* A new report on the dangers of cannabis has been produced, it claims 500,000 people are dependent on cannabis (yeah right) well, well, well what are the withdrawal symptoms? We should be told. Then Professor Robin Murray, a consultant psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry, said the research provided the strongest evidence that cannabis had a significant impact on the brain. He said proving a long-term effect was extremely difficult, as it was not ethical or feasible to stimulate long-term psychosis in volunteers. Yeah it does have a significant effect its called being stoned. The report says 50% of the subjects displayed symptoms of psychosis but did not say what these were, perhaps laughing uncontrollably might be involved.
It goes on : However, he said: "If something has an active effect in inducing the symptoms of psychosis after one dose, then it would not be at all surprising if repeated use induced the chronic condition." Well I guess uncle dave is as mad as a hatter as he's been using for at least 40 years, I will phone him later to give him the bad news.
Uncle Dave says the serious affect of smoking dope is to reduce forward planning and ambition to extremely low levels, this induces a passive approach where most activities involve a smoke 'ah thats better' view of life.


* Channel 4 is in trouble and pleading for public money which I personally think should not be supplied. Channel 4 has blamed a drop in advertising revenues and higher spending on digital TV for a 70% slump in profits to £14.5m during 2006.
C4 added that the figures showed it needed extra state funding, or it would have to screen more commercial shows at the expense of public service content.
Or one might draw the conclusion that its programs are utter sh*t and no one watches. I think they should cut down on the cokehead impersonators and jerbil lovers and employ someone who understands television broadcasting.

* Tony Blair still with his eye on his legacy has stepped into the row about councils switching to fortnightly rubbish collections saying that he prefers weekly bin rounds. He said it was for councils to decide, but there must be "better ways" for them to boost recycling. Mr Blair told GMTV: "It is for local councils to decide but in the end I am a traditionalist on this one, to be absolutely frank.
Well, well, well tony bollocks the traditionalist once again he speaks out on the issues affecting middle england.

* There was also some complaint about nothing having been done to prevent death by friendly fire. The solution is not to indulge in military adventures with the americans. There you go problem solved.

* Jack straw the ugly pointless apologist for new labour was claiming that voters were less grumpy this year. What does that mean? Jack is trying to talk up labours chances in the coming round of local elections suggesting voters are saying they will not vote labour when they actually intend to owing to the astounding success this government has had in making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Unfortunately for all of us who think jack should crawl into a hole and shed his skin, he is running Gorden Broons leadership campaign which means unless a wonderful surprise happens that he will still be in the cabinet. After hissing his talk up jack then hissed his comments about the fact that multiculturalism has produced isolated communities and how more needs to be done to make everyone feel british, I assume this is in response to the fact that people no longer describe themselves as british but as welsh, english, scots, etc. Lets hope this pointless prat has his local council turn BNP that would amuse me no end.

* Overwhelming lassitude still sums up my day. My partner tries the stop moping around and pull yourself together form of therapy unfortunately it fails to work and a complete lack of interest makes me foolishly say 'yeah, yeah, yeah'. This causes me to be subject to an alternative form of therapy carried out with increased decibels. I decide to lie down on the bed the light thru the window is far too bright so I close the curtains and gaze at the ceiling. This passes most of the day but I am unable to sleep.
The news on the BBC fails to engage my attention even Tony bollocks blair admitting to making a mistake over failing families just about registers. The gist pinched from the BBC is :
He said measures should be added to the ASB laws that would target "failing" families early even before offences had been committed or they had "become a menace". "Instead of years with social services trying and failing to persuade them to change, those families need to be made to change," "It is very tough. It is intrusive but, for some of these families and their children, a nanny state is what they need - for their sake as much as for ours."
Nothing appeared to explain how they identify these families before they commit unspecified offences or just how you go about making them change.
As Blair is about to go its hard to understand what this is about apart from an attack on cameron the tory toff for being about to make the same mistake. However I can hardly give a damn and intend to go and lie down on the frontroom floor.

* Some alcohol monitoring group were demanding a law to make it illegal to give under fifteens alcoholic drinks or some such thing, sure enough out came the old chestnut about the frogs giving their kids drinks and how they grow up to drink sensibly, as though plying drinks to english kids would do the same. Then the BBC dragged on some middleclass mum to tell us she gives her kids drinks and how they won't grow up to be binge drinkers cue middleclass kid saying how they won't binge drink when they grow up (eat those words later you dumb prat).
Why the BBC indulges in these general to contrary particular as if it proves anything is a complete mystery unless everyone is so dumb they are impressed by such ludicrous antics, come to think of it they probably are.
What is more perplexing is the governments refusal to admit their may be a problem with their drug of choice. The spokesperson put up did a pathetic attempt to deny the figures look bad or had got worse since 'New Labour gives you cheap booze' have been in power. I can only assume their stock portfolios are stuffed with shares in suppliers and purveyors of alcohol. Presumeably everyone's happy as can be sat behind their curtains stuffing cheap booze down their throats. The other possibility is that if booze went up in price the government would loose much needed taxes from trips to frogland to fill up white vans and four by fours with cheap frog plonk.

* Went back to Dr to complain about complete lack of interest in life. Dr says that the virus infection can cause that sort of response should be dancing, singing and cracking jokes soon. Listened to news on BBC Humphalot was giving the anglicans a roasting for giving a paedophile the boot instead of calling the police. Humphalot without prompting decided the defense that paedophiles weren't the hate object of the day at the end of the eighties wasn't valid, despite the fact that no one mentioned it, as everyone was redhot to target paedophiles at the end of the eighties. These sexual deviants are the only ones left we can pillory now that consenting adults can do whatever they want. I suppose necrophiliacs would get some stick if any were caught.
It seems a bit obvious but where there are children paedophiles will attempt to get near them and wouldn't think twice about getting ordained if it got them near their target. Their very like junkies lying sneaky bastards you can't believe a word they say. Once a male has got a fantasy in his head that gets him aroused there is little you can do to shift it.
What was most alarming was the choir master concerned only got two and a half years he'll be out in no time looking for targets, seems a small penalty for ruining someones childhood.

* Still laid out by complete apathy. While I was in bed I read one of my partners books, 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf, I must recommend this if you haven't read it, its a novel long prose poem which is incredibly evocative. It consists of a number of monologues by 6 friends over the various phases of life. This might not sound very exciting but the poetry of the discourses lasts the whole of the book. For some reason it put me in mind of T S Elliot but that was a minor thing. Do yourself a favour and read it.
I'm also reading 'La Morte d' Aurthur' by Malory, this is a completely different kettle of fish, I'm about a third of the way thru and completely perplexed. First you get the sword from the stone story then a battle with an alarming number of Kings, then a series of stories about various Knights that seem to have no rime or reason to them. In the early part a battle is described this is not so much a battle as a saga of horse swapping. Knight A knocks Knight B of his horse, knight C sees Knight B fighting on foot and knocks Knight D off his horse, Knight C gives Knight B the horse belonging to Knight D, Knight E sees Knight D fighting on foot and so on and so forth for the whole of the battle description.
The stories about individual Knights seem to have no point unless its to discover that the Knight seemingly a peasant by birth is infact of noble birth, otherwise its a series of jousts, dwarfs, damsels and Knights sitting in tent pavilions waiting for someone to come along and fight them. All defeated Knights not killed get sent to King Arthur to become Knights of the round table. In one episode we get a black Knight (killed) a Red Knight defeated, a Green Knight defeated, a Blue Knight defeated, then another Red Knight defeated then the protagonist winning fair lady but kept from a bit of pre-marital sex by the fair Ladies sister by the interference of a Knight who is continually resurrected from the dead. Anyone who knows what's going on please enlighten me.

* This is interesting (for me anyway) I have been overcome with a complete lack of interest in anything. I am putting it down to the antibiotics and steroids the Dr dished out to me. I can hardly be bothered to type this but I thought if I don't try and get back into it I'll never do it. I now know what the sin of ennui feels like.
I noted with hardly any interest the british media getting excited by the latest educationally relate massacre in the USA. Yet again they feel that if some brit tells the yanks they need gun control they will all say 'hey we never thought of that' and then appear perplexed when they don't. The fact that owning a gun is one of the pillars of the american state does not seem to cross their stupid minds. Not one yank interviewed thought no guns was a good idea and all supported the right to bear arms. Why they thought the yanks might care what brits think was even more perplexing.

* Some statistic came out that 20,000 women per year have late abortions because they don't know they are pregnant. Yeah right. This was accepted as perfectly reasonable by the media. Much of it was attributed to the failure of their method of contraception, how unlucky it should fail during the fertile period, and their continuing to have periods. This figure was used to raise concern that the number of doctors who will perform late abortions is falling. I suspect it has more to do with the failure of their 'Hey I'm pregnant' strategy on their partners and put it in the same category with 'lets get married' strategy of people who have lived together for some time (see below). Otherwise, some one should really look into contraception as it seems to fail at an alarming rate given the number of abortions.

* Have had dire chest infection with temp' etc, feel like s*** will blog again soon.

* “Brits are set to spend a massive £520 million on Easter eggs this year — but many young people don’t even know what Easter’s all about,” said the press release from Somerfield after a survey. It then went on to claim that the tradition of giving Easter eggs was to celebrate the “birth” of Christ. An amended version changed this to the “rebirth” of Christ. Finally a third press release accepted Church teaching that Easter celebrated the resurrection of Christ.
Oh my God !?

* I couldn't be bothered washing pebbles yesterday so I bought a copy of the guardian newspaper which always gives me a good laugh and I wasn't wrong. Sure enough Polly Toynbee was in there, you can't claim polly has more than one drum. She was protesting about any attempt to suggest women should rear their own young. Polly claims there are more differences between different human personalities than between men and women. Well I don't know how big a difference between giving birth to children and merely donating dna is but as I understand it bringing forth ones young in travail is a big difference. Women who have given birth naturally tell me its quite a stressful experience or bloody painful. There's always the possibility that other instincts might exist for after this event, as I understand it new born babies do not survive well without some further attention.
After having a good laugh at Polly's liberal credentials I read a comment by some guy whose name I have forgotten on T S Eliot's poem East Coker. He quotes the lines, ' In my beginning is my end / in my end is my beginning' and accuses Eliot of oriental obscurantism. Perhaps he didn't want to blemish his liberal credentials by knowing anything about Christianity but I would have thought as Eliot was a high anglican that this might relate to being born of the flesh and death and being born of the spirit and beginning in eternity in the presence or absence of God, or something along those lines. There were more laughs in the paper and I found the malaise of my hangover fading as I read on.

Ho Hum I think I'll go down the pub.

* ooooh bad head day. I don't think I'll be doing much today my head hurts, I guess I'll have to resort to my back up plan for today which is to dig up some pebbles from the front garden of the flat. I will then wash them and mail them to various seaside resorts apologising for removing them. I also intend to write a letter accusing the muppets who live over the road of hoarding a large collection of pebbles taken from protected beaches. This should occupy me until the pain has gone. I looked at the news and it was too depressing to contemplate.
Happy Easter.

* I was listening to the bbc news and realised nothing I had heard had annoyed me (actually most of it annoyed me but not enough to be bothered thinking about it) so I was wondering what to blog when on the BBC website I found the following bit of idiocy which needs no comment :
Best-selling novelist Ian McEwan is to send back a handful of pebbles he admitted taking from a protected beach. The area is designated a site of special scientific interest and anyone caught removing pebbles could be fined. Mr McEwan had told BBC Radio 4's Start The Week programme that he took two handfuls of pebbles from the beach. In a statement, Mr McEwan said: "'I was not aware of having committed a crime, having not seen any signs on Chesil Beach. Mr McEwan is unable to return the stones in person due to other commitments but agreed to pass the shingle to the crew who are due to film on the beach, near Abbotsbury, on Thursday. A spokeswoman for Weymouth and Portland Borough Council said: "We are most grateful to Mr McEwan for returning the pebbles. "By doing so he highlights the responsibility we all have as individuals to protect our natural environment and heritage."
Oh my God.

* In addition, I discovered that despite having an admirable old Etonian as head of the party, the tories are making no headway in the polls in the north of england. Why this is I have little idea, who can fathom the thought processes of a northener. I suspect, however, that it has something to do with the fact that the last time the tories were in power, due to their idiotic monetary policies, they shut down all manafacturing and other businesses in the north and spent not a bean on this part of the realm.
Such petty grudge bearing is typical of people living amongst the post-thatcherite industrial blight in the north. I expect coach loads of full bladders to trek across the country to add their flowing tribute on thatchers grave.

* The BBC reprised its two ten year olds texting spat and announced they had received mail on the subject. It did not give the split which usually means most people thought it was idiotic. They then had some old fart rambling on about being caught scrumping plumbs and the local bobby, who knew everybody, took him home for a good smack from his father. Then to my amazement he then related how his wife, a school teacher, had within her class a child who bit people, she bit the child as punishment and was warmly commended by its mother. Ah the good old days!?
After this revelation came an email pronouncing the message 'You are a gay boy.' to be homophobic. This being the case it seems to me that both boys should receive a good smack from dad or be bitten by their mothers. The child who sent it as a series of insults and the child who received it and thought it was an insult. This is just as homophobic as the sending.
If someone texted me and said 'Saxby your as gay as the day is long', I would merely assume the texter had been misinformed and it would never occur to me it was an insult. I told my gay friend that the boy should be taken to a gay club so he could see how perfectly normal it all is, stylishly dressed men drinking together. My friend did not think that was a good idea (to say the least) and suggested that a visit to a gay couple in a long term relationship would be better. I reluctantly agreed, all such homophobic children should be taken round to see Elton John and partner to have the error of their ways explained to them. Just the threat of being taken to see Elton should be enough.

* Thanking the Americans. I never thought I would be thanking the Americans for anything but during the Falklands war the UK received military ordnance from the yanks. Not all Reagan's administration agreed or infact knew about it including Ronnie himself. Caspar Weinberg (or however his name is spelt) did the deed. As a result the Argentinian fascist junta folded which was good news all round, except probably for the Americans who liked that sort of regime in south America. Hooray for the colonies oops I mean land of the brave and free.

* According to a recent survey one in ten UK citizens attend church once a week. The breakdown of these figures shows 14% are in England but only 12% are in wales, 45% in northern Ireland and 18% in scotland. This is a disgrace for the English who appear to be more religious than the Welsh. I comfort myself with the thought that a good many of the english will have been lying and amusing themselves by claiming to go once a week when what they mean is they pass a church once a week.
I don't know how an englishman or englishwoman is going to be able to hold up their head in the presence of the welsh.

* The thought police have been out according to the bbc. Two ten year old boys having fallen out were texting each other with insults. One of the boys called the other 'a gay boy'. The father of the receiver of this message informed the police. Round came the thought police to the texter's home to threaten him with an ASBO if he didn't stop using politically incorrect epithets. That should put the little bugger in his place. Well done the police for wasting every bodies time by telling some ten year old not to use gay boy as an insult. I assume the use of the term 'gay boy' is O.K. if used as a statement of fact or as a compliment, of course context is everything so I guess the PC idiots need to be especially alert. I was wondering how sodomite might be interpreted I will be texting it about to find out.
By the way I find that my 'I can't say it, but I'm thinking it' T shirt offends just about everybody particularly women for some reason.

* Successful mission completed and here we all are as happy as can be. The journey was a complete pain on the inadequate motorways. It is brought home to anyone unfortunate to attempt a journey of any distance that everything in britain is distributed by articulated lorry. The government talks about charging car drivers to use the roads, it could all be solved at a stroke if all the freight was distributed by some other means e.g. rail and picked up a central points. The government of course isn't going to take on the lorry drivers after the petrol price fiasco.

* Sorry about that but driving is no pleasure. Our friend willingly returned with us so I guess mine and my partners souls are still o.k. I didn't get the chance to raise the subject again as my partner was deep in conversation surveying the current state of the lives of mutual friends and acquaintances in some detail I might add. I brought up my interest in people living together getting married and our friend agreed with me she said the recurring phrase is 'after we married things changed' as our friend says, the only difference is a piece of paper from the registry not known for it's magical properties, its the grasp at a floating plank before it all goes under. Still its a good move if you do think its going drainwards as it puts the splitting up on an more equitable level, I don't want to appear cynical but this also could be part of the consideration.
I also popped round to see uncle Dave, he was spraying water mist on his herbal garden. I mentioned that everytime medicinal herbs get mentioned by the media everyone gets very heated about skunk. They say its 10 to 30 times stronger than the herbs you were using back in the sixties. Uncle Dave just turned and said, 'I wish it was.' So there you go still a disputed area. If old bent brains isn't impressed then it isn't true.

* Picture blog has been updated.

* I'm off with my partner to visit a female friend and bring her back for the Easter so this blog won't get updated til next monday. This friend is quite an interesting woman, she is in no way a new ager (acts spitting routine) but she is shall we say strange. The thing that attracted my attention was one day at a tribal gathering she told me she didn't like a woman of mutual acquaintance. When I asked why she said' She hasn't got a soul.' Meaning what? asked I. 'She's not connected to anything.' said my enigmatic friend. Apparently there are people around without souls. She wasn't certain whether they were born without them or they died on them as she had never seen a small child without one. They are disaster areas apparently and I must admit she was right about our mutual acquaintance who causes sore hearts and broken lives scattered about. I wondered if she was therefore like a robot but apparently not. They lack discernment she said. Anyway I hope my soul hasn't done a runner or she won't come with us which would be a shame as she is immensely entertaining.

* A friend emailed me who had seen my report on mr cameron and pointed out that cameron had proposed the support of marriage. This is a positive in his favour. The thing is that not everyone who might like to get married has enough room in their house to accommodate a nanny. A grant should be provided to enable married couples to get an additional room added to their houses. In addition he pointed out that some poorer families could not afford to pay their nannies the minimum wage and this might explain the large number of illegal immigrants in the country, who are acting as nannies to poor people paying them beneath the minimum wage. Obviously a top up grant for poor people is required.

* An extremely amusing program was broadcast on C4 about the tory leader. Its main point was to show that cameron has absolutely no convictions whatsoever and drifts like a log in the tide. This was I suppose designed to shock but it seemed only mete and right in this age where society gets its directions from cokeheads. The only noteworthy things about cameron was he went to Eton, most of the shadow cabinet went to Eton, he was a member of an elite upper class glee club whose object is to get 'hog whimpering drunk' and smash up restaurants, which 'mummy and daddy' then pay-off to keep junior out of jail, and the fact cameron does the dishes without rolling up his sleeves.
He seems the very man for our times, shallow, no convictions and completely unaware of how the lower orders live. This puts him on a par with the liberal elite running the agenda who have no effing idea what its like on a sink estate either.
The only reason he's in charge is the fact that the tories have despaired of ever getting back in power.

* More depressing news came when it emerged that the Ninja Mutant Turtles are topping the box office in the land of the brave and free. Then there was blair and the church of england beating its breast and apologising for the slave trade. Well f*** me don't include me I can assure people I had nothing to do with it and any idea I'm accepting responsibility for the actions of previous generations is out. I expect all my forebears were pulling forelocks on Cameron and his shadow cabinets forebears estates. I mean wasn't the slave trade an excellent example of the entrepreneurial spirit and the triumph of market forces. Not the first time someone pursued profit at the expense of someone else's misery. Accept responsibility for your own actions or lack of action I won't be volunteering to shoulder anyone's successes or failures.

* I was watching BBC2 last night with a number of friends to view the last of the programs on liberty and freedom. The program was highlighting two basic political approaches since world war 2. These being the imposition of a political system which has as its end some sort of utopian society. This political approach permits the use of violence and terrorism (ends justify means) because of the beneficial outcome (yeah right). The second approach has been the libertarian position of allowing individuals to pursue their own ends within given parameters (of course). The first approach is illustrated by soviet russia the second by the USA.
The second approach was developed over the years to incorporate the imposition of democracy, market economics and the belief that individuals will always pursue their own aims without regard for the welfare of others. This approach was used in the reconstruction of the Russian economy and society after the fall of communism where it was a resounding success, oops sorry a big disaster.
These ideas despite the fact that they did not appear to work have continued in america and britain, a particular case being Tony bollocks Blair e.g. Iraq which has been a resounding success, oops sorry a really big disaster and a cause of great shame in the UK.
When mr Blair appeared on the screen a number of friends began acting ' a man spitting on the floor' routine. One of those present remarked that Tony bollocks Blair seemed to have been born in order to illustrate the proverb, ' the road to hell is paved with good intentions'. This was not just Iraq my friend thought but in almost everything he has done. Whatever his hand has touched is now swirling round the plughole. I thought that possibly Northern Ireland seemed to be progressing O.K.
This was allowed by most but the proponent said 'just wait'. here's hoping he's wrong.

* Couples getting married. After the interesting discussion by my partner and her friends I decided to research by a quick poll round acquaintances, whether there seemed to be anything in the theory that couples who have been living together who then get married will seperate soon after. I decided that 4 years of co-habitation before marrying was a reasonable rule of thumb. To my surprise it appears that this is in fact the case (given that the sample is small) and 18 months does seem to be the persistence limit after marriage.
I decided to ask my partner what she thought on this issue. It seems that it is regarded as a fact amongst her acquaintances. She was of the opinion that one or other of the partners usually the woman notices that the other partner is getting twitchy and showing less interest in them. In order to avoid losing the partner they then push the idea of marriage. The other partner goes along with this as they don't feel ready to split. They get married, this brings on the impending crisis and hey presto divorce.
I'd love some stats on this if anyone has or knows of any. So beware of partners who push for marriage they've detected drift and you can now save money by saying no.

* I see now that I misunderstood the budget from Mr Brown, it was infact a stakeholder budget. In the past the very poorly paid were paying little in tax. This means they did not feel that they had much of a stake in SS England, now that they will be paying more tax this will make them feel much better because they are increasing their stake in contributing to the national purse. In addition they will have the reward of knowing they are easing the burden on the better off who are loaded down with the weight of debt. The feel good factor amongst the worse paid people in the country will soar and this always has a beneficial effect on the country as a whole.

* My partner and her friends were discussing an article on modern sexuality which revealed among many things that most women's sex life in terms of attaining orgasm were very poor in Great Britain. In fact the much vaunted Hollywood mutual climax (see any film with coupling in it) is as rare as a junkie who pays back money he borrowed from you i.e. virtually unheard of. There was much discussion amongst the girls about inconsiderate partners, too much to drink beforehand, what you could and couldn't say at the consenting moment. I pointed out to them that the problem was that the art of faking an orgasm was now so well practised that the chance of the average guy knowing he was putting on a poor show was low to nill. I was dismissed on this point by the fact that none of those present had ever faked an orgasm and whoever I was referring to (dirty looks from my partner) it wasn't anyone they knew and also sex wasn't swept under the carpet anymore and open discussion between the sexes regularly took place. It was generally felt that I must have been living in portugal or some other retrograde country.
The conversation then drifted to a discussion about couples who had lived together for a long time who suddenly get married. This is usually followed by a split about a year or two later. It was generally felt it was a sure bet and much pulling apart of a couple who were just about to do this took place. Six months was the agreed time before a split. Well, knowing that saves a lot of needless expense.

* It becomes more obvious each week that when the liberals elected Ming the Merciless as leader of the party (Menzies Campbell) they were committing political suicide. Instead of the rather likeable Scot Charles Kennedy they replaced him with a useless old bastard who everyone ignores when he gets up to speak. Currently as part of an attempt to get some voters he has been criticising stop and search laws for the benefit of Muslims. Ming feels such laws alienate the muslim community. The defendant in the current muslim bomber trials had the gall to suggest that they weren't trying to blow people up as that was murder and as muslims they wouldn't do such a thing. A similar plea to that given when it was said muslim men might disguise themselves as veiled women was refuted on the basis no muslim man would do such a demeaning thing. The new labour and conservative parties must be laughing amongst themselves over Mings piss-poor performance.

* Drugs.
If anyone is thinking of drug taking as a recreation a group of scientists have produced a list of drugs in sequence of most harmful to least harmful. See below for list pinched from the BBC website. Alcohol which got off pretty lightly in the budget is ranked very high for the harm caused. Spirits probably the most harmful form got sod-all in tax. This government is nothing if not surprising completely ignoring the warnings over current alcohol consumption. I see that LSD gets a pretty low rating. I'm not sure what dosage is sold but if its 250 mikes I would caution people new to the drug scene not to plumb for that one right away. Ecstacy gets a low rating considering all the dire warnings that intermittently emerge. Needless to say Heroin and Cocaine get top slots. Considering its the drug of choice for media, arts and political types this is all you need to know to figure out the amusing goings on deck of SS England.

* A lot of playing of instruments, drinking of booze and consumption of exotic tobacco took place and a couple split up. Apparently the relationship had been over for sometime but neither of them bothered mentioning it to the other. Both claimed to have been dumped, which was unusual as the fight is usually over who dumped who first. This lack of cohesion bummed the last two days as the activities were punctuated by some bitter criticism from both sides. I was much amused but others regarded it as bad form and eventually the guy left leaving his ex-partner stranded. Mr Mandolin offered her a lift which she took despite my shaking my head furiously.
We set off back and I gallantly offered her the front passenger seat. Sure enough Clark Kent mutated into Mr Road-rage. She arrived back home white faced and fuming.

* The Chancellor has pulled a classic New labour move and made those on low wages without children worse off and the well off, better off. This typical tory measure is a fitting farewell to Tony Blair the thatcherite as he exits from number 10 and hopefully disappears into obscurity in the USA.
This measure is just what the low paid need to incentivise them to study for degrees, set up their own businesses, move to other areas of the country where better paid work is available, buy a house, well maybe not but a least afford a bed sitter and leave all minimum wage work to the never ending influx of Polish people. This is what we expect from a government deeply routed in such heroes as Bevan, sorry I mean Thatcher. Here we see the measures that have brought social mobillity to a standstill, a sound labour principle