I wonder how long it will take Ukip to find and kick up a fuss about www.ukindependence.org. Do they have the interweb in Little England? (Warning: link contains ropey but possibly non-worksafe video content. And Robert Kilroy Silk.)

15:40

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Great news. Tesco are planning to solve the problem of hyperactive toddlers having tantrums while shopping by... making them watch TV. Yes, because staring at a screen full of fast-changing, brightly coloured images is clearly GREAT at calming kids down. Has anyone considered the possibility that it's not because they're bored that children make a fuss in the supermarket; it's because they're already over-stimulated? And I wonder where the extra money for these DVD-playing trolleys will come from? Could it be that the 'educational' content might just have the odd ADVERT in there somewhere? Hm?

10:46

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Vote for your favourite local Moderne style building. Maybe if we vote en masse for Embassy Court, something will finally be done about the poor bloody place.

14:03

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You're a gryphon. You're very powerful without
needing to brag about it. Creativity is one of
your strong suits. Your outward personality may
change drastically according to your mood,
which is not always a good thing. You're a
loyal guardian when you choose to be and you're
aligned towards *good*.


What mythical beast are you?
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11:18

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I've been off for a week - off work, off Blogger, off the interweb and in fact off real life in general. Much eating, drinking, lazing, sunning, reading, dancing and wandering. And some pretty great punting in Cambridge with the I Love Everything crewx0r.

Still in holiday mood today, with a desire to lie on some grass with a book and a G&T and forget that other people even exist. Hardly the ideal day, then, to actually be at work dealing with 80 new students and the mess (physical and otherwise) so generously left for me by my colleagues...

That holiday reading in full: Ring Road by Ian Sansom (tremendous), Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto (hmmm), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs (classic obv), Azur Like It by Wendy Holden (what was I thinking??), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon (excellent) and Strides by Stephen Foster (sweet, and about trousers).

10:51

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