Posts by Peter
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Escalator, Oxford Circus tube station Moderate to strong Descending
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Room 15, as above Moderate to strong TV: “This is the one the boys couldn’t afford”
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Room 15, as above Moderate About to breakfast
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Bathroom, Room 15, as above Moderate to strong No valid timepiece available (maybe after Christmas?)
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Room 15, Harlingford Hotel, London Moderate to strong Examining a complimentary Moleskin
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Room 15, Harlingford Hotel, London Mild Time to get up
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Room 15, Harlingford Hotel, London Moderate to strong A traditional sneeze while dressing for a literary award night, this time the Guardian First Book
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Hob, The Brunswick Centre, London Moderate Chopstick multipack
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Russell Square tube station Moderate Shuffling out of the lift, about to use my Oyster card to “touch out” for the first time
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Train, Snow Hill Station, Birmingham Moderate Waiting to pull out (to London!)
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong More spam
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate Deleting the spam
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Office / spare bedroom Strong Reading notebook of Joyfeed ideas
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Waitrose, Hall Green Moderate Which milk?
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Car, Robin Hood Island, Birmingham Moderate to strong Right hand lane, circling
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Car, Netchells Park Road, Birmingham Moderate Location hunting
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong At last!
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Back bedroom Moderate to strong Looking up Sopranos “Series 6”
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Teaching room, Centre for Modern Languages, Birmingham University Moderate Espanish
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Doorway to staff room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Entering
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Room 1, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Talking about going on holiday
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Twycross Zoo Moderate Going ape!
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Dining room Moderate Talking to friends about Joyfeed
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Train, Hall Green Station Mild Finding a seat
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Looking at Loldierdre
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Hallway Moderate Collecting junk mail addressed to previous occupants
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Hallway, Edgbaston Moderate Concealing the act of counting sneezes
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Staff room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Mild Marking
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Reception/office, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Looking at City and Guilds assessments
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Staff room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Marking assignments
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Staff Room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate to strong Saving a phone contact
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Bedroom Moderate Putting on shoes
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Waterstones, High Street, Birmingham Moderate Inspecting the 3 for 2 offerings
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Compiling borderline humorous list of lists
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Kitchen Moderate to strong Cutlery
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Office / spare bedroom Strong Adam and Joe on Listen Again
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Kitchen Strong Finding a spoon
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Bathroom, Bridgnorth Mild Time is estimated due to no available timepiece, margin of error +/- 3 minutes
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Outside Moor Street Station, Birmingham Moderate And that’s it, an awkward, and at one point rather messy, sequence of eight sneezes – will that be bettered?
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Outside Moor Street Station Moderate When will this end?
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Moor Street Station, Birmingham Moderate Right now all I can think about is tissues
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Train, somewhere around Tyseley, Birmingham Moderate to strong Oh dear, no tissue
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Train, near the tree, outside Tyseley Junction Mild That’s four in a row, but there’s still a tickle
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Train, near the tree, outside Tyseley Junction Moderate Uh-oh
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Train, near the tree, outside Tyseley Junction Moderate Still feel a bit tickly
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Train, near the tree, outside Tyseley Junction Moderate The train is slowing down, and I sneezed here yesterday too
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Room 1, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate “Where does she have to go?”
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Room 6, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Introducing jobs activity
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By the tree, outside Tyseley Junction Mild Stopped due to congestion at the Tyseley Junction
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Staff room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Faffing
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Room 1, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate “Woolworth’s is opposite of the bank”
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Staff room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate to strong The New Statesman
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Station platform, Hall Green, Birmingham Moderate to strong The train is coming
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TV / living room Moderate Six Feet Under (DVD, Series one)
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JJB Sports, Birmingham Moderate In the queue
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Lower Essex Street, Birmingham Moderate Community Punishment Workshop
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Bedroom Moderate Putting away vests
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Aston Expressway, Birmingham Moderate Tales of projectionists
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Switching to Herring
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Created in Birmingham mailout
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Kitchen Moderate Recycling an envelope
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Classroom, Birmingham University Moderate Si tuvieras arreglarselas sin algo importante…”
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Reception / office, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Printing copies of “THE CV OF THE BRILIANT VERNON DORRIDGE” for previously absent students
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Teachers’ room, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Attending
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Completing “mindless and inhumane” paperwork for teaching qualification
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Writing an email about Roland Barthes
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Kitchen Moderate to strong Turning off the central heating
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Bedroom Moderate to strong Setting the alarm for tomorrow morning
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Office / spare bedroom Strong Writing lesson plan for E1B
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Office / spare bedroom Strong Moving DJ Shadow “tracks” around iTunes
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate Start The Week: Wagner, Max, Wagner
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Kitchen Moderate to strong Coffee and David Davies
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong The first sneeze of *official* GMT
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Bedroom Moderate to strong Discussing text messages received but not sent
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Bedroom Moderate Going through the diary
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TV / living room Moderate to strong Queuing up DVD episode of “Six Feet Under” (series one)
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TV / living room Moderate to strong Jeremy Vine asking Alan Johnston about depression
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Acocks Green Library, Birmingham Moderate to strong Reading group discussion of “What Was Lost”
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Office / spare bedroom Strong Email poo
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Room 345, Travelodge, Guildford Strong Sneezes at this hour are rare
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Bar, Travelodge, Guildford Moderate Going to bed
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Room 345, Travelodge, Guildford Moderate Getting ready for Guildford Book Festival’s Jelf Group First Novel Award
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Bathroom Moderate Looking in the mirror
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Kitchen Strong Discussing the dishwasher with mother
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TV / living room Moderate Just about to go out
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Bathroom Strong In the shower
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Office / spare bedroom Strong Putting duvet cover on duvet
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Constructing a Scheme of Work
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Kitchen Moderate to strong Just put the kettle on
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Classro0m, Moat Lane, Birmingham Moderate Walking over to the bin to dispose of a stickynote
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate Looking up “The Gathering”‘s sales rank on Amazon.co.uk (135)
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Costa Coffee,”Bullring”, Birmingham Moderate Follow up to #171
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Costa Coffee, “Bullring”, Birmingham Moderate Cappuccino
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Town Hall, Birmingham Moderate Pram
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Loading “Binary Oppositions” into iTunes
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to strong Switching user
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Kitchen Moderate to strong Making tea
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate Marking Joyfeed comments as spam
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Office / spare bedroom Moderate to Strong Reading Stephen Fry on fame (enjoying it, but disagreeing in parts, typically)
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Canal towpath, Selly Oak Moderate to strong A Sunday walk