…so don’t expect any words of wisdom for a little while as I’m not into postcards.

The photo on the right is taken through the window of an ice cream parlour in Palacio do Cône, Carvoeiro, a village on the Algarve not very far east of where I am right now.

It should update every minute (click here to refresh) and if you click the pic, they’ll keep you up-to-date on the horrendous weather conditions Katharine and I are currently forced to endure.

The photo on the left comes from Quinta da Luz, a village just for tourists, not very far west of where I am right now.

This pic only updates on the half-hour, but I’m sure you get the idea.

You never know, you might be looking at us right now!

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A mixed-up – yet highly watchable – comedy-thriller. The cartoonish lead makes it hard to believe this is a ‘true story’ (always a dodgy claim) more interested, as he is, in blaming someone than catching the serial killer-rapist. More incompetent than corrupt, his character arc to professional is hard to believe and the comedy’s too disruptive for the thriller to work.
But still a well worth watching 7.5 out of 10.
Vozvraschenie (The Return)……Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan (Last Life in the Universe)

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Katharine’s spotted the weather girl who can’t be named (at London Euston). I know ‘weather girl’ is a little patronising, but hey, they deserve it (especially this one). I first mentioned this celebrity way back in March, when I’d only just started blogging and soon started getting loads of visits from (I imagine sad, older, male) people looking for naked, nude topless (you know). Then in early April I just happened to mention how surprisingly popular she is and now, well, there’s a definite spike in my stats whenever she’s on TV.

Ever helpful, I’ve added links to a dating agency to the original post.

Anyway. This is for those gentlemen who prefer the older woman. Katharine reports that’s she’s no different in the flesh and today she was wearing a flowery pink dress with pink cardigan. You be excited to learn that her companion was also an older blonde, this time in a raincoat. I’m afraid that in the absence of the photos you seek, you’ll have to ‘meditate’ on that.

Too honest for the weather……***** ******** naked… or nude perhaps……‘Celebrity worship essential’, say scientists

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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s convoy made a grand (in a third world sort of way) sight on the lunchtime news as the old man headed for Najaf. An expert at keeping his powder dry, he always refused to meet Paul Bremmer when he ran Iraq for the US, saying the Iraqi people should decide the country’s future. Democracy rather than theocracy has seemed to be Sistani’s thing, with the other side to his non-interventionism being a toleration of young radicals, like Moqtada al Sadr.

But things have gotten way out of hand and forced him into play. Saying he wants no guns in the holy city (though his convoy was well protected), he’s called on Iraqis to march on Najaf. The idea of thousands filling the streets to break the siege and reclaim the temples certainly sounds Ghandi-ish. What fun.

Those other Iraq pictures……Getting some focus on Iraq war aims……US not godly enough for Iraqis