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Three cheers for waking up to no dead mice!!!

Lazy day today, I was going to pay a visit to the giant squid that they have on display at the Natural History Museum, but it's pretty cold today and the BBC assures me that it will be warmer tomorrow so I postponed.

So I ended up reading a few fics, writing a few lines of chapter 4 of my latest and chatting to Best Mate on IM.

So Tessa Jowell is leaving her husbands eh? Ha ha ha!!! What a week for the pair....accused and (wrongly) cleared of breaching the minister's code, accused of recieving £350k from Silvio Berlusconi in return for favourible testimony in his corruption case, given the old 'pre-heave ho' vote of confidence from His Excellence The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair AND they are splitting up!!!
Aside from anything else does it not make you laugh that a LABOUR government has MPs who don't even notice when their husbands are given over a quarter of million quid?
The whole thing stinks from top to bottom, he's a lawyer for christs sake and we are supposed to believe that he didn't know that she would have to declare the gift. Plus, WHAT was the husband of a minister of the government doing testifying in a dodgy, italian corruption case anyway?

A very amusing read....

I'm reading a book right now that is, at times, downright hilarious. It's had me laughing so much sometimes that it's hard to breathe.

Horribly un-PC and scathing of many things that are popular or just a part of society today, it many opinions that are not altogether different from my own....but in a far more amusing style than I could ever hope to achieve.

This book is called: Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? - The Encyclopedia of Modern Life by Steve Lowe & Alan Mcarthur. It is forworded by Stuart Preble of Grumpy Old Men fame, which is the reason I bought it. Stuart is a family friend and well...he's a funny guy, I was bored one day waiting at Heathrow Airport so I just bought it. I musta looked like such a fool sitting in the waiting area grinning like an idiot, barely suppressed chuckles simmering in the back of my throat!

Nee way I'd like to toss you all a quote, which isn't my favourite but I think that since it is primarily HP fans who look at this, you might appreciate almost as much did. Incidentally this is the first entry in the book and I almost choked right there in Starbucks when I read it!

The following quote is taken from the above mentioned book and belongs entirely to the above mentioned authors and Time Warner Books. The reproduction of this quote is intended to inspire readers to go out and buy the book and no harm or copy right infringement is meant.

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Adult editions of childrens books
If you must follow the adventures of a public school conjuror, even though you are a) notionally a grown adult, and b) have probably been to university or at least to 'big school', why attempt to conceal the fact behind a different cover, as if fellow passengers will assume after a casual glance that you're actually reading Thomas Mann in the original German?
Just because the train on the front is black and white rather than bright red, it doesn't suddenly become a harrowing Booker prize-winner called Harry Potter and the Genocide in Rwanda.

If any of you read the book, my personal favourite entry so far is the one on 'Ethical Consumer Scams' (Fair Trade). That was the one that nearly caused me to go into respiratory failure, It's only the last line that did it but...well read and see.