Not a lot of anything at the Castle this morn, no
atmospheric movement, no skywater, no solar stuff and just a hint of lack of
warm.
His Maj is now 100% fit, we had a bit of a setback but time
healed his battered face, but he still won’t go near a window.
Allegedly the most-borrowed book in the House of Commons
library is How To Be An MP, by the veteran Labour parliamentarian Paul Flynn.
The book boasts step-by-step guides on how to placate
constituents, advance one's career, claim expenses and fend off an inquisitive
press.
So that’s who is to blame then.
Members of the House of Commons beat teams from the House of
Lords and the media to win the annual parliamentary pancake race yesterday.
Representatives from the Commons, the Lords and journalists
took part in one of the most fiercely contested events in the political
calendar, the parliamentary pancake race.
Conservative MP Tracey Crouch, who took part in the race,
described it as "über-competitive" and said that she and her
team-mates had been "sharpening their elbows".
Their tactics worked, and the MPs crossed the finishing line
first.
What a load of old crepe....
Apparently Iran has been caught out in another Photoshop blunder
in an effort to prove its purported stealth fighter jet is the real deal.
An Iranian state news agency released a new picture of the
radar-dodging jet flying above snow-covered mountains.
But the picture was immediately suspected to be fake with the
lighting on the plane and its position similar to its appearance in pictures on
the ground in Tehran at the unveiling earlier this month.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described it as "among the most advanced fighter jets in the world", capable of hitting ground and air targets by stealth, but experts dismissed it as a "laughable fake" which looks like a toy or mock-up model.
Now the new picture has also been laughed off, after it was revealed by The Atlantic Wire that the background image of the mountain was taken from the stock image site PickyWallpapers.com.
Aviation experts have questioned whether the jet shown can
even fly as it was too small to accommodate a real pilot and the controls and
wiring looked too simple. It also lacked the bolts and rivets found on all
aircraft and offered wonky aerodynamics.
You can fool some Iranians some of the time.........
The annual Up Helly a fire festival in Lerwick on the
Scottish Shetland Islands to pay homage to the country's Viking heritage has occurred;
the daylong celebration consists of costumed parties and culminates in a
torchlight parade and the burning of a Viking long boat. There are also plenty
of kilts, marches to brass band music, even a new beer found only at the event.
At least 5,000 spectators come to watch more than 1,000
torch carrying "Vikings", in silver plates and helmets, with heavy
axes and shields, march the galley around the town. Some enact the roles of
famous "Jarls" from the local saga, the Orkneyinga. At the climax,
all the Vikings throw their flaming torches into the galley. The whole crowd
sings Viking songs and the party continues long after the last flames have died
away.
Bugger-missed it again...
A pilot performed
an emergency landing when a fire warning light came on in his cargo plane over
Bristol– but the alert turned out to be a load of old cows.
No blaze was found
on board and the pilot later said the alarm may have been triggered over
Bristol by extra humidity generated by 390 cows being carried on board
But are they real cows-they could be fake cows made up from Yorkshire
puddings or Welsh daffodils cunningly disguised.....
And finally:
Fancy a stroll over some medieval gravestones-well now you
can, “In the heart of l'Ile de la Cite, on the left side of the Cathedral of
Notre Dame, a street called Chanoinesse winds its way through the heart of
Paris.
A small part of the street was spared by successive urban
transformation plans, and as a result it has kept its odd medieval character.
This is because, until the XVIII century, this area was the protected domain of
Chanoine monks who, isolated from the world, devoted themselves to their work
and meditations.
But the monastic past of the street is not the only mystery
to be found here: Behind the red door of the building marked number 26, you'll
find one of the most unusual and macabre pieces of architecture to be found in
the French capital.
A small courtyard rests silently behind the intriguing
scarlet door, and the stone laid ground of the courtyard bares some gothic
style texts. After a bit of examination, you'll realize their purpose- these
are gravestones, which once belonged to churches religious institutions that
eventually closed around the 19th century.
Much later, the gravestones were used by the architects of
this lovely courtyard to tile the floor. And there they remain to this day,
ready to be discovered and explored.”
That’s nice and respectful isn’t it?
Today’s thought:
Real Iranian stealth planes
And today’s mellow melody
One of my favourites.
Angus
