Cruel but funny…

Opened my inbox today to find an email with the subject:

Bad day for Steps fans, H is dead

The contents of said email? One image…

Swine Flu – jokes already

Thing is, I’m not entirely sure I believe that the media paranoia is a bad thing – any virus which can spread to this many countries in a short space of time sounds bad news to me.

Monica Lewinsky back on the scene?

Is it her? I’m just not sure…

It’s not easy being green?

I think occasionally we all need a little reminder about global warming.

This ice was holding back a larger ice shelf, about the size of Jamaica – it was acting a bit like a cork, keeping everything in place.

Channel Four showed Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth last night. Whilst flicking around the [...]

Hate crimes advertisements

Found this on the number 88 Clapham Omnibus this morning…

Hate crimes advertisement

It’s a bit grainy, but you can see the headline “Being Black, White or Asian is not a crime… Safer Lambeth”.

The blue box says “You could: Receive and ASBO, lose your home or go to prison!”

I won’t draw into [...]

Newsreaders have a sex change…

There was something not quite right about the telly this morning.

Susanna had turned into a man, and Charlie was a woman.

Charlie and Susanna

Meanwhile, elsewhere on BBC News, Daniel Corbett says the weather in Kent is localised and cold…

-99 degrees (Celsius, not Farenheit) in Kent

And in Windsor there’s a [...]

Wax Bar, Playa Blanca, as seen on TV

Helen (smiler) from Wax Bar, CC Papagayo, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, on UTV’s ‘Come Fly With Julian’.

Helen (smiler), from Wax Bar, located in CC Papagayo , Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, interviewed in Puerto del Carmen whilst she wsa out shopping, by Julian Simmons, for UTV’s ‘Come Fly With Me’.

Helen is sporting a Wax Bar [...]

Banksy is back in town

He’s elusive, and no-one really knows who he is, but Banksy appears to be back in town, after his pet shop exhibition in New York.

Two new works have popped up over the last week alone, one in Dalston Kingsland, east London, and one at Hanley’s Corner, on the North Circular A406/A1 junction.

"Last [...]

Bacon is a meat!

Marks and Spencer Spaghetti Carbonara

How many people had to complain to Marks and Spencer that they weren’t expecting there to be meat in their carbonara, for them to print such a bold red warning on the packaging?

Bono arriving at Broadcasting House