Flying Doctor

Tweets from week ending 2009-06-21

June 21st 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Hurrah! selective twittering to facebook. Thanks to @grahamsibley who’s profile I spotted this in. Hated all my tweets going to #fb #

Tweets from week ending 2009-06-14

June 14th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Gently ribbing office mate for having been to see “The That” last night but secretly a little jealous. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-06-07

June 7th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Nearly forgot I have to go and take part in the democratic process. Must be the excitement of Big Brother starting tonight. #
• Painting a surfboard.with a picture from a video game. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-05-31

May 31st 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Actually getting some good weather on Holiday in Cornwall. #
• Amazingly getting some sun at 1/2 term in Cornwall. Meteorological hol. jinx cld be at an end. Grt. SeaPinks too http://twitpic.com/5zdvk #
• Le vent était très fort sur la plage cet après-midi. Mes jambes sont sablé…… erm blasted. #
• Liking Stavros Flately’s work. #
• Proper Cornish summer weather today, you know, horizontal drizzle, gale force winds + sub zero temperatures (taking wind chill into account) #
• Weary after great day on the beach. Warm Sun, good surf & BBQ on the beach with Sally & Martin. Children destroyed by time we got home. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-05-24

May 24th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Film of someone falling 600′ and surviving:http://snurl.com/ibqjt #
• Playing with new phone. #
• Just out of Star Trek. Grinning insanely for some reason. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-05-10

May 10th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Moving desks and trying to work out where all this stuff came from (and where to put it). #
• Wondering what to take Dragon Boating tonight. I mean, what do dragons like? #
• That Dragon Boating in Full: http://snurl.com/hj8yf #
• 4 day wk. hell: Packing ready for “Tour de IOW” taking Kathryn up to see local bluebell wood + pint and steak sarnie at the Green Man. #
• Having Lunch outside Café Verdi, near Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. #
• Waiting for the chain ferry at the Anchor Inn in Cowes with a nice pint. #

Angel Skies

May 7th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

Some photos from our trip up north to Kathryn’s for family visits and things. First time for a year or two.
Good time, good weather and some lovely skies in Tynemouth and at the Angel of the North on the way home from there where we’d met up with Kathryn’s (relatively new ) sister, her husband and their (extremely new) new twins.

Bit of serendipity too. D is obsessed with Indiana Jones and I’d seen that Tesco’s had a hat and whip set which would be right up his street. Went out to check in Billingham, and was lucky to pick up the last one on the shelf (for £2.41). Pleased with this, but a little worried about not having got anything comparable for Amelia, I dropped into an department-y store in the town centre only to stumble across an Alethiometer, for a similar price and also the last one in the shop. This is a future divining device from the Dark Materials books which A is equally obsessed with at the moment. Result: I was superdad for an evening.

Tweets from week ending 2009-05-03

May 3rd 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• In the car on the way to Billingham for an “interesting” and busy weekend. #
• Rather taken with this internet in the car thing. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-04-26

April 26th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Learning how many ways one can blind oneself with a laser at the National Physical Laboratory. #
• Taking Dominic’s little fella to the Doctors. #
• #lastfm #love Lovely Head by Goldfrapp http://bit.ly/7abRn #

Tweets from week ending 2009-04-19

April 19th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Wishing I was Ollie Reeding in Henley tonight. #
• Sitting on Portreath beach in the glorious sun, with the children, eating proper tasty pasties and big red apples. Sounds like Enid Blyton #

Tweets from week ending 2009-04-12

April 12th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Better <==> more effective. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-04-05

April 5th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Off to Sussex for big family-type weekend. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-03-29

March 29th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Wishing I was outside in the sun. #
• trying to prove I’m not mad by finding a particular patent that only I seem to remember #

Tweets from week ending 2009-03-22

March 22nd 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• New bike ordered! Ramblers beware in a day or two. #
• Who watches the Watchmen? Me tonight. Sat in Gallery to sate Pauly M’s req. for the biggest seat ever and as much popcorn as we could eat. #
• Film OK also if a little too close to the book. Oh, and llllloooooonnnnng. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-03-15

March 15th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Gmail down again as I’m sure many tweets are confirming #
• Was looking for Take me (9:20 minutes of great jangly guitars) but will have to settle for this. ♫ http://blip.fm/~2waqw #
• ♫ http://blip.fm/~2wb0j #
• It’s yer money I’m after baby ♫ http://blip.fm/~2wb2g #
• GW! ♫ http://blip.fm/~2wb3e #
• Should be starting painting the 1st of 7 doors (but tweeting instead) and our new shower doesn’t work. Why do I spend my life fixing things? #
• Shower fixed! Feeling like Reg Prescott now. #

Dominic’s first bicycle excursion

March 10th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

This was shot the day after Dominic finally got the hang of riding his bike which was during half-term. We got hold of a smaller one for him because this onewas too big and heavy for him at the moment. His sister is using it for the moment but he has made it very clear that he wants it back as soon as he is big enough. It only took him an hour or two on this little bike to get the hang of it, and then he was off! There’s no stopping him now (although he is less than impressed by the pink and yellow colour scheme of the little bike).



The day after this he cycled right round the big lake down the road from us. Probably 2 miles (although we were bribing him with the promise of an ice-cream).

Tweets from week ending 2009-03-08

March 8th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Dominic cycles around Black Park lake the day after getting the hang of a bike. http://is.gd/loXM #
• Rotten morning. Fight with Plumber, dull training course, fire alarm, and fallout from project reviews. #
• Enjoying the sun on my first enforced Friday off punctuated by the sound of power tools. Also wondering why I started taking this DS to … #

Tweets from week ending 2009-02-22

February 22nd 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• About to meake my speciality fish pie. #
• Wetting Elliot Merchant’s head in Marlow. #

Tweets from week ending 2009-02-15

February 15th 2009 · Read More · No Comments

• Bad Film Club or Bad Movie Club, which is better? Only one way to find out…… [why are there two following me when I only followed one?] #
• Twitter website down? Suddenly cut off from my new distraction. Perhaps the IT Nazis have thwarted me again #
• #lastfm #love Some Cities by Doves http://bit.ly/HVn7 #
• Trying to extol the virtues of twitter to Kathryn….. Nope. #
• Anybody? Anybody? Bueller. #badmovieclub #
• wisha wisha wisha went the enchanted wood.
  #badmovieclub #
• merely a flesh wound #badmovieclub #
• That girl has such a huge head! #badmovieclub #
• beardy bloke looks like Ray Smears mate. Hmmmm very good eating, tobacco plants…. chemicals. #badmovieclub #
• I am familiar with the wind of death. Sunday mornings often. #badmovieclub #
• Bit of ventilation for the kids. #badmovieclub #
• #badmovieclub: a bad film spoiled. #

Dominic’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Innkeeper

December 16th 2008 · Read More · No Comments

School Carol service this morning in the local church. Impressed by Dominic’s Gallagher-esque microphone technique as he explained that the Inn was full.

Its the second year he’s been the Innkeeper. It would seem there is some sort of typecasting going on. We tried to persuade him to say “Yeah, come on in, plenty of room” but as a consumate professional he was having none of it.