Month: July 2007

  • Geraint Thomas Finishes Tour

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    He’s the man! Geraint completed the Tour de France on Saturday. Awesome. He told the BBC, “Everyone dreams of riding down the Champs-Elysee and finishing the Tour, I’m happy to get here but feeling it.” “I don’t think you can imagine how hard, fast and chaotic it is out there until you actually do it.”…

  • Star Wars Characters

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    Jack’s loving Star Wars at the moment: “Hey look Dad, I’m Bib Fortuna. Stormtrooper. (Lazy costume). Star Wars baking. Notice Chewbacca, a couple of Darth Vaders, and a Boba Fett.

  • Summer?

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    Summer’s here! (?)

  • Recent snaps

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    Spot Jack. Jack’s office. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Lollipops for all. Dancing with Megan.

  • Spying Squirrels

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    Not only have man-eating badgers been released into Iraq by the British, but apparently hi-tech squirrel (cyborg?) spies have been released by foreign intelligence services into Iran. I say “cyborg” because the translated text reads, “Fixing GPS devices, bugging instruments and advanced cameras in the bodies of trained animals like squirrels, mice, hamsters”. Hardware inside…

  • Gez Tour Photos

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    Check Flickr to see photos of Gez in his Tour de France debut. Flickr – Geraint Thomas

  • Friday 13th

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    I didn’t realise it was Friday 13th. I left for work attired for light drizzle, as forecast. Just after it began to chuck it down I punctured. Rear wheel, of course. Finding no sharp bits inside my tyre I started to replace the holey tube with a (hopefully) leak-free one, but two dogs ran up…

  • Plague of ferocious badgers?

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    Quote of the week, from UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.” Full man-eating badger article (BBC News). Also, “One housewife, Suad Hassan, 30, claimed she had been attacked by one of the badgers as she slept. “My husband hurried to shoot…

  • Guess the questions

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  • Exam day

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    This morning we set up the final anatomy exam for the current 1st years. If they pass this, that will be the end of their anatomy teaching for their “undergraduate” medicine training.