This is the end, beautiful friend the end

The F word's here and the f word's back.

This is my last blog.

I want to thank you for walking with me.

I've enjoyed your company.

I've tried to make you laugh.

Tried to make you think.

Provoked and maybe annoyed you.

But we can agree to disagree without falling out.

I am withdrawing from this and other arenas.

Life is worth living, but I am weary of failing.

Love.

Red & Black Shack

Yesterday was the first ever public display of the Red & Black Shack.

And they loved it.

They came, they saw, they moved on.

After two hours we had sold nothing.

Then on Easter Sunday a miracle.

Someone bought a dreamcatcher.

14 hours after we set off we arrived home.

Chastened.

Final sales crept into double figures.

An overall deficit of around £30.

So much for us being out of recession...

Ridiculous World

The eagle eyed film buff will no doubt recognise this scene from 'Apocalypse Now'.

I use it by way of illustration that the entire world is madder than Johnny Depp now.

A simple scroll down any news site should be enough to trigger a frenzied wave of island buying.

1. Girl 12, stabbed to death.

2. Mild mannered Eugene Terreblanche hacked to death over money row.

3. Teen Stabbed to death in Dublin.

4. U.S. girl sues for $1m after writing I love my friends on school desk, and trailed out in handcuffs

5. Four horsemen laid off in apocalypse redundancies.

6. Cowardly lion regrets comments condemning church over child abuse.

7. Couple arrested for kissing in public in Dubai.

8. Compulsory sex tests to be taken in all B&B's to avoid sneaky same sex rumpy.

There are literally thousands of other ridiculous things happening in the world.

As George sang,

'It's all too much'.

Who's Sorry Now?

This grinning idiot is the Reverend Raniero Canatalamessa.

He is the only person in the entire world 'allowed' to preach to the Pope.

Does this make him ueber infallible?

Or just another con artist?

He thought it would be great deflection to compare recent criticism and justifiable outrage over the church's compliance, sanctioning and cover-up of sexually abusing children to the vile practice of anti-Semitism.

WRONG.

Jewish people and their leaders are naturally seething over this kettle calling the pot black, or maggot calling the pus white, depending on your sensitivities.

The church in that old nazi's country of birth has openly admitted it did nothing in order to protect its reputation.

One which that deluded head of the Church of England, Rowan Williams claims now lies in shreds, having 'lost all credibility'.

No shit Sherlock.

Is there anybody out there?

Catherine Deveny, who says that atheism is 'like a frog in a sock', is part of a campaign being brought to the people of Australia.

Apparently nearly one fifth of people surveyed there said they considered themselves to having no religion.

Meanwhile in Holland, a Dutch cleric who wrote the book, 'Believing in a god who does not exist', has been allowed to keep his job within the church.

There's tolerance for you.

Turin, however, still insists that pesky old shroud once contained the body of Christ, even though it's been carbon dated between 1260 and 1390.

Tricky that, but trivial details for hardline 'believers'.

I've just come back from watching the film 'Clash of the Titans'. Those Greeks believed in all kinds of crazy shit, but it made for good entertainment.

Plus ca change...

When all around are losing theirs

Let me begin by making this perfectly clear.

This is not me being flippant.

This is me being angry.

The man in question is said to be a witch by the authorities in Saudi Arabia. In other words he has some serious mental health problems.

For this, he is set to be beheaded (what a repulsive phrase). Who knows, he may already be dead.

He is Ali Hussain and is pictured above with two of his children.

My friend taught English in Saudi Arabia. (The country the U.S.A. loved to cosy up to as a member of its little 'Freedom' Coalition).

He was invited and after much soul searching went to a public execution.

On his way, however the car he was traveling in was stopped, searched and delayed.

On his arrival he was told it was over. The man in question had paid $6000 to escape his sentence.

His miss was his mercy.