Some of my Tweets regarding the Gove Boat

Michael Gove today proposed spunking £60+ million away on a new yacht for Queenie's jubilee, a magnificient present for a rich women from a grovelling, lickspittle shite.

• Mr Gove, if we can get rid of useless teachers, will the same rules apply right up the chain of command? #fortheloveofgodjustgo
• Still can't believe Michael Gove wants to spunk £60m+ on a boat. Perhaps we can loan HRH one of the aircraft-less aircraft carriers.
• If Michael Gove really wants to buy the Queen a big, pointless boat, can pay for it out of his departmental budget. #TheGoveBoat 
• Alternatively, every department in Govenment has to cough up £5m. That'll make him uber-popular round the cabinet table. #TheGoveBoat
• Austerity (n): to cut benefits from the disabled & poor in order to pay for a large boat for a rich old woman. #TheGoveBoat #ued
• In any case it seems Cameron plans to give Queenie a big gift. He's busily clawing money from cancer patients & disabled kids to pay for it.
  
  
  2 others (retweeted):
  • Tim Doble @BetterThanToday Mother is losing her job as a consequence of libraries being shut down. Meanwhile, Michael Gove wants to spend £60m on a yacht. #thegoveboat
  •  Matthew Doye @MatthewDoye  To pay for Gove's proposed yacht would take 1,167,315 weeks of higher rate mobility DLA from disabled people #TheGoveBoat #wrb

Sandstrom oven

We bought a Sandstrom combi microwave/oven from Curry's in September (for £100). The only design flaw is that of the interface between the rotator and the turntable as the 'pegs' aren't deep enough but it is useable.

Or at least it was.

On Sunday 08/01/12 Lou warmed the oven up to 200ºc & put her pheasant in. We were watching the football when there was a huge bang. When she investigated Lou found out the the glass (?) tuntable platter has broken into 4 pieces.

When she contacted Curry's stating that this had happened, she was told that we can have a replacement (should think so too!) but we'd have to bring the whole oven back, rather than just the plate.

We are quite annoyed about this as it means either taking 2 taxi's (£15 - £20) or trying to take it on the bus (still around £10).

As this is less than 4 months old we are NOT happy.

La Redoute naked man

French fashion chain La Redoute has been left red-faced after it forgot to airbrush a naked bather from a promotional photograph for its children's clothes. Since then he's appeared all over the place!

Random thoughts from last night

1. What does it say about our country when we can spend £10bn (+) on two weeks of sport but can't afford to help pensioners keep warm?
2. All Liverpool's defeat by City really proved is that Man City's multi-millionaires are miles better than our multi-millionaires.

Bank holiday drink in the Tivoli

We popped into the Tivoli on the 2nd of January. As we sat there, 2 guys went past paddling surfboards.

Back to work :¬(

Tuesday brings a return to work. The printroom was pretty cold as I went round plugging stuff back in. This was after battling high winds to get to work (Ceri tweeted that she wasn't in Kansas anymore, which summed it up quite well).

Nothing in the inbox so I downloaded & edited photos from NYE etc tinyurl.com/7o7dxzj

At around 11am there was one of the most vicious rainstorms I have ever seen - howling wind & horizontal rain. By lunchtime the storm had passed and there was blue skies.

Sales & Yikes!

Having had a tip-off from Mooley that LA Senza were having a big sale we  went over. After rooting through the 38GG & 36F stuff (not to mention the size 18 pants) Lou got a bodice/corset thing & a red bra for £10. Result!

Passed info & showed stuff to Dick & Alissia - they plan to go on Tuesday.

Jarad came into the pub on crutches. Apparently he'd swung out of the van on Wednesday and landed on a stone. Despite being in a lot of pain they made him work. He assumed he'd bruised it. He finally went to A&E to find out that he'd actually split his heel bone! 6 - 8 weeks on crutches.