Judge for yourself

OK, before I start, don't forget that today is "Eat An Animal For Peta" day. Chuck something dead on the barbeque for lunch and dinner and then go to the PETA Is Full Of Crap website to list the animals you ate. I'm going to try and persuade my family to eat some Chinese duck this evening just to be different. I also had a pig sandwhich at lunchtime.

Good suggestion from Abby; I quite like the name "Ragnar". I see it's a Norse name and means "wise leader". I still think I like Angus, Oliver, and Sanders better. While researching Ragnar, I also found Raghnall (not sure how to pronounce that) which means "wise and powerful". Raghnall is apparently Celtic/Gaelic, which appeals to me. It's good to see that Dickie approves of Humphrey, everybody else thinks I'm mad.

The parents will be paying us a visit today, and this time I might even be home before they leave. I'm going to call them shortly and remind them to bring their keys for our back door. There are three keys currently (four if you count the one the estate agents failed to recover) and they have two of them. They are no use at all on their own since I installed a second back door lock, but it's a pain in the butt not having them.

It's been suggested that my current employer might ask me to extend my contract. I quite want to, but right now I'm not really ready to commit myself to anything over the arrival time. It's annoying not knowing when he's going to pop out. I quite like the name Giles too, but it means baby goat apparently (or shield bearer, depending on where you look it up) and that would just be cruel wouldn't it?

I seem to have attracted notes from Taipei and Virginia on the last entry. Isn't that where the Waltons live? (Virginia, not Taipei of course). The picture painted of Virginia by Brandenburg's Angel would seem to be rather different to Walton's Mountain, but an interesting read non the less. A pagon commenting on my page, who'd have thought it?

Tonight Tony Blair is to face a commons vote on his education reforms. He will win, but he's already had to bribe and blackmail his own backbenchers to vote for him and he will still have to rely heavily on conservative support to make up the numbers. I can't say that I have strong feelings about the reforms themselves. It's another one of those votes that can go either way and still please me. If he wins it's only because he was bailed out, if he loses it's because he's a failure. According to the Telegraph editorial this morning, the Blairs have mortgages totalling £4 million and that's why Cherie is charging outrageous amounts of cash for talking bollocks to people with more money than sense.

And, in conclusion...

Is it just me, or does Pope Benedict XVI looks exactly like Fester Adams. Too much for coincidence? You never see them together do you!


Uncle Fester:



The Pope:


Judge for yourself!