Me with two of the skating crew, Janos on the left and Laura on the right.

"I gave him my heart, he gave me Hep C".

PS I have a song by Kirsty MacCall called something like "in these shoes?" - i like it.

I go swimming two or three times a week. I always do a kilometre, and every odd numbered length is front crawl and every even numbered length alternates between breast stroke and back stroke.

I'd like to lay down the law once and for all on how lanes should be …

I had a few minutes to spare and I wandered to the library and found a book by Stephen Baxter. It was highly engaging. Anyway, I had to leave before I'd got more than a few pages in.

Then some time later when I needed a book to read I …

Good idea. I think an IR image would be the way to go!

I've got an old digital camera if you want to try this out, Pascal!

Not sure it'd make true IR (in the sense that it would pick up on heat sigs, tho...

Perhaps you could use infrared imaging to see where you're losing precious calories.
how-to turn a digital camera into an IR-camera
http://geektechnique.org/index.php?id=254

My house was built with a room in the loft. On either side of the room there's a low wall (dwarf wall is the technical term). This forms voids with triangular cross-section that I've filled with insulation.

The voids are ventilated with air from outside, so I also sealed the …

I like to spot instances of syllepsis.

A TV ad on at the moment for the health insurance company Bupa says:

She felt fine, then she felt a lump, but she didn't feel alone.

In Kirsty MacColl's New England she sings:

I put you on a pedestal, you put me …

I feel physically weighed down by a sense of nostalgia after watching Breakfast Club. It's the first time I've seen it, but the clothes, the music and the atmosphere brought back my memories of the eighties. I was 10 in 1981.

I've got to go swimming now, but I'll tell …