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Archive for November 2007

cadge

Saturday 10 November 2007

To beg or get by begging.

gubbins

Friday 9 November 2007

Brit. a collection of unimportant objects.

harry

Thursday 8 November 2007

To disturb by repeated attacks. To trouble persistently from or as if from all sides. To make a surprise attack on: maraud, raid.

stopcock

Wednesday 7 November 2007

A valve that regulates the flow of fluid through a pipe; a faucet.

constitutional

Tuesday 6 November 2007

A walk taken regularly for one's health.

My week on the web

Monday 5 November 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account last week:

Gtd Bingo [Random!]
'Check off each block when you hear these words during a meeting, seminar, or phone call. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout BULLSHIT!!'
Add Wi-Fi to any Camera with the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Memory Card
The [...]

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nary

Monday 5 November 2007

(used with singular count nouns) colloquial for 'not a' or 'not one' or 'never a'.

jodhpurs

Sunday 4 November 2007

Wide-hipped riding pants of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.

7 things I did not know last week

Saturday 3 November 2007

William Fortnum ('Fortnum & Mason') started business re-selling Queen Anne's discarded candles (she wanted fresh ones every night).
Isla Guy Fawkes is one the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) named after the Briton who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot.
The O2 has a hole to let the Blackwall tunnel ventilation towers through.
Belfast City Airport is named after [...]

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sloth

Saturday 3 November 2007

Nocturnal, solitary, tree-dwelling mammal (family Bradypodidae), found in South and Central America.

My twilight zone trip home from work

Friday 2 November 2007

So tonight I was coming home from work, totally absorbed by the book I'm reading (A Spot of Bother), I got off the train and walked along the platform to the exit, instinctively. A gesture you don't think about because you repeat it every day.
Most people were walking the opposite direction, so I realised I [...]

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A minibus with wings

Friday 2 November 2007

Air France, said the reservation. And the check-in counter, and the boarding pass.
And the crew's uniforms at the gate. One of them looked at my boarding pass, then projected "Le six" across the queue to her colleague entering boarding pass numbers into a machine.
So imagine my surprise when the terminal bus delivered me in front [...]

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abet

Friday 2 November 2007

To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on. To urge, encourage, or help (a person).

fug

Thursday 1 November 2007

A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room.

Greetings from Belfast

Thursday 1 November 2007

I owe you an explanation, don't I?
Weeks without a proper post on these pages, apart from Word of the Day, My Week on the Web and sometimes 7 Things I Did Not Know Last Week.
Not a lack of time per se, but rather a shift in priorities.
A new position at work that's briliant and absorbs [...]

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