Snow

I've been completely forgetting about this blog for months. I'd better post something to keep it up and running. How about a picture of the recent snowy weather. This is Addiscombe Tram Stop. The chap waiting on the right hand platform is a bit of an optimist.

Georgina Baillie

There has been a lot of fuss about voice mail messages left on Andrew Sachs phone by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross regarding Russell having shagged his granddaughter, all on a BBC radio 2 show. Thousands of complaints have followed by 'Angry of Tonbridge Wells' demanding the sacking of the presenters etc etc. Am I completely alone in thinking that it was actually quite funny. It's not as if the lady in question, Georgina Baillie, is a nice little choir girl. She is an exotic dancer and glamour model. I'm sure she can put up with a bit of stick and this is just the publicity she would crave to push her into the mainstream. I bet she will be on 'Celebrity Big Brother' next and be making a small fortune out of appearances in magazines such as Nuts. If Sachs had kept his appointment to appear on Brand's show he wouldn't have been subjected to the voice mails and his granddaughters career would never have taken off as well as it will now.

World record sandwich? Iranians eat evidence

Having seen the food at parties disappear in seconds whilst visiting Iran this story really comes as no great surprise.

Iran failed Friday to register what it said would be the world's largest sandwich in the Guinness book of World Records after people rushed forward and began eating it -- before it was measured.

Event organisers had planned to stuff the 1,500-metre-long sandwich with 700 kg of ostrich meat and 700 kg of chicken, and display it in a park in the capital Tehran.

But as the sandwich was being measured, chaos ensued. The giant snack was gone in minutes, a Reuters witness said, leaving the three Guinness representatives present with a dilemma.

One of the event's organisers said video footage of the sandwich would be sent to Guinness officials.

"We still think the sandwich will be recorded in the Guinness book because of all the evidence and footage that we will send them," Parvin Shariati said.

Daddy's Bad Girl

Some news to cheer the heart at long last. It was revealed this week that Yasmin Fostok, 27, the daughter of the radical Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, is a pole dancer.

Bakri preached that all women should be covered from head to toe. Banned from the UK he now lives in Lebanon. He did try to get back when the Israeli's bombed Beirut but was stopped from doing so.

Sadly, since the news broke in The Sun, Yasmin has been moved out of her Catford apartment to a safe house by police to protect her from attacks by Muslim extremists.

It transpired that Bakri actually paid for her boob job, her telling him that she felt she would be a better mother with larger breasts, but she obviously had second thoughts about motherhood and has put her assets to a more profitable cause.

Holy Frog

The Vatican has been getting into a tizzy over this exhibit at a museum in northern Italy, depicting a crucified frog holding a tankard of beer and an egg. The Pope himself has called it blasphemous.

Anything that upsets the Pope and the rest of his followers has to be a good thing in my book.

I'm not a great fan of modern art but in this case I will make an exception.

Off on holiday

I'm off this Friday on a one month trip to Armenia, Iran and India. Hopefully this will solve the lack of things to write on this page and I will have some nice pictures to post at the end of August.

Goodbye Ken. Missing You Already!

It was pretty close but we have managed to get rid of Ken and thus the fears that the loathsome, expensive and pointless congestion charge will spread like a cancer all over London. It would have been inevitable that the 'emission' zone currently aimed at commercial vehicles would have embraced private cars before long as well. Hopefully Boris will also stop the practise of doing away with indented bus stops. Ken had them stopping in the main carriageway, thus purposefully holding up cars.

It remains to be seen how Boris manages the other issues, such as law and order, the 2012 Olympics, etc. Hopefully less of our money will be wasted on dubious minority groups as well.

Of course, not everything Ken did was bad. He did get rid of those filthy pigeons from Trafalgar Square despite pressure from some daft 'save the pigeons' campaigners.