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2.6.2015 - Snow Laughing Matter
Posted Feb 6, 2015
After spending the last week telling everyone that the chances of it actually snowing in Eastleigh are so microscopic to be laughable, what happens? A video showing how an entrepreneurial young layabout in Eastleigh managed to somehow scrape together enough snow to create a snowball to throw at a newsreader makes the national news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-31118308
Okay, words eaten – we're officially having a blizzard.
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November 2014 - NaJoPoMo
Posted Nov 3, 2014
I'll try to put a thought for each day of November here:
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22.10.2014 - Phew!
Posted Oct 22, 2014
I was in the hospital this morning when the doctor said, 'This may hurt for a few seconds'. Obviously his definition of 'few' is different to mine. Unless you are Winston Churchill and/or talking of The Few, 'Few' should always mean 'less than ten'. Any pain lasting more than 10 seconds counts as '
ages'.
The end result was that I have been invited to spend some time back at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in the near future, for cups of tea, a meal or two and a spot of surgical procedure. (Fortunately for my overactive imagination it is nothing particularly serious - on a scale of one to ten, if 1 be bad and 10 be good, then this benign.) The problem has a Latin name, but I didn't let that fool me into thinking it has received a classical education...
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8.8.2014 - Close Encounters of the Z-List Kind
Posted Aug 8, 2014
My mate Andy isn't married, doesn't have kids, lives at home and has attended all the big sci-fi conventions held in the UK in the last couple of decades, and so has met pretty much everyone who has ever been in Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek etc. I've never been able to afford to do that – not unless I gave up eating, electricity and water for a couple of months – so in comparison the list of famous people I've met (actually met, so people I've seen live, even more than once such as Paul McCartney, don't count) is actually rather small. And how many people on the list anyone has actually heard of is another matter.
So – the 'famous' people that I've met are:
Zoe BallJarrold 'Mr Gay UK 2003' BatchelorMarcus BrigstockeHoward BrownBernard CornwellTony DaltonPaul Daniel's son's dog Jazz (but not Paul Daniels nor his son)Delirious? Frank DickDuncan GoodhewDave GormanRob GrantTony HawksRufus HoundDanny La RueTerry JonesLaura Michelle KellyTrevor McDonaldSpike MilliganMichael PalinSir Alan ParkerBill PertweeSir Terry PratchettNoel RichardsHelen ShapiroMichael SheardTrinny & SusannahThe WurzelsThe Yetties
I thought that if anyone would like to hear the story of how these people met me, then try and persuade me to write about it for 
. I'll write about up to 5.
Or alternatively, just let me know how many people you've heard of. I've also met people even I haven't heard of - when I lived in Leeds I met a few people who were in soaps on ITV – back in the days when ITV was a television channel and not the Simon Cowell Fanclub – but I didn't know who they were.
(Incidentally, 'The Wurzels', 'The Yetties' and Trevor McDonald, the newsreader who lives in Big Ben, all involve me just meeting them and don't have a story to the encounter other than that).
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16.6.2014 – London's In the Way
Posted Jun 16, 2014
Yesterday I did the London to Brighton Bike Ride, and though I enjoyed it, I have come to the conclusion that there are two minor problems with the ride; namely London and (to a much lesser extent) Brighton. London just gets in the way, stopping the ride from flowing. From the start in London it was a case of cycling along the road with 30,000 others as far as the first traffic light, where all movement stopped except for what I call the 'Ikea Shuffle', where you're not really moving, but not really standing still either, but slowly edging forward along a road, waiting for the light to turn green and allow 12 cyclists to move, while the hordes behind are trapped in a wedge shuffling forward and waiting for their turn to be the 12 chosen ones. Only for the process to repeated a dozen yards down the road at the next of an endless stream of traffic lights, while uncountable empty London buses labelled 'Out of Service' swarmed in and out of traffic, determined to mow down all cyclists in their way.
Brighton was similar, but without the buses. But although the London and Brighton ends of the London to Brighton Bike Ride were disappointing, I really enjoyed the 'to'.
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