Madame Defarge

I managed only level 3, 108 points. I hit some little ones but only because I happened to be aiming for a pair of bigger ones and missed.

Happy Birthday GR.

London Fire Brigade to the Rescue and thank you to the RSPCA for calling them out this morning! Safe in the arms of RSPCA officer, who proclaimed him fit and very lucky. Puss scampered off happily and unconcerned into the maze of gardens and rubbish bins that is our street. The owner may never know what adventures his cat has had! Hooray! Pussycat, Pussycat, long time no see. 'I've been to Surrey, detained in a tree.'

He's been up there for more than twelve hours now. He's wedged in a narrow fork in the tree-trunk so he (we think he, rather than she, having now studied him with binoculars) must be rather uncomfortable and in need of a sleep. Actually I think he may have cat-napped in the afternoon sunshine with his front legs dangling vertically down the tree! RSPCA have said they will ask the fire brigade to help, but nothing has happened yet and its starting to get dark. We tried a few tree-surgeons, but they don't seem to answer their phones at the weekend. What a beautiful cat. I hope he's okay. I showed the picture to my cat (he's black & white, broad in the beam, with a head the size of a grapefruit) as a warning but he was unimpressed and went off to finish his 2nd breakfast.

I used to go out with a man who smoked Kents.

She might do okay with the right kind of musical inspiration.

Everything you have never wanted to know about squid sex

Good, isn't it? It's delicious.

Midnight in Moscow --Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen Mother Nature's Son --- White Album No Expectations -- Les Rolling Stones

At least the Taliban are going the right way about it. If they were successful that would mean Nancy Pelosi would be 2nd in charge and would push for the removal of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although if they went after Bush which would put Cheney in front, the US would be in a much worse state. Nothing to worry about. I don't even think a wooden stake would do the trick. He has some sort of magical protection.

I speak 45 per cent General American English according to this. But I haven't heard anyone actually say kitty corner since my grandmother. Same for the Devil is beating his wife.

What?

Try some new recipes.

A recent development in our round-the-clock coverage of Ivor Broadhead: Citing personal problems, Mr. Broadhead has declined a request by Mr. Notapotato to act as Mystery Judge #3. ' I have too much on me mind right now, me noggin's about to explode 'he was quoted as saying today.

Here's what can happen if you have a few too many and go out chasing squid

Oh stuff a sock in it Hazel. You're still miffed that you were passed over for the promotion to head toenail clipper. I am in charge and I say that work will be cancelled until I decide it is decent enough along the roads to return. Enjoy your unpaid time off, starving children throughout the world would love to have a few days of relaxation. Your head has toenails growing out of it? Strange case to be sure but I guess you could just pull a sock over it. And then you could register if you haven't already and log in.

Oh come on, Notapotato , award the points yourself. We trust you. Well, maybe not all of us, and maybe not entirely, but fairness ? All's fair in love and war, so why not in Tony Blair biographies? Award the points to yourself? Over my dead squid. No,Godot, award the points by himself without the help of an independent adjudicator or crocodile or whatever it was. I'm in it too, you know. I have a better chance at becoming the next Queen of Belgium than collecting those 25 points, but I want to find out who won it so I can lose graciously and congratulate the winner of course.

MPA! Meteorological Panic Attacks. Do you realize there's almost a whole inch of snow in NYC today? Not to mention dangerous slush and I just saw a branch move. The wind must be gusting up to, I don't know, 1/2 mile an hour. We'll get through it somehow. Nightshift manager just called to say the shift was cancelled due to inclement weather. I asked her if we will get paid for today and she said probably not. I told her the buses were running and the streets were clear but she said it's too slippery. SO PUT ON A PAIR OF BOOTS! America will save the world from terrorists, er, but not today, it's *whispers* slippery.

Oh come on, Notapotato , award the points yourself. We trust you. Well, maybe not all of us, and maybe not entirely, but fairness ? All's fair in love and war, so why not in Tony Blair biographies?

Mmmmm...I think someone along the lines of one of those immortal time traveler types. Very energetic , not focused, keeps popping in and out of the picture. I voted no, as in not exactly.

Excellent. Flambouyant and well-lit. Nice job.

I've voted for burial but it will have to be New Orleans style which is above ground. That's because I want a big fancy lalapalooza of a New Orleans style funeral complete with professional mourners, heads of state and of course if Windsor has been made Knight of the Garter or whatever by the time I pass on, he is definitely invited. There will also be plenty of cakes for throwing purposes if Tempus out-lives me and chooses to attend.

The only thing we can sure about at this point is that Tempus is wasting cakes by throwing them at drunks. The drunks will not even know what hit them and no one will be able to eat the cakes.

One is the lonliest number that you'll ever do....Two can be as bad as one The lonliest number since the number one...ooooooooh.

Francois Villon was probably a better poet than he was a thief, since he did a more than a bit of time in the slammer and once faced the gallows prompting him to write The Ballade of the Hanged in which he asked to be forgiven after death.