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BBC: Sir Elton performs in Queen's palace

No, this doesn't mean he's been performing at home.

I have now received a reply to my letter to Ofsted about all the recent Gateshead creationist nonsense. The Chief Inspector of Schools sounds like a good chap.

Postscript [04-May]: Me and my big mouth! He's left his job.

Hey, my friend Irish Mick has done a cartoon of yours truly. A damn good likeness, if you ask me. If ever I get abducted by aliens and replaced with an impostor, the absence of a pen in the top pocket would be a dead giveaway.

…But am I really that fat? (Rhetorical question.)

I have now written a letter to Ofsted about all the recent Gateshead creationist nonsense.

Headline in this week's Hebden Bridge Times:

Former addict stole gammon steaks for birthday treat

On first reading, I thought the felon must be a reformed meat addict, but it turns out they were talking about drugs. Pity - it would have given a whole new meaning to the phrase fancy a joint?

In the same edition of the Hebden Bridge Times:

Dawdling ducks
Only three of the 2,500 ducks launched in the annual race along Hebden Water made it to the finishing line on Monday. Organisers blamed low water levels for the plastic competitors becoming grounded.
- Full story page three

I've just received a reply to my letter to Estelle Morris, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, about a piece in the Guardian newspaper, which reported how science teaching at a school in Gateshead is being undermined by Christian fundamentalists.

It's official: spring is finally here - I've just found my first slug of the year in the garden. Time to dust off the old slug-slinger.

BBC: Britain Mourns Queen Mother

That's as maybe, but it's her corgis I feel sorry for.

Following on from my letter to Estelle Morris, I have written a Letter to the Bishop of Oxford to congratulate him on his recent anti-creationist broadcast. [No, I'm not sure what my letter is trying to say either.]

I've just sent a letter to Estelle Morris, Secretary of State for Education and Skills,about a piece in yesterday's Guardian newspaper, which reported how science teaching at a school in Gateshead is being undermined by Christian fundamentalists.