Thursday , January 29, 2009 – 12:33
Sit comfortably and I’ll tell you how difficult it is to buy a car from Perrys of Aylesbury.
Two weeks ago, we contacted them to indicate that we would like to buy a new Fiat Panda from their good selves. A discussion was had about options, and a deposit paid.
Having not heard anything back from them [...]
Thursday , January 29, 2009 – 9:49
I don’t normally do this kind of thing, which is wrong, because we should take time to blurt about fantastic people – they seldom get any other kind of special reward.
For most of my 30 years I have been a non-driver. I am not entirely ignorant of roads, being a persistent cyclist, but I have [...]
Wednesday , January 28, 2009 – 15:52
I’ve finally got round to setting up a slightly nerdier blog for my main interests – knowledge and communication. I’ve stolen some posts from my purplekitten.co.uk blog and shoved them into knowledgescape.co.uk, hope that’s okay
I’ve also just shifted this blog onto the hosting server, so it’s no longer running on our rubbish ADSL. [...]
Wednesday , January 28, 2009 – 15:34
anthomania
flower mania
bibble
to drink often or much; to drink or eat noisily
capax
legally competent
dorty
bad-tempered
eidetic
pertaining to the ability of visualising something previously seen
flexanimous
mentally flexible
galliardise
great merriment
hypnomogia
insomnia
ichnogram
footprint
jobation
tedious criticism
karimption
a crowd; a mass
leptology
a boringly detailed discourse on trivial subjects
macrology
unnecessary repetition; redundancy
nectarous
sweet-tasting
omadhaun
an idiot, fool
pailletee
a spangle
quaddle
to grumble; a grumbler
renable
fluent, eloquent
sacerdotophrenia
clerical stagefright
tautoousious
being absolutely the same
untrowable
incredible
vaccary
a dairy or cow pasture
wampus
a stupid, dull, loutish clod
xenium
a present given [...]