Fox attacks 'vindictive' media

"The ministerial code has been found to be breached".  There's nothing like the passive tense to soften the message.  It wasn't me, guv, it just happened.

He criticises the media frenzy, apparently without wondering if he might have caused it. One week before resigning, he assured us that the allegations were baseless.  Baseless! He knew that they were not only not baseless, they were true.  It was a bare-faced lie.  Does he not feel that he should also apologise for baldly lying to the public he served?

Protestant Truth

... not to be confused with other versions of the truth ...

This bookshop has been in Fleet Street at least since I started working in the area in the late '80s, although it might have changed its name at one point.  I never see anyone going in or out.  How do they afford the rent?  Perhaps it's a front for more sinister purposes ... although there isn't much more sinister ...

More Rubbish ...

I always carry my compact digital camera with me in London. Sometimes I catch the train into Waterloo and walk to work across Waterloo Bridge, from where there are great views of Westminster and the City. Here on the left you can see a barge transporting London's refuse to the Mucking landfill site in Essex.

 

Security at Work

Evie is interested to find out if the security guard at my work will let me in with my new pass ... I'll give it a go in the morning ...

 

The Perception of Evie (aged 5)

Daddy (driving): Sarah, is it this right?

Sarah: No, it's the next one.

Daddy: And then is it the first left?

Sarah: Yes.

Evie: Sarah's like a sat-nav.

Lunch at The Fox, Patching

We enjoyed a family lunch at The Fox, Patching, today - all six of us!  We felt honoured by Sarah's presence - the first occasion in a long time that she's eaten with us.  Before we ate inside, there was much reading and colouring done outside, while Noah and Evie fed the horses in the adjacent field and played on the climbing frame.

Evie's Lists

Evie's latest obsession is to write lists describing her life. I suppose it's her form of blogging.  Here's this morning's breakfast menu. The "sweety" is her multi-vitamins lozenge: