If you want to get ahead, get a cat basket

Despite having electrics in my blood I feel this week that I may need a rewire. I’m knackered, and it’s difficult to really know why, oh.... Other than the cat’s slow POW tactics of ensuring I don’t ever get a full night’s sleep.... and regularly working in Buckinghamshire, Northants, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire nearly every day, and possibly due to the fact that every weekend I have the prospects of the ever increasing DIY list that now includes (new in at number one) replacing the shower.
Still, having found this exclusive picture of Caroline Quentin in a cat basket head piece I feel a little better about my lot.

Cafe Ganges, Fenny Stratford

Wednesdays and Sundays are the days when Cafe Ganges joins in the ‘Big Society.’ They embrace the Coalitions community ideals by feeding the waifs and strays of Milton Keynes for just £9.95. For this, (on a Wednesday) you get a starter, main, side and rice, and on the Sabbath, it’s the full Monty, eat as much as you can, waist stretcher. Having unfortunately missed this year’s annual credit card massacre on February 14th we decided to once again pay Ganges a call for a mid week, under a tenner blow out. With the place about half full we still had good service and a fair choice. I thought that my Rogan Josh was a bit mild and lacked any real kick but the chicken was really good and there was plenty of it. In fact you cannot really fault any part of the evening because even with a couple of beers and a good look at the pickle tray and popadom combo, we only ended up paying just over £30 quid.

National Pie Week

Its national pie week and I have already wasted a day.
Although I have to say that the Pie World could be better organised. One place on the internet says it started on the 1st of March and others say the 7th and even one stated that it went through until April the something. (I think those guys were possibly hardliners and extremists, and I don’t really think I want to get involved with them) My favourite is Shepherd’s pie which is funny really because I have never cornered, cajoled or groomed sheep much, and I can’t recall much of the countryside code other than close all gates and don’t covet your neighbours ox.
Anyway, I am inclined to believe that it IS this week and will be filling my boots as from tomorrow.

If I had been Natasha Kaplinsky agent I really wouldnt have got her involved in this one. I mean it's not even grammatically correct.

Bush (to rear) with Comedy Dance Star

"It's the Grease show toons that did it"

Imagine my delight to find the artist formally known as Chris Hamill wearing a syrup and dancing with Chesney Hawkes, Toyah and Clare Grogan on prime time telly last night. The last time our paths crossed was in the summer of 2010 in a rehearsal studio on the Liscombe Park estate just outside Leighton Buzzard. I had been ask to attend by Leighton’s second best bassist who currently is touring with Kimberley Wildebeest to cast my eye and ear over the last Goo Goo rehearsals before they went to some unpronounceable eastern bloc country who still like big hair. On that occasion without Clare, Chesney and Mss Wilcox his moves weren’t anything to write home about which I clearly stated in a letter to my mother at the time, however last night He and those other 80’s gyrating crooners was good enough to beat a fat bloke in a leotard and that in anyone’s book is quality!

Principals are a fine thing NOT to have when there's money to be made

I believe that we are now in the depths of a new world order, balancing the perverse Ying and Yang of despot power across our increasingly small planet. Whilst megalomaniac dictators falter or fall in Bahrain, Saudi, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, we in the U.K are about to prepare to embrace and finally give up the last shreds of any real independence in our media, to enable Mr Murdoch to take control of everything.
Whilst many will claim that they are not influenced by what they watch, listen or read, history proves that, just which party the bulk of the media gets behind tends to win. With the possible exception of the last election when the Murdoch media who backed Cameron fell short, but then reluctantly took a shine to the Lib Dems, Nick ‘We are different’ Clegg as an afterthought.
So it is of no surprise that this week it has been sanctioned by the coalition that Rupert can extend his media portfolio to influence even more of us with subliminal messaging of his chosen politics of the day, bearing in mind that it is with purely HIS backing that they were put there in the first place!
I find it difficult to understand why so many didn’t see this coming with his various free pimping of ‘services’ that ultimately will cost loads.
Here ends the lesson for today. (for now)

A couple of posts

It is a fence that any member of the coalition should be happy to sit on. Unfortunately no members of the government were available for comment or prepared to balance precariously on my new feather edged, overlapped wooden wonder.
This project had become a labour of love over the last few weeks taking way more time and money than I really have, which may have been the reason why I unfortunately managed to fence myself in to our neighbours garden after a frenzy of nailing featherboards on their side in an effort to get finished. A quickly formed exit strategy saw me attempting to gate crash their gate only to be caught red handed by Barry and having to fess up to interfering with his trellis and then a asking for a series of other fences to be taken into consideration.
Anyway as you will see it is a thing of beauty.