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UK politics has finally hit the bottom of the barrel. Damian McBride a “Special Advisor” to Gordon Brown was caught in the act of spreading malicious and untrue stories about

The family congregated at Carluke for Sophie’s 10th birthday. The girls and their friends had had a day out, the previous day, including cinema and meal out. But today was for Grans, Grandpas, aunts and uncles etc. Was a beautiful sunny day for a beautiful 10 year old.

• 19.04.09

Last month I had nothing happening on my calendar. During April it was the exact opposite. We had birthdays for Albin, Sophie, Tommaso, David Steel and his father Roy. Just shows you how relaxed everybody is when they’re on holiday!

Sadly, we see Italy hit by another earthquake. Many of these historic little towns may never recover - more beauty lost forever!

• Birthday List

01-04-09 Albin Cahling turned 9 - I can hardly believe it!

19-04-09 Both Sophie Smith and Tommaso Sani share this date. Sophie will be 10 and Tommaso will be 5.

23-04-90 Margaret’s brother Roy, another year older today

30-04-09 And Roy’s son David gets one step nearer to retirement today.

• 04.04.09 - 05.04.09

Margaret and ‘Mags’ had their Golf Weekend at the Cardrona Hotel, Peebles. They both seemed to have a wonderful time courtesy of Iain & Fiona.

This is Bob Quick. This man was the head of Special Investigations (Anti-Terrorism) squad for the entire UK.
The photo on the left shows him arriving for a meeting at Downing Street. The documents he is carrying are highly

sensitive. They details action to be taken against 12 suspected terrorists including the timescale of this action.
The information is in plain view and a simple enlargement of the photo makes it entirely readable. As a result of this information being exposed the police and MI5 had to move quickly to arrest these people before, in fact, they were ready to do so. This will make the police task infinitely more difficult.
Bob Quick has resigned his job but this kind of stupidity speaks to my main topic this month on the “Grump” page - the appalling level of management we currently suffer.

opposition MPs. As soon as this information became public McBride resigned and left Downing Street. Mr Brown, of course, “knew nothing about this” and therefore sees no need to apologise to anyone! Oh yeah!