January 2011

09:04 : if the bees die out, then so do we… 🙁 www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees/ # 09:32 for the latest archaelogical finds in the gulf region #ff @dhofarproject # 12:59 is confused. Nurse phoned me to do epilepsy review; whilst I was…

12:28 : the best laid plans… a Beduin tribe decided to move into one of @dhofarproject’s best rockshelters. The nerve! bit.ly/ehGr4o # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

~ Had a productive day setting up a repository page for some of the departmental videos. Now I just have to replicate this across the other three departments… ~ And so the Christmas decorations come down with the ‘felling’ of…

15:32 has been listening to #thearchers at 60 archive repeats; finishing with a 2nd play of Sunday’s episode. More emotional than before #sattc # 21:01 wonder what it is with 2011, that we have someone from the art community dying…

My novel has been sitting on my conscience although the Christmas period. I’ve been a bit stuck you see, because I got to the point where Kathryn had already made a choice to ask Beth about Louis but in my…

21:00 has noticed that the BBC #stargazing weather forecast which doesn’t say anything about the snow that’s shown falling over the country! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

It was a rude awakening this morning when the alarm went off at 6am. It was dark, and early, and just not right. Get up, I did, though and I’ve had a productive day back at work, but it does…

10:44 RT: @r4today: Liking #TheArchers is “a bit like having a third nipple” says @DAaronovitch bbc.in/huRuYu #sattc # 12:12 I think the biggest cop-out of this episode was that both Helen and Henry are both absolutely fine. Surely, given the……

I’ve been reading volume two of Nigel Slater’s Tender; delicious writing about delicious food… Many a tree will fruit within a year or two of planting, and they are suited to a domestic garden – some take barely more space…

After Emma’s epic weekend of 15 hours overtime, today was always going to be, and had to be, a quieter day. Sadly this meant that we couldn’t go to Grannie’s new year bash. But we’ve had a nice day, of…

00:06 You have received a new message twitpic.com/3m5osx # 00:29 has just helped with my first whelping; 7 girls, 2 boys Boxer Bull Mastif crosses. Saturday night’s, yeah… # 10:35 wonders why #sattc is now trending on twitter but not…

I haven’t written in these pages about the upcoming ‘Shock Ambridge to the Core’ event (hashtag #sattc on twitter) before but I have written about it extensively on Twitter in the past few days, and as the main event is…

We were very much enjoying last night’s film Eric and Ernie right up until the point that got a callout to a dog that was whelping, and seeing as I had never seen a whelping before and how sometimes an…

23:55 : is amused that T C Hobbit wrote the Lord of the Rings (Helen on Articulate) # 00:27 would like to take this moment to wish everyone a very happy new year. Hope Twenty-Eleven is a good year for…

I don’t know exactly why, but I fell to thinking about board games this afternoon, and in particular, remembering the RSPB Conservation Board Game we used to play when I was young. I’ve searched for this periodically on the internet,…