Is nothing, er, sacred?
Tony Blair is expected to delay calling the UK general election by a day as a mark of respect for the Pope.
Blair was set to request a dissolution of parliament tomorrow - Monday - officially starting the month-long election campaign which will culminate on May 5.
Instead, according to Downing Street, he will be attending a memorial service for the Pope at Westminster Cathedral along with Tory leader Michael Howard and the Lib Dems' Charles Kennedy.
The remaining question, of course, was whether or not this would go ahead, if it clashed with the Pope's funeral, but apparently they won't change the date.
Understandable, I guess. All the minicabs have already been booked and they don't want thirty plates of prawn vol-au-vonts sitting out overnight....
Talking of pretentious French delicacies, I almost choked on my croissant this morning when I heard Emperor Chimpy praising the late Pope's "moral leadership"...
If that's the case, why didn't you listen to him when he told you not to go to war in Iraq?
(Yet, on the other side, lets not even touch for now the pontiff's apparent endorsement of the cover-up of the abuse scandals in the US which may eventually drive some dioceses into bankruptcy)....
Generally speaking, we like fish. Had this for dinner last night, with mushrooms and mange tout. So, here's a nice story, for a change;
PA 1 ANIMALS Fish
‘VAMPIRE’ FISH FOUND IN AMAZON
By Emily Pennink, PA
It may sound like a fishy horror story, but scientists really have discovered a blood-sucking vampire-like creature, according to the BBC.
It was one of four new species of fish discovered on the bottom of the Amazon river in South America during the filming of the BBC One series Amazon Abyss.
And viewers will get the chance to vote online to choose a name for the parasitic fish from tomorrow.
The programme follows the exploration of the murky depths of the Amazon for the first time by an international team of scientists and divers, led by the BBC.
...
The four species discovered by the team also include a new species of ’land living’ fish, and a catfish that is the only fish in the world to eat wood.
(p'sssshaw. yeah, right. it eats wood.)
You can go here if you want to find out more.
Tony Blair is expected to delay calling the UK general election by a day as a mark of respect for the Pope.
Blair was set to request a dissolution of parliament tomorrow - Monday - officially starting the month-long election campaign which will culminate on May 5.
Instead, according to Downing Street, he will be attending a memorial service for the Pope at Westminster Cathedral along with Tory leader Michael Howard and the Lib Dems' Charles Kennedy.
The remaining question, of course, was whether or not this would go ahead, if it clashed with the Pope's funeral, but apparently they won't change the date.
Understandable, I guess. All the minicabs have already been booked and they don't want thirty plates of prawn vol-au-vonts sitting out overnight....
Talking of pretentious French delicacies, I almost choked on my croissant this morning when I heard Emperor Chimpy praising the late Pope's "moral leadership"...
If that's the case, why didn't you listen to him when he told you not to go to war in Iraq?
(Yet, on the other side, lets not even touch for now the pontiff's apparent endorsement of the cover-up of the abuse scandals in the US which may eventually drive some dioceses into bankruptcy)....
Generally speaking, we like fish. Had this for dinner last night, with mushrooms and mange tout. So, here's a nice story, for a change;
PA 1 ANIMALS Fish
‘VAMPIRE’ FISH FOUND IN AMAZON
By Emily Pennink, PA
It may sound like a fishy horror story, but scientists really have discovered a blood-sucking vampire-like creature, according to the BBC.
It was one of four new species of fish discovered on the bottom of the Amazon river in South America during the filming of the BBC One series Amazon Abyss.
And viewers will get the chance to vote online to choose a name for the parasitic fish from tomorrow.
The programme follows the exploration of the murky depths of the Amazon for the first time by an international team of scientists and divers, led by the BBC.
...
The four species discovered by the team also include a new species of ’land living’ fish, and a catfish that is the only fish in the world to eat wood.
(p'sssshaw. yeah, right. it eats wood.)
You can go here if you want to find out more.
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