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Duly rebooked on the earlier flight. We worked out that with a potentially longish transfer, the quiet resort we're staying at might have very little in the way of restaurants still open by the time we actually get there, and I'm not surviving on Boots Meal Deals on my first night away. Oh and That can actually be arranged, for anyone daft enough to give me their address.

It's all Matt's fault. It always is.

Site's down again

Naughty naughty Telegraph! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10351508/Make-no-mistake-this-is-a-sketch.-Cue-applause.html

Stinkin' airline just changed our outbound Gran Canaria flight for December from 7am to 4pm. So, the dilemma - get a refund and rebook on an 8:30am flight with a different airline for £40 more each, but get into the resort by mid-afternoon (and get to use the hotel at the airport the night before, which is already booked and non-refundable), or stick with the rescheduled flight, save paying the extra £40 each but only get to our destination after dark. Rargh.

Köstritzer is ace. You get it on tap randomly and far too rarely over here.

Renton, you're ruining everything.

Fair question. They do deserve a bit more slack than they're going to get next time round - this country is desperately immature when it comes to the workings of coalition politics and what to expect from the junior partner in the coalition. On the other hand, I think they deserve a pretty firm kicking for getting so much so wrong, even with the excuse of it being their first time in power. The need for compromise and jettisoning some of your core policies in coalition goes without saying (even if we can't get our heads round it as voters); resolving to compromise on and jettison so many of the policies that are central to your very existence as a party and that are really important to your core voter base, though, strikes me as naive at best. And plenty of those who are (somehow) still in thrall of Clegg don't seem to have realised just how unpopular they've become with the public - and there's only one way to drive that message home... That said, I'm still a member because I want to be there when the post-2015 restart begins and because I fundamentally believe [a] in the need for a strong third (or fourth... or fifth...) party - that isn't fucking UKIP - and in the fundamental decency of most Lib Dems and their close affinity to the natural socially-conscious/soft-socialist/centrist tendencies of most of this country's population, even if the parliamentary party has been led astray by Mummy's boys like Clegg and Danny Alexander. Besides, I might feel very differently about where my vote's going next time if I didn't live in one of the safest Labour seats outside the North. Round here it frankly doesn't make a blind bit of difference where I scrawl my X.

I'm a Lib Dem member and even I won't be voting for them. You, sir, are to be commended.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout

Aye... possibly

Good point. Same applies to kids too, I imagine.

We're thinking about getting a cat but it's a bit like having kids, you can never be sure you're not going to get a boring/thick one.

Previous post, dickwad

That said, not a shocking change.

Poor old Michael Finnegan, begin again.

Meanwhile, this is the best line-by-line deconstruction of a piece of writing since that blog post about Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi": http://33revolutionsperminute.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/the-daily-mails-ralph-miliband-editorial-annotated-version/

Mortgages? Luxury! (etc.)

More half-baked than twice-baked.