Can't sleep. Clowns threatening to eat us. This weird shared brain thing means we both get insomnia at the same time. So how about those annual round up memes that everyone's been doing for the last month?

Right, not going to do "first post" stuff, because I find that pointless. So instead, most commented on post per month:
( Posts of the year round up )

Sir Isaac Newton, draich_goch, Humphrey Bogart, blacktone, Quentin Crisp, Ismail Merchant, Rick Berman, Shane Macgowan, Sol Invictus and Helios ( Read more... )

• 16:16 in the only not fully reserved carriage on the Leeds train. Guess what? It's the one without electric sockets again... #
• 16:38 finally on the way and hoping the journey is as good as last time. #
• 19:03 in the North. You know how I know this? 5 layers on and still frozen. #
• 22:56 happily falling asleep at the bar, it's a lot warmer inside a ( Read more... )

• 23:27 wondering how he was supposed to eat a meal at the desk with two forks. Oops. Bit colder food now it is. #

Look, it's better than me texting LJ directly when I'm bored, right? Plus, y'know, microblogging, it's all the rage donchaknow. LoudTwitter

12 real ale pumps, damn fine cider, quality food, great staff[1] and a top quality landlady: Part of the play is a fight between St George and an Arabian, which got one of the men who was in drinking rather excited. He shouted some stuff like ENG-ER-LAND! ST GEORGE! ENGLISH KNIGHT! to which Liz said Actually he was from Palestine... Then he stood ( Read more... )

• 23:00 watching Serenity (again) and hoping to get some energy back tomorrow. I'm getting old... #

Look, it's better than me texting LJ directly when I'm bored, right? Plus, y'know, microblogging, it's all the rage donchaknow. LoudTwitter

• 13:38 travelling back to London and wishing he wasn't. #
• 14:16 waiting for the train at Wakefield and wishing AMT still had the coffee licence, Costa's just not the same :-( #
• 15:05 wandering what the point of free train wireless is if you've not got any power sockets. Bring back GNER! #
• 16:43 changing at Vauxhall after a nice efficient journey. ( Read more... )

• 20:12 freezing. It may not be that grim up north, but it's definitely not mild Torbay weather. #

Look, it's better than me texting LJ directly when I'm bored, right? Plus, y'know, microblogging, it's all the rage donchaknow. LoudTwitter

• 18:52 updating for the sake of updating, and chuckling at the weird happenstance of my last update and my most recent twitter follower #
• 23:05 happy. Belgian waffles, good ice cream, whiskey and a gorgeous fiancee. What more does a man need? #
• 01:46 experiencing the joys of a fairly ill but very grisly 4-year-old :-( hope she's better tomorrow. #

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On this whole 'moving in with Jennie and moving to Yorkshire thing'[1]? It is, unfortunately, too late to change my mind. Look what I just found out: Embrace are an English guitar rock band from Brighouse

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Gotta love Mitch (2:13 in for the reference) [1] By the way, I may've forgotten to mention this, I handed my notice in to my landlord last week ( Read more... )