Tyne Daly (Mary Beth Lacey) and Sharon Gless (Christine Cagney)

Cagney and Lacey.
Easily the best thing on television Ever.

Helen Worth aka Gail Platt

Got to just copy and paste the whole thing - weird, weird story


Boris Johnson cycling
Taken from the Guardian 3rd Nov 2009


Boris Johnson rescued a woman from three "feral kids" who were wielding an iron bar, chasing them away on his bicycle, it emerged tonight.

The mayor of London was cycling through Camden, north London, on Monday night when he answered the cry of Franny Armstrong, a documentary maker and environmental activist who was surrounded by a group of hoodie-clad young girls.

Johnson stopped and chased the girls down the street, calling them "oiks". He then returned to walk Armstrong home. "He was my knight on a shining bicycle," she said today.

Armstrong directed the film The Age of Stupid, and is the founder of the 10:10 campaign, which aims to cut 10% of carbon emissions in 2010 and has attracted support from leading firms and personalities.

"I was texting on my phone so didn't notice the girls until they pushed me against the car, quite hard," Armstrong said. "At first it was quite funny, because they were only about 12. Then I saw that one of them had an iron bar in her hand. It was more than a metre long. It was as big as her.

"Then along came a cyclist. And I thought, 'Good, he's a big bloke,' and shouted, 'Can you help me please?'

"He stopped and turned around and I thought, 'Oh, my God, it's Boris Johnson.'

"He asked the girls what was going on, and at first they didn't move, so I said, 'That's the mayor of London!' and they ran off. They must have thought they were going to get in trouble. One dropped the bar, so Boris picked it up and cycled after them. He returned a few minutes later and walked me home, and we talked about 10:10."

On her Twitter feed she described her attackers as "feral kids".

Armstrong admitted she did not agree with Johnson's politics, and had voted for his rival Ken Livingstone in the mayoral elections. But she added: "If you find yourself down a dark alleyway and in trouble, I think Boris would be of more use than Ken."

A spokeswoman for the mayor confirmed that he had intervened to help Armstrong, but declined to comment further.

Johnson is something of a magnet for action when out and about. Earlier this year, he was nearly hit by a speeding lorry while out on his bicycle scouting for locations for new cycle routes. And in July, he fell in a river in Lewisham, south-east London, while trying to help a clean-up operation.


* guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009


What are 12 year old girls doing attacking other women with iron bars?!!!

feral children?
Has it always been like this ??

saved by Boris Yeltsin?!?!

The perfect settings for printing off a Ryanair Boarding Pass :
> go to FILE
> scroll down to page setup
>Format and Options
>untick 'shrink page to fit width'
>change scale to 80%
> click ok
>check print preview and adjust again if needed.
>Print

This is the first time in about 2 years I have got 2 pages of boarding passes instead of 4 pages of cut off barcodes.
This is why it was worth blogging - there might be other poor souls out there as fick as me.

In the last 4 weeks I have:

cycled around Santander
been to the Guggenheim in Bilbao
seen a Basque parade with heavy police protection in Vitoria- Gastiez
been meters away from Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino in San Sebastian
spoken spanish in the basque country and been understood
climbed up Kiliney Hill and thought the view of Dublin was amazing
started another spanish course
started another birdwatching course
started cycling between home, town and work with gusto
volunteered at the Pet Expo at the RDS for birdwatch ireland
gone birdwatching at the east coast nature reserve down in kilcoole
gone birdwatching very early on a sunday morning down at bull island
learned how to edit folders in Lightroom
thought about a film to make to sharon van etten's 'For You'
looked forward to the Apprentice on Monday nights
started to use my DSLR again
got myself a facebook page
bought tickets to go see the XX on dec 19
booked a flight home with ryanair
seen panti's 'A Woman in Progress' show as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival
seen Niall Sweeny's 'Revolver' as part of Dublin's Darklight Festival
seen Scott Turner Schofeild show in Trinity
had one flat back tyre whilst cycling
tried to organise a sunday 'event' at the joinery
eaten tomatoes from my tomato plant
followed the canal from drimnagh to where it meets the sea
had friends over for lovely dinner nights
got very drunk in stoneybatter


check me.

Marshal Hain 'Dancing in the City' 1978

handclaps.
no bra.
crooked teeth.
guy twiddling a knob in a highly 'technial way'.
nodding off and remembering you're on totp.
smooooth bassline (which she plays ).
cool smile.
weird vibe.
brilliant.

'Can you eat too much sushi'? I asked google this morning.

Everyone asks the www. these random questions.
Don't they?
I know I do, quite alot.

As I typed in my question, my search history of past questions appeared in a drop down menu.
Got me wondering what other people ask google?

If I started a search with the words 'Can' or 'Do' on my workmate's computer, wouldn't it be 'interesting' (move eyebrows mischievously) to see what would appear in her search history?
If I accidentally found out the real reason she's always itching her fanny, surely she's only herself to blame..
she should have used private browsing or done her search on her home computer - not at work, with me around.

No-one knows anyone completely.
Everyone's got their little secrets and I reckon the internet is the one trusted confidant most of us share our secrets with.
Why else would Firefox introduce the Private Browsing option?
Have you used it?
Yeah?
Why?
Too embarrassed to say?
See.
We turn to the www. quicker than we would our nearest and dearest.

So go ahead.
Type 'do' (or any word you start a question with) and see what appears in your search history.
Better still see what questions appear on other computers.

And maybe from now on - always use private browsing.
Especially if I'm around.