Lunching, flooding and licking in blackpropaganda

Normally on a Monday morning I am part of a walking group which is both a means of taking exercise and a social opportunity - you chat as you walk along - and then have coffee/tea and a scone afterwards. It is a great way to start the week, and there must be loads of these groups across the country. Today is different though. It is the annual lunch of the group. Instead of walking we congregate in a local hotel and are more social than healthy. It used to be around Christmas and then one year it had to be postponed till later - and now it has stayed around the same date - which is great since there are so many social dinners in December - and this is a pretty barren time. So I am looking forward to my beef followed by apple crumble and custard. I am going on the bus so I can have a glass of wine too!!!

Great excitement yesterday when a lovely snow boarder became the first British person to wine an Olympic medal (bronze) on snow - ever. Sure we have had ice skaters, bobsleighers and curlers - but now we have a snow person. Goodness knows how she does all the turns etc - but well done - for a country which is half under water it is nice to celebrate something.

And the fooding is getting worse - especially when it is affecting the Tory heartlands along the Thames Valley. Windsor under water? is the Queen OK?? And the joy is that there is infighting among the politicians - inside the Tory Party itself. Eric Pickles

has taken over as the man in charge of sorting out the floods when Owen Patterson had to go in for an emergency eye operation (!). People had not been impressed by OP, but when EP blamed the experts yesterday for giving the wrong advice over dredging rivers the hatchets came out - including a riposte from OP who said he was wrong and complained to Dave Cameron. Also the point is that the experts were constrained by rules set up by the government itself.

Of course, as the government said - it will get worse before it gets better - and it is getting worse with more rain to come this week! Someone pointed out that Eric pickle would be more use as a sandbag!!!

And a quick flash of male genitalia on the new Channel 4 comedy/drama Babylon last night - most unusual!!! Not the genitals, but the fact of seeing any. It was the pilot for a series and let's say the Metropolitan Police are shown as a crowd of wankers - as we all know they are - from Plebgate to anything else. and

and something for the ladies