It’s nice to know that your profession is held in such high esteem by the general public. The BBC has a story on the TUC’s unpaid overtime survey, and the comments on “lecturers and their thirteen week paid holidays each year” are making me depressed and furious by turns.
Cork airport has free WiFi. It’s the only airport that I’ve been through in the last week (Heathrow, Nice, Frankfurt) to make such an offer to all passengers. (of course, it was rather rubbish, which is why I’m posting this from my desk today, rather than from the airport bar yesterday with a pint of Beamish in one hand)
Felicity Kendall was born in 1946. The Good Life was first screened in 1975. I’M OLDER THAN BARBARA GOOD!
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Last night was the birthday of Chris Elseware (of totl.net fame), who had decided on some alternative entertainment by way of celebration. As a result, I am now looking at a ticket stub for something which claimed to be “ALL-STAR WRESTLING”. Apologies in advance for the scare quotes through the rest of this post – there may be quite a few. As a child of the 70s, I have vivid memories of being bored witless by the wrestling on Saturday afternoons on ITV that my nan used to watch. The merest mention of names like Giant Haystacks or Kendo Nagasaki… Read More »Men in tights
, you’re just below towards the bottom of the Edinburgh Goth area. The Network Does Not Lie! (well, not really)
Touchgraph Livejournal Browser (requires Java) Reassuringly enough, if I expand out all of my friends’ friends, I can easy tell the difference between the goths, the SF fans, the Potterites, and the noble citizens (and ex-citizens) of Edinburgh and Cambridge.
Well, we now have a house. Starting to feel a bit more settled about it (compared to yesterday, when I was getting all sorts of panicky feelings).
Thursday 10th February, Rescue Rooms, Nottingham. More details here. I wonder if I can afford to take two half days off work so that I can swan up to Nottingham and back for this?
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