Geiriau o Hiraeth

11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 19:54 conclusion: mysterious allergic reactions suck. Garh. OTOH, museums, bowling and random happiness are ace. #

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11:02pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 14:38 just want to be sure everyone is aware that Carla is about to blow-dry her hair. Alerting the world media optional. #
• 15:55 @theamazingic oh, they worked SO well, thank you! photos here: www.annaberryphotography.com/portfolio77708.html :) #
• 18:54 @theamazingic wow, that's pretty damned cool... :) Thanks! #

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11:02pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 09:16 always sad when waking followed by realisation: Damn! Only a dream! Being Capable of Telekinesis follows same pattern as Flying, but WWFS? #
• 16:07 eating MSG-free Smoky Bacon crisps. Yep, I'm in my Happy Place! #

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11:03pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 19:19 still perpetually mildly bemused by living here; keep expecting to bump into people I know. Particularly as Cambridge always felt familiar. #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 01:40 filthy, knackered, itchy, footsore... elated, content, impressed, chuffed... What a night! We know some awesome people: talented AND cool. #
• 02:22 post-Kapow! comedown and I have camomile tea, beautiful company and the King of Bacon Sandwiches. Mmm... #
• 11:24 thinking, on reflection, I may have bamboozled folk last night with boob discussions & my frog ramble (I'm not sure it can be called a poem) #
• 12:09 @smacula er... sorry? Drive in, park up, get on your bike; that's the only advice I can give... :) #

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11:00pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 09:23 On Cambridge commuting: Morning bus rumbles/ Carries me swaying down the/ New familiar streets. #
• 11:35 www.poetrykapow.co.uk New website done over course of one cough-splattered, side-effect-ridden, manic day off sick. Probably shows! #
• 12:58 still sniggering every time I see a Chicken Cottage. I'm SUCH a kid! #

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11:02pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 20:27 twitpic.com/osm2e - #

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11:02pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 10:26 about to hit the road, so don't no-one try to email me - text/ phoning the mobile is WAY better! #
• 16:23 just flailed the last two fingers of my left hand against the car door and proceeded to curse incoherently. WHY does it HURT so MUCH?! O.O #
• 21:15 @eddieizzard The interval has come too soon! Having a great time (what a start to the A Cappella Reunion), hello everyone! :D #

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11:02pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 17:40 survived another day at work, now off for a long weekend of cultural madness. Reunion-ho! But first: fireworks! Yay! #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 09:57 signed off til tomorrow. In other news: all that money spent on my education and I can't read prescription instructions... Gah! #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 12:22 @punctuation well, did you make it?! #
• 15:27 Dear Facebook - stop suggesting things to do with my friends. It only makes you sound creepy, not concerned... #
• 16:08 probably not a good idea for someone in this shit a mood to read stuff like this but hey - funny? onthesubjectof.co.uk/?p=149 #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 04:05 not only waking every few minutes to cough, those precious sleeping bits consumed by wackily vivid dreams which involve memorising numbers. #
• 04:09 @punctuation thinking of you and your flight to the new life and much happiness. No idea WHEN flight is! So much love to you both. {hugs} #
• 04:15 tired of being sick & sick of being tired, as they say. Also pondering significance of nos. 34, 6, 7, 4, 21(?). Lottery/ even more sinister? #

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11:00pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 10:12 just got signed off work til Tue & given prescriptions for antibiotics & steroids; not quite what I expected - doc more worried than me! #

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7:09pm: So, what's up with me, then?

(Dammit, Internet Explorer entirely ate this. Luckily, Firefox rocks. That's official, folks...)

It's been 2½ weeks since I started my new job and look: they haven't fired me yet! :) However, in other news: I have the lurgy. I am lurgified. Very much fun. Apart from the snot, and the fever. And the sore throat and nose and joints and... everything. And the horrifying mucus.

I'll stop there - I'm ill, 'kay?

Poetry has been happening. My fourth paid gig since starting this performance poetry nonsense was Friday two weeks ago - 16th October, the last day of my first week in work. The end of a week of brain-melting and twice-daily physical exercise in the form of either walking or cycling the, according to Google Maps, roughly 2½ miles. So that's 5 miles of exercise every day. Nice. Ouch, but nice. Cambridge is going to have me fit, whether I want it or not!

Anyway, poetry. ( it's all about meeee )

Things I enjoyed: being treated well; having the chance to talk about performance poetry in general and Poetry Kapow! in particular to random people from somewhere I'd never been before; excellent performance area and kit; free drinks; organised organisers; being paid.

Things that were less good: having to pursue someone after the gig for the money (I should have asked after my set and before they went onstage themselves - another VERY late finish); being the only poet; having no pre-existing connection to the crowd and having to work to make that; the Door Pixie.

Profit on the night - made some new friends with a performance night who dig poetry and less obvious performance arts; after petrol, buying the band's CD and paying for R to get in - £4 (I sold £2 worth of Fayleaflets). Mind you, as C would say, if you're breaking even on your hobby, you're doing well!

The next Poetry Kapow! (the Slam of Omens) is on Friday 13th November. Do say you'll be there... {wistful eyes} We've got a pretty new logo for the event courtesy of the combination of a random talented Croatian and Google image search. I've been playing with DTP and stuff, I have...

In OTHER other news: currently getting stuck into preparations for the A Cappella Group 15th Year Reunion in early November. Once upon a time I set up, and then ran for nigh-on a decade, a small group of singers dedicated to singing unaccompanied music of all eras and styles ("from Madrigals to Motown... and everything else in between..."). Then I left Cardiff, which was somewhat unexpected, and JC (no, the other one) took over the choir. She then handed on the virtual baton to "Liz" (who I think I might have met twice?) and then it all kinda dissolved, apparently. Which was a bit of a shame, but there we have it. And now, 15 years on, we're going to get together again - watch comedy, drink things, eat things, wander around Cardiff, admire pictures of babies and partners (some of them will be there in 3D, I'm assured), lives and careers and, er, tattoos and things, and go: yes, it's definitely been 15 years since we started singing together. Wow...

(Just been to the doctor... who signed me off work for several more days, prescribed me drugs and told me to come back and have them check I'm still breathing on Monday, before I go back to work. Always just that tad more alarming when the doctor's more worried than you are...)

Fay out...

1:26am: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 09:03 completely, totally and utterly ill. Send Halls Soothers, tissues and mentholated eucalyptus. #
• 13:25 @punctuation no, but coincidentally out of the almost non-exhaustive list of things I can use to kill a man... #
• 13:28 thinking it's about time to find another hot drink, maybe some trashy film or other and slouch with mentholated sweets... #whattimeisitnow #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 13:58 drowning in snot and cold remedies. Clearly all this exercise and fresh air isn't all it's cracked up to be! #
• 16:00 enjoying looking swishy in my new work clothes (how shallow!), rocking the androgeny still but just smarter, sharper (I tell myself). #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 20:36 went from zero to Got A Cold in about 30 seconds there. Kind weird... #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 11:41 An 'eat as much as you like' breakfast & an extra hour in bed on this beautifully crisp October day after a night of dancing & socialising. #
• 14:43 just spent some time (too short, of course) with the lovely Antagonist (plus quality time in the Lego Shop). Now on our way home to yum! #
• 17:22 twitpic.com/mwjlv - this led us last miles home today. combined with last 36hrs I feel like a crazed but benevolent deity is smiling #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 16:42 remembering that whole "wish I was a man" thing. Clothes shopping sucks. #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 16:24 slightly long-sighted, apparently. Who'd have thought? (Apart from me at 14.) Choosing frames is a lot less fun when it's for yourself. #
• 17:32 @smacula Yep, yep, started 12th October (have been divorced from readubg Twitter for SO LONG!), all feels rather shiny... #
• 17:33 @pooloftrees Cambridge is pretty nice (in most senses of that phrase, I suppose!) and yeah - real chapter-ending stuff! :) #
• 17:33 @DancesWithSheep your luck charms clearly worked... :) #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 09:21 reeling with vertigo for the first time in AGES... #

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11:02pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 10:44 Rainy Cambridge Wednesday morning: Hear the swish of cars/ And the squeal of cyclists/ Testing wet brakes. #

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11:03pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 11:54 just a reminder: I can't get onto Facebook during the working day... #

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11:01pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 23:38 wondering why I missed all the (many) classic Chaplin references the first time I saw WALL-E. Maybe the themes are just so archetypal now? #

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11:03pm: Today's Sweet Tweet

• 23:29 I uploaded a YouTube video -- I Hope I'm in Clover bit.ly/3qa63T #
• 23:33 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Moondance bit.ly/41oZie #
• 23:33 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Glass bit.ly/JNt04 #
• 23:34 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Apologies from a WASP bit.ly/2QiB9y #
• 23:34 I uploaded a YouTube video -- I'm Sorry bit.ly/3DSgGy #
• 23:34 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Doubl
  e bit.ly/18hj0P #
• 23:34 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Separation bit.ly/YoVC0 #
• 12:49 wondering why Facebook/ YouTube went mental and spammed everyone with ALL the videos I uploaded recently last night. Sorry! :) #
• 12:49 sleepy-tired after first week of new job (complete with lots of physical exercise!) and late gig last night. Hope you're all well! :) #

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