Rainy week

There's no allotment update this week. It has rained all week and I thought it was too cold to plant potatoes. <rant> The council have gone fence mad. I think they will fence up my plot from my grandparents house which looks out onto the allotments. I may have to jump a fence soon unless I can think of something better (wink wink). I'm really getting fed up of persons-or-authority whether that be the landowner next door smashing my apple tree to bits to put a fence up or the council wasting money on an already secured boundary, just generally walking over me and my plot like shit. </rant>

Instead of going to the plot I spent the day finishing Cormac McCarthy's The Road -amazing post-apocalyptic fable, trying to write, drinking coffee, watching Have I got news for you, and listening to folk on blip.fm.

The Tallest Man on Earth - I Want You (bob dylan)
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Lets all jump aboard

It seems the media, concerned public and politicians have all jumped on the condemning bandwagon with BBC Radio 2's 'The Russell Brand Show' prank calls involving Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to Andrew Sachs.

I wont comment on the prank call itself. Its the reaction I find amusing. Its a radio broadcast with just 400,000 listeners and a few complaints. Four days later the mail on sunday asked Sachs agent for comment creating a snow ball effect with the media gradually running the story non stop totalling up 1800 complaints.

What makes this more undue is politicians jumping on the bandwagon. First with David Cameron "I don't think it was appropriate. I don't think it was in keeping with broadcasting". Then later that day the Prime Minister calls the incident "clearly inappropriate and unacceptable". Its amazing don't you think? They find the time to talk about a trivial media onslaught on two popular comedians/hosts away from issues such as poverty, Iraq, Afghanistan and the recent failure of what some might call world wide capitalism. Makes you think don't it?