01/12/2010 - 02/12/2010 Wikileaks, FIFA, World Cup, SNOW

Wednesday 1st December, we attempt to get the Metro to Newcastle, Christmas shopping, what joy. The snow has disrupted the Metro, signals are frozen or some such rubbish. We take the car. The upside is, hardly anyone has made it, so parking is easy, and the shops are empty. Not such jolly news for the retailers of course.

Thursday, still snowing. In between falls, I clear the drive yet again.

The snow continues, as if that is not bad enough, the news is consumed by:

• The weather, well the snow
• Wikileaks
• Englands World Cup Bid

We are getting daily reports from Longhorsley in Northumberland. Now it is a very nice place, with an equally nice pub, but it is hardly remote, it is located on an "A" road (A697), and is only about 7 miles north of Morpeth.



I can only assume that a staff member from BBC Newcastle lives there, hence the interest.

Wikileaks, was boring to begin with, is anyone surprised to hear that diplomats spend a lot of their time engaged in tittle-tattle?. Plus big surprise Prince Andrew thinks the Yanks know nothing of Geography, and the French are quite happy to bung a bribe to win a lucrative arms deal. That is what we all think, and I would have thought he (Prince Andrew) has just gone up in most peoples esteem for thinking likewise. So what if he launched a patriotic, expletive laden tirade in front of some American "diplomat", they export their expletive laden films and TV programs to us, so they can just take it for once.

Now we hear that Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks is "in hiding" and in fear of assination attempts, has anyone (other than his mother perhaps) noticed his absence I wonder?

FIFA and the World Cup, oh the worry in case our free press (Panorama) have upset FIFA and they take their ball home.

Do we really want to stage the World Cup, given our performance this year?

We will probably be knocked out in the first round, and then have to be nice to all of those teams left in, it would be just our luck if Scotland won it or worse still Wales.