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Month February 2009

Flightless?

This BBC headline confused me for a few moments:

I didn’t think turkeys were flightless (wild, they’re not), so why the plane? Images of Chicken Run came to mind…

Bad bit of journalese there, I think. Not a great idea to associate plasticine poultry with a plane crash, however unintentionally.

Update: The BBC has updated the title to [...]

Eaten alive

Eaten alive, originally uploaded by dafyd.

This poor Lego chap appears to have become something’s lunch – my bet is on the mice that seem to have moved in…

Starting for 10

Tonight is the final of series 15 of University Challenge, as Corpus Christi, Oxford, take on Manchester. Both teams have done phenomenally well in all of their previous games, so tonight promises to be a tough game.

I’m tipping Manchester to win. I know a lot has been written about about Corpus Christi’s captain, Gail Trimble, [...]

What do you do..?

A quick snippet of a track from the brilliant Avenue Q, which describes pretty well how I feel about job hunting at the moment…

On a related note, the West End production of Avenue Q closes at the end of March. If you haven’t seen it, go now. If you have seen it, go again – [...]

Moi j’aime le music hall

It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but I really don’t feel like posting anything else at the moment.

Rules: 1. Put your iPod, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer, hit skip if you get [...]

Ah, yes…

So, when I said that I’d be blogging more frequently, it looks like I lied. Sorry about that. No real excuse – just didn’t have anything to say.

I’ve still not got a proper job, seven months after graduating, which is incredibly frustrating. I’ve been doing odd bits of freelance website work, which keeps me busy, [...]