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Wow... I've never seen a pic of them smiling that much. As recently as yesterday I felt slightly bad/"guilty" because I used to suspect/perceive them to be unbearable pricks who are actually enjoying their fame which comes from the disappearance of their own daughter. That pic really is terrible, the only thing missing is them holding up a glass of champagne each. I guess this is a good time to remind everyone that they actually left her alone in the hotel while they went for a meal. Just in case you forgot after all this time, or didn't know. Because the media didn't exactly hammer home that key point/detail at the time did they? Because they didn't want those irksome little things called "facts" getting in the way of them having a couple of new heartstring-tugging world champions of the grief/pity circuit..... Maybe one of them will go on "I'm a Celebrity" this year? You know, just to raise awareness.

Obviously we have no friends on the Booker prize judging panel. This morning it was being reported that the oldest contender Jim Crace was the most likely winner but they go and give it to a 28 year old girl. However in all fairness I am going to add her to my list just so she knows that it is not all book festivals and literary luncheons she has to put up with being discussed on the Deathlist. V S Naipaul (1932) John Berger (1926) Nadine Gordimer (1923) David Storey (1933) Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Anita Brookner (1928) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946) Eleanor Catton (1985)

or...."Company not Liquefied , founder Liquefies" ?

Why am I not surprised? It was probably a ploy to try and get extra benefits.

That fact is, none of us know the facts, except the person/s responsible for the child's disappearance. My personal view is this - It is a terrible thing for a child to go missing. Gerry looks a shifty fucker. And I don't like this photograph from their heart-wrenching book launch. http://3.bp.blogspot...0/kategerry.jpg

I take it all back, i take it all back!!! FFS!! Gerry has an alibi for the moment that suspect was seen. They are not the same person.

In case the country gets invaded and I have to quickly hide, I have a big pop art painting on my wall that hides a secret panic room. I call it my handy war hole.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24386130 Looks like the net could be closing in... The key as I see it. The fuzz need to look at every phone call made by the McCanns during the whole holiday. You go on a family holiday and it's rare you would be phoning each other unless you we're say shopping or at the beach and wanted to meet up sooner than later. Any splodge of calls to each other, outside the obvious times would start the ball rolling as to what may indicate a change of events. Likewise any cover up actions may be indicated by phone traffic "down-wind infection" route. 3000 phone records sounds like a lot but a mass of data could, with the right analysis, be the main key to events that could clear or convict the McCanns. During the holiday hunt for her there was to my understanding a period when they went to Spain to "leaflet". Were their phone cell signals apart from one another? One being noted as close to a rubbish tip where Madeleine's body can still now found buried. I so want the police to use a polygraph test on these two and their holiday pals.

I see that they're moving the hunt to Australia now. Well, the weather has been crap here and I'm sure Kate & Gerry could do with a holiday. Better leave the twins behind though - you know what dingos can be like when they find unattended children!

Goes like Ivor the Engine, I've been told...