Phew, it’s been a long, busy week in which I’ve not been around on the Network much. Sorry about that. I’ve been clearing my virtual desk in preparation for a holiday (vacation to some of you), and will be out from tomorrow and most of next week. Not that you care, but I’ll be sunning myself in Lisbon for a few days, before catching up with some bits and pieces back in London.
So, no blog posts from me for a little while. But please make use of the London discussion forum for all your Londony needs.
What’s the Portuguese for Ciao?
Matt Brown has left the building.
But we hope he will have a lovely holiday (vacation) and we look forward to seeing him again soon.
Oh good. We can have a wild drunken party at NN whilst he’s away sunning himself. Let me start it off…
Dollis Hill
Bromley lido?
Limehouse basin
Hackney marshes.
Clapham Common?
...hang on… that could be misconstrued..
Happy birthday for Saturday, Matt.
oh, and
Gloucester Road
You can’t get to Gloucester Road from there, Richard. Not under the Schwienfurth-Holtzmaden Directive of 1887.
stop it. It’s silly.
No, silly is Henry thinking he can apply the Schwienfurth-Holtzmaden Directive of 1887 during a leap year! Really!
Happy Birthday!
Now switch off that internet connection/add nature.com to your blocked sites list and give yourself a proper holiday!
Ian is right. I think Henry’s now in spoon.
What Scott said. And the burglars will be round your place next Thursday – thanks for the heads up.
The leap-year provision was scrapped in the Wafel-Wafel-Pipik revision of 1914, Richard, as you well know.
That rulebook, Henry, does not apply when at least one player has the Dagenham Handicap in play.
Which I do.
Samantha? Some get that girl on the telephone and clear this up before someone gets hurt!
This is enough to make even me go on holiday (vacation). Oh, wait a minute, I am on holiday!
Ah, Maxine – you clearly need a holiday from your holiday. Perhaps you should take a vacation in a biochemistry lab somewhere.
Oh, all right. I concede.
Hyde Park Corner.
++Exclusive++
Matt Brown may have left the building on vacation but he’s been snapped on location as NN can exclusively reveal here:-
He’s such a poser that chap.
I never figured Matt for the gay-icon-flock-of-seagulls kind of vibe!
Very LOL
Matt’s gonna so kill me.
Well, at least we know Matt has done as I told him and not logged in to nature.com…
Good!
You got the wrong man, Graham. That bloke is actually me on Cromer beach, pictured just after a seagull had shat on my head. I’m sure Mrs Gee would confirm this.
Mrs Gee? Please identify the above gentleman.
Is this:-
a) Dr Henry Gee
b) Matt Brown
c) Paul Daniels
d) Cristiano Ronaldo
e) just some bloke on a beach
Definitely d) Ronaldo I’d say. Henry is going for the rather salty seadog RNLI stalwart image these days, more Captain Birdseye than football star in the hope he will get a call-up to join the courageous Cromer lifeboat crew. Sorry folks to dispel any myths.
Sorry forgot to say happy birthday Matt and have a fabulous holiday!
An O.O.F.T.U.G. award goes to Penny Gee for winning this rather impromptu identity parade jobbie.
For those unfamiliar with “Captain Birdseye” (The Cod-father of fish marketing in the UK, thus far)
Minus the beard, this face conjures up images of Father Jack
Or do we settle on this image (c/o Bora Z)
Mrs Gee—your dinner is in the dog.
Well, I’m back after a lovely break in Portugal (thanks for all the birthday messages). I’m still out of office till Friday, but couldn’t resist checking in to the Network. It looks like we’re going to have to add a clause to our terms and conditions that will be unique for a social networking site: “Users must refrain from indulging in Radio4-esque wordplay and comparing Nature staff to gangly Iberian soccer players.”
That’s it then: I’m off.
I’ll start a rival site called “Unnatural Network”. Blue berets will be mandatory.
Did anyone say … Mornington Crescent?
comparing Nature staff to gangly Iberian soccer players.
Which nationality of football player would you prefer to be compared to, Matt?
Fair point Scott.