There are idiots, and there are idiots...

And the prize, honking great, lowbrow, amoeba-brained half wit moron that parked right on top of this traffic island is one of them. Vans can get past. Cars can too.

But anything wider, and, well.

You see my point.

And if you believe in the Tooth Fairy...

Then this is, indeed, Summer.

Fundamental shifts in perception...

Had a major shift in how I look at things this morning...

OK, so there I was, getting a lift from a mate to a living history event that we try to regularly attend, and he got saddled with his kids for the day as well. Not as bad as you might imagine, they're actually fairly well behaved, which just goes to show that if you train 'em right, they come out right... (hint hint cough nudge not-so-subtle dig at politicians...!) So, anyhow, as you can imagine, we were minding our Ps and Qs...

And then one of the kids spotted a Roman Catholic priest walking down the road, in full duty order (as one might call it), shirt, black, high-collar (With frontal neck gap); collar, dog, white; trousers, black; shoes, black, highly polished; and coat, frock, full length. No hat, but you can't have everything, I suppose. After a somewhat pregnant pause while the kids in the back digested this not-very regular sight, what did they yell out?

"NANNY MCPHEE!"

How my mate didn't crash the car laughing his block off, I'll never fathom. Took me five minutes of whooping and coughing, and a further fifteen minutes of inane giggling, before I got myself back under control, much to the kids (and my mates') amusement.

But ye Gods (no pun intended!), I'll never look at another RC Priest in the same way again!

Ahhhh... Welcome to the great British Summer...!

There was a Queen song containing the line "Thunder and lightening / Very very frightening"...

Well, I dunno about being frightened, but ye flippin' gods, the rain was torrential, and the thunder and lightening was well bleedin' loud, and well bleedin' bright, respectively.

So. Do we blame the Icelandic Volcano, the missed Gotterdammerüng over in Times Square, or just global warning again?

Answers on a postcard, please ;-)

"You either love it, or you hate it"...

I suppose certain Danes hated it then, as they just banned it!

BBC News: "Denmark bans Marmite under food safety regulations"

Well, I guess they have to protect their smelly Pickled herring industry somehow, but I think this is a bit like taking a Bentley to swat a fly, somehow...!

Colour me vastly underwhelmed...

OK, here I am, just about to get to the western terminus, and me darn bus breaks down. Just as I'm about to finish me duty for the day. Just ten bleein'm minutes, but could it wait? Nope. The red lights of engine death, the wail of banshee-like alarms, and for you, ze bus iss ofer, ja? Well, not quite.

Now, I have to wait for the engineers to get here, to assume responsibilty for the bus.

Sometimes, luck goes right out the blasted window, y'know?

Stolen within the last 24 hours, along with my car...

No, I'm not kidding. Stolen from the Bromley, South London area, right from outside the front of my block of flats, no less, and no-one saw a blasted thing.

• Full set 58 pattern webbing less bayonet frog and pistol holster
• British issue Mess tins (not that important, frankly, replicas can be had for peanuts)
• Folding skeleton bed (1980s issue, replica)
• 58-pattern roll mat, issue (genuine)
• Reconditioned 58 pattern sleeping bag, regular size
• Sleevelets, traffic directing, silver/white
• Tabbard, orange/silver, marked "MILITARY POLICE" (Obselete, only of value to collectors and Living history types like me)

The Sleevelets and Tabbard are in the right ammunition pouch of the webbing.

The items were in the boot of the car. The car, which was declared Off-Road to the DVLA last year (and stored on the private off-road carpark hard stand here), is a Silver Ford Modeo, V59NGY. Also insude the car a two-way amateur radio tranceiver, a dual band (2m & 70cm) Yaesu FT-7800E, with remote mounting kit, radio s/no 6H531885.

To say that I'm exceedingly hacked off is putting it mildly, of course. This has been reported to the Police, and any information should be passed in the first instance to them. Thanks.