note to self: must not listen to Scott Mills’ podcasts in such a concentrated burst. And anyway, who has set up this Horse for One Bin website?
It’s 12.14. Yay! I’m taking a break from a day that started work at 08.00. I sip my tea and stare at my Sainsbury’s sandwich and my attention drags itself to the fact that my phone’s been very quiet today.
I check it.
Off.
Bum.
I switch it on.
Six missed calls and four voicemails.
Double bum.
A nibble at my cheese and pickle is accompanied by a flick over to BBC News where the following stellar items catch my eye.
* Honda is to pull out of F1 with immediate effect. Hands up everyone surprised. Yeah, not too many. Although the accompanying decision to stop supplying F1 engines blindsided me.
* Wogan is to give up commentating on the Eurovision Farce Competition. And is to be replaced by Graham Norton. So that’s the BBC firmly orientating the spectacle away from a song competition and marketing it wholly as a celebration of ‘camp’ then.
* Peter Hain MP is not to be charged over breaking the law on donations. Of course not.
* The Bank of England interest rate of 1% is being passed on to the consumers as a 0.25% cut. Nice. I wouldn’t mind those margins.
* The 50th Anniversary of the advent of the British Motorway is being marked by a special coning-off of the M5, M6, M42, M1 (etc, ad nauseam)
* Boy George faces a jail sentence for imprisonment. Hang on. A gay man guilty of imprisonment and then locked up in a confined space with a bunch of men? Oh the irony!
* A female seeking a sperm donor only wants semen from an Oxbridge graduate. Good grief madam. I’ve worked with graduates from Oxbridge who would be hard pressed to find both ends of a piece of string but could sort out a really decent bottle of Sauternes if required! But perhaps that’s what she wants. Hmmm… A misplaced sense of pride makes me want to ask what’s wrong with graduates of Bath.
Ah well. A cup of tea and sandwich. How my cup runneth over. But not in a literal sense because that would be spillage. Enjoy your lunch.
B.
With Graham Norton taking over from Wogan…the Eurovision is going to be GREAT viewing!!!!
I only hope Graham Norton will be just as scathing about the whole thing as dear old Wogan.
Re Peter Hain MP, he’s got a way to go before he can hold his head high. The NZ Labour party got caught breaking electoral law regarding the spending of taxpayer money on campaigning. Their response? They changed the law. Retrospectively.