MILLS & BOON LAUNCHES APP

I wonder if they'll open up to other romance writers? This could be a brave move into cornering the
Women's Fiction market.... hmmm but that background music still resonates from the best cheese!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27131182

TINIEST DEER BORN IN SPAIN

How adorable? That's why we need to protect all our wonderful species (not flesh eating worms that live in eye tissue though, thanks for that image this week ILFScience!)
http://bbc.in/1igXTCb

NETFLIX PROFITS ON THE RISE

Welcome to commission a N.W script :)
http://bbc.in/1pnGZ9X

GERVAIS as DEREK

I've longed admired Gervais's writing and comedic talents. Pioneering the podcast, making A-listers squirm or reveal their good humoured natures, the list is endless.
This article on the Beeb caught me lunching eye. Also because one of his quotes reminded me of why I fell in love with books and writing "Katherine Mansfield." Her books make the ordinary extraordinary (I read them cover to cover) and Gervais is such a keen observer of life.

"I wanted to go back to ordinary people, I always try to do the ordinary made extraordinary."

http://bbc.in/1iTB8BF

NEW BANKSY

Clever as always
http://bbc.in/1gvaQ6V

If we could only get Snoop Dogg audio singing stop the snooping animated as Snoop Snoopy:)

MP QUITS over HOUSE EXPENSES

How very big of her, most of us would get a custodial sentence!
And when its so easy to get on the property ladder in the UK with one f***ing property!
Poor Love with such dilemma's.
I'll expense her my extortionate rent to parliament in future and any future holiday lodgings
as second home expenses!
http://bbc.in/1hZVVW2
When you're culture minister should your attributes loosely include "cultured" not "scam"?

SAVE THE SLOTHS

This woman is amazing, these creatures are amazing.
http://bbc.in/1ltzc5o

JASON MANFORD BUYS WHOLE AUDIENCE A DRINK

We all know how frustrating it is when you set out in plenty of time and the dark arts beat you again (aka UK traffic).
Although by celebrity standards Manford wasn't really that late on getting on stage, look at what he did:) That's what I call good manners, must have been bought up by Patsy!
http://bbc.in/1jOzG8S

GERVAIS & THE MUPPETS

If you feel like a bit of a muppet this week, go see the Muppets then you won't care that you're a muppet:)
Love to see some cockney gangsters call the Muppets Muppets!
Just imagine a slightly cleaner version of Sexy Beast with a song and dance routine!
Ray Winston's Gary Dove character played by Gonzo & Ben Kingsley as Don Logan.

Gary  "Sorry Don, I'm out"
Don   "You aint f***ing out til I say yer out, you f***ing Muppet"
Gary  "You're right I am a Muppet."
Don  "F****ing shut it you Muppet."
Gary  "Stop stating the obvious, it's getting repetitive."
Don  " NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO."  

http://bbc.in/1pBzx5Q

COPENHAGEN ZOO or KILLING FIELDS

Kære Danmark,

Maybe you should just frekkin rehouse your entire Zoo and open up a memorial park for endangered animals in DK.
If you go to the international press you might have better results to rehouse. Just an idea. A back to the wild program supported by the public or another homing project paid by the public. My Danish friends are outraged.
Does ZOO google translate to SLAGTER in Danish?
http://bbc.in/1h8KVp5
Here's a novel idea, don't take whats surplus to your requirements.

BRITISH SCRIPTS STINK BBC

Well Mr Stephens, just mail me! I have a few up my non-downtown non merchant-ivory ruffled sleeves.
http://bbc.in/1dtaj40

AFFORDABLE DIAMONDS

You all know I have an avid fascination (aka : a totally unrealistic penchant) with the sparkly things in this world, you might have picked that up whilst reading Moving Up On Manolo's.http://amzn.to/1qoLuPu But things may become more affordable for the lesser oligarchs of us, nahhhh you'd still know and 'synthetically compressed' HPHT has never been sung about in quite the same vigour!
http://bbc.in/1i3Q6qn

BRITAIN'S FIRST GOLD

Can't do it with full vision. This girl's amazing!
http://bbc.in/1lN8uXM

Putin's Archaic Meglomania

Pro-West... Pro (former) eastern block... how about PRO PEACE?

Mr Gorbachev's always had a wider vision. Freedom and democracy.

BTW, is the pipeline a supply strategy for his future botox dependency? The man's head looks like a over stretched balloon! Oooo Mr Putin why don't you just have a cocktail down old compton street, kick back and forget yourself deary!

http://bit.ly/1dmw3BH

Criticism of Vladimir Putin[edit]

Although he has credited Vladimir Putin for stabilizing Russia in the aftermath of the initial and turbulent years of the post-Soviet era, Gorbachev has become critical of both Putin and his successor (and predecessor) Dmitry Medvedev since at least March 2011.^[53] His main grievances about the "tandem" are backsliding on democracy, corruption, and the dominance of security officers. Gorbachev is also dissatisfied by the fact that he has not been allowed to register his social democratic party.^[54]

When being interviewed by the BBC to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the August Coup, Gorbachev again announced his dissatisfaction with the policies and rule of Putin. Speaking of the status of democracy in the Russian Federation, he proclaimed: "The electoral system we had was nothing remarkable but they have literally castrated it". Gorbachev also stated that he believed that Putin should not have sought a third term as the Russian president in 2012.^[55]

In response to the 2011 Russian protests as a result of United Russia's controversial victory in the Russian legislative election, 2011, he called on the authorities to hold a new election, citing electoral irregularities and ballot box stuffing.^[56]

In a political lecture delivered to the RIA-Novosti news agency in April 2013, Gorbachev decried Putin's retreat from democracy, noting that in Russia "politics is increasingly turning into imitation democracy" with "all power in the hands of the executive branch". Gorbachev addressed Putin directly, stating that "to go further on the path of tightening the screws, having laws that limit the rights and freedoms of people, attacking the news media and organizations of civil society, is a destructive path with no future".^[57]

OSCAR'S WINNERS

Which was your favourite dress? The selfie has found it's true home;)
http://bbc.in/1eMaUBd

SPACE CADETS NEEDED- APPLY HERE!

Truly the best title for a job advert ever!
http://bbc.in/1mOJtwN

OSCAR TIME NIGH!

Get those oils out Sunday is time for the burning of! IE- midnight UK time.
http://bbc.in/1pJFTTw

SPECTACULAR NORTHERN LIGHTS SEEN IN UK

WOW... makes me wanna move north!
http://bbc.in/MzuCoV

DOLLY PARTON GLASTONBURY 2014

Who wouldn't want to see Dolly, she's an icon:)
http://bbc.in/1lneAOk

ALL MALE BAN BBC

We don't have to contrive every-damn-little-thing with quotas do we? Just funny is required,

animal, vegetable or mineral. Good grief has the world gone completely nuts?

I agree with Dara. 

http://bbc.in/1htRbph

Shall we just stop thinking about all the things that don't need thinking about or

a committee of twats wasting air, paper and money!