Spring 2009

Winter is well and truly over and summer is almost here. Hoorah! I hear crazy stories that some people are still planning on returning to the UK despite our dire warnings and one is even thinking of driving back from the Gulf. He’s as mad as a hatter.

Anyway, apologies for not writing sooner, but England is experiencing a violent revolution which may not have been reported abroad. There are elderly pensioners with flaming torches thumping their zimmer frames in rage in our cul-de-sac eager to impale politicians for spending taxpayers moneys on duck islands, cleaning moats and mortgages on second homes. Strangely, nobody blinked an eye when our government gave billions to corrupt bankers or for reckless military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now that Telegraph readers have found out (in the midst of a vicious recession) that an MP has let her daughter live rent free in her London flat everyone if foaming at the mouth. It’s certainly an eye opener that a revolution can be launched because an MP got caught claiming £1.80 for his wife’s tampons.

Meanwhile I have to finish my ‘studies’ by September when the bursary runs out. Then I’ll have to work the odd hours here and there to put quails eggs and wild asparagus on the table. You’ve gotta feed tha kids though ain’t ya? This is a bit of a worry as no ready work is yet available. Hmmmm.

Anyway, I recommend that you see The Age of Stupid, Coraline (3D) and the new Star Trek film (the last two if you have chilun’).

We did our bit to melt the polar ice cap by flying to Venice for our 25th anniversary of being together at the end of February. What a great place. I should add that Carnival in Venice is more waxworks creepy house of horror than the kind of wild sexual abandon you might find in Latino locations, but still magnificent. Spent £10 in a reckless venture in the Venice Casino. With James Bondish delusions I was the only man there in a tuxedo (apart from the waiters).



A lot has happened since the New Year but it will just have to wait for another day. Time to lead these pensioners to London.

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