Diddly-Dim..Diddly-dum...Diddly dum..deee-dum, Diddly-Dim..Diddly-dum...Diddly dum..deee-dum, dee, dum dum dee dee , dee dum....

New series tomorrow with the Gorgeous Scot in the time travelling trousers, Mr David Tennant and his new sidekick (oh I wish...)Freema Agyeman.

Can't wait chums...Booked my place behind the settee already.

Love Billy

BBD

xxx

Yipeee...just back from the pub and most of the kids (not mine) are still there.

The period from Christmas to Easter is always the longest in FE land without a break and so glad to have two weeks to unwind.

Love Billy

xxx

There have been a few cases in the press lately about people who have been sacked for writing personal blogs.

Todays Guardian has the case of Catherine Sanderson a Briton living and working in Paris who was sacked by her employers (Dixon Wilson Accountants - a British firm with a Paris branch)after they found out she had written a personal blog.

Ms Sanderson wrote her blog under a pseudonym and did not mention her employers at all, sticking mainly to writing about her ex-pat life in France and her relationship with her partner.

At a tribunal yesterday, Ms Sanderson won her case for unfair dismissal (Hooray) and was awarded damages which came to a years salary plus her legal costs. Catherine is ecstatic over the news.

So successful was her blog that she has signed a lucrative two-book deal with Penguin. (How cool is that?)

Good luck to you Catherine!

Love Billy

XXX

Honest, believe me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6507611.stm

Doesnt say whether its paid by the hour, or piecework

Billy

BBD

xxx

Did you ever bunk off school for the afternoon? I must confess I did...not proud of it but did it a couple of times.
According to the BBC, it is a far worse situation now than ever.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6506339.stm

Armed Police...come out kid - we have you surrounded.

How do we improve this?

Is paying the kids an allowance to stay in school an idea?

Ipods, Phones, Computer Games and stuff for those that turn up maybe?

We pay 16 year olds to come to college with the EMAs so why not the wee bairns?

Billy

BBD

XXX

The Iranians are cracking. They have now said they will release the only female member of the group "soon." Next they said that officials can have access to the others in the group, "if they admit that they invaded Iranian territory."

What priceless tactitioners they are. They see this like haggling over the price of a persian carpet.

Tony Blair has been excellent on this crisis so far and should continue with the tough diplomatic line with these awful people.

Release our troops now.

Billy

XXX

The great Casino debate - how much has all this cost?

Still I'm actually happy that it's been put on hold. 3 votes in the House of Lords, there's democracy in action if ever I saw it.
Evidence from around the world suggests these things only bring organised crime, addiction, prostitution and all the baggage we don't need in this country, so good on the rebels in the Lords last night for stopping this one in its tracks.
Another sock in the nose for the Government!

Billy

XXX

The story of the Ribena company claiming their product contains Vitamin C has been found wanting by two school pupils in New Zealand.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6490000/newsid_6499600/6499675.stm

The company have been fined £80,000 in court after initially ignoring the results found by two schoolgirls.

GlaxoSmithKline in the UK have put out a press release saying..."It's important to remember that the Ribena sold in New Zealand isn't the same as the drink that's sold over here, and the UK makers aren't in any trouble."

Yeah, right.

Just another example of scamming lying companies who cheat the public and in this case denying little kids of much needed vitamins, out of their hard earned money, day after day after day.

Shame on you Glaxo

Billy

BBD

xxx

It looks as if Education Secretary could face the chop when Gordon Brown takes over the reigns in a few months time. There is the most cringeworthy artcile on the BBC website today about how much he admires the Chancellor and how they come from the same modest roots. he must be worried about his own position.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6471643.stm

Alan Johnson as far as I can tell has no background other than filling shelves at Tesco and being a Postman, nothing wrong in that, yet this guy who has never taught a class in in his life, ends up running the UKs Education department. He should spend a bit of time in schools and colleges to find out what its all about before making up daft policy decisions.
It just shows that Blair will appoint anyone who will lick his backside.

Johnson is certainly good at asslicking by all accounts.

Billy

BBD

Dame Shirley Bassey, 93, is confirmed as the headline act for this years returning Glastonbury festival. Organisers are confident that all tickets will sell out when they go on sale this Sunday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6500899.stm

Dame Shirley, still looking no different and going strong despite two hip operations and a triple heart bypass, is looking forward to the gigs which take place in June.

Yet to be confirmed are support bands, The Glen Miller Orchestra, Joe Loss, Mantovani and his music of the Mountains. george Formby may also sing duet....(enough now Billy...you know George Formby died in 1961...Ed.)

Good luck to Dame Shirl XXX

Billy

BBD

xxx

The Iranians are well known for this kind of behaviour. What a pathetic bunch of people their leaders are.

I remember the American hostage situation in 1980 when hundreds of American Embassy staff were held for over a year before being released when Reagan came to power.

Blair has upped the ante now by saying we will soon be entering a "different phase."

Meanwhile, somewhere in Hereford...The SAS are getting ready - again.

Billy

BBD

xxx

** TOUR CANCELLED **
** TOUR CANCELLED **

Aww Naww Boo Hoo, the P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg UK Tour is OFF!

Yes it's official folks. So go and get your money back if you were expecting these muppets to sing tonight.

God Bless the UK Authorities for not granting Dogg a permit to enter the UK.
And now Mr P. Diddy too can take his own vile brand of musical hate somewhere else.

No loss there then.
Tarrahhh

Billy

XXX

BBD

RANT OF THE WEEK

Theyr'e available from every store you buy from these days - loyalty cards, the little pieces of coloured plastic that the stores dangle in front of your nose and fill your purse or wallet to make you feel wealthy and offer you a pittance of a "discount."

The stores couldn't operate now without them. Just think for a minute though about this scenario.

You go into TESCO and buy your weekly shop. The card and the Point-of-sale terminal records all your purchases which are costed, dated and stored on the TESCO supercomputer at Head office. The details the stores have on you are quite amazing. They know how many miles a week you travel between fill-ups. How many times you suffer headaches with all the aspirin you buy. Whether you are buying any organic fruit and veg and less of the ready meal crap they sell.

Then you go into BOOTS and buy stuff there, then W H Smith for your newspapers and use your loyalty card there and so on and so on.

Somewhere is a supercomputer that draws all this information together - all about YOU!
The intelligence on you gathered from plastic cards is awesome.

Who you are
How old you are
The state of your health and your ailments
Where you live
How much alcohol you buy and drink
If you smoke or not and how many a week
How much you earn - based on lifestyle purchases of non-essentials like CDs, DVDs, Chocolate,
What you spend your money on and your favourite items,
The likelyhood based on age and what you eat of contracting various diseases like bowel cancer and therefore needing TESCOs private medical cover in years to come, (Remember the junk mail you get each week?)
What your politics are,
Where you spend your holidays?
Who you spend your holidays with, and why do you go back to that country so often?
How many miles you drive each week,
How many times you visit the toilet (think about how many toilet rolls you buy)
The things you DON'T currently buy that they want you to have

This list is by now means complete, but accurate. It's Big Brother Britain alright. Add to these the information you have on the Public Library computer on all the books you've ever borrowed, your credit card and debit card information - it's absolutely immense and somewhere all of this information is stored - supposedly under the remit of the Data protection Act.

I have cut up all my loyalty cards. I don't want the stores measly little vouchers and a fiver at Christmas for knowing what I do, what I eat and how I live. My privacy and yours surely should be kept that way. I don't want marketing people analysing me and my family and making decisions for me about what I should buy.

This country is getting just like The Truman Show.

Billy

BBD

xxx

In a world where violence and uncertainty seems around every corner, it is really pleasing to see that in the UK, we are finally bringing progress, peace and harmony in Northern Ireland with the meeting today between Ian paisley and Gerry Adams.

Thinking back to the period of the Troubles, the knee-cappings, those who died on hunger strike, the sectarian violence, riots, the thousands of murders, the bombings, Milltown Cemetary, Enniskillen, Armagh, Belfast, and on mainland Britain, this really is a proud and important day in our nations history.

Long may peace continue and democracy thrive in Northern Ireland. I feel like announcing a national holiday I'm so overcome with joy.

Billy

BBD

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The old Rocket Man himself, Dame Elton John of Pinner formerly, Reginald Kenneth Dwight, was 60 yesterday.

I grew up listening to Eltons music and although he's much, much older than me, I truly love his music and if you haven't ever seen a live show, make sure you do, it's a fun night out.

All the best Eltie,

Love Billy

BBD

xxx

Rolling Stone magazine found the following FIVE most enjoyable things about Rap music.

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As nothing could be found Rap music has been officially re-classified as Offensive-Crap Music.

RAPPERS - generally, talentless, foul-mouthed, hateful, homophobic, gun-totin, drug-pushing, women-hating wasters.

Billy

XXX

Why did the Brits not use a submarine if they wanted to spy on the Iranians?

Why do we not trade them Tony and George in return for our gallant troops?

Its a bit like asking the neighbour from hell if we can have our ball back all this. Silly squabbling nonsense.
I suppose the Iranians will put them all on their favourite channel Hostage TV, with your host, The Mad Mullah...they will all say we were told to be here by that nasty Tony Blair, and his handler, George Bush, Boo, Hiss they are evil rotters... and then they can all go home again.

Billy

xxx

Oh no!

Snoop Doggies been shut out of the UK and not been granted a Visa application to tour the UK with fellow rapper P Diddy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6491317.stm

Well, no loss there then. Quite like some of the more sensible rap songs but can't bide they way they depict women as Ho's and bitches.
Glad their sorry motherF*g asses are not being given an audience here. Rapping and its glorification of gang and gun culture should be put in the bin where it belongs.

Where do these guys get their stupid, dumb-ass names from anyway!
What a bunch of pricks.

Billy

BBD

xxx