Random things of no particular interest

• beware of people with £20 tents and £50 carryouts when camping
• good song, worth a listen
• I'm thinking of starting a campaign to boycott chippies who only use frozen chips and not real ones made from potatoes
• this time four weeks I should be in St Lucia
• poll booths should be set up in supermarkets if they want people to actually bother voting
• Steve Tilley read a Bateman ... and laughed
• the passport office and our local chemist are in a combined money-making scam involving passport photos
• strawberry and black pepper, not basil
• if I had £100 million, I'd save Setanta over Newcastle United