At 05:40, when I leave the Maison Des Girrafes, and all the other residents are still within the arms of Morpheus
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I, Editor by Henry Gee
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Chip Off The Old Block
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- Tuesday, 10 Mar ch 2009 - 10:34 UTC
I make my way to Roughton Road rail station, which is just outside Cromer
Rush Hour hits its peak at Roughton Roadwhence I catch the 06:08 to Norwich and thence the 06:55 to London.
Some time later the other residents of the Maison des Girrafes emerge. At 08:35, Mrs Gee takes Gee Minor and Gee Minima to school.
Except, this morning at 08:31, Gee Minor announced that she simply had to go upstairs and see if anyone had commented on her blog.
Last updated: Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009 - 10:34 UTC
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Comments
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What, she didn’t check on her iPhone on the way to the car? ;-)
She’d love an iPhone … but has recently got her own pay-as-you-go mobile, and we enjoy sending rude texts to each other.
hee hee.
A propos of nothing apart from the fact that I thought you’d like it, I saw this post on The Great Beyond (Nature’s news blog) today, in their ‘songs about science’ series:
“You don’t get many people waxing lyrical about the giant isopod – a kind of deep-sea woodlouse larger than many dogs. As well as looking like they’ve stepped out of one of your darker nightmares, giant isopods also have the unappealing habit of feeding on the carcasses of dead things that sink down to the ocean floor.”
Ooh-er, better hope you don’t get that kind of thing texted to your mobile!
Your morning in a symphony of words and pictures, Dr G. I particularly liked Heidi’s repose. When Goldie does this she inevitably renders us speechless with laughter. Dogs may be a pain sometimes, but they’re good for the stress levels.
Hi Maxine – Gee Minima (aged eight) put in her request for an iPhone at Christmas but this was rejected by Dr Gee himself. Brian – I agree our dogs are great stress relievers. Heidi and the other residents of the Gee zoo make me laugh every day. I went to a workshop at a recent conference given by a motivational speaker about “Laughology” – super, would recommend it x
@ Maxine: Ooh-er, better hope you don’t get that kind of thing texted to your mobile!
That beach looked suspiciously like Cromer.
@ Penny: I went to a workshop at a recent conference given by a motivational speaker about “Laughology”
Was the speaker a dog? If not, why not?
Penny – the MP and I regularly receive requests for iPhones and regularly turn them down. Not out of meanness, but partly because they tend to come inbetween, rather than just before, xmas or birthdays; and partly because the younger generation has relatively new iPods and mobile phones. (I have an old person’s mobile – big font, no camera, no music – and no iPod or other mp3 player. So that puts me in my place.)