It's getting crowded... welcome to my 3rd reader!

In a breath-taking development, this blog has increased its reader base by 50%. Yes, I now have THREE regular readers. The new subscriber shall remain anonmyous, but let's refer to him as "Monkey-Boy" for now. I look forward to his witty comments and informed opinion, as I hack away at the dross that makes up 95% of our culture.

This evening I shall touch briefly on 3 topical issues:

1) The Russell Brand / Jonathan Ross phone call to Andrew Sachs (read about it here if you haven't already done so). I'm disgusted by this, not just the fact that it was aired on the BBC, but the fact that some people could find such an escapade to be funny. Why do we pay over £100 every year to line the pockets of such big-headed idiots as Ross and Brand? Is this really the best they could do? Or were they both drunk / and or / high on drugs when they did it? I suggest that a satisfactory course of action would be for both the presenters to make sizeable donations to a charity of Mr Sachs' choice. I'd like to think that they might get sacked, but if they're the best, what kind of muppets would they be replaced with?!

2) The Credit Crunch: The Pound Shop on the London Road has gone bust. Now that IS worrying, especially as I was planning to do my Christmas shopping there. The Bed Centre on Queens Road has also closed, and some shops have started charging 5p for a plastic bag, should you wish to shun the recent social convention of walking around with your purchases on public display. The good news is that petrol is once again at an offordable price (94.9p a litre in Uckfield!), which means that the Bentley is out of the garage for the first time this year. Hurrah!

3) The Stamford Twenty/20 cricket matches. "It's not about the money" opined Kevin Pietersen, but as each of the players stands to make £550,000 for 4 hours' work, it's hard to imagine what else this cricket match might be about. Fair play, perhaps? Or avoiding "the crunch"?