Weekly Round Up

Hello all,

I'm back already. I know - I spoil you all. Am on the cusp of my week off now. Its been quite lovely. Spent some time with the husband and also a good chunk of time away from work.  The new job is taking a while to get used to so I thought the best thing to do in the circumstances was run away from it all for a week and take some of my outstanding holiday from last year. The 52 days I get can be very difficult to use up if you get distracted and I know I have all of your sympathies.

Am getting very excited about the new house and I will be waiting with trembling excitement tomorrow morning awaiting the written confirmation that our offer has been accepted. Then we can get the valuation up and running and then things should really start moving. I wish I could show you pictures of the house and its lovely garden but I forgot to take the camera so the only ones are the ones on the website which do it no justice at all. The only downside is the bathroom which is a bit ropey and doesn't even have a bath. This will not do, so the first thing we'll be doing is ripping the old one out and installing a new one. I fancy the idea of a free standing tub bath and a wet room. I did go on ebay this evening to price up baths and got sidetracked into one of those paid for ads at the side that gave online quotes for wetrooms. I like the idea of a wetroom so typed in rough dimensions. It came to a shade under £45,000! So I am not sure what I am getting for our money, but for that price gold and the accompanying bad taste must be in there somewhere. Anyway, suffice to say we'll be doing that room ourselves as well.

Not much else going on at the moment. I am mightily pissed off with Rupert Murdoch at the moment - not that he will give two shits, I am sure. A little while ago he bought Bravo and Virgin 1 (now renamed Channel One) for stupidly large sums of money. Well he has now gone and closed them - conveniently just as he launches a new channel containing a fair bit of the same programming but behind his paywall. Since we are with a cable operator we have no access to this new channel, even if we wanted to pay for it - which we don't. Its another example of his continuing abuse of his market position and exactly the same old tricks he used to get up to with his newspapers - buy the less successful ones and shut them down to stifle the competition. I honestly don't know how the old cunt gets away with it. Vince Cable had the right idea when he said he was making it his mission to tame him. I can't see how his bid to gain full control of BSYKB can get past the authorities now, if this is an example of his idea of competition. He probably will though on account of the fact that Cameron is a lilly livered tosser. I don't actually watch too much tv but Channel One had repeats of Star Trek Voyager on which, as everyone knows, was by far the best Star Trek franchise, what with the strong but fair Captain Janeway and the cute Harry Kim. I used to watch them whilst I was on my exercise bike. Now I will have to watch Jeremy Kyle and that show makes me so mad I'll probably have a heart attack whilst watching it, rather defeating the object of exercise.

Speaking of Cameron I see he wants to sell off the forests to the highest bidder. Apparently its all in the name of the "Big Society". Now, there are two points here. Firstly, The Forestry Commision seems to have done a very good job over the last 50 years of managing our lovely forests - certainly I have not heard any squirrels complaining. Secondly, this whole big society crap is really starting to piss me off. Apparently we are all to get more involved. Well I do get involved already. I get involved by going to visit the things I already pay for out of my taxes. I don't see why I should pay more to get less. This whole "Big Society" idea can be summed up as the idea that government "should do the least it can possibly get away with and be less accountable than it has ever been". It was bad enough when essential monopolistic services were privatised and tarted up as competitive services which would make things cheaper for the consumer. Yeah - like that happened. Now they are selling off the rest. Soon, the whole accountability of government activity will be reduced to one old bloke charged with emptying the litter bin at the end of Downing Street with everything else been left to us to sort out. Its the same with schools being allowed to opt out. The concept being that parents are best placed to run the schools their children go to.  Well, in my opinion, parents are the very last people you would want running schools. Half of them can't spell and the other half are too busy attending car boot sales, downing their own weight in cheap booze and playing Farmville. I suppose Cameron wants us to perform our own operations next as we are no doubt best placed to pop back in an errant hernia or lop out a spleen. He really is a wanker of the first order and if he wants to give us control of anything I suggest he gives us control of sewage disposal as I would be more than happy to drive up Downing Street and stuff a load of shit through his letter box.  Not just my own either. I'm quite happy to collect for every street in my area - that's the kind of big society guy I am.

Anyway I came across this amusing article when I typed in the terms "Cameron Cunt" into Google. Enjoy.