” going around on a constant loop in my brain. in reply to hackneye [#]
• The “Hoover”. The “Thermos”. What the hell is it about the word “vacuum” that means we run to the safety and comfort of the generic name? [#]
• God I hate card shops, and I’ve just spent a small fortune in one. [#]
• @michael_dennis Too true. Its my wife’s birthday *and* Mothers Day this weekend, so I need a flowchart to ensure I’ve covered all the bases. in reply to michael_dennis [#]
• We all have our irrational prejudices. One of mine is an instinctive distrust of anyone who likes Rugby Union. I hope to get over it in time [#]
• I think my addiction to Dime/Daim bars has returned, something I thought I had beaten, and which has lain dormant for some twenty years. [#]
• Unless “Piers Morgan On…” does an edition called “…Fire”, I’m not interested. [#]
• @gezd Agreed. I like Stewart Lee, but that skit was too long, and Richard Herring seems to have gone from comedy partner to imaginary friend in reply to gezd [#]
• Cheese-on-toast for lunch. Again. Sometimes my lack of imagination actually frightens me. [#]
• First mention of 110% on #apprentice. So soon! [#]

• I’ve had some amazing observations recently that I haven’t been able to whittle down to 140 characters. Honest. Oh well, your loss. [#]
• Listening to Radio 1 is hilarious. You can play “Name That Tune”; which tune has this “new” song mercilessly ripped off. [#]
• Not sure which is worse; Delingpole condoning torture or his praising Jeremy Vine as being among the best of the BBC http://bit.ly/RPLoj [#]
• @michael_dennis Cheers. Their being idiots I can handle. But even by their lowly standards that editorial seemed especially muddle headed. in reply to michael_dennis [#]
• Muller Little Stars Raspberry Fromage Frais actually tastes of raspberry, rather than being some “vaguely red fruit” flavour. Delicious. [#]
• It’s official. I’m the #1 Twitterer in Cheadle! Go me! http://is.gd/nUS7 [#]
• For the sun, for the beer garden, for the pint of Stella, for the newspaper and for the sleeping daughter in the pushchair: Thank You. [#]

• Which rail platform for Gatley? BUS. Perhaps I’ll walk home from Cheadle Hulme. [#]
• @Ear_I_Am Don’t feel too bad; even @manutd_scores only has 154 followers. in reply to Ear_I_Am [#]
• If the posters on all of our local buses are to be believed, the young Queen Victoria had a large steel bolt where her nose should be. [#]
• Surely it is high time Sarwan is due a fail? [#]
• FAO the last person who reached my blog via a Google enquiry.You won’t find the answer you are looking for there, but it’s “orange” anyway. [#]
• RT @hmhb There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves. [#]
• Wow! Received a letter advertising “Sky+HD in your flat for only £49″! Sadly, as I live in a house, I think I’ll have to stick to Freeview. [#]
• I swear our daughter is “the princess and the pea” made flesh. [#]

When I started this sorry load of nonsense some years ago I intended to view it like a commission, as if I were writing a column on a national newspaper and the deadline for submissions – which I plucked out of thin air – was Thursday. So for the first several months of this blog’s existence I always published some posts on a Thursday, whether I had something to say or not: anything I wrote at other times of the week was to be considered a bonus for you lucky people. Anyway, eventually I decided I couldn’t be bothered with all that, I would just write about whatever I wanted, as and when, and that is still the current policy.

However, I do write elsewhere – albeit within the restriction of using no more than 140 characters – on my Twitter page. You know Twitter, it’s the current big thing the media are prattling on about, the web 2.0 service that in seconds allows you to mither Stephen Fry with some banal sycophancy or other. Anyway, I do have a Twitter page – although I can’t be bothered following anyone famous – and Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools plug-in not only allows my latest “tweet” to feature on the sidebar, but it also facilitates publishing a weekly digest of all my twittering right here in post form, if I desire it so to be.

So, what could be better than to perpetuate an imagined sense of heritage by publishing a digest of my weekly Twitter efforts each Thursday, so to fit in with the exalted history of this blog? Oh it’s all too much, it really is, but don’t worry: as you’ll soon see I don’t update Twitter very much either, so you’ll be able to skip over future weekly digests in a trice, and all the better to build up the anticipation for my next full instalment of drivel. Which is coming soon, of course.

So anyway, for what it’s worth, here is the sum total of my past week’s twitterings.

• Just bought a wind-up radio for £8 at Tesco. Now I’m all set for the coming apocalypse. [#]
• Puzzled as to why the makers of the Cough Syrup I’ve just bought have gone for a “Lime Pickle” flavour. Surely “Strawberry” is a better bet? [#]
• Finally found a reliable P2P stream for the cricket, to find that I prefer the radio coverage anyway. [#]
• 11 days since my last alcoholic drink, my longest period of abstinence since my teens. Still, a work do this evening will put paid to that. [#]

• Just seen a chippy called “Silver Fish”. That’s not right, is it? #
• ‘ome. #

• If you watch Wales Tonight tonight you may just catch us down on the beach, if you’re lucky. #
• “Tom and Jerry” in Norwegian is a sight – and sound – to behold. #
• ITV Bingo redefines the word “brainless”. #