Went to see Salt last night. Just getting my breath back.If you are prepared to suspend belief ,strap yourself in and hang on for a 99 minute white knuckle ride with never a dull moment and watch as Angelina single handedly takes on the CIA,KGB,FBI and NYPD with a performance that makes Rambo look a bit of a wuss.If you are looking for any depth, forget it. If (like me) you used to enjoy running around the school playground machine gunning all your mates with an imaginary Tommy gun, you'll love it.
I spent an hour on the Treasury's Spending Challenge website last night. You can check it out here. It is full of ideas submitted by the Great British Public on how the government can save money quickly. You can log in and vote on the ideas that you like. Your first thoughts will be "I've got an idea. Scrap schools completely. That will save a fortune as it's obvious that they are doing nothing as hardly anybody can spell". Yes, the standard of grammar, punctuation and spelling in these ideas is woeful. Once you've got beyond the spelling you will find that the majority of the five star ideas (as voted by the public)are based around immigrants and how to stop giving them money. Other fantastic ideas include one to fit prisons out with huge exercise yards and get the prisoners pedalling on adapted bikes that are connected to the national grid so that we can get free electricity. I am surprised that the person who submitted this idea did not go on to suggest that if the prisoners showed signs of flagging we could send the power back the other way and fry the buggers. I do recommend the site. There are hundreds of ideas there. We should have put one in suggesting that every public sector office that still has kettles swaps them for boilers.
We've been invited to join some friends for a drink and a bite to eat at the wonderful Eagle and Child at Bispham Green tonight. I suppose we'll have to stick to slimline tonics and salads if we are going to stay on track with the diet. We are on week 14 but it's starting to feel like week 41.Today's lunch looks good "Prawn Mayo And Salad With Rice Cakes" but when I look at the ingredients there's no mayo. That's a bit of a cheat.Oh well. I have lost over two stone so far and there's just half a stone to go. But it is starting to feel like it's becoming the never ending diet.
I'm following David Milliband on Twitter. It's nice to follow politicians as they actually take an interest in who is following them. But just one point David, text messages sent after eleven pm (or at least received after 11pm) are not exactly going to make me happy to support your leadership bid. It's hard enough getting to sleep as it is without the beeping phone beeping in the middle of the night.
If Angelina Jolie had been wearing a camera on her head throughout the shooting of some of the chases in Salt ,it might look a bit like this.Pretty amazing.
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