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I've just rediscovered some photos on my camera-phone that I had forgotten I had taken so I'll do a blog about them. Click'em for biggity.

Last Friday I went out for an evenings fine drinking and gentlemen's discussion with my friend Pete. We took the 'Pink Ferry' from Warsash to Hamble to visit a few pubs. On the way we met a couple of illiterates:

After a couple of pints we succeeded in emptying the pub we were in by arguing about the reasons why the speed of light is finite. Can you have a finite number that is undefined? I'm not sure but if you can then Pete wins the argument. Anyway, after that we had a couple of games of pool. Here is a picture of the state of the table at one point in our first game, where I was playing yellow:

I subsequently lost the game. In the second game, I was playing red and we got to this point:

Again I subsequently lost. I think I need to work on my finishes.

Finally, here's a bonus. A rock-starlet in the making last Saturday:

And they dropped a bottle of red wine in the middle of Iceland this evening.  Broken glass and alcohol everywhere.

Not a good day really.

Recently in the press there was a big story about how two million people signed up to a petition on the Number 10 website to register their disapproval about the proposed road-charging policy.

That struck me as a bit of a boring petition so I've submitted my own to the Number 10 website on a far more important subject, and I'm sure mine will attract far more than two million signers and alter government policy accordingly.  It has to go through the Prime Minister's moderation panel first but I'm sure they'll publish it.  Don't forget to sign up!

Text of petition:

Everybody who's sensible knows that broad beans should not be classified as edible foodstuffs.  They make you gag as soon as you smell them, let alone when one passes your lips.

And yet unthinking, maybe cruel, maybe heartless, greengrocers and supermarkets all over our beautiful country insist on stocking these abominations on their shelves.  Sure, some people say "ooh but they taste quite nice with cheesy sauce on" or "have you tried them in a mixed bean casserole?" but such people are, sadly, stupid.

Now is your chance to act, people of Britain!  Let us remove these so-called-vegetables from our fresh produce aisles for good!  Let us free the country from its grip of the foul pulse!  Let us uprise as one and tell the Government where to stick the broad beans!  Let us join the French* in only feeding them to animals!  Come one, come all, and sign this petition.  Show Mr Blair what you think.

(* I don't mean actually join the French, I just mean they seem to have the right idea)