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Friday, May 01, 2009

The loveliness of Leicester

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Getting to Cambridge from Beeston tonight took less than three hours, which only happens on very rare occasions when you can change at Leice...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

If you're a man and you want to be healthy

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Then you could probably do worse than buying the latest issue of Men's Health magazine, available now for £3.95 from all good newsagents...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Cambridge? Yes, I probably should do something about that.

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Haven't booked a hotel for the weekend yet. If I end up having to commute from Beeston and back every day, I'm really going to be wo...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

There just aren't enough puns in the world!

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On BBC2 tonight, there was a trailer for a programme about Kew Gardens, followed by the snooker. And nobody made a "and now a different...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

A thought occurs

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Do you think that some fervently anti-Communist heraldist has ever reworked the old 'Better dead than red' slogan to make it 'Be...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

I work for MI5

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I spy on people, memorise what they say and do, and repeat it with roughly 85% accuracy. They hired me for my binary-digit-remembering skill...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

It's a printing-things-out weekend

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I always forget how long it takes to print all the papers for even a tiny little memory competition like Cambridge. It does give me a much g...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Crash! Shatter! Tinkle!

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Some of the lights in this place have sort of strange frosted glass globe lampshades instead of normal ones. I was just sitting down to eat ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Weight a minute

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To celebrate the launch of a scary-sounding miracle weight loss pill in pharmacies, there were weighing machines at work today, inviting eve...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Character-building

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Watching some snooker player trying to conceal his annoyance as he snappily answers questions like "What's your favourite colour...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Lots of phone calls

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Well, two of them, anyway, which is two more phone calls than I like to deal with of an evening. But hopefully they'll result in an arti...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

The things I do for memory

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A journalist from a local Cambridge newspaper said he'd call me at some point tonight for an article about the Cambridge Memory Champion...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Pound for pound

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As I think I've mentioned, I've been browsing around coin-related sites just lately, and in the process discovered something I didn...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Capital fun

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When the weekend brings such lovely, warm, sunny spring weather, what better way to spend the day than sitting in a room above a pub in Lond...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Simpsons

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I do watch the Simpsons quite a lot. It's just that it's always on in the evenings when I'm sitting around and feeling lazy. But...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Oh Canada

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I was feeling really productive and fired-up at work today for some reason, and considering staying late even though I didn't need to, j...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Things I don't own but which people seem to think I should own

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A mobile phone Hammers, nails, screwdrivers, electric drills, basically anything you can buy from B&Q A microwave Nail-clippers A car A ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Big city othello

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London regional this weekend, and I've been playing online a bit to see if practice helps me or hinders me. I can't quite understand...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Holidays

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Well, it's back to work tomorrow after four days off, and naturally this puts me in the mood to plan not going to work again at some poi...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Breakout!

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I've got worryingly addicted to playing Arkanoid since I discovered it online yesterday. It's a very compelling game that I haven...
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