Changing room, Budokan, Birmingham
Moderate
About to change
Counting sneezes since July 2007
Changing room, Budokan, Birmingham
Moderate
About to change
High Street, Birmingham
Moderate
Having decided to purchase a chocolate bar, though not yet which one
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
“Who was here yesterday?”
Teachers’ room, Moat Lane
Moderate
Thinking about my class
Bedroom
Mild
Wondering whether to take Dan Rhodes’s Gold to work today
TV / living room
Moderate to strong
TV guide
Bathroom
Moderate
Readjusting the soap dish
Kitchen
Moderate to strong
Cooking
Hob Green Hotel, North Yorkshire
Moderate
Alcoholic sheep’s kidney
Car, Stratford Road, Hall Green
Moderate
Stopping off at the florist
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Browsing the Internet
Room 110, South Birmingham College, Hall Green
Moderate
Training session on professional recognition
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Thinking about the future
Landing
Moderate to strong
Carrying pyjamas to the bedroom
Waterstones, New Street, Birmingham
Moderate to strong
On the way to karate
Park Street, Birmingham
Moderate
Listening to callers to BBC Radio Five Live celebrating the US Presidential election
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Bus pass admin
Hall
Moderate
Getting my things together
Cafe Revive, M&S, Birmingham
Moderate
“It has not been possible to connect your call.”
Waterstones, New Street, Birmingham
Moderate to strong
Mantastic!
Teachers’ room, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Printing citizenship materials
TV/living room
Moderate
Just turned off the TV
Kitchen/dining room, Freeland, Oxfordshire
Moderate
Custard is being prepared
Living room, Freeland, Oxfordshire
Moderate to strong
Just sitting
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Working on TTHTB in silence
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Adam and Joe and Three Times Hotter Than Bournemouth
Back bedroom office
Strong
After a long wait, having just watched a YouTube video of this astonishing Manchester United v. West Brom game from 1978.
Bedroom
Moderate
Checking credit card online
Kitchen
Moderate
Discussing the merits of the leftover Cava and Valpolicella
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Spelling test: “take away”
Teachers’ Room, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Cutting up a laminated sheet!
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Setting up the data projector
Waitrose, Hall Green
Moderate to strong
Concluding that we have enough bread
Bedroom
Moderate
With the first hints of a sore throat, waiting for my vitamin C to dissolve, to the sound of The Wedding Present
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Logging into an Internet bank
Room 1909, The Rotunda, Birmingham
Moderate to strong
In a robe, folding my suit
Chamberlain Square, Birmingham
Moderate
“What was the best birthday you ever had?”
Hallway
Moderate to strong
Going upstairs after putting cards up
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Opening a card
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
TETNLNEIGL -> intelligent
Teachers’ room, Moat Lane
Moderate
Lesson planning and email
Moor St Station
Moderate
Approaching the ticket collectors
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
“No there aren’t”
Stairs
Moderate to strong
Ascending (to bed, after the Ronnie Corbett South Bank Show)
Near Pizza Express, The Bull Ring
Moderate to strong
Deciding not to eat here
Bedroom
Moderate
Panda is being grossly slandered
Bedroom
Mild
Slumber
Dining room
Moderate
Chinese takeaway with anecdotes
Landing
Moderate
Feeling the tickle, realising that the Sneezecount notebook is in the bedroom, going to get it
Fitting room, Marks & Spencer, Birmingham
Moderate to strong
Having tried on a shirt
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Looking up Legal & General
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Googling 30 Rock
Bedroom
Moderate
Receiving an update on the latest emails
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
30 Rock DVD
Stairs, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Ascending, with lunch
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
The Daily Show on the debate
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Discussing the Credit Crunch
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
Late Show retro on BBC4, specifically, Mark Thompson on Maxwell
EAT, the Bull Ring
Moderate to strong
Waiting to go
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Demonstrating numbers
Kitchen
Moderate
Laundry
TV/living room
Moderate
Trying to get Tom off my laptop
Fox Hollies Road, Hall Green
Moderate
Between Lidl and Waitrose
TV/living room
Moderate
Hanging curtains
TV/living room
Moderate to strong
Measuring for curtains
Landing
Moderate to strong
Getting ready to go out
Back bedroom office
Moderate
The very last second of the Adam and Joe (Garth) podcast
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
The latest Granta, featuring The Flawed Cartographer by Catherine O’Flynn
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate
Tutorial in progress
Room 1, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Marking students’ tests
Teachers’ room, Moat Lane
Moderate to strong
Going through students’ tests
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Thunderbird thinks this message is junk
Kitchen
Moderate to strong
Preparing the breakfast tray
Back bedroom office
Moderate
Quick headline scoop
Dining room
Moderate
Returning from a pudding reconnaissance trip
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Tuning in to Five Live for some final scores
Car, A491
Strong
Coming back from Clent, the sign tells us that the Belbroughton Scarecrow Weekend has been Cancelled
Bedroom
Moderate to strong
Spanish grammar exercises
Back bedroom office
Moderate to strong
Clicking “Publish” on Sneeze 933, but the sneeze meant the click didn’t work
Train, between Marylebone and High Wycombe
Moderate to strong
The table is vibrating and the trees are strobing the sunlight: it is medium level train torture
Upper foyer, National Theatre
Moderate to strong
Holding my newly purchased pristine second-hand first British edition of The Mezzanine
Southbound platform, Oxford Circus Tube
Moderate
Going to the National Film Theatre for BUG 09
Scooterworks, Lower Marsh, London
Moderate
Making a note about the decomposition of capital letters
Trafalgar Square
Moderate to strong
Walking to the river
Room 1001, St George’s Hotel, London
Strong
This sequence brought to you by a sore bit of skin on the right side of my nose