@ 2009-11-07 – 02:39:16
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@ 2009-11-07 – 01:23:24
1. Do you have a favourite part of autumn?
The Indian summer, after the leaves have turned but before things get horrid.
2. "It's too cold to snow!" Do you think it ever is?
Nope. It's fucking freezing when it snows, hadn't you noticed ?
3. Do you feel there is still a place for British Summer Time or should we just stop changing the clocks?
What clocks, and who's this we ?
4. Are there certain meals you only eat in certain seasons (salad in summer, stew in winter)?
I'm all for spicy lumpy root-vegetable casseroles. In fairness to the kids though, they won't eat those in winter or salads in summer because Vitamin C and roughage is like stoopid
5. Autumn is...?
Mellow fruitlessness
@ 2009-11-07 – 00:40:26
My eye is nearly all better (remarkably fast healing in eyes, something to do with blood supply) thanks for your good wishes ...
Tonight our choir sang for deaf children in the Congo ...
Sheesh ...
Talk about a tough crowd ... 
We were at a Northern Working Men's Social Club who's quagmirey carpets would have made Bernard Manning's eyes water (I've got a soft spot for old Bernard, who was totally unfairly voted 16th in 100 worst Britons after he was dead, but that's an argument that will have to wait)...
Anyway, we sang the songs the whole world sings when it's a bit pissed, and brought in a small audience who bought the raffle tickets...
The money raised will help enable medics in the Congo to fit hearing-aids and fund cochlear-implant operations for some of the most economically-ergo-health-disadvantaged children this world knows ...
And the Co-Op is still running it's National Deaf Children's Society gig for rest of this year by the way.
@ 2009-11-05 – 11:04:10
I woke yesterday morning with a searing pain in my right eye. It doesn't make survival sense that the other eye refused to open in sympathy, but it wouldn't, so Beloved had to run me up to the hozzy where they spotted a black & white foreign body and managed to flush it away. I spent the rest of the day zonked out on painkillers, babystepping around and bumping into things (like the black & white dog and black & white cat .... hmmmmmm). 
I have a scratched retina and an eyepatch so can't drive for a couple of days and am relieved of the responsibility of dealing with mum's meds after all ...
Be very careful what you wish for !
@ 2009-11-04 – 01:16:53
Abbyfield residents are sooo genteeeeeel they crap rooobies ...
Stick it...
@ 2009-11-04 – 00:50:22
Foxhunters, warmongers, Anti-Europeans and anti-abortionists are all cunts ...
Apart from that I'm completely impartial ...
Wankers anyway innit ?
@ 2009-11-03 – 23:17:21
I found myself today talking fiveways ...
One to the internet glory that is e-mail ( No we won't fill in the form that allows to access to £20 quids direct payments a week at a cost of £12 a month, but thanks anyway HSBC )...
Two to the mobile (Sinister's sick and sobbing again)...
Three to the landline (Where Is Firstborn ?) He's walking 7 miles home in the pissing rain is where he is, but we don't know that because Sinister's got his mobile and is now tucked up in bed ... the taxi and bus-drivers pull out all the stops and start a search for a vulnerable young adult and call me back every 10 minutes ...
Four to the district nurses and social workers who can't possibly be expected to administer my confuseddotcoms mum's medications 4 times a day ... I have to do it . I conclude that they are overreacting in a Hyacinth Bouquet twirly pit of Abbeyfield Hell way, and things have a habit of sorting themselves out ...
And Five ...
To the trusty wall who absorbed all my pain and yet asked so little ...
When I had a phone at the end of each arm and was looking at the inbox in the middle , I perchanced upon the dodgy artex ...
Who you gonna call ? (it whispered hopefully )
The Plasterers ? ...
@ 2009-11-02 – 14:13:12
I missed this story at the time, but it might still be of interest to people following the progress of the hunting ban.
I know where I'll be doing some of my Christmas shopping ...
Vandals target anti-hunting Lush
Branches of ethical cosmetics chain attacked after campaign launched in support of saboteurs
By Tom Peck
Monday, 19 October 2009
In the past week, the cosmetics chain Lush has seen its branches vandalised and its staff threatened, immediately after it launched an anti-fox hunting campaign. In Chelmsford, Essex, a man returned to the same store on three occasions to knock over a display of Fabulous Mrs Fox bubble bars, the proceeds from which Lush donates to the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA). Staff called police.
Store manager Sue McKenna said: "He first came in on Tuesday, knocked over all the bubble bars and leaflets, and said he was going to come back every day until the campaign stops. Then he ran out. When he came back the third time, an off-duty police officer was in the shop, who told him to leave. It was then that we rang 999." Essex police were unavailable to comment on the incident last night.
In Manchester, members of the HSA had been invited to the Lush store to help with the campaign and hand out leaflets. But a few days before the event, a man entered the shop and told a member of staff that "there will be trouble" if it went ahead. Staff contacted police, and were relieved when the event on Saturday passed without incident.
In Maidstone, Kent, a kebab was smeared over the shop front and the words 'Fuck You' scratched into the glass, while in Taunton, Somerset, an anonymous caller told staff to "watch their backs". Promotional campaign blackboards were also covered with "Keep Hunting" stickers, photos of which appeared on the online forum of the magazine Horse & Hound.
The Countryside Alliance, which has been highly critical of Lush's decision to support the HSA, has urged hunt supporters not to target the stores. In a statement, the charity, which campaigns to overturn the ban on fox hunting, said: "It is important to realise that while the rural community is deeply upset at Lush's misguided decision to support the Hunt Saboteurs Association, any sort of direct, abusive or tactical protest, illegal or legal, is not appropriate and such action will most definitely not be supported by the Countryside Alliance."
The Alliance had previously criticised Lush for supporting the HSA, saying it "advocates direct action and illegal methods to disrupt hunting activities". Head of media Tim Bonner said: "While we support the view that everyone has their right to an opinion, there are groups who legally oppose hunting, and the HSA is not one of them."
Hunt saboteurs have been regularly criticised for the methods they employ in disrupting hunts. Many hunt followers tell tales of having been pulled from their horses by "sabs".
Lee Moon, of the HSA, said: "The only reason the HSA continues to exist is because hunts up and down the country routinely break the law while killing foxes. We are the only ones who see what is really going on in the countryside, and it's we who are responding to it by getting between the hunters and the hunted, much the same as we have been doing for almost half a century. The hunts are still killing, the police aren't policing and so we are still sabbing."
The company, founded by Mark Constantine, donated more than £500,000 to charities and campaign groups last year. In December 2008 it paid the legal fees of the 56 protesters from Plane Stupid who broke into Stansted airport and delayed thousands of passengers.
@ 2009-10-31 – 17:25:30
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
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