Fence panel frenzy

Pssst. Wanna buy a fence panel?

Wind. Rain. Floodwater. The scientists have predicted that the effects of climate change will include unpredictable results. There's a UK shortage, of fences. Now is the time to set up a cottage shiplap, featheredge, or closeboard fence panel production facility in the garage. Prices are rising. £20 panels are changing hands for £80. There are teams out in the wee small hours, creeping about taking down people's fences to resell.

A whole new meaning to 'fence', in the stolen goods context.

“He's been up to no good.”

“Right Guv, I'll check his pockets for galvanised ring shanks and his van for creosote.”

The Walking Dead

The last two, and maybe the last three, episodes have been fantastic. On the subject of post zombie apocalypse dystopian stories, I need to find a way to con BLISS into watching World War Z now it's on Sky Movies. She's a treat watching anything other than a situation comedy, but she'd be hilarious with her nerves jangling during the sneaking through the labs segment.

Actually, eat what you like

My medical instincts are non-existent. My eating habits are...well...cave bloke-ish. But now, it's all good. Apparently my distrust of chem lab solidified 'healthy' spreads was well-founded. You're better off with butter. Processed food, without shedloads of salt, sugar, MSG and the like, would taste of bugger all, and a lump of fatty red meat from a grass-fed animal is healthier than some low-fat processed, clingfilmed, microwave alternative.

Our elected expense fiddlers have lost the ability to review their position on anything and some bad advice still stands.

Too many eggs a week? Egg cholesterol cannot become blood cholesterol, and eggs represent a low-cost, simple source of protein and amino acids.

There's no connection, apparently, between fat consumption and the likelihood of heart attack event.

Oakwood: X-Box good, Books bad

Whether or not the New Labour Torys under Tone, Son of Maggie continued the policy, the right started the privatisation fetish. Fanatics, they care not for the rights and wrongs, nor for the practicalities of the circumstances. It is a relentlessly pursued agenda. Hardwired. Deep-seated. In-built.

Oakwood is an example, a privately run prison. Privately run under the radar. Riots and protests go unreported. G4S run the prison. We pay them to do so, as taxpayers.

An inmate revealed that prisoners can use their wages to buy DVDs, video games, and X-Boxes and Playstations.

Books are unavailable. Not for “love nor money”.

So. Privately run prison. Rehabilitation materials include Grand Theft Auto and the Prison Break box sets, but not Crime and Punishment or The Trial.