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Fuc*ing C(o)untry Life Butter actually.
Maybe they should rename it Rotten Butter?
See the ad here on The Guardian website.

Spacewalk faked as original astronaut had crooked teeth.

Time to raise money for the less fortunate. Buy the single.

under the name of Katherine Bucknell.*

For every vanished pile there will be crying children, an angry spouse, unemployed builders and domestic help, goods left on shop shelves, flats and houses available to rent or buy, empty restaurants, and villages in Africa that don’t get their new water pump after all.

Much more satirical goodness from Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci here

hat tip Sim-O

*this may be an incorrect assumption on my part

Good news.
The Spine has started up again, so you can pop over there for a frequent dose of photoshoppery goodness.

As for me, I’m suffering a bit right now which limits what I can do.
A visit to the doc’s (who wouldn’t see me) then hospital yesterday hasn’t really helped with pain management although the tests indicate my most vital of organs (with the exception of the brain) are OK.
btw – the doctors/nurses at The Royal Free were brilliant.

Still, the excruciating pain* of yesterday and the pretty bad pain I’m enduring right now is slowing me down somewhat.
* I always thought I could tolerate pain pretty well but maybe I’ve become a wimp in my oldish age.

So, it’s Omeprazole, a hot water bottle and paracetamol for me for the immediate future and finding a GP in Camden who is not ‘full up’.

And another thing. Does the ‘caller preference’ service not stop political calls?
I’ve just put the phone down to a recording of Nick Clegg (or is someone from the blogosphere trying to stir up trouble by using the recording illegally – maybe I’m getting paranoid.)

This week’s image for Channel 4 News.

New image later on Tuesday.

Golconda (Magritte painting) but the word is apparently also a synonym for ‘mine of wealth’ .
(which I discovered after I put the image together)