Easter Treat?

The internet seems to be zipping along at the proper speed today. Which just goes to show they can deliver a proper service if they try.
    But getting them to try, that’s the issue.

Best place for him

‘Why can’t Yoko Ono forgive the bloke who killed John Lennon?’, asked the comic Craig Brown of a woman who has been preaching peace & forgiveness all her life.
    Maybe because it gives her peace of mind to know that Chapman, the killer, will rot in jail until he croaks.

Blung! Pratinga Bout!

For no apparent reason, Great! TV has hurled us back to the middle of series 5 of The Avengers. Another of life’s ongoing mysteries.
    Steed is back in his old banger with the straps on the bonnet and Mrs. Peel has a car that’s as swish as Tara’s.

There are better stories

It’s all very well for the Christian minority to rant that the BBC is ignoring their Easter festivals in favour of Ramadan, doing it’s usual trick of favouring something foreign over the national equivalent.
    But the fact remains that The Greatest Story Ever Told is just Hollywood hype. Yes, it’s a story, and maybe based on a few facts, but it’s as real as anything that comes out of the film industry. And as relevant to most of the population as Hollywood is to non-cinema-goers.
    And, like all religions, it has been used to excuse torture, murder and theft from people who don’t accept it as well as an excuse for doing good by stealth.

Down the plughole, please

I don’t live in the area ‘served’ and heavily polluted by Thames Water, but I’m all in favour of letting the company go bust instead of getting a £15 billion bail-out from the taxpayer, of which I am one of the more demanded-from sort.
    The company paid stupid amounts of cash to the gang running the show and ran up massive debts to feed cash to its shareholders rather for than infrastructure upkeep.
    In the real world, that’s a course heading straight for the buffers. Which is where Thames Water should end up.

Surprise!

My internet connection is all over the place again today and when I try to do any mail, I see “oauth.virginmedia.com” at the bottom of the screen and nothing much happening.
    I know what sort of Oath is appropriate for this and I doubt whoever owns VM now would appreciate it. And google seems to be involved in the delays somehow.
    “Update failed” when I try to load a new post here. Tap the space bar a couple of times, tab backspace a couple of times and watch the arrow go round and round a bit more and hope it gets the job done this time.

Good excuse

Not being a bogus asylum seeker and not pretending to be a Christian, I excused myself from buying overpriced or underweight Easter eggs.
    The Mansion chef came up instead with an interesting line in chocolate X-buns, which can be served hot or cold, according to the consumer’s preference. Delish either way.