Archive for September, 2008

nine hundred and sixty-eight

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

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

nine hundred and sixty-seven

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Discussing the Credit Crunch

nine hundred and sixty-six

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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

nine hundred and sixty-five

Monday, September 29th, 2008

EAT, the Bull Ring
Moderate to strong
Waiting to go

nine hundred and sixty-four

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Demonstrating numbers

nine hundred and sixty-three

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Kitchen
Moderate
Laundry

nine hundred and sixty-two

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Upstairs, The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Strong
Interlude

nine hundred and sixty-one

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

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

nine hundred and sixty

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Fox Hollies Road, Hall Green
Moderate
Between Lidl and Waitrose

nine hundred and fifty-nine

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

TV/living room
Moderate
Hanging curtains

nine hundred and fifty-eight

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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

nine hundred and fifty-seven

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

TV/living room
Moderate to strong
Measuring for curtains

nine hundred and fifty-six

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Landing
Moderate to strong
Getting ready to go out

nine hundred and fifty-five

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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

nine hundred and fifty-four

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
The Brothers McLeod

nine hundred and fifty-three

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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

nine hundred and fifty-two

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back Bedroom Office
Moderate
Saturday Night Fry Episode 2 on YouTube

nine hundred and fifty-one

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Back bedroom office
Moderate
Saturday Night Fry Episode 1 on YouTube

nine hundred and fifty

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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

nine hundred and forty-nine

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Tutorial in progress

nine hundred and forty-eight

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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

nine hundred and forty-seven

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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

nine hundred and forty-six

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Thunderbird thinks this message is junk

nine hundred and forty-five

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Kitchen
Moderate to strong
Preparing the breakfast tray

nine hundred and forty-four

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Back bedroom office
Moderate
Quick headline scoop

nine hundred and forty-three

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Dining room
Moderate
Returning from a pudding reconnaissance trip

nine hundred and forty-two

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

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

nine hundred and forty-one

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

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

nine hundred and forty

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Spanish grammar exercises

nine hundred and thirty-nine

Friday, September 19th, 2008

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

nine hundred and thirty-eight

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

nine hundred and thirty-seven

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

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

nine hundred and thirty-six

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

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

nine hundred and thirty-five

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

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

nine hundred and thirty-four

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Trafalgar Square
Moderate to strong
Walking to the river

nine hundred and thirty-three

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

nine hundred and thirty-two

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

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

nine hundred and thirty-one

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

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

nine hundred and thirty

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twenty-nine

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Train, approaching London
Moderate
Flicking through a discarded Times

nine hundred and twenty-eight

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Staffroom, Digbeth
Moderate
Email

nine hundred and twenty-seven

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twenty-six

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twenty-five

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate
A Thing About Machines leaflet

nine hundred and twenty-four

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twenty-three

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twenty-two

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

nine hundred and twenty-one

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twenty

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Nearly asleep

nine hundred and nineteen

Friday, September 12th, 2008

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

nine hundred and eighteen

Friday, September 12th, 2008

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

nine hundred and seventeen

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Researching Rene Cutforth

nine hundred and sixteen

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

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

nine hundred and fifteen

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

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

nine hundred and fourteen

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Kitchen
Moderate to strong
Making some supper beverages

nine hundred and thirteen

Monday, September 8th, 2008

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

nine hundred and twelve

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Dining room
Moderate to strong
Tidying up, turning off lights

nine hundred and eleven

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Hallway
Moderate to strong
Getting the Sneezecount notebook

nine hundred and ten

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

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

nine hundred and nine

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Landing
Moderate
Looking for missing mitt

nine hundred and eight

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Getting ready for bed

nine hundred and seven

Friday, September 5th, 2008

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

nine hundred and six

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

nine hundred and five

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Foodcourt, Pavilions, Birmingham
Moderate to strong
Waiting

nine hundred and four

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Back bedroom office
Moderate
Where to now, Internet?

nine hundred and three

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

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

nine hundred and two

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Escalator, Borders, The Bull Ring
Moderate
Descending

nine hundred and one

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Bedroom
Mild
An alarm wake-up sneeze

nine hundred

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Back bedroom office
Moderate
Clicking on “Radio 4″

eight hundred and ninety-nine

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Bedroom
Moderate
In bed with Charlie Brooker