Today's Tweets

• 22:26 Royal harpist? bit.ly/6jCjo9 What kind of job is that? Sometimes I think I've entered one of those weird parallel universes. #

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• 21:57 Mr TLC nips outside - and comes back wearing some rather fetching #snow Bah! (It's more rain than snow, fortunately) #
• 22:40 RT @markw29: Anyone know any decent (but not hideously expensive) hotels in central London for a Sat night - struggling to find availability #
• 22:48 A friend of Mr TLC just texted to say he's in hospital with gammon flu. (He went in with swine flu, but they cured him.) #

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• 11:42 It's dark, not like night but too dark for midday. I am reading American Gods. The darkness seems rather appropriate somehow. #
• 13:38 Mr TLC + driving licence = brilliant. He's just gone to the supermarket, without me. Woohoo! #
• 17:17 What is it with Sundays? It can't be that time! More temporal anomalies. Mr TLC did shopping - so my turn to cook dinner. Better get started #
• 18:40 Brilliant! :) RT @ianloasby: my sons idea, invent a 99p coin to get rid of all those loose 1p coins. Its a winner. #

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• 10:28 RT @robinbyles: After buying sledge yesterday I was excited to see @arepeejee tweet that it was snowing but there is no sign of any in S10 #
• 16:50 Time to start baking. We are off to a no-surprise-at-all party tonight and there must be cake. #
• 20:21 Uh oh, here come the xfactor tweets. Time for xfactor-phobics to sign off. (But hope you guys enjoy it!) #

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Tripod Bella

Welcome to the League of Three Legged Cats: Bella.

She may be three-legged, but she's pretty good at typing ;)

Caturday: Half Octopus

Ginger Cat doing what he does best: sleeping.

His usual pose is what my Dad refers to as the 'half octopus' position, but today there was a slight variation; it turns out that Ginger Cat does a pretty good three-legged cat impression.

Today's Tweets: Chilli-ed Out

• 15:44 Contemplating dinner. Not sure if I can face another chilli based meal. Have been eating it since Friday, still a lot to go... #

Actually, I was wrong, we've been eating chilli since Thursday. Chilli and rice, enchiladas, chilli and mash, chilli and chilli. Chilli for lunch, chilli for dinner. I like chilli, but there are limits - and we've gone way past them.

Anyway, here is the sum of the chilli-related wisdom that I have acquired over the last few days:

1. Putting raw potatoes into ridiculously hot chilli does precisely nothing. (I read this somewhere, which proves nothing except that I read some dubious things.)
   
2. Cooking the potatoes in the chilli results in very spicy potatoes and overcooked chilli. This wouldn't be so bad if it was the con carne version, but overcooked vegetarian chilli is not so good.
3. If you (like me) are dozy enough make inedibly hot chilli, then the only solution is to mix the resulting chilli of doom with an equally enormous quantity of anti-chilli. What's that? Well it's a big pot of tomato and vegetable stew, by which I mean that I made another 'chilli', without any more of that blasted hot stuff and diluted the inedible original with it. The resulting concoction was still blooming hot.
   
4. My dislike of throwing food away allows me to go way beyond my normal chilli-eating threshold.
   
5. I do not want to eat any more chilli for quite some time.

Of course, having spent days eating chilli, the vegetables that were supposed to land in other meals over the weekend now need cooking sooner rather than later. There may be an Omigod Please No Not More Bloody Vegetable Lasagna post coming up soon.

Today's Tweets

• 14:12 RT @Openrightsgroup: Number 10 petition to stop Mandelsons #digitaleconomy bill. Please sign and RT is.gd/50gQK #webwar #threestrikes #
• 14:15 Finally got around to setting up Tweetdeck to work with both my Twitter accounts. Now I can avoid twice as much work! #
• 14:16 ... and sorry if you've got the last few Tweets twice. I'm stopping that now, honestly! #

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• 22:02 Love this! RT @chris_1974: RT @stuhasic: Tired of your wimpy name? Try Make-Me-Mighty! bit.ly/FR77i (non-IE browsers only) #

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Just one of those days

It's not been a bad day, there have been many good points. But it appears that I have not exactly been on the case:

1. I arrive at school and discover that I am wearing dark blue striped trousers and a black jacket. This is not exactly what I had in mind.
   (Mind you, it's nothing compared to the time when I was travelling to Previous School on the train and took my coat off to reveal bottle green trousers, a bright blue shirt and a purple jacket. My fellow travellers were politely looking away as they attempted to disengage smirk mode, at least they were until I said 'OhmyGodwhatonEarthamIwearing?' Dear reader, how we laughed!)
   You will gather that I'm not at my best in the morning.
   
2. I have called a variety of children a variety of wrong names, but rather more worryingly I have greeted my colleague Mr T with the words, 'Excuse me Miss.'
   Even that will seem like small beer when I tell you that I have called Mr TLC Alison. (Where did that come from? Evidently my brain is fried.) According to Mr TLC, I am only allowed to call him Alison if he takes up wearing frilly frocks. Oh well.
   
3. I notice how similar my Sharpies are to our latest dry wipe board pens. I make a mental note to avoid getting them muddled up. Yes, you're way ahead of me, of course I wrote on the whiteboard with the wrong blooming pen. Doh!
4. I cook chilli for dinner. As I am about to serve it, I taste it. Bleughyarooooooo! Flipping heck that's hot. We phone for a pizza. I'm not sure what to do with my vat of inedible chilli. Does that business about putting raw potatoes in to soak up the spice actually work? I'll let you know.

And now, for an early night. It seems that I need the sleep.