Come the Revolution

Or so Walsall Council believes.  I wonder what the Stymaster and Mistress make of this?

Hope you computery types have been watching this excellent BBC programme about the Web and the Internet. They’ve even managed to explain some of the terms properly!

Nico Rosburg has been named as the reserve driver for Mercedes making it an all German line up for them. So we have Jensen and Lewis in the McLaren and Ferrari sporting Alonso and the returning Massa makes this one of potentially one of the most interesting championships for years. Lets hope it lives up to that. I for one am looking forward to the start of the season as it often means that spring is almost upon us at last!

Anyway, who is your money on to win? Red Bull?

This BBC report states that US teenagers are giving up on blogging and going for more “shorter and more mobile forms of communication.”

Ha! Doesn’t this just reflect the fact that Americans kids have a short attention span reinforced by the fact that their TV stops every 10 minutes for a advert break?

One good thing though is that they aren’t using Twatter Twitter for their 2 second conversations!

I like blogging. Its a sort of therapy and a way of keeping the conversation going after the pub has shut. Long live the blog!

Objective: Los Parentis have been away for the weekend with their neighbours so we had the task for looking after their cats for the weekend. The male cat suffers from an over-active thyroid so requires medication, hence why we looked after him. The other cat just squawks a lot. Its not been too bad as their are well old now so don’t too much but sometimes you just reap what you sow. The only place in the garden that has a gap in it it behind the shed and guess where the damn cat went first! Yep. Straight over the neighbours who doesn’t like cats and he wouldn’t come back!

Eventually retrieved I was able to play the German guard – “For you, cooler; one hour” Or sent to the garage which isn’t very warm at this time of the year. He soon worked out that behaving = warm house: naughty cat=cooler.

No trouble the rest of the weekend and returned to owners.Didn’t find any signs of tunnels or gliders in the loft. Red Cross parcels all consumed and no missing light bulbs.

Mission Accomplished.

This Mark Easton article on the BBC Website is worth a read as it confirms what we suspected. Is the Beeb getting the message at last?

JC took us on a “smash and drink” last night – Salty’s 50th birthday party in Somerset, near Weston-Super-Mare. Becase of the traffic (3 1/2 hours to get there), we didn’t get to the pub until 9 which shut at 12 so it was back to the Brithday Boy’s to drink for some of his whiskey. So a bit slow today as June’s car is playing up so even with the hammer down the damn thing wouldn’t do more than 70.

Great night out though and well worth the trip down. Some real messing about as we did when we were 21! June was complaining that JC was trying to go to the en suite through the wrong door – 3 times! No change there then in 30 years.

Anyway, next up is my Birthday I think on the 8th June, but the party will be on the 5th as thats the best Saturday – the World Cup starts on the 11th. It’ll be in the Village somewhere so book the date now and no excuses unless you’re:

• Pregnant about to drop
• In hospital or suffering a life endangering condition
• You’re playing for England

If you’re holding your 50th and I’m invited, let me know as this year is the year of 50 parties and we’ve had 2 already.

The voice of rugby Bill McLaren died today which is a great loss both to the game and to broadcasting. He’ll be sadly missed.

I can remember many a dull Saturday afternoon in the winter watching the Rugby when there was nothing else to do and he came over as rather a headmaster telling you the finer points of the game which were largely beyond me.

Now we’ve sold all the family silver, we’re now selling one of our best companies to the American’s. How sad.