UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

I've done mine own helicopter for my band:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2002/2360955330_f8decb90d7.jpg

How was everyone over Easter? Did you enjoy all that snow?

I spend the whole weekend sick in bed with the flu. :-(

Morning all, sorry to hear about the flu, I have learnt a valuable lesson about not trying to go drink for drink with my cousin and his wife.

Pls to produce stickers of the band logo, I want one for my laptop.

They are French, non? That way madness lies.

I spent most of the weekend in bed, watching videos. I watched Elizabeth, Chariots of Fire and, erm, Shaun of the Dead. Someone left out the wonderfully salient fact that my ex was not just playing a zombie but A HOMELESS STREET PERSON ZOMBIE!!! Ah, there is a god...

x-post, we are doing badges first, but I've got it as my wallpaper, against a 50% grey background, so it looks like it is flying.

No they are scousers.

I've started a thread about Chariots of Fire. Will I regret this?

What date did we say for next walking? I should get planning.

Also What to do in Oslo/Drammen when you are there.

12th April. The Saturday after my birthday.

Ask FMM for what to do in Oslo, she goes there a lot and knows lots of good stuff.

...or maybe not! Maybe no one remembers it.

Jazzmaster frenzy (sort of):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz79SBnuk8

(dutch-indonesian beat group from 1963 play the theme to "the third man" on multiple jazzmasters! Great!)

Maybe not one fort his walk as a bit close to london and I think we wanted further into the chilterns but we should visit the Royal Standard of England, Britain's oldest pub, in Beaconsfield at some point.

I think I was reading about that last night - was it in the Thames book?

Multiple Jazzmasters... ooh...

That was a zither, not a jag! You mean this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNeUuQegG5Y&feature=related

OOPS!! Yes.

Hello! I spent my Easter shivering in a tent in Snowdonia - although there wasn't actually much snow, not at our altitude.

No, we got all the snow in London. One minute sun, the next minute HAIL!!! It was almost biblical at times. Proper old blizzard for a while yesterday.

We had hail, and rain, and sleet; but nothing that settled on the ground.

I have heard gossip from the Dream Machine already!

Pash, if you're here, please can you change Ian Liddell to Eric Liddell on the Chariots of Fire poll? Conflating actors and their characters again, duh. Thanks.

Poll text can't be changed, unfortunately, Kate. Sorry!

Damn. That will teach me to start polls before I've had my tea.

Oh! I did know, I had just forgotten. I can't believe I put off seeing that film for so long for such a stupid reason.

Hmm, I am circling in on Kings sutton for birthday walking. Disused railway, castle, canal, river swere, Spacerock harvesters.

Spacerock harvesters? Not in Rugby?

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|Beaconsfield#t=l&map=52.00251,-1.35666|15|8&loc=GB:51.76301:-0.74134:14|wendover|Wendover,

copy paste that, I think.

Ah, I did actually just googlemap it, and it looks acceptable. Near Northampton, so we might get the NH1 crew down.

I should do some work. Boss just came over and asked me how it was going, apparently I've got to start training someone else to use it tomorrow. I very nearly laughed at him. Um. I'm going to train someone to use a non-existent report which hasn't been finished because everyone else around here has been dragging their feet about giving me the information I require? Oh do fuck off. I'd much rather google pictures of Chariots of Fire.

...but first some more tea.

Would it be ridiculous to go off to Oxford on Thursday to see the Carruthers? Oxford peoples, what do you think?

I am trying to persuade him that he should volunteer to be an astronaut for the European Union Space Programme, since they are recruiting at the moment. Spacerock in outer space, it is clearly the way forward.

Because there was no mint cake, I had to have carrot cake at the whole food curry in a bun place. Just FYI, whole food healthy good for you organic carrot cake is, um, not really very nice.

whoa, love that helicopter pic kate.

Yeh, good helicopter, almost an Eschercopter!

The carrot cake may not be as nice as real cake, but at least it won't give you a sugar come-down later . . . or will it?

Thank you! Looks like the band like it, too.

I have still got sugar comedown from cake. Or perhaps that is the killer cold coming back to tell me to lie down again. The cure for this, as always, is more tea.

OK, I'm going to delete the full-length photo from OKC. Now I've got creepy French dudes sending me strange messages about my "curves". HALP.

Oh, today is awful. Sigh. I feel really unwell, plus my boss just sent me an email telling me that everyone could hear my music and to turn it down. You need to send me an email to say that? Weirdo.

I am counting down the days until I am out of this place.

I'm talking to myself, too. This place makes me bonkers, it's official. 4 days at home, even in bed sick, and I started to turn back into a human being. 6 hours here and I'm ready to beat my head against the desk.

Hey all. Last Fm seems to be broken.

My top artists has gone all weird http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/
Anyone else have the same problem?

Yet another shameless attempt to get us to look at your Last.fm profile!

Not at all, it's broke! (Have look anyway though ;)

It's not very Kate friendly atm though

I did! There's nothing wrong with it!

The Top artists is completely different. Some bands have lost 300 plays!!
(while fp still has B&S at the top of his)

Infact the great majority of my top 50 artists are no longer there!

And how would anyone but you be able to tell that by looking?

FP would notice

OK, now ex-spacemen are hunting me down and friending me on MySpace! Weird! I'M NOT THE BOOM YOU WANT!!!! I'M THAT OTHER BOOM!!! heh heh.

Um, maybe I should go home, I'm getting delerious. I'm trying to answer the emails of lads on OKC and not making any sense. I'm finding it all very strange that anyone would even approach/respond to me in the first place!

I'm supposed to be "training" someone today. Let's see if they ever turn up.