I knew this would happen
I have known really ever since I got the invite that it would rain today. Because obviously, after a spell of dry weather, the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque (which by its nature takes place en plein air), to which I am bidden, is clearly Anglo-Saxon Rain Magic.
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Further to the Euston TimeWarp Mystery: London Underground have clearly detected the Alien Timewarping Device concealed behind the clock on the southbound Charing Cross branch platform, which is now dark and blank. We can now breathe more easily as the Morlocks slink back to their even deeper subterranean lairs.
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My reaction to the Home Office plans to extend the sinister tentacles of its surveillance into social networking sites was very similar to Sam Leith's
Finding something useful on Twitter or Facebook would require the same sort of brute-force approach, because the noise-to-signal ratio is so high as to be deafening. There's no signal at all, most of the time: just noise. It's like PGP, except that they are not actually encrypting anything.
While my reaction to this, was, normally I am all 'Do Your Own Thing, Man', but this is totally in the realms of woo-woo alert:
My brother's girlfriend is eight months pregnant. My parents recently found out that she has not seen a doctor or midwife, and that they are planning to have a completely "unassisted non-medical" birth.
During their marriage to one another and their subsequent marriages, my parents lost three children between them, at very late stages of pregnancy or shortly after birth. There are also serious congenital problems on my brother's side. Furthermore, his girlfriend is in her early 40s and this is her first child. My brother and his girlfriend refuse to listen to advice and are angry with friends and family for "being so negative" about their plans for the birth.
My brother has always had an unconventional lifestyle and is a difficult person to reason with.
Head-bang, head-bang. Mother Nature is not your fluffy-bunny friend when it comes to childbirth.