Dear Gods. I can’t believe this is true. Apparently a driver is to get £500,000 after hitting a girl. A guy hits a 4 year-old deaf girl and he gets awarded damages for emotional distress caused by the incident. What sort of sense is there in that? Why should he get anything at all? Just because it wasn’t his fault? That doesn’t make it anyone else’s fault, doesn’t mean he is entitled to compensation.

You have to hope that Bonsai Kitten is a hoax. I mean, what else could it be? Even so, I find it mildly disturbing that they put kittens in jars even for the hoax. This is, after all, America, where it is still legal to declaw a cat just because people don’t like them scratching the furniture. Where did I read about children being put in big terracotta jars at very young ages to make them grow into peculiar shapes?

I’m on duty up at Rollright today, so why don’t you see what other blogs have to offer by using the blog-specific search engine, BlogFinder?

Of course, on the back of that, the idea of having supermarkets at petrol stations makes one wish to bang one’s head against a wall. I hope it never gets like America here, where they think you are mad or ill if you choose to walk rather than drive.

Goodness me. Ministers have promised “to look closely at research that says that road plans ‘will barely improve journeys’. Does this mean they might actually get the message that you build a new road and more cars turn up to fill it? People who support roads seem to think that they are the solution to a problem the only solution to which is for people to cut down on their car use. It’s about time it came to general acceptance that roads just lead to more cars, they aren’t a long-term or even a mid-term solution for congestion.

The Culture and Recreation Bill [H.L.] seems to be trying to give English Heritage the rights to dictate what people can and can’t say about ancient monuments – whether or not they actually own it. Not only that, but it seems to be giving them the right to use other people’s intellectual property regarding ancient monuments, including patents. If you have any interest in this, write to your MP, to English Heritage, to anyone else you can think of and let’s try to get clarification on what exactly is going on. If it’s as bad as it looks, it needs to be fought.

Would you look at this? Is that not the most incredible thing? I’ve never seen a crystal cave, I didn’t even know that they existed. Apparently someone broke in and tried to chop out one of the crystals but it crushed him. I get a good feeling of satisfaction at that. Serve him bloody right. It makes me wonder what sort of…well….things might be connected with a place like that. Wow. Just, wow.

Orgasms at the touch of a button. Yes. Well. Hmm. I don’t know. Kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn’t it?

City roads approach breaking point – tell me something I didn’t know. And people wonder why I cycle whenever possible.

Daily Information – Your Guide to Oxford, England is about the best thing we’ve found for telling us what’s going on in Oxford. Don’t bother with Nightshift. Check out the theatre link. Look what’s on at the Burton Reynolds Theatre tonight at half nine. I’m intrigued. I’m nearly intrigued enough to go, but Frood and I discussed it last night and decided that it only ever really worked well on the radio – it was crap on the TV. We don’t reckon it would be any better as a theatre production.