My blog is closing down, as of today.

Hey, I’ve just had an idea!

Let them build the thing. Then, one night, a handful of patriots do a Penyberth on it, and send a glossy press release to the media claiming that it is the centrepiece of a work of performance art called “Ring Of Fire”, which expresses the deep-seated cultural identity of the area, especially the Zari curry house in Connah’s Quay!

We (oops, what a giveaway!) might even get a grant for it!

If that’s a “cute face” by BBC standards then I’m glad that my reference points are elsewhere !

On second thoughts that’s a bit harsh on my dogs, so I’ll let you pick a word or 2, or more to describe her.

From a Jewish family, Emily Maitlis is the daughter of Professor Peter Maitlis, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis. Emily is married to Mark Gwynne, an investment manager, whom she has referred to as “my Catholic boy”. Yawn! . . .

Her husband, Mark Gwynne, a banker for Merrill Lynch, was brought up as a “polo-playing, hunting, shooting and fishing” sort. While the couple live a cosmopolitan life in Notting Hill with their 19-month-old son Milo Atticus (named after a Greek wrestler from around 550BC), they also enjoy glamorous parties in the country where Gwynne’s parents own a notable property.
http://jacothenorth.net/pics/spew_smily.png

“It’s a bit of a closet secret that she’s married to a country squire type,” says a friend of hers. “I don’t think Emily has really totally got to grips with the English countryside. But she’s a good sport. She wasn’t born and bred into it, but she’s a mucker-in. She’s very well liked and popular with both the financial hedge fund banking crowd and arty-farty media types.”

Maitlis – a regular at Harrods, she says her key weapons on screen are “flirtation, seduction and betrayal”, but says these words refer to “linguistics rather than eyelashes”. Whatever . . .

Kate Adie once said that TV executives wanted presenters with “cute faces and cute bottoms and nothing in between”. Well they certainly hit the jackpot with Emily Maitlis.

Says it all really doesn’t it? Do any of you still take the British Bullshit Corporation seriously?

‘thick bitch?’

I have no objection to them spending money in Flint and like this suggestion from reddit:
Why not build a monument to Gwenllian, the last Princess of Wales who was captured by Edward I when she was just a baby and kept in confinement for 50+ years until her death?
A statue of a beautiful but sad Welsh Princess, standing alone looking over the horizon.
It’s one of the saddest stories in Welsh history. A monument to her would be powerful and moving.
The Welsh Government needs to celebrate Welsh men & women not foreigners.

Good – It’ll be interesting to get the actual reply to the request. I can’t wait for the side-stepping waffle that’s bound to come back!

Another excellent bit of sarcastic satire Brychan http://www.gardenerschat-shed.net/forum/Smileys/aaron/clap.gif

I heard briefly on the news (whilst waiting for Her Who Has To Be Obeyed to come out of a shop) this afternoon that the 7,000+ signatures (to date) that the petition has raised, actually prompted a mention on Radio Wales! Wow!

Actually, having checked tonight I notice it’s now up to 9,800 odd. So we can do some things right in numbers – when we put our minds to it.