Collateral damage

I am very sorry to hear about the internet connection at Man Widdicombe, whose tolerant proprietor says:
I was reading a post by The LandedUnderlass when it decided to sulk in the corner and refuse to come out to play choosing instead to flick its V’s at all who tried to coax it out of [...]

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A dangerous breed

I note with amusement this item in the Telegraph, which says that wallabies are apparently establishing themselves in Cornwall, having escaped from zoos of sundry kinds and exercised their well-known skill in locating one another.
A wallaby mother carrying young has been photographed in a garden in St. Breward.
Farmers (who complain about everything) will doubtless throw [...]

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Misleading cases

Bristol Dave, in customary uncompromising style, delivers a 21-inch torpedo to the amidships region of some local council ‘CEO’ of whom I have never heard.
What caught my attention was this footnote:
* An interesting thought would be if Jan tries to get the legal team to take action against the Blogger’s post about her personal appearance, [...]

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Pigs: a point of information

Pigs have received a remarkably bad press recently.
First there was a faux health scare involving ’swine flu’.
Now everyone is retouching photographs of politicians in order to emphasise their resemblance to pigs.
Pigs are fine animals. They do not, in general, carry diseases, nor in fact are they so greedy as to require a deeply-rooted and utterly [...]

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Caption competition

PC Bloggs explains that the most likely reason that police officers occasionally fail to display their numbers is that they don’t usually have enough numbers to go round all of their numerous changes of kit.
This has for me the ring of true plausibility.
Of course PC Bloggs does not appear to be in one of those [...]

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Get out, now, before it’s too late

Maybe I was wrong about the growth of Nazism in the UK.
Look at this.
‘Giant Nazi cows on the loose in Britain’, it says.
Whatever next? Fascism, total state control, demonisation of sections of society, the Hitler Youth and now Aryan Master Race Livestock.
Can anyone lend me a light aircraft? I’ll have it taken to pieces and [...]

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Autofiskation and apology i.r.o. ’stage props’ and the Security Theatre Company

I am very much obliged to the assiduous and technically competent David Davis, from the Libertarian Alliance, and to the highly respected and quite important Spy Blog, for comments on my recent story about ’stage props’.
Not wishing further to alarm these commenters, who clearly have my best interests at heart, I feel that I should [...]

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“They’re for…er…’stage props’.”

Since it is a fine morning here in Redneckshire and there is nothing in the gutter press worthy of an harrumph I have set myself the task of lurching, staggering and colliding my way to Bodgitt & Quickley’s, there to obtain the following supplies:
1 tube superglue
3 PP3 batteries
Since one does not discuss one’s, er, [...]

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Now pay attention, 007

I see in the Independent that MI5 are looking for a new chief scientific adviser.
Once upon a time I had charge of a large and impressive industrial media facility that included a lot of basic equipment (mostly of the upper-bracket amateur kind) that could be hired out to other departments for them to Do their [...]

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Voodoo

mummylonglegs:
For those that care, I have ripped teddies head off, regarding this topic.

Really? My father was at school with a chap who hanged, drew and quartered his teddy bear, ignoring my father’s pedantic protestations that one cannot actually disembowel a teddy bear, since it has no entrails, but that one can of course disemfluffandsqueaker it.
I [...]

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