I’m a Tourist – Get me out of Here!

Problem: Unloved Christmas trees on the streets of Twickenham.

Solution: Richmond Council will collect your christmas tree for free.

Still better, you can use your christmas tree to pay for admission to the Botanical Gardens at Kew.

I signed up as a member of the Co-op this evening.

It turns out that the Guardian isn’t the only big business in the UK which isn’t out to make money.

Our local ‘4-Square’ like store is part of the Co-op. This weeks revelation was, that in addition to providing excellent Thai curry ready meals and inventing ‘two for one’, the Co-op is actually a non profit organisation.

The idea is that the group is owned by it’s customers and run for the benefit of the customers.

We cycled across the border into the Peoples Republic of Surrey today, visiting Box Hill for hill shuttles and Reigate for bagels.

It’s official; deadly bird flu has arrived in Britian. Makes you glad you’re not a bird?

Now, if any of the rowing club geese so much as sneezes…

Guardian Unlimited provide the Prime Ministers questions time as a podcast.

It’s actually rather good. I laughed until I stopped.

We spent the weekend rowing out of Putney on the Tideway, for the Remenham Head, a friendly between seven odd London clubs. This was my first time downstream of Barnes Bridge and Hammersmith Bridge.

It’s first time I’ve seen from Putney to Hammersmith from the Putnety end during daylight. It’s not as far as it had looked from the other side. Also to first time rowing up around the corner at Barnes. This corner is the major strategy piece in the Boat Race. One of the crews has to spend 5 odd minutes clinging onto the outside, if they draw the outside station.

Plunged into darkness again…

The Guardian writes on an Inland Revenue crack down on off shore bank accounts.

What tipped them off? How about this:

• Complete self assessment tax return, failing to declare interest from off shore accounts
• Ask for any tax refund to be direct credited into said off shore bank accounts.

The mind boggles.

A win for for the Novice Eight in the Senior 4 eights event at Henley Town and Visitors Regatta. Another successful pot raid, with the offenders fleeing the scene of the crime with no points.

That’s the current headline on CNN. Enough said really.