Copenhagen

I’ve just had an email from Avaaz urging me to support a campaign to get our Prime Minister to attend the Copenhagen summit. Earlier I’d spotted a Tweet from Jim Jepps urging the same at which my left eyebrow began to twitch alarmingly.

Now, I don’t wish to appear negative on this rather important and life threatening subject, but frankly I’d rather he didn’t attend. I think we have a far better chance of a positive result, and survival, if he’s not there.

The thing is that our PM is a bit of a jinx. Every time he turns up to watch an England football match we lose. It even works for the Scotland team FCS. He turns up to visit a state of the art factory, it’s closed a month later.

This is the man who has brought our economy and our country to its knees.

Just Google "Gordon Brown" Jinx or "Gordon Brown" Curse. It’s all there.

But what is even more worrying is that his likely successor is just beginning to show the same symptoms. It’s early days yet but those "hand gestures" are worrying me.

The Damson Tree

I have lived in this ‘ere house for 25 years and this is the first year that the Damson tree in the garden has borne fruit. It’s Global Warming I tell you! Mrs Weggis was out there earlier harvesting them, and as I’m on the dreaded anti-biotics and can’t drink beer, I am sitting here eating them. If I turn into a Smurf you will know why!