Sunday 31 May 2015

Plus ça change @ No. 10

Well, it's been a month since the last blog post! Arturo and me thought there'd be some changes around here! But .... nothing doing. It's the same old bunch minus 'Wailing Lad' Clegg. Now he really has something to wail about!

Arturo and me sat up all night with a big bowl of scampi to see the results on TV! It was obvious very early on that 'Boy David' Cameron would be back together with his pal 'Georgy' Osborne. Now - they have to make good all those pre-election promises: more money for all; no tax rises; fewer migrants; a compliant EU! All of this with jam on top, as they say!

It's early days, I think they call it a 'honeymoon' period! Then the reality kicks in.

We've had many visitors to Number 10 and Number 11 Downing Street - but last week - we had the strangest one ever. It was a heron! Yes, my friends, you did read that correctly - a bloomin' great heron, bold as brass walked right in. Here's what the papers had to say:
HERON flies into No10 Downing Street and perches on top of famous black door
Dan Bloom wrote in The Mirror:
It has police guards and high metal gates - but that didn't stop a 3ft bird breaching Downing Street security.

With police guards and high metal gates, it fends off everyone from terrorists to anti-Tory protesters.

But Number 10's security has been breached - by a heron.

In a bizarre turn of events, the huge bird flew in today and trotted around the entrance before perching on top of the famous black door.

It was spotted by Downing Street special advisor Ramsay Jones, who said it'd taken refuge after being attacked by a crow.

After gamely posing for a few photos, it eventually flew away.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heron-flies-no10-downing-street-5778482

Me and Arturo missed the kerfuffle! And kerfuffle there surely was! After all what if this 'ere heron had got at the goldfish!

The story also ran in The Evening Standard where Ramzy Alwakeel wrote :
The gates of Downing Street may have held angry anti-austerity protesters at bay yesterday - but they proved no match for this heron, which alighted on the Prime Minister's front door this afternoon.

The wading bird, whose natural foods are fish and other small aquatic animals, ignored security and landed on the open door at about 2.30pm.

It was photographed perched there by special adviser Ramsay Jones.

"Guess what just flew in to No 10?" he tweeted, adding: "Not so much #herongate as knock knock knocking on #heronsdoor."

... This isn't the first time Mr Cameron has shared headlines with a few feathered friends.

It was revealed in 2010 he regularly played Angry Birds on his iPad - which later prompted fears spies may be able to access sensitive data by hacking the game.
Ramzy Alwakeel continued :
... On the day Parliament was dissolved, Mr Cameron's cat Larry had bristled on the steps of Number 10 at a police sniffer dog.

Journalists, who had been outside the house since dawn, also saw a fox seemingly pursuing a duck up Britain’s most famous street.

"You may not believe this but a fox has just chased a duck up Downing Street; this has become an election fairy tale," tweeted BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/heron-invades-10-downing-street-after-fleeing-crows-advances-10282027.html

If you're interested - and it's a big 'if' in our books - there's a picture of Larry - the upstairs cat confronting a sniffer dog! Of course, us understairs cats keep ourselves to ourselves. We have better things to do than court publicity! We're sharpening our claws and waiting for the shenanigans that will surely start happening once the SNP brand new MPs have got their bearings.

In the meantime, we thought we might have a look to see what's on the menu tonight at the local fish and chips! Of course, 'Boy David' Cameron may be bringing back lots of lovely Continental nosh from his whistle-stop tour of European capitals such as: frankfurters from Berlin; Camembert from Paris; Zupa buraczkowa from Warsaw! Or - he may just get a wet fish in the face from some of these European pals. Maybe, just maybe, that's why the heron came visiting! Canny birds, herons!

Bye

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