Lots of lack of warm, low wispy stuff obscuring the blue
stuff, not a whimsy of solar stuff and a definite lack of wet stuff at the
Castle this non-Olympic morn.
Been up in Cheltenham for the weekend, just got back, his
Maj was so pleased to see me that he bit me...
Just returned from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
run dahn Tesco and checked out how much prices have risen since Thursday, they
have...and his Maj has discovered the joy of hiding hard things in my shoes.
Some French bloke and a Ginger headed squaddy opened the old
“entertainment”.
And the “old” line up of “celebs” did their thing-
Del boy’s old motor exploded, sadly before the bang went
orf.
We had the joy of old George Michael (who allegedly was
given a whole car park to himself in order to minimise damage when he arrived
in his motor).
Then old madness appeared to give us a rather quivering
rendition of “our ‘ouse”.
The old Kinks did their “waterloo sunset” which I quite
enjoyed.
A snatch of old (no more) Freddie Mercury, a bit of old (no
more) John Lennon, some oldish Kaiser Chiefs doing the Who, some sort of
fashion parade, no longer banned old Russell Brand pretending to be a walrus, an
old DJ, and then five bottles of old Spice being transported on the top of
unused London taxis.
Somewhere in this eclectic mix the real old WHO managed to
ditch their Zimmer frames and do a song.
My second fave moment was old Eric Idle who gave us a
snippet of Monty Python including some skating nuns, Morris dancers and quite a
lot of people from the sub continent throwing stuff all over the old boy, followed
by a youngish “rock band” who played some quite depressing ‘music’.
Then my very fave bit-old Brian May and old Rodger Taylor were
joined by young Jessie J who looked very nice in not much at all and did “we
will rock you”.
And if you click on the video above you will see the pride
of the British Lions doing Queens “don’t stop me”.
Who says that Blighty isn’t a young, go getting technologically
superior Coalition....?
U-Turn Cam and what’s his name have buggered orf on holiday
after two weeks of free Olympic tickets and left Silly Billy Hague in charge.
Apparently U-Turn has gorn somewhere nobody is allowed to
know about and what’s his name has gorn to Spain to the parents of his Spanish
wife, Miriam.
The Ministry of
Justice is considering setting up call centres in prisons to increase prisoner
work opportunities.
The plan is
"one thing that could be considered" as part of efforts to make
prisoners more employable when they finish their sentences.
No call centres are
currently being run in prisons, but ministers are not ruling out such a scheme
in the future.
Inmates already
carry out a range of paid tasks including laundry services and printing.
The government
wants to "transform prisons into industrious places of productive
work" and make a 40-hour working week the norm.
Sorry, it’s a new chance for criminals not the unemployed...
A badger that wandered into a Reno-area retail store in
northern Nevada dodged a tranquilizer dart and held authorities at bay for
about an hour before being lured into a cage with cat food.
No one was hurt in the standoff at the bottled water/convenience store in a
residential neighbourhood in Sparks, and the badger ultimately was returned to
the wild north of Reno, Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy
said Wednesday. "Apparently the door was open a bit and this badger just walked in," Healy told The Associated Press.
"Obviously, it was pretty hungry, because when they put the cat food in the trap, it went right in," he said.
Funny looking badger....
North Shore beach in Llandudno was due to be the scene of
a sancastle contest, which was scheduled to take place next week.
However, bosses have discovered there are far too many rocks
and a large amount of seaweed covering the coastline, severely denting the
potential of finding enough pure sand to compete effectively.
The annual event is organised by the Imperial Hotel and is a
highlight of the summer in north Wales, typically attracting about 120 people.
Life’s a beach....
And finally:
A nude swim at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire was the first of
monthly meetings in scenic locations.
The venues will be kept secret until the last
moment and only released to members of the Secret Swimming community.
The nude swim was also an attempt to break the
record for the worlds largest skinny-dip
Note to self-join the Secret Swimming club.....
And the last Olympic thought for today:
Thank thingy that’s over with.
Angus
