Warmish, wettish and wondrous-ish at the Castle this morn,
not a whimsy of white crusty stuff, the study is still holding on to has-been hoo
hahs, and his Maj has discovered the delights of playing chase.
Been down to Tesco to stock up on stale bread, gruel and
pussy food, only one checkout out of thirty open, the place looks like Japan
after a tsunami, and they have moved everything around so that they can fill up
every little bit of space with Crimbo stuff.
Apparently Kim Jong Il isn’t any more,
mainly because he has kicked the bucket, but at least he won’t be ronery any
more....
And Microsoft
is going to introduce automatic updates for IE users from January next
year.
Nice...
Want us to stump up a £25,000,000,000 “contribution” to help
bail out the Eurozone.
European finance ministers will aim to agree a new
€200 billion (£167.7 billion) loan to the International Monetary Fund as part
of a deal to save the single currency.
Three quarters of the money is expected to come from
eurozone members, but Britain will also be asked to provide funds.
Figures suggest European Union officials expect British
taxpayers to be the second largest contributor. Our beloved unelected Prime Monster
has repeatedly promised not to provide any extra funding for the IMF for the
specific purpose of saving the euro and Britain is already liable for
£12 billion of loans and guarantees to Ireland, Greece and Portugal.
Under IMF rules, Britain would underwrite a portion of loans
to struggling countries, but only pay out if they defaulted. Only countries
that are members of the IMF and contribute to its wealth can apply for loans.
The Prime Minister has argued that no country has ever lost
money by lending to the IMF.
Until now.....
Among the nooks and crannies is a garage used by MI5 in the
1970s to get its cars souped-up and kitted out with surveillance equipment.
But the garage near Clapham in south London was later
uncovered by the Russians, prompting the Security Service to move their
specialist mechanics to ‘somewhere in west London’.
The Londonist Top 10 Spy Sites also features a warren of
tunnels underneath Kingsway, near Holborn.
Originally used as air raid shelters, they were taken over
by the Inter Services Research Bureau, which served as a front for the research
arm of MI6 – aka Q Branch in the James Bond novels.
A more exotic stop on the trail is Polish restaurant Café
Daquise in South Kensington, where Russian Cold War spy Yevgeny Ivanov and
lover Christine Keeler used to meet.
Keeler was also seeing defence minister John Profumo, an
affair which led to his resignation amid fears national security had been
compromised.
While some of the buildings in the guide, including MI6’s
headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, are already well known to the public, others
such as the spy school on Borough High Street would not attract a second
glance.
The Millennium Hotel in Mayfair provides a more sinister
twist, as it is where ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in 2006.
A nutty squirrel was caught red-handed nicking toast by Paul
Hawks who took the snap at his home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
It had already poked a hole through the middle of the bread
and is seen gnawing away at the top of it.
It seemed oblivious to what was going on around it and that
moment of sloppiness could have led to a grilling.
It allowed Mr Hawks to grab his camera and take the
incriminating shot.
The villainous vermin made off with a piece of toast that
was nearly the same size as it.
It was last seen hopping along the patios with the toasty
treat in hand.
Looking for some marmalade....
The inhabitants of a Spanish village which was painted entirely blue for
the filming of box-office smash hit The Smurfs movie voted to keep their houses
a vivid shade of azure, instead of returning to traditional white.
The
221 residents of Juzcar, in southern Spain, were promised by Sony Pictures six
months ago that their homes would be returned to their former dazzling white
state but found The
Smurfs animated movie brought them an unexpected lifeline in tough
economic times.
Juzcar became the world's first official Smurf Village and,
whereas 300 tourists a year would pass through, an estimated 80,000 have been
to see "Smurftown" in the past six months.
The village put it to a vote and the inhabitants
overwhelmingly decided - 141 in favour to 33 against - that their homes should
stay painted entirely in that unique hue, Smurf blue.
Is the AFDB or Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanie, which can
apparently shield your brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind
control carriers.
It seems that AFDBs are inexpensive and can be constructed
by anyone with at least the dexterity of an MP.
“This cheap and unobtrusive form of mind control protection
offers real security to the masses. Not only do they protect against incoming
signals, but they also block most forms of brain scanning and mind reading,
keeping the secrets in your head truly secret. AFDBs are safe and operate
automatically. All you do is make it and wear it and you're good to go! Plus,
AFDBs are stylish and comfortable.”
Already have one, it didn’t work; I got struck by lightning.
And finally: Staying with the fashion thing.
Has launched its own fashion range, complete with its famous
weather symbols, it combines our national obsession with the weather and the
government’s need to bring in more money:
In collaboration with an eco-clothing company, the national
weather forecaster has developed a range of T-shirts emblazoned with its famous
weather symbols.
Designs include their cloud symbol with a bolt of lightning
signifying stormy weather, and a fashionable adaptation of the rainy weather
symbol featuring a cloud with rain drops in the shape of cats and dogs.
Another design includes a cloud transformed into an ice
cream cone with a lightning rod as the “flake” to “celebrate English
summertime”.
The £20 T-shirts are made from organic cotton, manufactured
in a wind powered factory on the Isle of Wight by the company Rapanui.
No wonder they keep getting it wrong-too busy pimping up
clothes.
That’s it: I’m orf to Google a
new motor.
And today’s thought:
Angus
2 comments:
We seem to be saying Arkell v Pressdram a lot lately and here we go again with the EU mafia wanting us to bail them out.
I concur wlth your conclusion completely James,isnt that what the F.O. is for:)
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