Lovely day in London today. Was driving about which is slightly worry ing as I've got to fuel up soon. That brings the fuel price rise home when you start worrying about whether you can afford it.

keep to the Fen Causeway

The first thing to notice is that the hall isn't quite as full as last year. The downturn has had an impact.

Obviously america is being pushed hard cos it's the only place where the Brits have a price advantage. Suddenly Italy makes quite an entrance, it's always been there at the margins, but this was the first time I've really noticed it, particularly Calabria. Spain is slowly ebbing away, nobody is interested anymore. Croatia is still getting interest even though everybody knows there's no profit there.

However I was especially pleased to see how professional the Bulgarian stands are looking these days and flooging more than bloody Bansko and sodding Sunny Beach and Varna. No Sandanski, but I'm secretly pleased by that.

keep to the Fen Causeway

In a speech at Imperial College in London overnight, Mr Mahathir called for an international tribunal to try US President George W. Bush, Mr Howard and former British prime minister Tony Blair for their part in the conflict, said the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim group that organised the event.

Spokesman Mohammed Shafiq said Mr Mahathir, who was in office from 1981 to 2003, wanted to see the trio tried "in absence for war crimes committed in Iraq".

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23601185-401,00.html

Sat 26/04/08 - The first of six wind turbines base towers has left the West Flemish coastal town of Ostend for the Thornton Bank. The wind turbine base will be transported 30km to the North Sea sandbank off the Flemish coast. Once completed, the wind turbines will tower 184 metres above the North Sea. The first turbine base should arrive at the Thornton Bank on Sunday morning. C-Power is the company behind the multi-mullion-euro project to provide enough wind energy to supply 600,000 homes. A total of 60 wind turbines should be up and running by 2012.

Well, this is over all over the media here and with a big show in Ostend (with participation of our DL).

The same politicians who did nothing but sabotaging and delaying the wind-energy projects are stealing the limelight now.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

State moves to ban fake testicles on vehicles

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state.

Republican Sen. Cary Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis, Florida, called the adornments offensive and proposed the ban. Motorists would be fined $60 for displaying the novelty items, which are known by brand names like "Truck Nutz" and resemble the south end of a bull moving north.

The Florida Senate voted last week to add the measure to a broader transportation bill, but it is not included in the House version.

It'll take twelve weeks to six months for a full recovery if she's going to make one - they're giving her a 90% change. In the meantime it's physiotherapy multiple times a day - helping   her stand on her back legs and later they recommend swimming, which should be interesting because she hates the water.

On the plus side, she's been wolfing steak, rice and chicken and we were pathetically pleased to hear her annoying whine as she pleaded for food off our plates.

And I discovered that almost any pill will go straight down if you wrap it in steak fat!

The traditional May Day parades with brass bands and poltiical speeches seem to be falling out of favour. Erkki Tuomioja, former Foreign Minister and fairly leftish Social Democrat, recently said that May Day parades should be forgotten.

I did march on May 1st in Prague 1968 though.

You can't be me, I'm taken