Yeah Boring.

At around 20:45 on 15/5/12 Hollande and Merkel have finished their press conference.

Like I said I've been to the pub. On the way there my father and I drove past the house involved in the Langdale Road house fire. Although it had been raining all day the fire brigade were still dousing the top of burnt out shell of a building with a "Simon Snorkel" elevated platform. As a result the road was still closed from the junction with Nutfield road and there were nervous looking Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) manning the cordon. This is normally the point where I wander up to a cordon before agreeing with the police, PCSO's and forensic officers that it would be easier on everyone if there was no legitimate reason to find traces of me at the crime scene but I think it was about 3 or 4 doors down on the opposite side.

While we were in the pub the local police put on a good display with a patrol car and an area car doing a synchronised lights only approach on one of the side streets backed up with two bicycle cops before immediately turning around and leaving the scene. This could have been because there had been a report of an attempted mugging or they were making some sort of comment about my father's car that was parked on double yellow lines using my grandmother's disabled badge on that side street. Either way it was enough to clear all the young, black males out of the area.

In other news in the early hours of this morning the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) for Somalia launched their first air attack against pirate positions in Somalia using a helicopter gunship. EUNAVFOR are being very tight lipped about the operation so I'll have to guess and say that it was Britain ordering a French Tigre helicopter into operation in order to test the bounds of the UK/France military alliance now that France has a new President. The grenade attack in Kenya is someone's way of saying we need to stop and think this one through before the Somalia situation is escalated further.