...just don't have all that much time or indeed much to say at the moment!

Except for the absolute trouncing by the SNP at last night's elections. Not sure how I feel about that but I guess at least it's not Labour or the Lib Dems!

Hopefully full blogging activities will resume shortly.

In the meantime - gegs!!!

Tell me where you think he may be hiding out. I'm offering a prize of my admiration for the best suggestion

Admit it, you've all been waiting on it - and now it's happened.

Gillian McKeith - or to give her proper medical title "Gillian McKeith" (not my joke I stole that one - doesn't make it any less true or funny!!) is in an Australian rainforest with 12 other "Celebrities" in the latest season of "I'm a Celebrity...Get me out of here"!

I'd like to point out that I've never watched this show until now and probably would have given this one a miss if I hadn't seen the line up on the BBC news and spotted her craggy little face staring out at me from my screen. I mean, how could I pass up the opporchancity to watch one of the worlds most vile cretinous human beings being asked to eat things even Ray Mears or Bear Grylls would run screaming from? How dear readers, how?

So far she has been "volunteered" by the kind British public for (I think) 7 of the Bushtucker Trials - two of which have left her fainting (or should that be feinting?) and in need of medical attention (or should that be Media Attention?). I think she has resigned herself to the fact that she will be volunteered for all the trials but I don't think she has realised that the mood of the camp is starting to swing against her - moreso now that Dom Joly is making jokes or being sarcastic to her face but which seem to be flying right over her head. Then again, after 6/7 days of very little food due to her extremely poor performance at the trials, we can hardly blame them for going a bit "Lord of the Flies" and demanding her sacrifice (This may or may not be true).

Personally, I think if she fails a trial then she should forfeit a limb/body part for the camp pot - it's only fair. Having said that, I have a suspicion that any part of her would taste exactly as she looks - like the excrement from the bowels of hell. In fact, I'm not sure she isn't a Zombie - I'm watching "The Walking Dead" and the stiffs in that look more alive and appetising than her nasty, whiny, boney, dried up old prune looking face.

Interesting factoid - she is approximately the same age as Nigella Lawson - somebody pass me the chocolate

Did you see it escaping through the open door as you came in?

"See what"? you say.

Common Sense has left the building dear readers and there appears to be no sensible way of getting it back.

Reading through the drudgery of the Interwebs, Dr O came across a little story about a shopping mall in California, USA that actively bans visitors from talking to one another.

It all started when Matthew Snatchko, a youth pastor was arrested by security (and later by Californias' finest) for spreading the good word without first seeking permission from Mall Management.

Unsuprisingly, Snatchko is now suing the Mall for all manner of crap including "false imprisonment, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, malicious prosecution, and a general violation of his rights under California's Civil Rights Act" phew!

The mall in question here (Westfield Galleria in Roseville) has stated that patrons can indeed speak to each other if they so desire - but only if they have filled out an application to do so and it has been approved by mall management. What this boils down to is that you can be arrested for asking a stranger if they have the time.

I think the question we have to ask here is "What crazy juice are they drinking and where can we get it"!? Just so long as you don't ask a mall patron without first getting written permission.

* 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille, freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
* 1791 – The Priestley Riots began, in which Joseph Priestley and other religious Dissenters were driven out of Birmingham, England.
* 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
* 1865 – First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
* 1950 – In an early battle of the Korean War, North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in Taejon, South Korea.
* 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet.
* 1969 – Political conflicts between El Salvador and Honduras erupted into the four-day Football War, so-named because it coincided with the inflamed rioting during the second CONCACAF qualifying round for the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
* 2002 – After being treated for medical conditions, the orca Springer was released into the Johnstone Strait off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, becoming the first whale in history to be re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention.

Well, LOST has finally come to an end and what an emotional rollercoaster it was!

Two and a half hours of non stop action and WTF moments.

One thing that wasn't cleared up in the finale was....pretty much everything!

No definitive answers, no leading us by the hand and telling us what it was all about...and we still don't know the MIB's name! lol

But you know, I kind of expected it in a way. For 6 years we have been given half truths and red herrings galore so why should the end be any different?

Thanks for the last 6 years, I really enjoyed the journey with you all.

Just one question - why was Vincent (the dog) younger at the end than the start? ;) :)

I seem to have caused a bit of a stir with my previous article (see Travelling South is Detrimental to your Health

So I thought I'd post this little map I found on my travels



And there we have it - proof positive that everything in Australia is out to get/eat/kill you

Except Hugh Jackman, he seems nice!

Dr and Mrs Onion were clay pigeon shooting at the weekend and it turns out that Dr Onion may have missed his vocation as a sniper!

Dr Onion surprised everyone with his sharpshooting shenanigans which led Mrs Onion's relatives (who own the guns) to wonder just what, exactly, Dr Onion does for a living!

It's probably got something to do with just how awesome Dr Onion is - or maybe it's just all those years of archery helped just a little.

I'm going with Awesome!

Scenes at Calais earlier today as British holidaymakers attempt to return to Britain