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BEER.

The cause of and answer to, most of man's problems.

All in all a truly busy day. We have a complicated subsidy system and every year Ministers insist on refining it. That means that we publish consultation papers, suffer the flak they generate, revise and re-publish. So when we come to settle the subsidy system before Christmas, we are running short on time. This year we have excelled ourselves.

And I thought last year was something special.

The consultation finished today at 18.00. I recorded and collated the responses - lackey was off having a would-be Laurence Olivier recreate Marathon Man with his mouth: no help there. Boss analysed. Tomorrow, we present our case to the Minister. The day after we dispense largesse of about £3,500,000,000 (no, honestly) to ungrateful bastard local housing authorities around England. Unless the Minister gets cold feet. At which point the Christmas holidays are effectively cancelled.

Still, tonight I met DT, Miss Clark, Henry and "Pat At" all sans LJ and drank booze and nattered.

I am now drinking milk and scoffing choccy hobnobs between smokes and while listening to REM.

I think I shall sleep tonight.

HOWEVER.

If the Minister loses his bottle there will be a big news story tomorrow night and this will be my last entry for oh, say, 25 years to life.

(no subject)

BEER.

The cause of and answer to, most of man's problems.

All in all a truly busy day. We have a complicated subsidy system and every year Ministers insist on refining it. That means that we publish consultation papers, suffer the flak they generate, revise and re-publish. So when we come to settle the subsidy system before Christmas, we are running short on time. This year we have excelled ourselves.

And I thought last year was something special.

The consultation finished today at 18.00. I recorded and collated the responses - lackey was off having a would-be Laurence Olivier recreate Marathon Man with his mouth: no help there. Boss analysed. Tomorrow, we present our case to the Minister. The day after we dispense largesse of about £3,500,000,000 (no, honestly) to ungrateful bastard local housing authorities around England. Unless the Minister gets cold feet. At which point the Christmas holidays are effectively cancelled.

Still, tonight I met DT, Miss Clark, Henry and "Pat At" all sans LJ and drank booze and nattered.

I am now drinking milk and scoffing choccy hobnobs between smokes and while listening to REM.

I think I shall sleep tonight.

HOWEVER.

If the Minister loses his bottle there will be a big news story tomorrow night and this will be my last entry for oh, say, 25 years to life.

Little. And a bit rubbish

Today of course, is the release date for that movie. It's been a long three years in some ways and a very short three in others. Still, that's not what I was going to write about; it's just that the release date got me musing.

No, it was the release of that movie which got Suzi, The Office Bombshell(tm) talking about her holiday, about 18 months ago, in New York.

It appears that she and her friends bumped into a very talkative Elijah Wood somewhere on Manhatten. So far so good. But when he asked if they were there on holiday (as opposed to vacation) and they replied that they were, he responsed to their unimpressed English ears that they'd love the place because it "Rawks!" This last accompanied by a 'down wit da yoof' Snoop Doggy Dogg hand gesture.

This prompted the observation that he was "Little. And a bit rubbish."

Suzi was equally unimpressed a few hours later when they bumped into Chris (Mr Big) Noth of Sex in the City fame. This time however it was her friend who was a bit rubbish. She ran down the street squealing in glee, leaving the rest of the group in her dust.

Suzi was most unimpressed. And her friend most embarrassed.

Little. And a bit rubbish

Today of course, is the release date for that movie. It's been a long three years in some ways and a very short three in others. Still, that's not what I was going to write about; it's just that the release date got me musing.

No, it was the release of that movie which got Suzi, The Office Bombshell(tm) talking about her holiday, about 18 months ago, in New York.

It appears that she and her friends bumped into a very talkative Elijah Wood somewhere on Manhatten. So far so good. But when he asked if they were there on holiday (as opposed to vacation) and they replied that they were, he responsed to their unimpressed English ears that they'd love the place because it "Rawks!" This last accompanied by a 'down wit da yoof' Snoop Doggy Dogg hand gesture.

This prompted the observation that he was "Little. And a bit rubbish."

Suzi was equally unimpressed a few hours later when they bumped into Chris (Mr Big) Noth of Sex in the City fame. This time however it was her friend who was a bit rubbish. She ran down the street squealing in glee, leaving the rest of the group in her dust.

Suzi was most unimpressed. And her friend most embarrassed.