We should be so lucky

I don't know if this is a good idea or not. According to the BBC news website, Kylie will be in the Christmas episode of Dr Who...

Well, as long as the story is OK, I guess and it's not just Rusty filling the show with big name stars for no readily apparent reason...

They tried that with virtually no success in the 80s and don't they just look dated now as the likes of Hale and Pace gurn at the camera in thet "you know who we are really" sort of way. Particularly as many people don't know who they are (were) anymore.

More generally, work is arse and I'm fed up with it. Anything exciting happening in the world?

We should be so lucky

I don't know if this is a good idea or not. According to the BBC news website, Kylie will be in the Christmas episode of Dr Who...

Well, as long as the story is OK, I guess and it's not just Rusty filling the show with big name stars for no readily apparent reason...

They tried that with virtually no success in the 80s and don't they just look dated now as the likes of Hale and Pace gurn at the camera in thet "you know who we are really" sort of way. Particularly as many people don't know who they are (were) anymore.

More generally, work is arse and I'm fed up with it. Anything exciting happening in the world?

Stop the world, I want to get off

When I came into work this morning there were far more police than usual in the Victoria area and a number of sirens blaring, to boot. When I got to the corner of Bressenden Place I saw that there were at least three Paddy Wagons, several police cars and an ambulance just on the section of Victoria Street opposite the National Westminster Bank. Someone was on the ground, surrounded by police officers.

At lunchtime the area was still cordoned off and I am told (though not by anyone particularly reliable) that a Police Community Support Officer¹ was stabbed there this morning.

The world is clearly going mad. Police Community Support Officers are more of the “certainly, turn right at the end of the road and carry on for five minutes” variety of copper than the “Ello, ello, What’s goin’ on ‘ere? You’re Nicked, Sunshine” variety. Most ordinary coppers are decent coves, these are fluffy decent coves. Why would you want to stab one?

It transpires, too, that the attempted car bombings are all the work of people working for the NHS. What? The Exploding Fatwa Pixies are working in hospitals now? Even Seamus O’Timing Device never reached that level of cynicism in the 70s and 80s. Are they touting for custom or something?

No, the world has gone mad.


¹A sort of “Police Officer-lite” introduced after the Police Reform Act 2002. They do the walking of the beat, the directing of the tourists, the directing of then traffic, the ticking off of hawkers and the sitting on of rogues whilst awaiting the arrival of a proper Plod.

Stop the world, I want to get off

When I came into work this morning there were far more police than usual in the Victoria area and a number of sirens blaring, to boot. When I got to the corner of Bressenden Place I saw that there were at least three Paddy Wagons, several police cars and an ambulance just on the section of Victoria Street opposite the National Westminster Bank. Someone was on the ground, surrounded by police officers.

At lunchtime the area was still cordoned off and I am told (though not by anyone particularly reliable) that a Police Community Support Officer¹ was stabbed there this morning.

The world is clearly going mad. Police Community Support Officers are more of the “certainly, turn right at the end of the road and carry on for five minutes” variety of copper than the “Ello, ello, What’s goin’ on ‘ere? You’re Nicked, Sunshine” variety. Most ordinary coppers are decent coves, these are fluffy decent coves. Why would you want to stab one?

It transpires, too, that the attempted car bombings are all the work of people working for the NHS. What? The Exploding Fatwa Pixies are working in hospitals now? Even Seamus O’Timing Device never reached that level of cynicism in the 70s and 80s. Are they touting for custom or something?

No, the world has gone mad.


¹A sort of “Police Officer-lite” introduced after the Police Reform Act 2002. They do the walking of the beat, the directing of the tourists, the directing of then traffic, the ticking off of hawkers and the sitting on of rogues whilst awaiting the arrival of a proper Plod.