I see Enid Blyton has a new book out:
Ideal opportunity for competent DIY enthusiast
The house 100 yards down the hill has just come on to the market:
Going for a song, apparently.
Rhubarb fool
Yesterday saw the annual forced rhubarb harvest at Chateau Carter. Jen made rhubarb fool.
Top scran!
Words of wisdom
…courtesy of Mr Mark E Smith in today's Observer:
If I could change one law I would reverse the smoking ban immediately. I was in a pub last Saturday night, just having a quiet pint, and this fella gets his baby out and changes its nappy on the table next to me. That would have never happened before the smoking ban.
He has a point you know, anti-smoking killjoys.
Flu are you?
Who the bloody hell do these so-called pop stars think they are?
First it was Sir Bob Geldof telling us to feed the world. Then it was Sir Bonio from out of U2 trying to sort out pretty much everything else. Now Sir Roger Bloody Daltrey and his cronies are sticking their noses in:
Stick to the fish farming, Daltrey. You know nothing about immunology. You're out of your depth.
Memory like a…
…but they're having more difficulty recalling a memory loss pill.
What on earth are these so-called 'geneticists' playing at?
New Scientist: Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog
A cloned beagle named Ruppy—short for Ruby Puppy—is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light.
Fluorescent puppies, I ask you. What a totally wasted opportunity. If we're going to genetically engineer dogs, why not engineer them to do something useful?
Yes, that's right, I'm on about talking dogs again.
Just imagine: a talking dog.
That's Magic!
Complexity theory
Sunday Times: Cameron Clyne: the banker who swims with sharks
… [Banker Cameron] Clyne has borrowed ideas from everyone from Starbucks to Toyota. Last year, he took his New Zealand management team to Seattle to pick up tips from the aircraft maker Boeing. "They take something like 6m parts from 400 suppliers in 40 countries and in 11 days turn it into a 747. That is complexity. We can't even get a credit-card statement and a savings-account statement in the same envelope."
Getting the chop
Ooooh! In that case, can I?