Ellee writes of the sell-off of the forests. Strange thing, in the days of the royal monopoly, to the point where the common people had no automatic access, the necessity was to get them out of royal hands. Now the necessity is to keep them in royal hands or at least in the people’s.
Love stories
So, all that remains this evening is to recount some anecdotes about love:
Barry Norman [through the Mail, courtesy of Rossa]
Diana and I usually slept apart for no other reason than she claimed my snoring kept her awake. Well, I guess it’s true; I do snore — even I have my imperfections.
In the night of love
Women living dangerously
Most desirable UK parliamentarians
I read that Lynne Featherstone was voted the most desirable UK parliamentarian so on this Day of Love, a politically incorrect desirability gallery seemed to be in order to brighten our day. I googled:
most desirable uk parliamentarians
… [notice I didn’t stipulate female] and came up with:
For all women today
[Even Lynne Featherstone] Don’t blame me for this – it was sent by a delectable female of the species:
JD, the old young[ish] smoothy, made a comment yesterday:
Women have a strange power over men; we love them and we hate them, very often both of these things at the same time. But this strange irresistible power mostly just makes us … n n n nervous!!