if in doubt do nothing

The administration team, including myself, were meant to give a presentation at Monday's team meeting, on 'what we do' - lest anyone be thinking that we spend our days shopping online or whatever. However we got bumped at the last minute, having presumably been judged to be too dull. Little did they know - now they will never get to see our dance routine set to a version of MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This, with the lyrics changed to reflect best practice in administration.

Actually I was somewhat relieved. I mean, it was a bit risky.

Someone asked me the other day if I had been 'impressed' by anyone in politics recently. I couldn't think of anything to say - except for no, obviously. If anyone in politics ever threatened to impress me, I would have to go out and get my critical faculties sharpened. But then, such is life, only a day or two later a new face in politics did emerge that excited my interest. Someone had entered a shop window dummy into an Aberdeen by-election under the name of Helena Torrey, I think it was. The name hardly matters, the important thing is that here at last is a political figure with integrity, one who:

a.) Won't lie.

b.) Is able to accommodate the whims of political fashion without altering her fundamental stance.

c.) Can easily withstand a grilling from Paxman. As long as he doesn't use a real grill.

I hear that she has already been taken into custody, along with her handler - proof, if any were needed, of her radical credentials.