Now, having just watched the Ghana-Germany match tonight, Germany have beat Ghana 1-0 to meet England on Sunday afternoon. More breath-holding and sweaty palms to come.

She’s a sassy and highly intelligent woman who spars with another ex-MP, Michael Portillo on BBC political show This Week, every Thursday evening, with that host with the funny hair.

How refreshing seeing her amongst all the blokes, not that I don’t love you men, but, you know what I mean. I wish her the very best of luck.

One minute (around 6pm) certain parties were still having a chat, next thing I knew, David Cameron was zipping his way over to see the Queen to be formally instated. Didn’t the Brown family cut a lonely figure (or figures) walking away from No. 10?

And did anybody see the stand-off between Sky News’ Adam Boulton and Alistair Campbell? Testosterone-laden or what?

And going of on a slight tangent, I received an email from a gentleman who just had to write and tell me how much he enjoyed my ad on Punternet. Very topical he thought and loved the play on words.

I have my moments,lol.

I do find it very interesting though, that although David Cameron received a bigger majority than even Tony Blair did in one of his two elections, he couldn’t get a clear majority, resulting in a hung parliment. Something that apparently, hasn’t happened since 1974. I was only *bleurgh* years old at the time, I wouldn’t remember.

I’d be very interested to see if the Conservatives can thrash out a deal with the Lib Dems, although the Lib Dem supporters are dead set against it, with their policies more in tune with Labour’s own.

I see another election within the next year or so. Any thoughts?

Apparently it’s made world-wide news but if you haven’t heard already, our Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with an election just a week away, has made a bit of a gaffe, to put it mildly. I think his people skills need a bit of a polish if he’s to be elected in for a 2nd term. And judging by the fallout today, that’s a big if.

Note to Prime Minister Brown, always check that your mic is switched off.

91 years young and still sharp as a tack.

Earlier on in the week I read about the person who was fired from their job at McDonald’s somewhere in Holland, for giving their colleague an extra slice of cheese in their hamburger. Thank god the courts saw sense.

Then this morning I read about the driver in Scotland who was given a £60 fine, for blowing his nose in his car, while it was at a standstill. The copper who issued the ticket had previously ticketed somebody else for littering, because they dropped a tenner. Anally retentive or what?

Or what about the shopper who’s now banned from Tesco’s in Wales because she wore her pajamas to the store to pick up some cigarettes? I have to admit that although I haven’t worn pjs as such, I have worn to Tesco’s a tatty old pair of sweatpants that I wear at bedtime. Because they look like old sweatpants, nobody bats an eyelid. Saying that, I have popped into my local Tesco’s wearing my slippers, just because I couldn’t be arsed to change into my shoes. Admittedly they were weren’t of the fluffy variety, they’re the suede man slippers that I bought in Marks and Spencer’s years ago.

Some people need to lighten up just a touch.

Too little too late I would imagine, as the public has lost faith in these parliamentarians. And what with the European Elections coming up on June 4th, I predict an apathy in the voting and I won’t be suprised if there’s a low turnout that day. Nor should the government.

Big Boob Bra

Marks and Spencer, one of the biggest and well-loved retailers in the UK if you’re outside of it, has agreed to do away with the surcharge on bigger bras over a DD cup, which would benefit me as I’m a G cup and I buy quite a few of their bras. There’s been a massive hue and cry, with people (mainly women over a certain bra size) protesting how unfair it is to charge us fuller-figured women £2 more for bras, which, apart from the size, is essentially the same. It’s been all over the news this morning and Marks have actually taken out a full-paged ad apologising by saying “we’ve boobed.”

Not that I’m a cynic mind, but methinks this has turned into a very clever piece of marketing strategy on their part. Now as a goodwill gesture, Marks and Spencer is offering 25% off of their bras, in any size, until May 25th, which, I’m sure with countless other women, I’ll be taking advantage before then.

Although I understand their reasoning for charging more for bigger bras, I feel it’s inconsistent with the selling of their other products. The reason is, to make bigger bras take more material. Fair enough, then that same rule should apply to the stockings that I buy from them. I get Ex-Large, to accomodate both my height and the size of my thighs, but they cost the same as a Small. Knickers come in varying sizes, why isn’t there a surchage on the bigger sizes? What about mens socks? And so on…..! Do you see my point?

But the genuis that is (chairman) Stuart Rose has found a way to turn a negative into a positive. And now not only will sales increase in ladies underwear, everybody loves M&S again.

Very clever, indeed.

It gives me an idea. Next time we go for a ramble, I’ll take my partner out into the woods, shoot him in the foot and swear blind it was an accident and that it was nothing to do with the fact that he forgot to buy me flowers for St. Valentine’s Day.