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My Odd Job day
Today was repair Sally‘s bed day 🙂 Necessitated by her 6ft+ lad falling on her foot board when playing hide and seek 🙂 and cruelly snapping it in two. Good excuse for me to try out my new Erbauer ERB800RL all purpose saw – worked fine although I think it may be to flimsy for…
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Sainsbury’s in the Botanic Gardens
I just pity the poor folks who bought the modernish (1983/84) houses in Bateman Mews, Cambridge. When built they were constructed on three floors so they had good views over the Botanic Gardens. However, due to the generosity of the Sainsbury’s they now overlook this:- and even when its finished it doesn’t get better. Just…
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Sunshine reveals all
Further to my post on icicles. The sun came out today and revealed the real problem. Now to brave a 3 extension ladder and dangle 40 feet up 🙁 Update: By leaning out of Emily’s third floor bedroom with one of the boys old billiard stick I managed to push it home. Followed by a…
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Life Lessons
Here are some interesting comments on life that Ben Casnocha made after reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. On what you learn from a substance recovery clinic: That there’s a certain type of person who carries a picture of their therapist in their wallet. That (both a relief and a kind of an odd…
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Icicles at home & away
Whilst in Les Gets I learnt from Thierry that icicles are a sign of a poor roof or defective guttering. Today, Sally spotted this on MY house here in Cambridge. Oh dear, really don’t fancy clambering up a three extension ladder 40 feet and fixing this 🙁 I guess it’s not in the same league…
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Gambling cancelled
Tonight’s lecture on gambling was cancelled 🙂 To big a gamble obviously…. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Snow day in Cambridge
Lots of snow in Cambridge today. All the schools now close at the first hint of snow, so the ones who did turn up for school, get to play on Parker’s Piece:- Prize for biggest snowball of the day:- and no penis this year to upset PC Wiley and the sensitive souls of Cambridge. Powered…
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Geoff and his Twitterings
After reading the history of Twitter over at @Dom‘s blog 140 characters and how it was conceived “We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park. It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us stop eating and start talking.” Thought I would…
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My followers on Twitter
Thanks to @sciencebase – Want to see all your twitter followers’ mugshots on a single page? http://bit.ly/tweeps (Use your username instead of mine, obv.) RT @berci about 1 hour ago from web Here are my twitter followers: