A year ago today I produced and posted a video, to express how I felt about the pointless war in Afghanistan following the 200th death of one of our armed forces. A year on and nothing has changed …. apart from the ever increasing loss of life which, as of […]

Shamelessly lifted from here and subsequently filed under the heading,“You couldn’t make it up” . . . . Today I met a young couple on their way to London for a ‘day of action’. I happen to know that they live in Mummys house in the very best part of […]

Just a quicky, that caught my eye and amused me, which would sit rather nicely under one of TheEye’s “it could only happen in Amercia” type headings . . . . It’s been reported, in the LA Times, that a would-be reptile smuggler was apprehended at LAX with more than a […]

Remembrance Dayby GrumpyOldTwat

What a surprise. Prof Sir Ian Kennedy, head of the new body charged with rewriting the rules on MPs’ expenses, has been quoted as saying he had “no obligation” to accept everything that Sir Christopher Kelly has suggested. Wriggle, wriggle. Oh and btw . . .Kennedy, a good friend of Alistair […]

Originally I thought that I would probably be better off doing this post over at my usual place but then I thought, what the heck, let’s see if I can manage it here without reverting to type. This latest example of Gordon Brown’s prudence doesn’t appear to have come from […]

WASHINGTON – In a stunning development, President Barack Obama and his wife were arrested yesterday on charges of child abuse and human cruelty, after it was revealed they had fed their own children, visiting dignitaries, local school children, and a women’s homeless shelter “organic” vegetables from the First Lady’s garden […]

Tip of the ‘fillet ‘o fish’ to Gigits for spotting this one. Browsing through the BBC’s website, I noticed an article about Gordon Brown rushing to a fishmongers, after the owner’s wife challenged him about the lack of help for small businesses, during a phone-in show on local radio. You […]

Wouldn’t you just love to have thought of this one? I laughed out loud when I saw it and I hope it does the same for you . . . Tip of the hat to Shibby via Henry

G.O.T. is a born worrier. Sometimes I worry about the most ridiculous things and to prove the point I use this story from Mexico that I found on my travels around the internet. According to the Attorney General’s office nearly 1 ton of cocaine was discovered in the bellies of […]