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Aww. The creepy German personal trainer who stalks my gym has a website advertised on the back of his jacket (...) but it's no longer active. Probably not surprising since it has a German domain ("fitwithalex.de" ) and for some reason he's living and working in bloody Lewisham nowadays, but still, I was hoping to share his eerie Teutonic stare with all of you.

I'm pretty confident we'd vote "in" once the actual arguments were on the table, and if not, well, I've happily lived abroad before. Of course, Cameron himself most likely won't be "in" by then anyway, so it could be something of a moot point... nice way of ensuring the issue stays active and trying to force Labour's hand though.

...and the silver spoon, Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon...

Pours double cream over him. "The wife told me it was shampoo..."

Nice.

It's like there's some eerie force at work in the CT household ensuring that every meal automatically regresses to the "beans on toast" look, regardless of its actual components.

http://agencywank.tumblr.com/

New UK Monopoly board revealed: (Put it in here as we don't have a "grimly depressing pictures thread", other than that Wearside one)

I was going to say "Jetzt hör doch mal auf" - loosely translated as "oh, do give it a rest" - then I realised people would run it through Google Translate, so I thought I'd give it a try first. The result? "Now listen to it once." My job should be secure.

If all else fails, there's always this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HAMMOND-NOVACHORD-VINTAGE-POLYPHONIC-SYNTHESIZER-ORGAN-TUBE-SYNTH-B3-C3-A100-BA-/281054335845?pt=Keyboards_MIDI&hash=item417024d365

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-TABLE-SOCCER-FEMALE-STREAKER-SET-WITH-RULES-TO-BE-PLAYED-IN-A-SUBBUTEO-GAME-/110999562776?pt=UK_SportsMemorabilia_Subbuteo_SM&hash=item19d816ea18

Mushroom mushroom

REM's "Losing My Religion" reprocessed from a minor to a major key. Remarkable. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/21/rems-losing-my-religion.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39f_vkViOpI

You'd never even heard of Davies until he scored this weekend and MOTD/the Internet, a.k.a. your loyal robo-assistant on Football Manager, informed you that he was a temporarily in-form player for a club called "Swan-sea", from a faraway magical kingdom known as "Wales".

It's all about coping strategies. Telly and/or music, a duvet on the sofa, a wee dram if need be. It's all good. (Annoying, but good.)

Tell them The Sun will do a number like this on them and they might think twice about coming: http://liberalconspi...fits-scrounger/

That was baffling like. Almost as if it was designed to put off people who think they wouldn't enjoy a musical film by giving them something that sounded like their worst nightmare. If I didn't know Les Mis already I probably wouldn't bother going (which we really must get round to actually doing...) after hearing that.

Reliving some Lanzarote holiday flavours - salmon fillets with mojo sauce and roasted new potatoes with adobo canario spices. (And sugar snap peas, but they're not particularly holiday-y.)

I don't know the friend-of, but our friend is possessing of a weedy singer-songwriter boyfriend from Finland, regrettably.

So we'll be having an impromptu visitor tonight. A friend is landing from New York at 8:30pm and her friend from Salisbury who she's meant to be staying with for the weekend has point-blank refused to come and pick her up because there'll be two inches of snow between now and then.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4750515/katie-price-married-stripper-after-psychics-advice.html It's a good thing gays aren't allowed to marry, it'd totally devalue the concept.

Magic.