A day off !

No work today. Today made paid employment seem like a holiday. My mission if I had any choice was to get my mother's safe open. The locksmith came and three hours later he was still having difficulty getting it open. My joke that in Western films they often used dynamite was only half spoken in jest. Anyway eventually it opened and the first half of the days battle with the M25 was complete.

The paper's most interesting stories featured the serialisation of the Prince of Darkness, Peter Mandelson's diries entitled " The third Man". Seems Mandelson has irritated Blair by getting his book published first. Blair allegedly has had to change the title of his book from " The Journey" to " A Journey". It has much about him that he would consider the former title in the first place.

Today a photo was published showing Cesc Fabregas in a Barcelona shirt. Now I sense the explanation is that his team mates in the aftermath thought it would be a laugh to pull the stunt of pulling a shirt over his head and photograph it. Whether it is more significant only time will tell.

In the world of cricket history was made today. Australia played Pakistan in a test match at Lords. Pakistan are the home team, Australia being unable to travel to Pakistan because of security concerns. The ground had a reasonable turnout given that Tuesday is a work day, of course Pakistan benefit because they have 4 tests against England later in the season.