1) Don’t cycle with your mouth open. You are liable to collect flies and when travelling fast, a fly in the mouth can be a very horrible experience.
2) When cycling along a path, and ahead you spy a wobbling cyclist moving erratically, don’t speed up, nearly crash into said wobbling cyclist, swear at them for not watching what they were doing and then speed off into the distance. The wobbling cyclist may just have swallowed a fly.
My task today is to swallow a spider to catch the fly.
Paul Personal
I’m filled with some springtime joy at the moment. I can’t locate the source (except for the demise of “Arsenal”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/champions_league/3593083.stm perhaps) but maybe this year my garden is showing real signs of promise and the sunshine/showers combination bring light and freshness. Last night I planted 150 little plug plants. I shall carefully tend them of the next couple of months. They are my new babies.
Here is a little of something I see everytime I leave my front door. The colours are stunning in real life.
Our next door neighbours still have their concreate yard and brown 6 foot fence. I’m just happy I can’t see it.
Paul Personal
I’m having trouble staying awake. I’m sure this is what management had in mind when they made me start so early. They will break my mind until I agree to work a night shift. But, I will be off ill, too tired to type.
Paul Personal
Its 8am and I’m in work. This is a permanent situation that I’m not the least bit happy about. It is a continuing move towards globalization and now I have to be in at the same time as my European colleagues. I’m not a morning person, you’d more likey see me still up at 4am than getting up at 5am.
Worse, the trains, which don’t run well at the best of times, don’t really cater for the 8am to work traveller and so I would have to leave extra early.
So, I got on my bike. Seen as I can leave at 4:30 (and I will be doing on the dot) I can cycle in now. I’m going back to sleep now.
Paul Personal
Help, the men in blue are after me for flagrant aqua abuse (and no, it doesn’t involve “Aquarion”:http://www.aquarionics.com
Let’s start at the beginning, or rather the toilet. Many moons ago (June 2002), I attempted to “fix the toilet and had a small amount of trouble”:http://www.dellah.com/vent/how_to_break_a_toilet.shtml resulting in a small flood and £90 being extracted from my wallet with a spanner. Since that day I have been banned from touching any plumbing in the house.
Fast forward to two week ago when a tap in the utility room starts dripping. Two days later it starts flowing, two days after that is appears to be gushing. Luckily my wife has a friend whose husband is a plumber. He was due to come round Saturday. Unfortunately, he is an Arsenal fan, but I’ll let him off if he can fix my tap. Unluckily, he manages to get a ticket to see Arsenal play Chelsea on Saturday. Most unfortunately they won but that’s another story. In short, he didn’t turn up, so on Sunday, my dad managed to stop the tap from flowing but couldn’t actually fix it. No, it wasn’t just a washer, but I wouldn’t have been allowed to fix that anyway.
Onto today, when my next door neighbour tells me Thames Water have had the “Water Detection” Engineers knocking on my door. They were asking all sorts of questions like do we do lots of washing, how many children did we have, are we running an illegal water bottle factory in our back garden, any water based alien life forms living in the house that need constant moisture. You know, the usual. My neighbours knows about the dripping tap, but kept stum. Good job too. She owes me for me fixing her AOL connection. Got my hands dirty doing that.
Should I answer the door in future? What will they do to us if they catch us? And how will Aquaaag survive now her water supply has been cut off. I’ve been keeping her in that sink, she was so thirsty. Back to the planet Aquaaaagia, I suppose.
Wonder how Richard Herring is doing in his water based activities today?
Paul Personal
50 up in “CNPS”:http://www.richardherring.com/cnps.php, an important milestone along the route to 999 glory. Seen as I started just over six months ago, I’ll be finished in a mere twenty years time! It’s quite clear I’ll never be finished as in twenty years time there will be very few “proper” number plates left.
Ten seconds after spotting a 50, a 51 went past only for it be a GE51 and therefore doesn’t count. Of course a false 52 passed shortly afterwards, and then a real 53. This will be like finding a needle in a haystack with the added complexity of having about a million false needles in the haystack as well.
I think I’ll treat this as a cricket score. I’ve reached a respectable England score if they were playing Australia whilst Richard Herring has nearly reached a half decent Australia score against the English (419). It took me a Boycott like innings to get to 35 (5 and a half months) and then a Botham performance to get to 50 (2 weeks). It’s just over one a day which means I’ll be done in 3 years.
Just checked the rules, I’m on 53. I’d just assumed that the new number plates would be counted as cheating by Mr. Boatmeister Herring, but no
bq. Extreme CNPS players may choose to also ignore obviously personalised number plates TIM 1 for example, or indeed the new style number plates which are at present a good source of 2’s and 51s and 52s. In the current climate where old style number plates are slowly dying out, this may be a rule too far. For all but the most obsessed player, personalised and new style number plates are acceptable (make sure it is not a foreign plate though)
To clarify the new style 02 on a number plate can be counted as a 2. However some new number plates also include the letter “O”. Do not be tempted to use these “O”s to turn an 02 into a 200.
Given what a reasonable game this is, I can’t in any way be classed as “most obsessed” can I?
Paul Personal
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