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Has been ignoring trick or treaters at door all evening. Cleo, on the other hand, has been miaowing...

Oct 31st

A sudden snow fall / Night grass ultraviolet white / Everything transformed

Oct 28th

Guilty pleasure: A Touch of Frost. And this week I got the twist about half way through: Me:...

Oct 26th

Cat is moulting and everything is covered in cat hair. Even the cordless phone I just picked up. How...

Oct 26th

Weird. iPhone sitting in docking cradle spontaneously started playing Abba Zabba by Capt Beefheart....

Oct 24th

Dizzy for some reason.

Oct 24th

Lazyweb request: anyone got any experience of Fastmail.fm? I’m tempted to pay for an a/c to...

Oct 22nd

Yak shaving, big time.

Oct 21st

Trying new version of MailTags. I like it a lot, but think that the fact that it doesn’t yet...

Oct 21st

[tracks] http://github.com/bsag/tracks/commit/c5cff97f3f280cb9b1d01566ab47d44f5f01d0d7 Reinier Balt...

Oct 21st

Just booked tickets for stage adaptation of His Dark Materials @ Birmingham Rep for next March. Yay!...

Oct 20th

Had a police officer with a dog searching our garden at 7.30 this am. Thief thought to be hiding out...

Oct 20th

Think I’ve done my back in. Big trug of wet compost was heavier than I thought. Ow.

Oct 18th

New version of Byline (iPhone RSS reader) is really cool. Viewing web pages from inside app makes a...

Oct 15th

Practising my Portuguese the lazy way by translating Brazilians on Bruce Parry prog without recourse...

Oct 13th

That trip to London I twittered about yesterday? It went a bit wrong: http://tinyurl.com/3qfazt

Oct 13th

Exhausted. Brain can only cope with looking at LOLCats at this point.

Oct 11th

Going to London today after wrestling with the trainline.co.uk for an unreasonable length of time....

Oct 11th

Cleo is being loud and insistent about something, but not quite sure what. Where’s Babelfish...

Oct 8th

Trying to cost things for a grant. Difficult when so much of it is custom stuff.

Oct 7th

Just once, I’d like a Thomas Hardy heroine to deliver a swift knee to the nadgers to her...

Oct 5th

“already the fatted blancmange has been killed…” I love Wodehouse’s turns of...

Oct 4th

Feel like I’m going down with something - Fresher’s ‘Flu perhaps? Everyone else...

Oct 4th

Every 3rd person on Any Answers today sounds like Leslie Phillips. Just waiting for a “Ding...

Oct 4th