Older blog entries for ringbark (starting at number 505)

Tweets for Today

  • 08:00 On the mornings when I seem to be late to breakfast, I arrive at the station earlier! Overcompensation by eating faster? Eating less? #
  • 11:49 @JoMangee no, it's never tomorrow. If it's after midnight, it's still today - just a different one. #
  • 19:02 I've arrived at London Twestival. Already around a hundred people here and I think it will be pretty crowded in here in just a few minutes. #
  • 19:41 It's snowing outside at Twestival. Already met a load of fascinating people here. No, it doesn't feel like a geekfest. #
  • 20:58 Here at Twestival the singer on the main stage is singing Walk On The Wild Side. While three ladies in spangly stuff dance to it. #
  • 21:48 It's getting ever noisier at the London Twestival. Still snowing. Packed in here. Never been to anything quite like this before. #
  • 21:49 @ChuckSmith saluton from London Twestival #
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Syndicated 2009-02-12 22:19:35 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 13:22 Round the block to buy a sandwich. #
  • 15:26 Well, on another round trip. London to Wirral and back within nineteen hours. On an insanity scale of zero to ten, surely an eight or nine. #
  • 15:45 Oh, that's all we need. Just arrived at Euston and they're asking Inspector Sands to report to the Control Centre. #
  • 15:50 Yes, Euston Station has just been evacuated due to a reported emergency. So, what for the 16.10 to Chester? Fire sirens are wailing here. #
  • 16:01 Various BTPs and other staff are inside the station, but the rest of us are outside. All trains up to 1610 showing as "delayed" of course. #
  • 16:09 All the staff are back into Euston and there is an expectation that passengers will be let back in shortly. Some trains retimed. #
  • 16:10 And we're back. #
  • 16:15 Staff lady shouts. "Do not run: the trains will not leave without you" and I'm now on it. 2 hours to Chester, signals & weather permitting. #
  • 16:22 Left Euston at 16.21 or thereabouts. #
  • 16:36 Apparently we'll be 16 minutes late at MK and only seven by the time I get to Chester (18.16, new projected time) - well, we'll see. #
  • 16:47 North of Bletchley and suddenly all the fields are covered with snow again. That's not what I would have expected. #
  • 17:59 As the train runs just that little bit slower, the chances of catching the 18.30 out of Chester are getting that bit slimmer. :+( #
  • 18:33 Actually saw the train leave Chester on its way north. So now it's a rearranged lift and an inconvenience to others. Sorry Debbi #
  • 19:34 Nearly at Hoylake for the Deanery meeting. There *might* be time for a coffee beforehand. #
  • 22:00 Home, after a discussion on the future of Deaneries in Wirral. Fascinating. Coffee now calls, of course. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-11 05:06:44 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 07:06 Before I left, most of the way to reinstalling AVG on Viv's pc. Very icy underfoot, but at least trains are running today. Nearly light too! #
  • 07:35 So, why is my train retimed? Instead of 09.38 into Euston, I'm told it will arrive at 10.06. Are we going via Coventry? Or Northampton? #
  • 08:29 Snow on the ground. Thick fog. This is the Trent Valley. #
  • 09:44 Just on the final approach to Euston, so guess it was just a timetabling ploy. En route entertainment from Chuck Missler and Tom Petty. #
  • 10:13 I'm between Euston and Liverpool Street, finding a route with a "good service" so far as I am able. #
  • 17:10 I got a ticket for London Twestival on Thursday night. Yay for me!!! #
  • 18:43 The end of the office day. It's one degree and pourong with rain. Wish I'd brought my coat with me. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-10 05:05:31 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 10:04 Good and warm on the train to Port Sunlight. Church service less than thirty minutes away. #
  • 21:57 It's been a fairly quiet day for twittering. Church, lunch, snow (a bit), talk, coffee. So pretty ordinary day in most ways. #
  • 23:25 That's it from me for another night. More at stupidly early hour tomorrow. It's clear and cold, so: probably frost, possibly snow overnight. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-09 05:05:46 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 08:23 On our way to church's monthly Prayer Breakfast. Following NZ Sevens from an increasingly excited @br3nda in Wellington. #
  • 12:29 Cleaning the kitchen, defrosting the freezer. #
  • 18:55 Off to the Medieval Banquet, a fundraiser for Habitat For Humanity. #
  • 21:32 Evidently a great deal of food was consumed at banquets. Some dishes have been forgotten, some justifiably, but some deserve rediscovery. #
  • 22:08 Well, I have discovered that the famed kicking dance from "Into The Valley" (The Skids) originated with the galliard in the Middle Ages! #
  • 22:27 Look at my word cloud at twittersheep.com/?q-ringbark - more coffee than anything else, it seems. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-08 05:06:26 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 06:54 Good morning. Feels like a normal work day at the moment, but it's not. And the promised poor weather has not (yet!) affected London. #
  • 08:07 In the last hour, a dusting of snow turning to sleet and slush. Chiltern advertising a regular service, but I haven't seen any trains yet. #
  • 09:16 At the opticians. They blow air into your eye and then vlind you. #
  • 10:21 Finished at the opticians. Enormous cost resulted, of course, but new glasses are not far behind. Word of the day: blepharitis #
  • 11:29 Just having fun travelling on the Tube and DLR. Off to have a look at landside at LCY. It was the brand new stolport last time I did that. #
  • 14:28 After the airport, back to SHB for their monthly prayer meeting. And after a bite to eat for lunch, time to head over to Marylebone. #
  • 14:54 Announcer: Flash photography is prohibited on Underground platforms and trains.
    My thought: Well spotted, sir! I didn't see the flash. #
  • 16:40 Just left Marylebone. On the way to Wrexham. Very nice seats. #
  • 19:27 Happy Waitangi Day! I'm in Wellington! (Unfortunately, that's a small town in Shropshire, close to the England/Wales border.) #
  • 19:44 Almost everybody got off the train at Shrewsbury, leaving me in peace to enjoy the last forty minutes to Wrexham. Just Bob Dylan and me... #
  • 20:12 Just left Chirk. Surprisingly, the journey was very relaxing and hasn't seemed as long as it truly was. And Viv is only ten minutes away... #
  • 22:17 Home for the weekend. Christopher is listening to Six Months In A Leaky Boat. Of course. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-07 05:15:45 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 07:26 When I hear about councils asking to borrow grit from other councils, I can't help thinking of the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. #
  • 08:25 Rain is heavier in NW1. Turns out I was on an earlier train, running late. Apology for its late arrival when it seemed 8 mins early to me. #
  • 20:08 Just left the office. There's a drunk lying in the doorway and a security man figuring out what to do with him. Outside, it's 2 degrees. #
  • 20:10 Let's be disparaging about the Iranians and call their rocket "home made". It's not like some guy knocked it together in his shed, is it? #
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Syndicated 2009-02-06 05:18:22 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 06:40 Still pretty cold with snow on the ground, but this is the week's halfway point. It's all downhill from here... #
  • 08:15 Muesli with milk, vegetarian sausage, mushroom, fried potato, hash brown, scrambled egg, orange juice, coffee, sesame rolls. #
  • 08:22 The snowman on platform 4 at Marylebone Station is still there, standing proudly, looking at the trains. #
  • 08:45 Someone's phone just rang. But from the ringtone, I can't tell what sort of person she is: was it Pastime, Gangsta or Amish Paradise? #
  • 09:03 Sky News Headline: "Another job blow for Barack Obama" - didn't Bill Clinton have the opposite problem? #
  • 12:01 Cold but sunny. Walking briskly along Bishopsgate to catch up with some friends for lunch. #
  • 19:44 On the way back to Wembley. It's surprisingly quiet on the tube and the railway. The cold weather is more exhausting than I expected. #
  • 19:46 Lunch today: roast pork, apple sauce (disturbingly white), potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, broccoli, roly poly sponge, custard. #
  • 22:48 Just been talking to Viv and Chris. Matthew has been out watching the game so I don't suppose he'll be very happy either. Goodnight. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-05 05:18:01 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 13:28 Sandwiches call out to me. Salmon and cream cheese or Chicken and sweetcorn? Decisions, decisions... #
  • 18:17 Leaving the office to brave the elephants. Though it's not too bad here by now. Pretty much all the snow has gone. #
  • 19:31 In Wembley, the snow lies round about, deep and crisp even. Guess that tonight the frost will be cru-el. #
  • 06:40 Still pretty cold with snow on the ground, but this is the week's halfway point. It's all downhill from here... #
  • 08:15 Muesli with milk, vegetarian sausage, mushroom, fried potato, hash brown, scrambled egg, orange juice, coffee, sesame rolls. #
  • 08:22 The snowman on platform 4 at Marylebone Station is still there, standing proudly, looking at the trains. #
  • 08:45 Someone's phone just rang. But from the ringtone, I can't tell what sort of person she is: was it Pastime, Gangsta or Amish Paradise? #
  • 09:03 Sky News Headline: "Another job blow for Barack Obama" - didn't Bill Clinton have the opposite problem? #
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Syndicated 2009-02-04 10:15:50 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

Tweets for Today

  • 05:42 It comes as no surprise to look out of the window and see that Bromborough is submerged in a light layer of white, fluffy stuff. #
  • 07:19 It's never very encouraging when the local train runs snowy late. It *might* catch up time before Chester so I can catch the London express. #
  • 07:39 The local train made up a few minutes on the way to Chester after all, so now travelling through white Cheshire on this Candlemas morning. #
  • 08:00 Bob Dylan's Street Legal is massively under-rated: Changing of the guards, Baby Stop Crying, Is your love in vain?, Senor...all masterpieces #
  • 09:06 Told that Virgin trains are running normally except to Manchester but SW trains are suspended. Conditions are deteriorating as I head south. #
  • 09:39 Easy to Watford, but the train is evidently struggling to make the last few miles. And I hear transport in London is pretty dodgy atm. #
  • 10:33 Success on the Northern Line Euston to Bank, and eventually on the Central Line from Bank to Liverpool Street. #
  • 10:38 Snowing now in Bishopsgate. #
  • 13:39 Pretty much everyone at the Bank has thrown in the towel. I've taken an indirect route to Marylebone, where I just made late running 13:30. #
  • 20:04 The temperature outside has risen to 2deg but the snow is unimpressed. On Merseyside, Matthew tells me it's like it was London this morning. #
  • 22:39 So I come to the end of a snowy and extraordinary day. #
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Syndicated 2009-02-03 05:30:40 from C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais

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