1 September 2003 16:09 [link]
overheard conversation
A little while ago I was sitting on the Tube, between two children. They were probably about sixish, I'd guess, and evidently knew each other but got on with their mothers at different stops. So the conversation below was carried out over my knees. And I liked it enough to write it down.
- Alex?
- Yeah?
- Do you know what?
- What?
- Last time I went to the seaside, Lucy and I were digging a hole and we found water at the bottom!
- Yeah?
- Real water!
- Yeah?
- We kept digging and digging and digging and we found water under the sand!
- Was there a crab?
- No.
- I've never found any crabs at the seaside.
Sometimes I do like children. Not often, mind.
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1 September 2003 15:53 [link]
divers alarums
Caused a minor security alert today when I inadvertently missed the "Lower Ground Floor" button in the lift at work, and hit the "Alarm" button instead.
Pressing the button causes security to be called, and a recorded voice to boom out "Remain calm! Help is coming! Remain calm!". (This caused me to panic, I might add.)
My first instinct was to leg it out of the lift (since it was otherwise empty, and my involvement could be plausibly denied) but I dithered and ended up standing outside the lift and trying to explain to the security guard that there wasn't a problem. He just looked at me strangely.
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1 September 2003 15:47 [link]
back
Hello once more.
Things have been quite busy of late. We're now living in a very nice flat in Oxford. Sara's started her job. All sorts of things have been going on and I've blogged none of them.
In no particular order:
- enormous spiders
- extra long wheelbase vans
- Oysters
- The Archbishop of Canterbury
- banks
- BT
- really enormous spiders
- dives and palaces
- tape
- gnomes
- boxes
- grout and filler and paint
- road rage (being a victim thereof)
Oh, therein lies a tale. Which, it seems, I'm not going to relate.
So, sorry to have not written anything of late. I'll try to be better. Probably lost most of the people who read this anyway. Ho hum. Oh, apart from the RSS people. Hello to you all. Dear, dear people.
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