Bulldog spirit

Yes, yes, I know some of you are (shall we say?) a tad critical of the British gubmint (pause for widespread, even furrry heckling…..) but may I make a point by way of balance? Last night Cameron used the veto to draw a line in the European sand. Unlike his Opposition he didn’t want the Federalists to make further inroads into British sovereignty and hog-tie the City of London in deference to the Franco-German policies of envy. Other than Hungary (who agreed with him) and Sweden (who had to go home to ask Dad) the rest of the lily-livered mob are going to accept that their national budgets and expenditure will be controlled by Berlin.  No, not by the faceless Commission or bottom-feeding Parliament or feckless Froggies – by Berlin.

Am I anti-German? No. Do I accept their economic imperialism? No. And Cameron has delivered the message. Well done.

RIP, Sherm

Backside and I are fans of M*A*S*H. It was sometimes cringingly sentimental but more often grippingly ironic and entirely relevant; a tour de force in the genre of ‘war soaps’ that has barely aged a year since it was produced almost 40 years ago. And Harry Morgan who has just died, aged 96, typified its intelligent examination of conflict, both medically and politically. He played Col. Sherman Potter for eight of its glorious years.

RIP, Sherm.

Euro talks

Can someone explain why these talks on the Euro start late evening after a large meal with plenty of booze no doubt. What is wrong with meeting fresh first thing in the morning and having sandwiches and coffee/tea/water so that a clear head is kept?

Mind you this probably explains why they can’t come up with an answer, too pissed or too tired.

Work-boots !!

Farewell to Bellerive Oval in Hobart.   A local boot manufacturer has acquired the naming rights for squillions of dollars, so this famous Tassie cricket field will now be known as the Blundstone Arena.   Since their elastic sided workboots are known by all Aussies as Blunnies, that’s what it will probably come to be called.

But I am delighted to say that many people have sworn to continue to call it the Bellerive Oval;   I’m one of them. Continue reading “Work-boots !!”