Archive for September, 2008

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

TV/living room Moderate to strong The Daily Show on the debate

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane Moderate Discussing the Credit Crunch

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

TV/living room Moderate to strong Late Show retro on BBC4, specifically, Mark Thompson on Maxwell

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

EAT, the Bull Ring Moderate to strong Waiting to go

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane Moderate Demonstrating numbers

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

Kitchen Moderate Laundry

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Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Upstairs, The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath Strong Interlude

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Sunday, September 28th, 2008

TV/living room Moderate Trying to get Tom off my laptop

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Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Fox Hollies Road, Hall Green Moderate Between Lidl and Waitrose

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Saturday, September 27th, 2008

TV/living room Moderate Hanging curtains

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Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Writing a short essay thing about games and play

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Saturday, September 27th, 2008

TV/living room Moderate to strong Measuring for curtains

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

Landing Moderate to strong Getting ready to go out

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate The very last second of the Adam and Joe (Garth) podcast

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong The Brothers McLeod

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Leila and Greg’s Inevitable Podcast

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back Bedroom Office Moderate Saturday Night Fry Episode 2 on YouTube

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Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Saturday Night Fry Episode 1 on YouTube

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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong The latest Granta, featuring The Flawed Cartographer by Catherine O’Flynn

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane Moderate Tutorial in progress

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane Moderate to strong Marking students’ tests

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Teachers’ room, Moat Lane Moderate to strong Going through students’ tests

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Thunderbird thinks this message is junk

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Kitchen Moderate to strong Preparing the breakfast tray

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Quick headline scoop

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Dining room Moderate Returning from a pudding reconnaissance trip

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Tuning in to Five Live for some final scores

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Car, A491 Strong Coming back from Clent, the sign tells us that the Belbroughton Scarecrow Weekend has been Cancelled

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Spanish grammar exercises

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Friday, September 19th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong Clicking “Publish” on Sneeze 933, but the sneeze meant the click didn’t work

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Friday, September 19th, 2008

Train, between Marylebone and High Wycombe Moderate to strong The table is vibrating and the trees are strobing the sunlight: it is medium level train torture

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Upper foyer, National Theatre Moderate to strong Holding my newly purchased pristine second-hand first British edition of The Mezzanine

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Southbound platform, Oxford Circus Tube Moderate Going to the National Film Theatre for BUG 09

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Scooterworks, Lower Marsh, London Moderate Making a note about the decomposition of capital letters

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Trafalgar Square Moderate to strong Walking to the river

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London Strong This sequence brought to you by a sore bit of skin on the right side of my nose

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London Moderate to strong Declan is leaving for Working Lunch

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London Moderate Padding about in a robe

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

The Heights (restaurant/bar), St George’s Hotel, London Mild Gathering possessions to go

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Train, approaching London Moderate Flicking through a discarded Times

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Staffroom, Digbeth Moderate Email

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Car, Stratford Road, Sparkbrook Moderate “Did you see that billboard for Estee Lauder?”

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Writing up sneeze 925 in the Sneezecount notebook

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate A Thing About Machines leaflet

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Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Car, outside “The Assembly Rooms”, Solihull Moderate to strong Waiting for C. to return from purchasing American Pastoral

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Sunday, September 14th, 2008

TV / living room, Dorridge Moderate to strong Camille Paglia on Sarah Palin in the Sunday Times

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Saturday, September 13th, 2008

TV / living room, Edgbaston Moderate to strong Trying (and largely failing) to work out how James and Sarah’s TV works

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Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate to strong About to look up Supercool Design

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Nearly asleep

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Enquiry as to the quality of Philip Roth

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

Hall Green Launderama Moderate to strong Waiting for the dryer to finish with a bit of Delillo

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Researching Rene Cutforth

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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

The Dirty Duck, Stratford Moderate Post-show chats with Amanda

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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane Moderate to strong “I’ve got it: France!”

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Monday, September 8th, 2008

Kitchen Moderate to strong Making some supper beverages

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Monday, September 8th, 2008

Teachers’ room, Moat Lane Moderate Formatting a table (in MS Word) and listening “again” to Stephen Fry talking about language

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Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Dining room Moderate to strong Tidying up, turning off lights

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Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Hallway Moderate to strong Getting the Sneezecount notebook

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Saturday, September 6th, 2008

TV / living room Moderate to strong Considering watching a Louis Theroux Weird Weekend

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Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Landing Moderate Looking for missing mitt

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Friday, September 5th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong Getting ready for bed

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Friday, September 5th, 2008

Kitchen / diner, Edgbaston Mild Sarah wants to learn how to make coffee

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Friday, September 5th, 2008

Stratford Road, Hall Green Moderate to strong Walking through heavy rain behind a man with an umbrella and a Waterstones bag

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Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Foodcourt, Pavilions, Birmingham Moderate to strong Waiting

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Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Where to now, Internet?

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Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Bedroom Moderate to strong “What do you want for breakfast?”

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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Escalator, Borders, The Bull Ring Moderate Descending

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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Bedroom Mild An alarm wake-up sneeze

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Monday, September 1st, 2008

Back bedroom office Moderate Clicking on “Radio 4″

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Monday, September 1st, 2008

Bedroom Moderate In bed with Charlie Brooker