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The human brain starts to lose the ability to concentrate after about 30-40 minutes. Get up, go for a quick wander around the house, get a drink or do something else for at least 2-3 minutes every 30 minutes. Also, every 2nd hour, have at least 20 minutes completely away from studying.

I now have December free after the client that was booked in for the entire month has gone bust. First thing the wife said: "you've now got more time to do the Christmas shopping then"

You had to didn't you... you just had to say that... I was happy with my delusion that what I drink is "good", now it'll take at least a week or three to reacclimatise my tastebuds.

I've run out of decent coffee and all we've got left is cheapo decaf that we give those strange deluded fools who enjoy that stuff. I no longer have sufficient caffeine reserves to get me to the shop to buy some more

A squirrel just chased one of our cats back into the house and is now sitting on the garden table staring into the house...

He's right you know... it's not as if you have man flu or anything... Wimmen...

I can't be bothered today... I'm going to sit and play computer games for the rest of the afternoon.

The trick on cold, wet days is to play as much advantage as possible. Keeps the game going and encourages attacking or riskier plays. Some refs are incapable of reffing the conditions in front of them and have only one way of reffing.

Soaked through, bloody freezing but I thoroughly enjoyed my game today. Both sides congratulated me on keeping it flowing despite the weather, I didn't have the heart to tell them I was so knackered and cold that I was barely able to get the whistle to my mouth before the ball was out and away.

I was supposed to be reffing a good level second team today but now am reffing their firsts as the exchange ref from "up north" has broken down. 2 lvls above my highest grade... yay...

The gritters were out tonight in Ipswich. I'm quite surprised considering they usually only come out two days after a major snowfall...

That never works for me, I have Auto Correct off and use the manual bit where it asks if BST is in force.

The anti-terrorist police monitoring the "terror" threads in AOB. Those who posted critiques can expect their doors to be kicked in at any time. Either that or all the trolls who have been booted off in the past and can't get a new login...

If the carcasses are fine, have a think if you really need to replace them. If you don't, it's an easy job to replace doors and fit fancy cupboard pullouts and drawers. The worktop can be tricky but get about 1m extra and experiment

I just wanted to be an ###### to them as many big companies have hugely convoluted approval processes for issuing cheques...

No, a company sent me junk mail but underpaid the postage. I had to pay the difference... I got the company to pay me for the difference plus my postage costs.

The domestic version is better, if you still have it

I received a cheque for 80p today.

I'm reffing from 10:15 am until 4:30 pm tomorrow. 57 teams in a youth 7s RU tournament.

One of the 18yr olds say that they don't date old men "grandad"?

Sara Cox's son is called Isaac. Isaac Cox. Linky

Pretend you're a law lecturer, your life will be immeasurably easier. Walk in, refuse to make eye contact with anyone, turn off any dictophones or other recording mechanisms that students have put near the lectern, slouch at the lectern in a way that students can only see the top of your head, start reading your lecture regardless of the noise or preparation of the students, refuse to accept questions then walk out after 30 minutes having speed-read through the entire thing. At follow-up tutorials, you can then preside with a smug Professor Snape type attitude and berate any student who didn't instantly understand every word of your lecture. Ahhh, the heady days of being a law student... how I miss them.

I take it he did it for free considering his filling bodge probably was the main reason for the tooth coming out

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