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OK, I found this out by accident. I’d never be deliberately cruel to Kim. Unless it was funny or something. Just to make that clear. Any bumps, burns or bruises are purely her own clumsy fault. *ahem*

You take one bowl of Honey Loops breakfast cereal. Pour orange juice on them instead of milk by accident. Then pour milk on anyway so as not to waste them. Commence eating. Get about 1/3 of the way through the bowl and realise you really don’t like this new flavour taste explosion and tip them down the toilet. Flush.

At this point you realise how floaty cereal is and that it ain’t going to go unless you tip a bucket of water down after it. So just leave it.

Wait until Kim gets up and, still tired, goes to the loo. This is the point where she squeals that “there are worms in the toilet!” and won’t go back in again.

Fun and games for all the family. And cheaper than that crap you bought your kids from Toys R Us before the sale started yesterday.

Again courtesy of Birdy who seems to be going a lot of Googling, here is a page on Sky News with pleas for information from relatives of those still missing.

Please, please if you have any news about peoples’ wherabouts, check this page out and post details. Some travellers went in parties and it could be that some of their relatives know where the group is.

Thanks.

Eyes left again, folks. Just a couple of boxes down (or up, depending on whether you’re reading this in the archives or not) you’ll see some options. Feel free to play. The check box determines whether any links you click open in a new window or in this one; the radio buttons select text size. The default look/feel is as you’ve been used to (internal links, small text).

When I get more time I’ll try to figure out cookies and how to update the box so that it reflects the options you had saved from your last visit.

Feedback much appreciated. It would be possible to have even larger text if there’s a need for it. Just say. Likewise, I think I can do something to change the colour scheme as well if it’s awkward for some readers.

Note that these options require Javascript functionality in your browser. I’ve tested it in IE6 and Firefox and it works in both. I might get really clever and get it to open links on a new tab in Firefox, but I don’t know if I can be arsed.

Update: Yes, I have just spotted that clicking "links in a new window" ***** up the comments. I’ll have to play with that…

As I’d been tinkering on the net and vegging the last few days I had suffered a media blackout. This hasn’t been helped by the radio in my car dying (well, MW so I can’t listen to 5Live). Without wanting to sound flippant, I thought a trip over the border to Blackburn for a torrid 2-2 draw was a bad way to spend Boxing Day.

It wasn’t until I got home and turned on the telly, that I found out about what had happened around South Asia. Good grief. I have a very dear friend who comes from Sri Lanka and a large part of his family lives there. I’m also sure some people I know were heading to Thailand around this time of year, but I can’t recall who.

Red Cross

Save The Children

Oxfam

When donating via the Red Cross or Oxfam links, PLEASE note that you can have your donation treated as Gift Aid so that the tax you paid on that money when you got it from your employer is also sent to the charity. This bumps a £20 donation up to over £25 at no cost to you.

Thanks to Vicus Scurra and Bird-Bloke for the above URLs.

I was watching Match of the Day this morning and endured the usual 10 minutes or so coverage of the Man U game – also known as Wayne Rooney‘s "How To Fight Like A Schoolgirl" Half Hour. Behind one of the goals were a few noticeboards for radio station XFM.

Nothing unusual in that, except that XFM is a local radio station for London and the surrounds, not Manchester. Ah. Wait. Of course. Silly me.

Something tells me you’d not see adverts for XFM at Man City. And don’t tell me about XFM being available on digital via Sky. Who on earth uses their Sky Digital box to listen to the radio?