December 2009
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“Baah humbug! Sick and tired of seasons greetings, goodwill to all men, tinsel, pudding and turkey, turkey, turkey?!!!!
Stick two fingers up to all that yuletide rubbish, ditch the family and come party with the Wild Fruit.
Christmas fairies, the bad, bad Santas and all your friends back at our home venue of TRU for this special Wild fruit party date.”
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First BBC television weatherman George Cowling... →
crowth:
In his biography for the BBC Weather website, he recalled a studio visit by Princess Margaret.
Mr Cowling warned her he had “bad news” for viewers, with frost forecast.
The princess said: “That’s good news - I love the cold weather.”
Stumped for something to say, the weatherman eventually replied: “Perhaps ma’am, you don’t suffer from frozen pipes like the rest of us.”
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The ever generous, and rather lovely, Feasting on Roadkill sent me the SNCF train alert sound as an mp3.
I use it as my sms alert.
Watching the news about Eurostar is causing me to constantly check my phone for messages.
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I am ever so slightly over the weather now.
The snow melted, and then refroze so that hilly Brighton became a giant ice-rink.
Then, just as it looked as though the ice was melting it started to rain.
Freezing rain…. that has made the sidewalks lethal once more.
/moan.
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“Why is it so offensive to black up your face, as I have never understood this.”
– Philip Davies MP bombarded watchdog in ‘political correctness’ campaign (via earthmancomehome) (via jhnbrssndn)
I read this in the Guardian today… it is a shocking example of mentalism.
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CHILCOT’S DEFENCE
He’s only been sitting for 23 days, but the chairman of the Iraq war inquiry has already issued a defence of the proceedings. That tells us much about the proceedings themselves.
Gentlemanly isn’t the word. Many have found themselves craving for the presence of a serious QC to grill the Bufton Tuftons, Sir This, Sir That and the rest of them about how they all...
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SNOW!
I think it is finally going to start snowing.
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Ho Ho oh....
The image of a fat, jolly and slightly tipsy Father Christmas sends out the wrong message and could damage millions of lives,
say Dr Nathan Grills and illustrator Brendan Halyday, from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
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that bacon teacup was making me feel more sicker.
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UK to review war crimes warrants after Tzipi Livni... →
jhnbrssndn:
Britain is reviewing procedures for issuing arrest warrants in war crimescases after a diplomatic row with Israel over allegations against its former foreign minister.
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, said tonight the government was “looking urgently” at ways the legal system might be changed following action against Tzipi Livni, Israel’s opposition leader, over her role in...
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I am still sick, and trying really hard to make myself have a day at home (even though the sun is shining and I can’t help thinking I should go to work)… so, there might be a lot of LOLcats going on today…. in the interests of distraction.
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I've lost my voice....
…fortunately it doesn’t affect my ability to type or paint.
The phone calls I need to make today are going to be interesting, though.
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