http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/en-EUMokoFeed10http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/http://data5.blog.de/design/preview/f4/2c74c917f62c9f4dae173dfa9a79ba_160x200.jpghttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/11/04/just-in-case-you-were-wondering-7307655/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-11-04:/2009/11/04/just-in-case-you-were-wondering-7307655/Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:31:20 +0100 <p>So these are my deleted tags - goodbye to them all. Missed perhaps will they be by some.</p> <p>Kind refraines.</p> <p>good-luck-on-sunday-mr-juzzzy-sir | in-commemtatorium-of-the-foundation-of-his-most-chesper'd-season | the-windhover-guide-to-football-owners | a-cistercian-brotherhood-who-seek-to-promote-justice | your-guide-to-the-london-mayoral-candidates | accursed-tomfoolery-of-the-highest-order | all-seeing-eyes-and-parsnip-hammock-sidecars | the-sandbeam-custard-piper's-cry-awakens-a-passing-boat | the-blue-windows-were-crashing-against-the-bassoon-players-on-the-pier | any-moment-the-battle-for-falbrone-mincetrosper-would-commence | a-pack-of-sardines-in-a-casino | photograph-from-september-11-by-wislawa-szymborska | note-pendulum-on-the-passing-of-a-ceremonial-duke-hand-set-cardigan | which-bruce-springsteen-song-are-you? | a-note-upon-the-awakening-of-a-singing-falcon-who | sang-a-note-until-my-heart-was-very-pierced-with-silk-malcolm-and-the-kaleidoscope-of-martin-due-hat | i-am-pleased-to-report-that-it-was-not-sir-kenneth | lines-upon-hearing-of-a-friend's-move-to-south-west-london | the-quespery-update--what-next-for-england | lady-goodbyes-get-a-lot-stronger | a-few-lines-upon-the-commencement-of-the-gathering-in-newes-homshoire-townes-for-bright-fortolde-in- | do-not-pity-me-though-my-wings-may-be-weak-and-my-beak-a-little-peppered | hilary-clinton's-new-hampshire-victory-speech-in-full | box-woven-like-glue-under-the-carpet | a-clear-analysis-of-modern-financial-instruments-cannot-be-found-in-this-particular-article | mp-taxes-mango-on-live-tv | the-sponge-cake-business-had-enormous-potential | transfer-window-transfers-in-brief-latest-window-transfers | the-jasperfarian-weekly-challenge-(parte-the-fyrste) | beijing-2008-new-olympic-sports-announced | a-new-commentary-on-legal-affairs | they-asked-me-for-some-collateral-so-i | a-second-attempt-at-something-browish-normal-service-will-be-resumed-shortly | avrilo's-birthday-is-tomorrow-but-this-message-is-posted-today | this-is-not-erotic-poetry-about-a-spider | lines-inspired-by-a-contemporaneous-recording-of-the-sound-of-dolphins-making-love-to-cashew-nuts-in | a-bowl-of-freshly-picked-owls | extracts-from-barak-obama's-speech-to-democratic-convention | is-this-a-blog-or-a-chat-room? | verse-in-the-memory-of-a-gold-chime-on-a-wet-day-in-march | "history-will-show-that-george-w-bush-was-right" | ex-kgb-spy-buys-uk-paper-for-£1 | is-there-any-more-that-a-pen-owner-must-cope-with? | names-of-some-charities-in-the-united-kingdom | the-only-one-i-know-is-ted | the-magic-tents-of-planet-space-house </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/11/04/just-in-case-you-were-wondering-7307655/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>in-tick-tockhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/11/04/just-in-case-you-were-wondering-7307655/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/30/bad-medicine-7276901/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-10-30:/2009/10/30/bad-medicine-7276901/Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:20:47 +0100 <p>Woah, you like bad medicine... well that's how the badgers used to sound sing the waves in tymes old. Before tree shook root by old owl and quespers walked the ear there was just bongbong and the catapult. Cheese formidable won the otter contest and merchants blocked the Thames thinly colliding with objects.</p> <p>It's nearly time to retreat for the weekend.</p> <p>Kind refraine.</p> <p>Hektor </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/30/bad-medicine-7276901/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tabcin-got-me-smokinghttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/30/bad-medicine-7276901/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/29/the-lucky-parsnip-a-restaurant-review-of-sorts-7267488/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-10-29:/2009/10/29/the-lucky-parsnip-a-restaurant-review-of-sorts-7267488/Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:07:42 +0100 <p><strong>The Lucky Parsnip - A restaurant review, of sorts</strong></p> <p><img src="http://data6.blog.de/media/303/4051303_e26f7bc26f_s.jpg" alt="white-handed-gibbon"><br> <em>by Jasper Club, The Windhover's Gibbon</em></p> <p>I shot AA Gill last week. I did not mean to, but he was there, standing by a bus stop looking like a prize gibbon. I'd been sauntering through the park with Jan Moir, my old friend, discussing the impending and untimely demise of Mr Gill (I had already been considering the event for some time), when I spied the marmoset waiting for the number 14. </p> <p>I had opportunity, a gun and, moreover, an intense longing to know what it might be like to shoot an acclaimed restaurant critic through the lung. He went down like a sack of spuds. I had thought that he might put up some sort of fight with death lustily clinging to his chops, but none of it. I've had better thrills from shoving cheese in my ears and trying to listen to the Archers via a dial-up internet connection. What a terrible disappointment!</p> <p>So there he was, lying lifeless by a bus stop, a crowd of baying commuters looking on and, I must say, he looked a lot less pompous dead than he did alive. It sickens me to think that more people will not have the same fun that I had, shooting AA Gill at a bus stop: it should be a must for all stag weekends or hen parties.</p> <p>Oh, I ate food at Barbara Featherstonehaugh's restaurant on Thursday. The veal was a tad ordinary, the chips were too salty and I have no idea why they put a toilet in the middle of my table.</p> <p>Bumble bee, bumble bee, is this not pleasing for the editor to see?</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/29/the-lucky-parsnip-a-restaurant-review-of-sorts-7267488/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>the-lucky-parsniphttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/29/the-lucky-parsnip-a-restaurant-review-of-sorts-7267488/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/21/european-law-7216352/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-10-21:/2009/10/21/european-law-7216352/Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:30:29 +0200 <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="European law part 1"><img src="http://data6.blog.de/media/040/4027040_b46badf12a_m.jpg" alt="European law part 1"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/21/european-law-7216352/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>hank-marvineulawhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/21/european-law-7216352/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/16/thought-for-the-week-with-terry-waite-7179994/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-10-16:/2009/10/16/thought-for-the-week-with-terry-waite-7179994/Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:18:54 +0200 <p class="right"><img src="http://data6.blog.de/media/238/4008238_c8110054b7_s.jpg" alt="Dobo"></p> <p>Turning back the shadow on a piece of marzipan this morning, I awoke to find a pound coin lodged in my ear. It reminded me of the parable of the Good Alsatian, and I thought to myself that I should conclude the weekly events of my own circumference with such a picture.</p> <p>"I give you parsnips and you bring me muffins." Was it before the broken window that this circular poem rendered a backwards cushion in my mountain of wields? It talcum powders me to open the book and ride a tractor into modern existence when all around me there are the clamoring voices that say "head home and bake a big fat badger in the oven." </p> <p>I was on a train on Wednesday evening when a young woman came up to me and asked for a slice of otter. I refused, saying that even in Portugal the cardoon was more valuable than a base drum honed without reason and sold for a penny-farthing. </p> <p>I wonder why, in our modern times, we eschew the theoretic postage stamp of friendship by marking faces of enemies on the back of an envelope and stapling it to a squirrel? </p> <p>Have a nice weekend. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/16/thought-for-the-week-with-terry-waite-7179994/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/16/thought-for-the-week-with-terry-waite-7179994/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/09/a-press-release-arrives-7132122/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-10-09:/2009/10/09/a-press-release-arrives-7132122/Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:05:07 +0200 <p>Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</p> <p>PRESS RELEASE – October 9, 2009</p> <p>Academy Announces Awards</p> <p>Following the Nobel Foundation's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to President Barack Obama for his work during the next four to eight years, the Academy has decided to award next year's Oscars today.</p> <p>BEST FILM<br> Oceans 45</p> <p>BEST ACTOR<br> Sylvester Stallone – The Barack Obama Story</p> <p>BEST ACTRESS<br> Julie-Anne More – Big Trouble in Little China 2</p> <p>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR<br> Tony Blair – My other cloak's a politician (a musical comedy)</p> <p>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS<br> Dame Judy Bench – The Trail of Dennis Taylor</p> <p>BEST SCREENPLAY<br> J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Wizard's Sleeve</p> <p>BEST FOREIGN FILM<br> Tutto l'amore Silvio delle signore (<em>All the ladies love Silvio</em>)</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/09/a-press-release-arrives-7132122/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>the-oscarsbarack-americapeace-prizehttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/10/09/a-press-release-arrives-7132122/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/09/24/the-magic-tents-of-planet-space-house-7031839/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-09-24:/2009/09/24/the-magic-tents-of-planet-space-house-7031839/Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:51:54 +0200 <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="THE magic tents of planet space house"><img src="http://data6.blog.de/media/945/3931945_a438f744cf_m.jpg" alt="THE magic tents of planet space house"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/09/24/the-magic-tents-of-planet-space-house-7031839/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/09/24/the-magic-tents-of-planet-space-house-7031839/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/06/18/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6333291/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-06-18:/2009/06/18/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6333291/Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:55:47 +0200 <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/173/3505173_8218ee7dc9_s.jpg" alt="Armstrong Filmer"></p> <p>Lunch with the old lush (Helvin) on Monday - bonkers as usual! Told me of the time she was stranded in Madrid with only a Portuguese man-o-war and a packet of polo mints for company! Martin Clunes arrived with Janet Street-Porter in tow and, well, the afternoon was made to happen. </p> <p>Speaking of Vendredi, my old Merci Beaucoup, I was flattered to received an invite from Ms Row-The-Boat (of boat rowing fame) to join a little organisation called "The Trumpington Set". Alarmed by my lack of either (a) an Alsatian or (b) a PhD in astrophysics, I thought that I was no good to be a Trumpingtoneer, but I was pleased to learn that, within an hour, my application process had been put into the cardboard wheelbarrow and turned into an Egg!</p> <p>Off to Michael Parkinson's house on Thursday - spoke at length of the Westminster expenses scandal, until I realised that I had to make it back to London for a dinner party with Mr and Mrs Pitt in order to discuss a new project - The Life and Times of Tom Conte. I have been earmarked to play TC and, for one, can tell you I AM THRILLED! Megan, foxy by name, foxy by nature was not far from my thoughts, when suggested who would play Pauline Collins in the Shirley Valentine fragment, but, alas, I was told that the role would be played by either Oprah Winfrey or Luther Vandross!</p> <p>Parkey texted at that point, with the news that my leg had fallen off! I smacked the waiter in the mouth at the news and broke several teeth in the process. The Pitts wrestled me to the ground and the Chef de Hotel summoned the constabulary and one was banged up for the night for an affray! Michael Douglas came and posted the usual bounty and I was out by Christmas morning in time to open my presents with Christopher Biggens and Mel C! </p> <p>Ahoy! As they say in Czechoslovakia!</p> <p>Nige</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/06/18/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6333291/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>nigel-haverscountry-diaryhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/06/18/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6333291/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/06/09/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6270295/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-06-09:/2009/06/09/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6270295/Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:17:26 +0200 <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/384/3517384_0f2b1b21f2_s.jpg" alt="Havers"></p> <p>Saturday found us larking round at the Egyptian's again. A most glorious feast provided, as usual. He was talking about the time that Idi Amin visited him in his retreat in Port Stanley - Amin was a most uncomfortable houseguest and it seemed that the Egyptian would never get rid of him. Fortunately, one of the Egyptian's servants proposed trout for dinner and, with the expectant thrust of a nobleman at the waist of a young wench, Amin promptly took flight and headed back to Uganda on the presidential flight! </p> <p>We were ensconced at Abbot's Bar on Sunday with Martin Clunes and chums for lunch, when Noel Edmonds and his entourage arrived. Sir Christopher Jawkins Q.C. spoke in favour of the motion ("This House contends that you should open the box, Sir") and Dame Judy Dench spoke against. Colin Firth made an honest (but useless) junior to Jawkins Q.C. and the well-honed barristerial skills of Mr Clive Anderson provided Dame Judy with a much capable assistance. When the House divided at around 6.20 pm, Members were most refreshed of a good debate and pleasantly watered with fine wines and ale. The "Noes" had it and the money was taken!</p> <p>Profoundly displeased by the outcome of this particular spectacle, Edmonds challenged yours truly to a milk race in the car park and well I was just about to lay claim to the sack of spuds when the constabulary arrived and we were charged with causing an affray! Michael Douglas pitched up around midnight, La Zeta Jones in tow, and posted the usual ₤ 5,000,000 bail!</p> <p>Garden news in brief: the halitosis is coming out a treat this year. I put it down to all the fine mornings we have enjoyed in May!</p> <p>Next week I'm off to visit President Lech Kaczynski of Poland, no less! </p> <p>Toodle pip.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/06/09/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6270295/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>a-country-diaryhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/06/09/a-country-diary-with-nigel-havers-6270295/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/26/wolf-curtain-6182914/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-05-26:/2009/05/26/wolf-curtain-6182914/Tue, 26 May 2009 22:53:48 +0200 <p>Greetings from Kraków. Oh yes, I am here. In glorious sunshine I moonbound tinkered into the station, known as "Big Head". I burned a timid falcon and sidelined a bottom poker by smashooning it into a penjangle foundation. Nine ten and then eleven, I managed to smirk some shapes into a rhombus by spooning tesco into boing boing under a car fashioned old Mallard.</p> <p>Goodnyghte.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/26/wolf-curtain-6182914/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/26/wolf-curtain-6182914/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/18/a-country-diary-by-nigel-havers-6136169/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-05-18:/2009/05/18/a-country-diary-by-nigel-havers-6136169/Mon, 18 May 2009 16:50:22 +0200 <p><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/384/3517384_0f2b1b21f2_m.jpg" alt="Havers" vspace="5" hspace="5"></p> <p>Darling, really, it was such soggy pleasure. Oh, really it was.</p> <p>Gloria Estefan came rolling out of the garden gate in her roller-skates, she took a swing with her brass handle at the passing Minster of State for Cars and shook a bag of turnips into next week. Beholding this sight, I, who had previously been sitting in a mulberry bush took my shoes and began trampling on the fixed gibbons we had planted last summer in a fit of rage. </p> <p>Martin Lewis, oh kindly newshound he, put protruding teeth into a jar and flummoxed a pheasant who was basking in the golden sunshine with a glass of beer for a pillow.</p> <p>Imagine my surprise when the constabulary turned up and we were all pinched for causing an affray!</p> <p>Michael Douglas came to the rescue posting the usual five million pound bail, and we were free by lunchtime on Saturday. That is when the penguins visited with their ottoman horseshoes and things have not been the same since.</p> <p>Tennis was invented last Thursday by William G Stewart. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/18/a-country-diary-by-nigel-havers-6136169/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>a-country-diarynigel-havershttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/18/a-country-diary-by-nigel-havers-6136169/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/14/film-news-armstrong-coconut-in-cannes-i-am-sat-on-6114528/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-05-14:/2009/05/14/film-news-armstrong-coconut-in-cannes-i-am-sat-on-6114528/Thu, 14 May 2009 15:32:33 +0200 <p class="center"><strong>FILM NEWS</strong></p> <p class="right"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/173/3505173_8218ee7dc9_s.jpg" alt="Armstrong Filmer" vspace="5" hspace="5"><br> Armstrong Coconut in Cannes</p> <p>I am sat on the boardwalk sipping a disgustingly expensive cappuccino and pulling hard on a Gitanes. The sun slinks sexily into the sea like Scarlet Johansson into silk sheets. The opulence, the elegance is everywhere. </p> <p>I can be in only one place - CANNES.</p> <p>Everywhere is dripping with film. Actors parade full of fame, false fame, hopes and false hopes. Directors drip dastardly plots into the stratosphere of the stars, producers eye executives like forlorn prom princesses searching, in vain, for their king. </p> <p>Everyday is night, every night is a first date: full of that tingle that frisson of excitement that you might, just might, before dawn, before the pulsating quick burst of fortune's fever get, yes, just for a minute before the clock strikes twelve and your shoes, the costume, everything, becomes a wash of dreams and made up insincere moments of unrequited love, a kiss.</p> <p>Oh, my God, THIS IS CANNES.</p> <p>Like seagulls we, the ladies and gentlemen of the press, swim by the trawler waiting for the fishermen to throw from the side sardines. Our crumbs of comfort the new films, the well-rehearsed and trailed delights that we have been sent forth to find, devour, digest and then review. Even those we hate, we will love. Why? Because this is Cannes!</p> <p>Charles Volti, the well known Italian director/producer of "Il Fluto, Que Jasper!" and "Margo el copo in morto" said once "Cannes, she a women. Wear a best the dress and half all beautifuls." I can barely imagine what he would have thought on seeing Cannes now. </p> <p>Oh, knowing Cannes. Oh, wild incoercible beauty. You most delightful pleasure!</p> <p>We sit waiting for the films and my cappuccino chills like a chaffinch settling under a tree in winter, only I am not in winter, I am in summer where, perpetually, it is this season where sun and sky and beach and, oh, glamour into once place plunge like a diver into ocean under a carpeted rouge of fame and far flung fulfilment of dreams.</p> <p>I am in the only place where the gods and mortals still sit together at one table, although I have no doubt that their playgrounds are very very different places.</p> <p>It can be the only, the one and only, Cannes.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/14/film-news-armstrong-coconut-in-cannes-i-am-sat-on-6114528/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>film-newshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/14/film-news-armstrong-coconut-in-cannes-i-am-sat-on-6114528/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/14/as-the-year-passes-into-the-old-a-new-one-opens-like-a-freshly-moulded-door-6113481/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-05-14:/2009/05/14/as-the-year-passes-into-the-old-a-new-one-opens-like-a-freshly-moulded-door-6113481/Thu, 14 May 2009 12:01:07 +0200 <p class="right"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/564/3504564_719a12945e_m.gif" alt="KDU badge" vspace="5" hspace="5"></p> <p>In Gloriam Benefictus!</p> <p>Esteemed colleagues and students! Another year has passed at KDU and we must celebrate accordingly the achievements of the past academic year.</p> <p>In Jennifer Term Sir Donald Foxtrot Cauldicot delivered a lecture entitled "Canoeing around the Bosphorus" in which he argued "<em>surely the caged falcon, every Thursday, dreams of June</em>" and so it was, that in the second day of Mouskins Term that the Reverand Percy Trees gave a lecture entitled "God, the Postal System and 20th Century Falconry". </p> <p>Towards the end of April, we discovered that Dr Abbot, Rector Vice Percunicus of Perkins College, had developed a time machine and, in 1846 the faculty of Arts and Mountaineering took at trip back to 1926 in search of Elves.</p> <p>Jaspering Term finished as it had begun with rain and a golf party organised by the Traffington Club. Mr Twothbery Hives was arrested for urinating in a bassoon and Drum Major Sneelock was forfeited as a result.</p> <p>All told, a most fitting end to a wonderful year.</p> <p>Prof. Dr. Hab. Radeolopho Fendinglemuse MA, Dip.HipHop., LLP, Marg.Restrict.(Hons).</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/14/as-the-year-passes-into-the-old-a-new-one-opens-like-a-freshly-moulded-door-6113481/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>kdu-neweshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/14/as-the-year-passes-into-the-old-a-new-one-opens-like-a-freshly-moulded-door-6113481/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/12/mps-expenses-an-abbreviated-list-6102387/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-05-12:/2009/05/12/mps-expenses-an-abbreviated-list-6102387/Tue, 12 May 2009 13:32:53 +0200 <p><strong>Malcolm Sledge (Lab, Hackett North)</strong><br> Snooker table including Steve Davies and Willy Thorne - ₤ 893,593.22<br> Beyonce Knowles cuckoo clock - ₤ 3,051.97<br> Real Madrid season ticket ₤ 904.61</p> <p><strong>Sir Walter Walcott (Con, Merton and Middle)</strong><br> Gas powered roller skates - ₤ 42.50<br> Penguin shaped toilet roll holder - ₤ 99.25</p> <p><strong>Kenzine McFowles (Lab, North Cannonbury)</strong><br> Security patrol for Vintage Champagne collection - ₤ 45,981.75<br> Antique stool repairs - ₤ 491.87</p> <p><strong>Alan Punction (LibDem, Thapworth West)</strong><br> Hot lunch in Westminster - ₤ 95.27<br> Hot lunch in Bristol - ₤ 44.20<br> Two hot lunches in Margate - ₤ 127.82</p> <p><strong>Theodore Testicles (Lab, Crappington and Shyte)</strong><br> Marble shaped space shuttle holder - ₤ 450,000<br> Repairs to second home in Sub-Crappington-on-the-Shyte - ₤ 92,909.45<br> Rebuilding replica of Hanging Gardens of Babylon in second home in Westminster - ₤ 788,256.63</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/12/mps-expenses-an-abbreviated-list-6102387/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/12/mps-expenses-an-abbreviated-list-6102387/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/11/names-of-some-charities-in-the-united-kingdom-6096568/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-05-11:/2009/05/11/names-of-some-charities-in-the-united-kingdom-6096568/Mon, 11 May 2009 13:51:36 +0200 <p>Masts for Hope</p> <p>The Royal Society for the Protection of Moths</p> <p>The Buttons Association</p> <p>Plymouth Royal Industrial Carpenters' and Kennel makers' Society</p> <p>Flowers and Smiles</p> <p>The Northern Irish Logging Club</p> <p>Caring for Voles (incorporating Rodent awareness week England and Wales)</p> <p>Rodent Awareness Week Scotland and Northern Ireland</p> <p>The Honourable Society of Wasps and Insects</p> <p>Cardiff University Newts and Toads Society</p> <p>St. Cuthbert's Venture</p> <p>The Tandem and Tricycle Association of Great Britain</p> <p>Worksop Umbrella Society</p> <p>The Bristol Falcon Association</p> <p>The Edinburgh and District Computer and Pornography Society.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/11/names-of-some-charities-in-the-united-kingdom-6096568/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/05/11/names-of-some-charities-in-the-united-kingdom-6096568/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/03/30/shamed-mp-admits-expenses-claims-were-legitimate-5860081/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-03-30:/2009/03/30/shamed-mp-admits-expenses-claims-were-legitimate-5860081/Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:51:01 +0200 <p><strong>Shamed MP admits: "Expenses claims were legitimate".</strong><br> <em>By staff reporter P. O'rno</em> </p> <p>Westminster was reeling at the news this lunchtime that Wayne Kerr, the Labour MP for Trousers and Ankles had submitted a legitimate expenses claim for "a hot lunch whilst working on a Sunday" and "a visit to Timney's cinema, Redditch".</p> <p><em>Appetite</em></p> <p>Kerr admitted in a statement released to the press: "like many members of the House, I have a voracious appetite. If I am not sated quickly enough, I can become restless. This can cause much distress to my wife and my fellow backbenchers."</p> <p><em>Films</em></p> <p>As part of the Culture and Sport select committee, the MP for Trousers and Ankles justified his visit to the notorious cinema in Redditch as "research into alternative media experiences."</p> <p><em>Electoral problems</em></p> <p>The shamed MP has one of the smallest majorities in the commons and colleagues say that his enjoyment of the "finer things in life" may put him on a collision course with Commons authorities, which prefer such activities to be carried on within the confines of the Palace of Westminster.</p> <p><em>Browned off</em></p> <p>A spokesperson for the government said "Wayne is doing a remarkable job in his job as an MP, he claims expenses and votes when the Whips tell him to."</p> <p>Mr Kerr's net worth is GBP 44,578 (minus expenses). </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/03/30/shamed-mp-admits-expenses-claims-were-legitimate-5860081/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>shamed-mp-expenses-claimshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/03/30/shamed-mp-admits-expenses-claims-were-legitimate-5860081/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/03/10/is-there-any-more-that-a-pen-owner-must-cope-with-5731086/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-03-10:/2009/03/10/is-there-any-more-that-a-pen-owner-must-cope-with-5731086/Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:47:16 +0100 <p><strong>Is there any more that a pen owner must cope with?<br> (Exclusive to all newspapers)</strong></p> <p>Yes, it's true. After months of soul searching and consideration I have finally decided to do it.</p> <p>I am throwing away my old pen.</p> <p>For months I have agonised with the decision, but finally I have decided: enough is enough. I can no longer accept this shoddy treatment at its hands. The pen must go!</p> <p>From the moment the pen, who I shall call for the purposes of this article, Cardamom, came into my life he has been the most exquisite companion. For almost fourteen years, my happy, iridescent Cardamom linked happily with my hand and, through the medium of paper, he allowed me to pour forth free flowing wordage until I was spent with motherly goodness. </p> <p>Then things started to change.</p> <p>I noticed that Cardamom had begun hanging round with the wrong sort of writing utensil: felt-tips, biros, even pencils (propelling and non-propelling) - I was horrified! </p> <p>Plaintively, I complained to my husband, Malcolm. At first he chided me for my concern - "pens, will be pens," he said. </p> <p>It was only when he came home one evening covered in red ink and carrying a fluorescent highlighter that I knew that the happy days of Cardamom and me were at an end.</p> <p>From that day on, I was unable to keep Cardamom under control. Forever I found myself trailing blue ink toward the margin; sometimes my cuffs were smudged with ink. On one occasion, I discovered the word "pottery" written on my hand - it was obviously Cardamom's doing.</p> <p>So, after endless hours of soul searching and conversations with my agent and publisher, I have decided that I must ask Cardamom to leave. </p> <p>It will be painful, I know, but it must be done.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/03/10/is-there-any-more-that-a-pen-owner-must-cope-with-5731086/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/03/10/is-there-any-more-that-a-pen-owner-must-cope-with-5731086/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/02/08/dt-old-post-5528841/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-02-08:/2009/02/08/dt-old-post-5528841/Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:21:48 +0100 <p>Hello. I am lost </p> <p>in a margin. </p> <p>Therefore I only have </p> <p>time for </p> <p>one Island. </p> <p>Bingo. Fall and pepper like this torn magnet.</p> <p>Here:</p> <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="ThompEyes"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/792/3213792_4cbf39c280_m.jpg" alt="ThompEyes" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/02/08/dt-old-post-5528841/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>old-spicehttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/02/08/dt-old-post-5528841/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/22/words-of-advice-5424766/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-01-22:/2009/01/22/words-of-advice-5424766/Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:38:51 +0100 <p>Below is the text of an open letter to the new President of the United States of America from Steven Segal.</p> <p>Dear Mr President,</p> <p>Time speaks like an ocean's waves lapping against the shore. This is your time, this your moment, Mr President. It is time for your waves to be lapping against the shore of history.</p> <p>There are many prescient signs to be taken and considered, but first you must take time to consider the mission that stands before you. You have a good physique and broad shoulders, and I am thankful of that. Your broad shoulders will be weighed down by the problems of the Nation and the Planet and this is why I am writing.</p> <p>When man is born to greatness, he never has the common touch, but when a man, not born into greatness, strives for, and achieves, the pinnacle of success he may lose the common touch that he had. I urge you, not to lose that common touch, but to use it like a flashlight to shine out into the darkness.</p> <p>The Economic Situation</p> <p>Mr President, the economic situation has created many false hopes and has hindered many a good man. It is time for you to say that this tempestuous dragon must put its fires to good use and make each and every home a warm and tender place to live, love and enjoy the friendship of men. </p> <p>The Ecological Situation</p> <p>Mr President, the trees are crying, the beavers are weeping, the elk limps, the partridges fly in circles and the sea, once wet with a thousand adventures, is now a vale of tears. The ecological situation is the most deserving of your time, for it is the future of all of our children and our children's children. Within the forest we can hear many beautiful things and taste the sweet glory of morning. Forests, the lungs of the world, are crying out for your change.</p> <p>The Peace Situation</p> <p>Is this a mystical object that soothes our brows before sleep? No, I say. It is not. Mr President, this elusive document, this enchanted forest is only a hair away from us. We must grasp this opportunity to put ourselves within earshot of our enemies - to seek them out and talk about peace, but, at the same time, we must remain strong, with our hearts ready for conflict, our swords always to hand for the battle to be joined. </p> <p>Love</p> <p>Mr President, I believe that a man is only as strong as his capacity for love. We must love as we make peace and we must love as we fight - will full spirit and potential. If you take a man into battle and that man hears nothing, the battle will be lost. If you take a man into battle and that man hears the sound of angelic harps playing mysterious songs of victory, he shall be victorious and the battle yours. This is the true way; love and strength shall fully bring to us peace and understanding.</p> <p>Mr President, I am ready to serve. I have the capacity to fulfil any task that you many consider necessary. I shall serve you and only you. I shall remain true.</p> <p>With best wishes from a fellow American,</p> <p>Steven Segal</p> <p>You can also see the text of it here:<br> <a href="http://stevansegalquotes.tumblr.com/post/72346254/open-letter-from-steven-segal-to-president-barak-obama">http://stevansegalquotes.tumblr.com/post/72346254/open-letter-from-steven-segal-to-president-barak-obama</a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/22/words-of-advice-5424766/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>words-of-advicehttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/22/words-of-advice-5424766/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/21/media-news-ex-kgb-spy-buys-uk-paper-for-5417509/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-01-21:/2009/01/21/media-news-ex-kgb-spy-buys-uk-paper-for-5417509/Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:06:16 +0100 <p>From the BBC:<br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7841891.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7841891.stm</a></p> <p>Here's how the new Evening Standard will look:</p> <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="ESKGB"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/466/3162466_d5df0a047b_m.jpg" alt="ESKGB" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/21/media-news-ex-kgb-spy-buys-uk-paper-for-5417509/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/21/media-news-ex-kgb-spy-buys-uk-paper-for-5417509/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/19/a-lament-on-the-passing-of-19th-january-also-about-a-cat-who-has-eaten-too-much-indeed-this-verse-says-much-about-the-modern-ear-and-its-conseque-5406323/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-01-19:/2009/01/19/a-lament-on-the-passing-of-19th-january-also-about-a-cat-who-has-eaten-too-much-indeed-this-verse-says-much-about-the-modern-ear-and-its-conseque-5406323/Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:17:10 +0100 <p>Mr Cat was sick and lay in his bed,<br> The Cat doctor arrived and spoke unto him thus:<br> "You have eaten too much, Mr Cat,<br> Thy stomach is fair broken and must thou eat no more."</p> <p>"And I cannot feast upon mice?"<br> Petitioned the wretched feline.<br> "Christ no!" Proclaimed the doctor.<br> "Thou hast feasted far too well, sire!"</p> <p>Oh trusty Janet, whose moon doeth pine in open field.<br> Sing song like bird this moist falcon of tire<br> And bid ding-dong bell to the tidy martins,<br> Who pip like marshes in private eye side wanderings.</p> <p>On the third day, the Cat died.<br> Spake thus was his old side on an otter.<br> Trasper'd koyte mold bowden by his keeper,<br> an angry bosper with hair like sponge.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/19/a-lament-on-the-passing-of-19th-january-also-about-a-cat-who-has-eaten-too-much-indeed-this-verse-says-much-about-the-modern-ear-and-its-conseque-5406323/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>with-apologies-to-stanis%C5%82aw-jachowiczhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/19/a-lament-on-the-passing-of-19th-january-also-about-a-cat-who-has-eaten-too-much-indeed-this-verse-says-much-about-the-modern-ear-and-its-conseque-5406323/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/13/warm-capes-on-a-cold-day-5370732/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2009-01-13:/2009/01/13/warm-capes-on-a-cold-day-5370732/Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:19:47 +0100 <p>Chinese talking cats,<br> Fats Domino in the bath.<br> The Queen, dear children, laughs.<br> At Chinese talking cats.</p> <p>Pencil, saucer.<br> Cold water.<br> A lion takes nurofen.<br> Stairs sit upon tired muffins.</p> <p>Eagle staggers towards the door.<br> A cloud breaks on a moth.<br> Early trumpets empty wallets,<br> and Cliff Richard awakes.</p> <p>Poundstretcher wakes in a glass coffin.<br> He roars, "bring me the mallet of Timmy Mallet."<br> Wind turbines collapse into the dawn.<br> And it is seven minutes past four, again. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/13/warm-capes-on-a-cold-day-5370732/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2009/01/13/warm-capes-on-a-cold-day-5370732/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/30/looking-forward-into-5297843/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-12-30:/2008/12/30/looking-forward-into-5297843/Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:03:00 +0100 <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="Moore 2009 part 0ne"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/550/3104550_56b4ab93b7_m.jpg" alt="Moore 2009 part 0ne" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/30/looking-forward-into-5297843/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>2009-predictions-part-the-firsthttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/30/looking-forward-into-5297843/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/18/and-in-this-world-of-plenty-5241783/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-12-18:/2008/12/18/and-in-this-world-of-plenty-5241783/Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:11:13 +0100 <p>We must spread a smile of joy.<br> Throw your arms around the world, at Christmas Time.</p> <p>In view of the imending shoe shine cardboard extraveganza that is Christmas, we here at Windhover Corporation would like to wish you all an extra 2% of happiness this year. All stock must go by 25th and, after that, it's pie and otters down by the Falcon factory. </p> <p>The picture below has been drawn by Santander, aged 9, Santander is Windover Corp's chief production engineer. Santander preys for peace and goodwill this Christmas and also for a raise, but with the current economic situation, we'll be lucky to give him much more than 17 pence per week. Only your pennies can make a difference. So why don't you invest now and then Santander may be able to afford to go to college?</p> <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="Windhover Greetings"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/242/3077242_9699ede75c_m.gif" alt="Windhover Greetings" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p>Happy Christmas, my fine feathered friends.</p> <p>Hektor<br> CEO Windhover Corp.</p> <p>"Pioneering Today's Profits for Tomorrow's Dividend" </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/18/and-in-this-world-of-plenty-5241783/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>400-return-on-investmentsantanderhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/18/and-in-this-world-of-plenty-5241783/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/01/damian-green-accused-of-grooming-whitehall-mole-5143962/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-12-01:/2008/12/01/damian-green-accused-of-grooming-whitehall-mole-5143962/Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:17:30 +0100 <p><a href="javascript:window.open(" title="Damian and the Mole"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/734/3031734_b366fab531_m.jpg" alt="Damian and the Mole" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/01/damian-green-accused-of-grooming-whitehall-mole-5143962/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/12/01/damian-green-accused-of-grooming-whitehall-mole-5143962/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/10/chaspering-within-a-tired-bong-4849762/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-10-10:/2008/10/10/chaspering-within-a-tired-bong-4849762/Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:36:40 +0200 <p>Partridges flock to old barons of tulip wandering seagulls.<br> Chase phrase iron trousers embolden a sighing mouse.<br> Folded moles grace staplers with an iridescent mumbling,<br> and behind the poster of Die Hard II, Steven Segal is seen to rise.</p> <p>Over the lion and out, he is gone!</p> <p>Purring like a vaporised version of Kenny Dalglish,<br> the errant marble Jupiter of an old toaster sets forth upon a side lapel.<br> Segal takes his step and burns dictionaries inside a new folded marzipan otter.<br> Falcons marvel at his reclining image as it corduroys faster, slower, faster.</p> <p>Time, like an apple, clocks the disguised form of LL Cool J.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/10/chaspering-within-a-tired-bong-4849762/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>chaspering-within-a-tired-bonghttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/10/chaspering-within-a-tired-bong-4849762/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/09/verse-in-the-memory-of-a-gold-chime-on-a-wet-day-in-march-4844096/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-10-09:/2008/10/09/verse-in-the-memory-of-a-gold-chime-on-a-wet-day-in-march-4844096/Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:11 +0200 <p>Falcons berate an autumnal nest of bees,<br> Watches spring from parsnip covered loaves.<br> Cocooned fishes approach the dwarves by the river,<br> And Cliff Richard wrestles scarves in an open field.</p> <p>A jester sings his sweet lament:</p> <p>Milk. Milk,<br> Lemonade.<br> 'round the corner,<br> Chocolate's made.</p> <p>Lute goblet behind an old oven,<br> Beginning the practicing cardboard wooden trials.<br> Oak Hilda betrays the scampering moths,<br> And Keith Chegwin bowls candles like trees before noon.</p> <p>And with that,<br> The curry was ordered.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/09/verse-in-the-memory-of-a-gold-chime-on-a-wet-day-in-march-4844096/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/09/verse-in-the-memory-of-a-gold-chime-on-a-wet-day-in-march-4844096/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/08/the-archbishop-of-canterbury-in-star-wars-4840001/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-10-08:/2008/10/08/the-archbishop-of-canterbury-in-star-wars-4840001/Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:11:43 +0200 <p>I was watching Star Wars (Episode IV - A New Hope) the other week and I spotted Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury standing around in the final scene of the film.</p> <p>Here is a screenshot:</p> <p><a href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/starwarsivend/2876716" title="starwarsIVend"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/716/2876716_ff8ae484d7_m.jpg" alt="starwarsIVend" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p>Here's an annotated version, the Archibishop is circled:</p> <p><a href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/starwars_circled/2876722" title="StarWars circled"><img src="http://data5.blog.de/media/722/2876722_03261a6216_m.gif" alt="StarWars circled" vspace="5" hspace="5"></a></p> <p>That's it. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/08/the-archbishop-of-canterbury-in-star-wars-4840001/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/08/the-archbishop-of-canterbury-in-star-wars-4840001/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/03/the-prince-of-darkness-returns-4815109/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-10-03:/2008/10/03/the-prince-of-darkness-returns-4815109/Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:47:41 +0200 <p>Following on from Juzzzy's story: <a href="http://juzzzy.blog.co.uk/2008/10/03/shit-floats-4814935">http://juzzzy.blog.co.uk/2008/10/03/shit-floats-4814935</a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/03/the-prince-of-darkness-returns-4815109/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>prince-of-darknessthird-time-luckymandybobbyhttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/10/03/the-prince-of-darkness-returns-4815109/#commentshttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/09/18/something-to-contemplate-if-you-are-having-a-bad-day-at-work-4744664/tag:thewindhover.blog.co.uk,2008-09-18:/2008/09/18/something-to-contemplate-if-you-are-having-a-bad-day-at-work-4744664/Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:05:05 +0200 <p>BERLIN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Germany's Finance Ministry said it is astonished that state lender KfW transferred 300 million euros ($426 million) to Lehman Brothers (LEH.P: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) on the day the U.S. bank filed for bankruptcy protection.</p> <p>"What we have had to read today is astonishing and exasperating," Finance Ministry spokesman Torsten Albig said on Wednesday when asked about reports of the transfer.</p> <p>"We expect a swift explanation of such a technical failure, which is inexplicable to us, but which will hopefully be explained soon," he said at regular government news conference. KfW said on Tuesday it mistakenly transferred the funds to Lehman on the day the investment bank filed for bankruptcy. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported that the payment was due to an erroneous swap payment.</p> <p>A swap is a derivative in which two counterparties agree to exchange one stream of cash flows against another.</p> <p>KfW has already taken a hit from liquidity lines given to business lender IKB (IKBG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the country's biggest casualty of the subprime crisis. (Reporting by Paul Carrel and Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Quentin Bryar) </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/09/18/something-to-contemplate-if-you-are-having-a-bad-day-at-work-4744664/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>astonishing-and-exasperatingerroneous-swap-paymenthttp://thewindhover.blog.co.uk/2008/09/18/something-to-contemplate-if-you-are-having-a-bad-day-at-work-4744664/#comments