Sneezecount

Kitchen

Moderate to strong

Putting away after tea

Study

Moderate to strong

Looking at photos of us as children

Dining room

Moderate

Moving emails from Inbox to Saved

Ikea, Wednesbury

Moderate

Compact storage solutions

Office / spare bedroom

Moderate to strong

Looking up “Spectre” on the “Internet”

Office / spare bedroom

Moderate to strong

Staggering about

Office / spare bedroom

Moderate to strong

Getting up

Kitchen

Moderate to strong

Dishwasher / tidyup

Dining room

Moderate to strong

Settling down for more novel reading

Bedroom

Moderate

Charlie Brooker on Amazon

TV/living room

Moderate to strong

Childbirth conversation

Dining room

Moderate to strong

Just got in from a fine Italian meal

Dining room

Moderate

Reading an intermediate draft of a second novel

Dining room

Moderate

Finished looking up Nature Boy by Nat King Cole

Bedroom

Strong

Girls’ names

TV / Living room

Moderate to strong

That coal tit is at it again

Landing

Moderate

About to go for a canal walk

Office/spare bedroom

Moderate to strong

Pitching in to a telephone negotiation of a lunchtime meet-up

Back bedroom office

Strong

Entering Sneeze #1,350

Kitchen

Moderate to strong

Waiting for the kettle to boil

Back bedroom office

Moderate

Updating Sneezecount to the tune of Radio David Byrne (Bon Iver: Flume)

Kitchen

Strong

Washing / cleaning up

Back bedroom office

Moderate to strong

Downloading latest version of Tweetdeck

Back bedroom office

Moderate to strong

Adam Buxton / Stewart Lee

Back bedroom office

Moderate to strong

Collings and Herrin podcast 58 re. Piers Morgan

Kitchen, Dorridge

Moderate

Sneezecount notebook

Kitchen, Dorridge

Moderate to strong

Leafing through tax info

Back bedroom office

Moderate to strong

Clicking between windows

Back bedroom office

Moderate

Adam and Joe podcast

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Discussing recent spam volume

Charing Cross tube station

Moderate to strong

Is this the right way?

Lobby, BFI

Moderate to strong

Deciding that it might actually pay off to join the BFI

TV / living room

Moderate to strong

A property website!

TV / living room

Moderate

Drenched dregs of the Malaysian Grand Prix, and a bit of the Birmingham Post online

Bedroom

Moderate

Guardian website

Hall, Dorridge

Moderate

Moving from dining room to sitting room

Dining room, Dorridge

Moderate

Tales of “friends”

John Lewis, Solihull

Moderate

Approaching the computer department

Room HA007, SBC, Hall Green

Moderate

Discussion of bilingualism

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate to strong

Invigilating reading assessment retake

Waterstones, High Street, Birmingham

Moderate

Fingering The Damned United, suspiciously

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Contemplating travel plans tonight

Bedroom

Moderate

That sneeze ain’t no April Fool

Teachers’ room, Moat Lane

Moderate to strong

Printing

Bedroom

Moderate

Email

Bedroom

Moderate

Sitting with laptop on bed

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate

Using the board rubber to clean the board

Teachers’ room, Moat Lane

Moderate

Chatting with colleagues

Bedroom

Moderate

Online banking

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

That right nostril has been bothering me all day

Bedroom

Moderate

Still reading about ante-natal testing

Bedroom

Moderate

Reading about ante-natal testing

Back bedroom office

Moderate to strong

Radio 4 clip of Will Self and Professor David Penny on the rights of apes

Back bedroom office

Moderate to strong

Psychogeography and Will Self on Amazon

Gap, the Bull Ring

Moderate

Cotton zip-tops

Reception, ante-natal scan department, Birmingham Women’s Hospital

Moderate

Waiting to hand in report to reception

Bedroom

Moderate

Awake, Internet (Ed Rapley)

Strada, The Mailbox

Moderate

The sweet menu

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate

Setting up the cassette for City & Guilds Speaking and Listening assessment “You and Your Phone”

Back bedroom office

Moderate

Deleting the spams

Bedroom

Moderate

Getting up and moving about

Kitchen

Moderate to strong

Checking central heating

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Catherine is making a list

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Sneezecount notebook

Bedroom

Moderate

Opening letters

Taxi, Parliament Street, London

Mild

Moving between publishers

Room 308, Shaftesbury Paddington hotel

Moderate to strong

Just turned on the television (news)

SBC, Hall Green

Moderate

Leaving the college grounds for the train

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate to strong

Monitoring Who/When comprehension questions

Teachers’ room, Moat Lane

Moderate

Pasting a Guardian article into a file

The Bull Ring market area

Moderate

Walking to place of work

Hall

Moderate to strong

Fiddling with Sneezecount notebook

Doorstep

Moderate to strong

Just got in from a meeting

Back bedroom office

Mild

If you sneeze when you are blowing your nose, is that a sneeze? (It is now!)

Bedroom

Strong

Trying to find some coverage of Manchester United v. Inter on the Internet

TV/living room

Moderate

About to give my opinion on the Horne/Corden television product

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate to strong

About to go through price comparison research

Teachers’ room, Moat Lane

Moderate

Gathering papers, non-committedly

Room 3.20, SBC, Digbeth

Moderate

Supervising, comparing price comparison websites for this afternoon’s class

Room 3.20, SBC, Digbeth

Moderate

Supervising a practice L1 literacy test online

Bedroom

Strong

Internet, or more to the point “AirPort”, playing up.

Changing room, The Budokan, Birmingham

Moderate to strong

Sore throat, tingly nose

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate to strong

Preparing for spelling test

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate

Jobs matching game

Train, Digbeth

Mild

Slowing for Moor Street

Room 1, Moat Lane

Moderate to strong

Start of the class, only 3 students so far

Bedroom

Moderate

Adam and Joe, “again”, seconds before midnight

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Video Skype Birmingham to Barcelona

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Catching up on Herring

Room 601, Barcelo Raval, Barcelona

Moderate

Just finished Brooker Guardian review of The Listener including the phrase “pie full of twat”

Red Lion, Barcelona

Moderate to strong

Inauthentically devoid of English people and es permit fumar

Lituratura FNAC, Barcelona

Moderate

A curious English Spanish glossary: From Lost to the River and Speaking in Silver

Room 601, Barcelo Raval, Barcelona

Moderate to strong

Unpacking

Train, Barcelona airport

Moderate

Just pulling out

Classroom, South Birmingham College, Hall Green

Moderate

Exercise on features of discourse

Bedroom

Moderate

Checking the 5 day weather “forecast”

Bedroom

Moderate

Watching the writing of a cheque to a pension fund

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Sneezecount Notebook

Bedroom

Moderate to strong

Shutting down Tweetdeck to go to work

Back bedroom office

Moderate

Preparing materials for a Pre-Entry class