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(I’ll keep saying it, but when it happened it was kind of fun and we had a nice BBQ in the road yesterday, but I am BORED of it now)

The wife of Downing Street’s former chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, has lifted the lid on the private fury felt by Tony Blair’s inner circle over the cash-for-peerages inquiry, accusing the police of ‘Gestapo tactics’.

In a remarkable intervention, which contrasts with the measured language of the former Prime Minister, Sarah Helm singled out a dawn raid on the former Number 10 aide Ruth Turner as a sign of police heavy-handedness.

Helm, a journalist and author, writes in today’s Observer: ‘I know one shouldn’t make these comparisons, but I was writing about Nazi Germany right then and I couldn’t help think: Gestapo tactics! Pick on the vulnerable, preferably a single woman, living alone. No matter that you may have nothing on her that will ultimately stand up in court - give her a scare.’

Chicken Yoghurt says it better then me. (Also)

The arrogance of this Government of those close to them is just disgusting.

The sounds are different. There’s the sound someone having to firmly shut the front door so it doesn’t pop open. Voices as they pass the bottom of the stairs. The pull cord light switch in the bathroom, the memory that will always be associated with it - of the girl who lived in the village and who lost a tooth pulling a light switch like it. The sounds curving round from the pub car park because the side windows aren’t double glazed, always seeming closer then they are and faintly threatening. They’re all gone, replaced by new sounds that are unfamiliar and that are yet to be placed or accustomed to. There are smells, some new and some that cause memories to sharply swim into focus. I think it’s the tobacco, it reminds me of my first student house. The whole house now hovers at the back of my mind when i become aware of the smell. The long hallway, the steep stairs and they’re always being someone home.

Insiders said Mr Brown’s ‘personal instinct’ is that the change should be reversed, with more arrests and stiffer penalties for users.
It follows overwhelming medical evidence linking the drug - particularly stronger forms known as ’skunk’ - to psychosis and a string of horrific killings.

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Some actual numbers.
Anyway, it’s fine to smoke cannabis (so long as you don’t caught obviously, then when you’re older you can prosecute those in a harsher manner then you would have been, who are doing just the same as you)

Hungry - 101 Simple meals

See also

Please read this before getting back on the rower - how to row.

It’s to your benefit you know. I’m grateful for the few times I did row down on the canal.

So, at the moment I’m not drinking at all. Two weeks and counting, which isn’t that much considering the situations where people have been drinking have been minimal. Still, I didn’t drink at Rob’s stag do and to be fair I was fine with that. Though it was easier because we only had a drink before we had a meal. I thought it would mean that I would be enjoy Sunday more. Yeah I woke up Sunday with a sore throat and a cold Waheyyyyy.

I kinda like the shot though, needs some work. Though this was the only one I took, so it’s not that bad.

Again it’s not mine unfortunately. It’s the size of a tent though.

Situation: At home with just my parents in the evening.
Emotions: Bored, frustrated, lonely,
Emotion rating: 20%, 40%, 50%
Thoughts: Why can’t I be the person I want to be? Why am I like this? I don’t know what else i can do. Why is this happening? Things will never change. Why does everyone else seem to have someone? Life is shit. I resent who I am, being who i am achieves nothing.