Running out of clean underwear

Heard in the office today:
"Is Malcolm still stranded in Madrid?"
"Dunno"
"Must be running out of clean underwear by now"

Haven't seen an aeroplane for a week now. Astounding isn't it that one volcanoe can cause this much disruption. People are starnded all over the planet.The airlines a re now questioning how dangerous it actually is to fly. There don't seem to be any ssafe limits defined and some airlines have sent up test flights without issues. I'd have said sending up a test flight was a bit dodgy. I'd want danger money if I was the pilot.

We spent the weekend in Devon. It was very lovely weather and we had lunch on Sunday at the Tarka Inn. It was all very nice. I had the beef and Guiness pie.

Finally Mothercare came through yesterday and delivered the final piece of our order. It's taken well over a month, countless phone calls, bitten fingernails, etc. I am currently composing a sarcastic complaint letter which will be published here.

Gordon Brown came to Swindon yesterday and made an utter arse of himself because the Tory council banned him from visiting a school. I don't understand what's going on inthis election campaign any more. The Lib Dems are doing better than expected but won't get into bed with Labour, despite it being their only hope of power. Labour are desperately trying to get into bed with the Lib Dems anyway, but at the same time telling everyone that voting Lib Dem will mean a Tory government. Meanwhile the Tories are claiming that a vote for the Lib Dems will result in a Labour geovernment. All most odd.

Do you know, and this is facinating, that there were 143 NHS sex change operations in UK in 2009. In 2000 there were 54. And, over the last 10 years, there have been 853 male to female operations, and just 12 female to male. Read the article, there are loads of other cool facts and figures in there. I love the final two paragraphs in that article:

"For a man wanting to become a woman, surgery involves the removal of male genitalia and the creation of female genitalia."

And, wait for it,

"For a woman to become a man, the breasts, uterus and ovaries are removed and male genitalia is created."

I'd never have worked that out for myself. We've been discussing this article in the office and it started an argument about whether hens turn into cocks after they have stopped laying eggs.