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Month: March 2004

  • Beer with…

    …Greg, Paul C, Paul F, Kearn, Simon and Dave. Last night, obviously. Not this morning. That would be excessive.

  • Copyright infringement

    Castle Cat, complete with Daffy Duck voiceover.

  • Sniffles

    The funniest aspect of today’s news that Brian has left WestLife was listening to Denis Murray’s brilliant "Kerry was crying, so I gave her my hanky. And it was clean!" comments on tonight’s PM.

  • Keepy-uppy

    Keppy-uppy, table tennis stylee.

  • Glassy knoll

    Dave confesses. And draws my windows. Nice man.

  • No resistance

    Scientists develop vaccine for diarrhoea. The article helpfully tells us that around half a million people die from diarrhoea each year, but I wouldn’t mind betting that no more than half a dozen of those are tourists from western nations or members of our armed forces. More likely they are people living in squalid conditions in the Third World with no access to clean drinking water, for whom an expensive vaccine like this is really likely to make little or no difference.
    Guh.
    Not only that, but those of us in the west are becoming so protected from illness and viruses now that we will soon have no resistance to anything at all – as soon as any sort of disease comes along, it’ll run like wildfire through the populace. A little dirt and a little illness doesn’t hurt.

  • Make your day more amusing…

    …by imagining that headlines such as "Howard offers historic choice" or "Howard promises lower taxes" or "Howard challenges Blair to fisticuffs in Parliament Square" are not about the leader of the Conservative Party, but are, instead, about that annoying git from the Halifax adverts.

  • Weekend

    …in bullet points:

    • grumpy
    • parents
    • Homebase
    • Sarah and Paul
    • Waitrose
    • painting
    • still grumpy
    • washing walls
    • grumpy
    • Bill and Rosemary
    • Homebase
    • grumpy
    • painting
    • Lu and Kev
    • grumpy

    I am, officially, utterly utterly utterly fed up with bloody decorating. I’m also pissed off with never having enough money, energy or time to do the things I really want to do.

    • grumpy

  • Inspiration

    Inspiration #1.
    Inspiration (of sorts) #2.

  • Friday night

    Well, meeting the vicar went well – actually a friendly chat more than the interview that we had feared. Which is good.
    And, more importantly, was followed by beer with Jo and Bob, with the idea of a Cocteau Twins disco for the wedding. Whaddya reckon?