In amongst the mediafest of Blair’s departure, Raedwald reminds us of unfinished business likely to come back and haunt the Labour Party.

In case they had slipped your mind:

* Cash for Honours
* State Funding
* Navy hostages Board of Enquiry
* Birmingham terrorist raids leak
* ID cards fiasco
* EU treaty
* CSR 07

Read the details here

(I’ve seen better, but it gave me a small wry smile)

Dream Flight is a delightful ride through at efteling, designed and themed in-house. You travel in suspended carriages through a fairytale wonderland with much to look at accompanied by mellow themed music. There is even a bit of a thrill when you spiral down at high speed through a forest towards the end. There is a good Wikipedia entry here.

I tried to take some on-ride photos but the light level was too low. I quickly swapped over to video mode and present that footage below.

In the inevitable gift shop, a cornucopia of fairy gifts were available.

This one didn’t have a price tag!

Meanwhile, if you want to see political fairy tales, see Gordon Brown go down the pan over at Morleygate

Bob Evans, the Editor of the Morley Obtiser, offers an opinion on Quasi-Independence.

The big winner, both in town and city polls, was the Morley Borough Independents. They took both Morley North and South in the city elections and became the major player in the town elections.
Perhaps now it is time for the MBI to consider a change of party name.
The Collins English dictionary quotes independent as: “free from control in action; judgement” and “not dependent on anything else for function, validity, etc”.
With the continued rise of the MBI, it would be hard to argue that it is now not a political party in its own right. Perhaps “The Morley Party” or “The Morley Alliance” would be more appropriate.

You can read the full article HERE (if their flaky website is working).

Bob, it is a party in its own right- see the electoral commission. Their accounts are online as well.

(They did it to get recognised status as a grouping on Leeds City Council).

I first heard the term Dobber from a Dave Spikey routine. It is a Chav variant and the people are generally fat, stupid and ignorant, a sort of Chav underclass. His routine refers to an imaginary shop selling rubbish clothing, which he wanted to call “Dobber Clobber”.

Anyway at Efteling, I was amused to come across a sideshow called “DobberBal”

Do you throw the balls at Dobbers, or is it expressly for Dobbers, I wondered?

You have to get the ball into the buckets which move and have a dobber in them already to make it trickier.

The girl manning the stall was very bemused with me taking a photo of her stall!

(Online translation tells me that Dobberbal means floating ball, but I think my translation is better…)