From Twitter 06-30-2010

• 08:23:18: I _do_ wish that _all_ the men in gwip had some Windex and knew that one can use it on mirrors. Just sayin'.
  
• 08:43:23: @mariocruzxxx Good night, sleep tight. I hope it's not too hot to sleep where you are, like it was in London last night... xxx
  
• 08:48:12: @mariocruzxxx If you wish you can, you can. We would love to have you!
  
• 11:23:27: @pierregoh Is it true that taking a picture of one's dessert sucks all the calories and cholesterol out of it? I certainly hope so.
  

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For trawnapanda…

I was reading an interview in the Grauniad this morning with the head of the Health and Safety Executive. There has been a lot of grumbling among members of the new coalition Government and some members of the general booboisie about intrusive rules purporting to emanate from the HSE which, for example, forbid schoolchildren from playing conkers in school unless the children wear goggles (conkers is a peculiarly British children's pastime which involves attaching horse chestnuts to a string and clinking them together in the hope that your opponent's conker will shatter). There is no HSE advice on conker playing in particular, although apparently several children each year are injured by flying pieces of horse-chestnut shell.

In any case, the quotation in the Grauniad is as follows:

Not surprisingly, it bothers (Judith) Hackitt that myths about the HSE continue to be bandied about as though they really happened. For the record, the HSE doesn't want to ban school trips, or make science lessons dull. "I'm a chemist," she says, "I know that setting hands on fire, for instance, can be perfectly safe if done properly."

Quite.