Archive for August, 2008

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Checking a football result (Chelsea 1 : 1 Tottenham)

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Bedroom Moderate Yesterday’s Guardian Review

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Adam and Joe / switching tabs

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Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Adam and Joe / Internet

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Friday, August 29th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Going for a tissue

eight hundred and ninety-three

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Writing up sneeze 892 in Sneezecount notebook

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Friday, August 29th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong The Collings and Herrin Podcast

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Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate Reading White Noise in bed

eight hundred and ninety

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Michelle’s La Bastille Restaurant, Corporation Street, Birmingham Mild Paco is telling a story

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Looking up the spelling of “Psy Ops”

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Dudley Street, Birmingham City Centre Moderate Walking, thinking about Jon Ronson footnote in my All Creatures Great and Small piece

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Stratford Road, Hall Green Moderate Walking to the station, thinking about Jane’s Brain video

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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate No ending, not even a title

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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Trying to think of an ending for my “Heroes and Villains” piece

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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Online banking

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Monday, August 25th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Correcting typos in an archive Joyfeed piece

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

TV / living room, Dorridge Moderate Just missed a chance to go “out” (still playing cards)

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

TV / living room, Dorridge Moderate Cards, adding up the score at the end of a round

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

TV / living room, Dorridge Moderate Observing some Wii Fit stepping

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Lying back on the futon, staring at the sky

eight hundred and seventy-eight

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Listening “again” to David Quantick being Jon Holmes, and reading a bit of Bernard Crick

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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

TV / living room Moderate The Innocents on DVD

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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

TV / living room Moderate to strong The Innocents on DVD

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Bedroom, Dooneen Lodge, Letterfrack Strong Sorting playing cards to see if we have a complete pack

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Pangur Ban, Letterfrack Moderate Trying to remember story about a werewolf on a childhood Midlands Today

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Pangur Ban, Letterfrack Moderate Pudding deliberation

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Connemara National Park visitors’ centre Moderate to strong Using visual display about a bog

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Cemetery, Enistymon Moderate Looking for the grave of a great-grandmother

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Street, Lahinch Moderate to strong Going back to the bookshop

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Car park, Maam Cross Moderate to strong Toilet stop

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Bedroom, Dooneen Lodge, Letterfrack Moderate to strong Map / route planning

eight hundred and sixty-seven

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Coastal path over Lettergesh Moderate Walking, photographing

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Beach, Lettergesh Moderate Crossing a sand stream

eight hundred and sixty-five

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Beach, Lettergesh Moderate Beach cows

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Monday, August 18th, 2008

The Bard’s Den, Letterfrack Moderate Discussing sterilising library books in the oven

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Monday, August 18th, 2008

Bedroom, Ashleigh Guest House, Carrick-on-Shannon Mild Getting ready to pay

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Monday, August 18th, 2008

Bedroom, Ashleigh Guest House, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate Entering, from breakfast

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Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Dining room, Kilnagross Moderate After dinner baby attention

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Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Bedroom, Ashleigh Guest House, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate to strong Failing to find any wireless Internet, and shutting down

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Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Function room, Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate to strong Cameras and old school photos

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Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Bedroom, Ashleigh Guest House, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate to strong Sky Sports live game [of something - lower league football?]

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Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Bedroom, Ashleigh Guest House, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate Advert for car insurance

eight hundred and fifty-six

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Street, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate to strong Running through the rain

eight hundred and fifty-five

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Cryan’s Bar, Carrick-on-Shannon Moderate Cousins and pharmacists

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Friday, August 15th, 2008

Boeing 737-300, several kilometres above Wales Moderate The cries and gargles of an onboard baby

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Friday, August 15th, 2008

Terminal 1, Birmingham Airport Moderate 20 minutes until the gate opens

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Friday, August 15th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Pulling on a sock

eight hundred and fifty-one

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Listening “again” to Adam and Joe and doing a long-overdue tidy-up

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

TV / living room Moderate to strong Men’s -100Kg bronze

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

TV / living room Moderate to strong The other women’s bronze contest

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

TV / living room Moderate to strong Women’s -78Kg Judo bronze fighting

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

TV / living room Moderate to strong ARCHERY!

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

TV / living room Strong Paying attention to the Hockey this time

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Looking up Judo clubs

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Looking up Judo results

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Stratford Road, Shirley Strong Waiting at the lights

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Wayne Otto on YouTube

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Tea, and an email from Ireland

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Monday, August 11th, 2008

TV / living room Strong Not really watching the Olympic hockey

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Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Conservatory / diner, Knaresborough Strong Just finished dinner

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Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Room 321, Novotel, Edinburgh Moderate to strong Packing

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Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Rick’s Bar, Edinburgh Moderate to strong Catherine and Poppy are exchanging emails

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Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Walkway bit, Edinburgh Book Festival Moderate to strong Queuing up for Alex James

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Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Bookshop, Edinburgh Book Festival Moderate to strong About to check in

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

Room 321, Novotel, Edinburgh Moderate to strong 16 years and over curiosity on the restaurant breakfast information

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Moderate to strong Phil Kay’s Greatest Hits in progress

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

Outside the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh Moderate Looking at a greenhouse conservatory on the top of a building

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

Dean Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Moderate to strong La Rue de Tramway by Paul Delvaux and La Joie de Vivre by Max Ernst

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Room 321, Novotel, Edinburgh Moderate Shutting the curtains

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Bar Kohl, Edinburgh Moderate Projected video of some snowboarding and so forth

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008

St Giles Cafe, Edinburgh Mild “We’re on holiday”

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

TV / living room, Knaresborough Moderate to strong War stories and first memories

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong More postcard input (11 January 1931)

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong More postcard input (15 December 1930)

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong More postcard input (2 August 1930)

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Reading about the Amazon Kindle thing

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Postcards and being offered the chance to listen to the latest instalment [?]

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Last minute email check and Adam & Joe commenting

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Still coming down after Man On Wire

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

Front garden path Moderate to strong Setting off to the accountant

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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Kitchen Moderate to strong Composting

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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate McSweeney’s

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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Nostalgic trip back to webservices.org

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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Adam and Joe with Japanese postcard input

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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Dining room Moderate A sort of Adam and Joe / guardian.co.uk “mash up”

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Friday, August 1st, 2008

Kitchen Moderate to strong Making coffee

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Friday, August 1st, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Taking tea