If you’d like to see a man made of holly* coming up the Thames on a boat – and I have just had 37 emails requesting exactly such a thing, which admittedly is something of a coincidence – then I suggest you watch the video below, which shows just such an occurrence occurring a couple of weeks ago.

And if you’d like an explanation of why, visit Mr Nimbos’s blog.

*plus flesh, bones and all the usual stuff

Shortly after wrecking my vocal chords doing karaoke in a bar near Tower Bridge on Saturday night, I strolled up to the bridge itself only to find traffic halted and the bascules raised – something I’d never come across before (although it happens around 1,000 times a year).

Whipping out my cameraphone, I shot this short video of the bridge closing.

An email from Vince Cable has popped into my inbox to tell me that former Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick has been selected by party members in London to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor.

Congratulations to Brian on his selection.

You can sign up for news from his campaign at www.brianpaddick.org.

Update: Here’s the BBC story and the announcement on the party website.

First of all, it’s only fair to mention that I do like your Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream.

Now that’s out of the way, let me suggest that you’ve enacted a strategic error by making your branch on the Strand in London part of an easyInternetCafé. This allow me to complain online about your service literally seconds after being subject to it.

To be fair, the service itself would have been it OK had your staff been willing to accept a Scottish banknote. For future reference, let me explain.

1. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom.
2. The currency of Scotland is pounds sterling – the same as in the rest of the UK.
3. There are lots of people in London who don’t live there. Some have travelled from Scotland.
4. Scottish banknotes are legal tender throughout the UK and therefore people travelling from Scotland need not go to a bureau de change to change “Scottish money” into “English money”. Gosh, it’s not true. See the comments…

All I wanted was a cookie. I didn’t even particularly want a cookie, but I needed change for the slot machine to get my internet access. So you’ve lost out on a transaction and you’ve annoyed me. To avoid this happening in future, I suggest you accept legal tender currency when presented with it.

Oh, and I don’t like your Phish Food flavour ice cream.

Love,
Will