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Killer
Posted Jul 29, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPTXK94UBA
Miah is now a season'd mowser. Score 3 - 0.
If she paws the door at 4am, she wants in.
If she miaows plaintively - wistfully, regretfully - outside the door at 4am, she has brought something back and wants to advertise the fact. It's funny that she should sound so sad while playing with her catch - 'look, I'm awfully sorry, but I HAVE to do this.'
We had a dead un' last night. Then a live un'.
Right, we're off to see Psycho...
(As in the film, not the one curled up on the bed).
Douglas
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One of my classmates is called Scary Mary
Posted Jul 28, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
Anyhow, way back in the early/mid 70's my parents got a phone. It was a pretty green thing - avocado, I think - and fairly chunky, with a dial. We lived in a town of 15,000 (I won't say souls, but nor will I say minds), yet we had a four digit number. The phone was kept in the hall. Britain started to go to pot when phones moved into the living room and we got a fourth TV channel.
Here's a nice retro tune, from back in the days when three was more than enough:
http://www.ufoseries.com/music/beg.mp3
Pizza for tea.
I went in to town this morning for cawfee. Things have been moving on at the Uni. I may have to move rooms, but will stay in the main building. I am being taken on as a research assistant on a 12-month contract, and I have just applied for a legal traineeship, which I'm angling for a 2008 start date on. Och, maybe I'll get an interview and maybe I'll not, but it doesn't hurt to try.
Susan and I are meeting up with a friend to see Psycho tomorrow.
Miah has been on antibiotics, which have made her behave strangely. She yowls a lot, NOT in pain, and comes looking for lurve. I am thinking of slipping one into Susan's pizza.
I have been listening to an adaptation of Salem's Lot on my Archos. I went looking for the book today - I read it years ago; read dozens of King years ago, then gave up on him. He's just too demme prolific, with dodgy quality control, but is also the nearest America has come to producing another Mark Twain. I found two bound volumes of Science Fiction Monthly - £15 each - in the Oxfam bookshop, and was sorely tempted, but I didn't give in... I bought SFM way back in the 70's when it was published. 30p per issue. A lot of money.
Ah yes, I watched a helicopter crash on the news - two news helicopters filming a police pursuit. They thought they were only COVERING a news story.
Douglas
PS. I couldn't find a copy of Salem's Lot, but found 20 or so King novels that he had published last year. As I say, too demme prolific.
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Forgive them, Farmer, they know not what they moo...
Posted Jul 27, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6916077.stm
He died that we may be forgiven of our sins.
Right, let's get to the 'eat of my flesh' bit...
Burgers for tea.
Douglas
PS. They just had the Welsh poet laureate on Today. She rhymed Bacilli with Sky
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Clench
Posted Jul 26, 2007
I met a large pregnant lady on the stairs in the Taylor Building while en route to the Gents (aye, me, not her). She was on crutches, and was climbing the stairs painfully painfully slowly. I stood aside to let her by. "What's happened to you?" I asked. "My pelvis has split" she replied, upon which my lower tosro clenched up tight like a fist. I went to the Gents, and stayed there for ten minutes, but couldn't unclench sufficiently to make my trip worthwhile. I went back upstairs. She'd managed to move 20ft...
Douglas
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Another 'I can't be bothered' day
Posted Jul 25, 2007
I have made cauliflower soup for tea, but Susan has just made yuk noises down the phone at me on hearing this news.
I have to give a lecture tomorrow afternoon. I have some work lined up for Friday. I spent today reading law reports and listening to an old R4 Salem's Lot adaptation on my Archos.
Susan and I have been enjoying a pre-bedtime Black & Tan each evening for the last few days - a half-bottle of ale and a half-can of Tennent's Sweetheart Stout. It makes a nice mild slightly sweet not too high ABV pint, and check out the yon sweet patootie on the can:
http://home.planet.nl/~prins916/ver24.jpg
Douglas
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