This just in...

Via my Channel Four News email thingy...

A careless blunder meant that a LETHAL beam of radiation was emitted from highly radioactive waste for three-and-a-half-hours out of a lorry driving across the North of England. Apparently it was "pure good fortune" no one was dangerously contaminated when a plug was left off a specially built container.

The leak was only discovered the next day after the lorry had been parked overnight at Windscale in Cumbria. How often is dangerous radioactive material moved around like this? And why are there not more stringent safety checks?

Good questions. Like living in the North isn't bad enough without risking being irradiated... then again it would explain some of the things I saw being wheeled around by proud parents the last time I was back 'home'.

And trust me, drivers do not need an even lower sperm count to justify buying a 4x4...

Damn country's going to hell. I'm thinking about Bolivia. Would six months in South America help me focus? Maybe... if not it's still pretty good odds that it'd be a blast though.

And we just got invited to Nick and Erika's wedding out in Manila in November. Now that's a bit of the world I'd like to see first hand...

[Music: Stevie Vai's Flex-Able Leftovers]