1 in 8 people? Really? Cool!

Subtlety on the BBC News – buy now, pay later

Someone editing the BBC news website’s front page lead story has a wicked sense of humour:

Well duh!

And so it begins:  “Iraq war ‘violated rule of law’…“ [Lord Bingham, former Law Lord].

Joni Mitchell was right

Sorry, the swans will have to go, they’re too expensive

It’s a sad state of affairs when a city is “too poor” to keep its wildlife.  If this is not a case of paving paradise and putting up a parking lot I don’t know what is.  I appreciate times are hard – but this is insanity.

Ironically, Joni’s Big Yellow Taxi actually refers to a Toronto Police Service patrol car.

Christmas has begun…

Yes it has, because the Milton Keynes shopping centre says so.

Enjoy the loveliness.  (The singing was some kind of karaoke/ X-factor style thing going on in the background, my poor poor ears).

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The main display:

and the Christmas train, leading us all into our brave new world of American Presidents who have a previous occupation of “Civil Rights Lawyer”:

My Sunday Night

This what I did this Sunday evening (the videos are a bit janky because I took them on my phone – I’m upgrading to a Nokia N96 soon which, amongst many other lovely things, has a *much* better camera).

It’s nice to live so near the park.    There were a couple of people missing though.