Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 09:47 RIP Jean Simmons, star of The Big Country, Spartacus, The Happy Ending, Great Expectations, Hamlet and many more. A great actress. #
• 10:54 That's twice in a week now. Those pushing the climate change agenda are probably not doing themselves any favours: bit.ly/8rRh0d #
• 12:24 I wish Gary Oldman and Tim Roth would work together again. They had such brilliant chemistry in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. #
• 12:49 Winter’s Bone sounds like a great movie. Which probably means I'll never get to see it. #
• 14:02 "Today, you have laid your first big fat egg of solid fuck." #
• 14:39 And your favorite jersey is covered in lint. ♫ blip.fm/~jqghy #
• 14:50 I organised a threesome last night. There were a couple of no-shows, but I still had a good time. #
• 14:59 In the paper today: 60% of students would star in a porn film to help pay off their debts. That'll be the male students then? #
• 17:34 The French have decided that Calais is English, so they can get money from the Olympics in 2012. Triathlon now blockaded by truck drivers. #
• 22:13 Just watched the first episode of Mad Men. Great stuff. Just my morally ambiguous cup of tea. #

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Seven Things Meme

Meme rules:

List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it" (I'm not going to nag anyone into this, so there. If you wanna do it, do it.)

1. I have a fondness for hats. I own a number of hats, including a couple of fedoras, a handmade Panama actually from Panama, a few baseball caps, a stetson, a rain hat, a flat cap, a couple of trapper hats and a few wooly hats. I don't own a bowler hat, but think I probably should.

2. My favourite word in the English language is "flange".

3. I dislike talking on the phone, especially to people I've spoken to before, if I have time to worry about it. Ring me out of the blue? No problem. If I'm going to ring someone and have time to think about it before hand, I tend to work myself up into a state of nervousness about it. I don't know why this is, or why I get nervous and babbily. Perhaps a moose landed on my head when I was on the phone in a previous life or something.

4. One joint on the little finger of my left hand is double jointed. This is entirely useless.

5. I have a phobia of heights. But not in the usual sense. I'm absolutely fine with being on top of a big building and looking down. No problems. What I am nervous about is standing ground level and looking up at something. Looking up at really high ceilings, for example, in cathedrals or similar, makes me terribly nervous. I could barely stand to look up in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the height of the dome made me brick myself. Presumably it's another roll over from that moose dropping onto me from above in a previous life.

6. I don't have a signature. I never got around to settling on one, so whenever I'm signing legal documents or signing anything like a credit card receipt queues can form after me while I write my name out in full. I'm now stuck with this, obviously.

7. I have a terrible attention span. I'm very flakey. I'm forever starting things and then not