Irish Political News

I haven't said it yet, but I hope that both Lord James Higham of Strath-Pfeffer and Welshcakes Limencello enjoy themselves. Sometimes life does give us a free lunch ...

From Noodle Pie via Twitter:

Watching crabs wriggling their last in boiling water. I know I'll have to pay for this in another life. But they do taste good.

Noodlepie is a cookery and "bio blogger, journalist, media trainer, dietary explorer".

We're a society in restless pursuit of change: detox, makeover, upgrade, there's an ever increasing list of words for it. But the more we talk about it, the less clear it is what we want to become.

Since the "Galloway Cats" series has just finished, and I will be spared the possible purgatory of keeping an eye on the "Lolcats", I thought I'd post a few that proved unsuitable but were still memorable for their different reasons.

I have had a reader question today: How can I convert a pdf file into something that anyone can download from my blog? Here are my comments.

There are two issues here:

• Converting the PDF File.
• Making the result accessible from a blog website.

Being objective, there was only ever going to be one destination for Mr Galloway ...

... the dustbin of history.

Inspired by Friday Lolcats meme.

And that concludes this series.

Statements that would not be heard in Great Britain:

Construction work for mudroom/verandah is on slow-down for a couple of weeks. Carpenter has gone to hunt bear.

Source:Jen on Twitter. Blog Link: Wildapricot.

Right folks, it's Whitsun recess, so no roundups of the highs and lows of life in the Westminster village today.

CROWD: boooooo!

Fear ye not, normal service will resume next week.

This week, Miss Wagstaff has been climbing down from a high octane family weekend, only to pick at the odd bits of Welsh news before raking over the bones of the Labour electoral turmoil of weeks past... it seems that it will take a while before we get over recent events – London fell; Councils fell; then it was the turn of Crewe and Nantwich. It's no wonder that God invented recess!