Sunday 30 December 2007

Emo Claus


Emo Santa
Originally uploaded by dazzer67
Well Christmas is over for another year and the world has taken to heart the message of good will to all men (but hasn't extended it to female political leaders - perhaps next year).

I have managed to have a nice time, a good break and am now well into the swing of creating some resolutions for 2008, but before I go there I'd like to say a few things about Christmas.

Once again Santa brought me Dr Who on DVD and I am also now the proud owner of a moleskin diary and notepad (I feel so cool I've had to turn up the central heating). In the sales I managed to pick up a couple of bargains. The top one has to be The Doves CD Some Cities, which I manged to pick up for just £2. I also picked up A Scanner Darkly and The Man With Two Brains for £3 each.

So onto 2008, what am I going to do? Well I'll leave that for another post. If I leave putting up my resolutions till at least five minutes into January 1st I will have already the broken the ones I wasn't going to keep anyway.

Tuesday 18 December 2007

Panto season at the optician

Well I needed my six monthly contact lens check this morning and so made my way to the local opticians. What I didn't know was that panto season had just started there. The optician, one I hadn't met before, did the check up in a traditional camp panto stylee that would have made Ricky Gervais in Extras proud. The highlight of which was the phrase, 'would you mind opening your legs.' Let me add that this was in order for the eye apparatus to be moved closer to me on the chair.

I apparently have very interesting eyes, in opthalmic terms, but I'm sure I've heard that line used before somewhere.

However, all is in order and I can continue with my monthly contact lenses for the foreseeable future. My next visit will be at the height of the seaside special season so I will expect drunken laughter, too much sun cream and lots of sunglasses.

Tuesday 4 December 2007

Intelligence reports

Okay, I'm not going to do a cheap gag about US and UK intelligence, but what I am going to mention is the big issue of trust. Before the coalition decided to invade Iraq, the world was told, based on information in Intelligence Reports, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and could launch a significant attack in about 45 minutes.

Now we are being told that Iran, isn't making any WMDs, and if it decided to, it couldn't do it until about 2015 at the earliest. (That's the year, not quarter past eight.) And so as I sit here, sipping the rapidly cooling cup of tea, I am not left in a state of peace, assured that the world is a much safer place.

Trust is an important issue and the world seems to be losing it big time.

Intelligence?