Wall, Cadbury's, airport security, and a young and happy me.

So coming past the other night I spot a gouge and it's corresponding chunk of brickwork taken out of the protruding wall on the bridge next to the Crown, yep the one I mentioned could do with a reflector back in November.


I see Cadbury's have been fined £1m for letting salmonella into their food. Apparently they changed the testing procedure from a zero-tolerance to an "allowable tolerance". Best snippet came from the local BBC news where the reporter quoted the judge as explaining that 'although the change wasn't initiated for monetary reasons the welcome savings it would have afforded meant it was not as thoroughly examined as it might have been' - yeah make of that what you will.

Apparently the contamination caused a child to be admitted to hospital, some serious problems in adults including causing one to loose a stone in weight… anyone else thinking of introducing this as a new weight-loss diet?


As it’s holiday time GMTV decided to give the standard lecture sorry warning about tanning and sun cream etc. this was just after the advert for fake tan that demonstrated how having a tan was a sexy and attractive thing. I was already confused by the caption when I switched on that proclaimed it was the 27th of July.

In the same vein the BBC went to Birmingham Airport to ask if people were aware of the security restrictions still in place, the answer was – sort of. Large quantities of liquids are still banned, and they still need to be stuck in a clear plastic bag. The shock was that at least lighters are now banned, not because you can set fire to things with them, but because they contain liquid – brilliant. Oh and you can’t drop off people in front of the terminal, unless you’re at Heathrow in which case you can. Good to know these things are being dealt with in a consistent manner.

Of course we all know why liquids are banned, it’s those damn terrorists plotting to use liquid explosives to blow up planes. Yep that’s a real threat. It’s interesting when you look into how all the experts agree that liquid explosives tend to be volatile (so you risk setting it off just by walking to the airport), You don’t need much to cause a problem (so the limit isn’t really useful) and besides why are you concentrating on just liquids?

So to put it bluntly it’s still bollocks, it means that it looks like security is doing something, and gets you to buy all your liquid purchases from the airport shops. You want to blow up a plane and you're determined enough to do so and posses some vague glimmer of intelligence then none of these 'security' restrictions will hinder you.


My father decided to have a week off, take my mother out to do some fun things. So apparently yesterday he got “Well I’m doing this all morning” then “Hey we need to go to [so-and-so] to sort out some financial issues”. So there went Monday and today he got “Well I’ve an appointment this morning and then we can try [so-and-so]’s again as they weren’t there yesterday” – heh no doubt tomorrow it’ll be belting it down.

Anyway this means that yesterday morning he spent a lot of time going through the old photo albums – “We’ve got lots of shots of you when you were young all happy and smiley… what happened?” Gee thanks, the answer is that as soon as I was old enough to say no and dodge out from under the camera’s gaze I did so.