Sono Asino?

I've been thinking..yes! I know that's dangerous, but sometimes my mind wanders.

If Switzerland was flattened out, you know, flatten all the mountains etc, just how big would it be? Bigger than the UK?

This may explain it's financial and cultural muscles!

As well as all those numbered accounts in all the banks, the chocolate, the cheese, the foodstuff companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the clocks and watches. Anything else you can think of?

Oh , of course! Federer and Hingis and Schumacher lives there as well!

What have we got to challenge this - even Sir David has left the country to pursue his career in football, and other fields. And another thing all our big companies seem to be being bought out by overseas ownership!

Because I'm shortsighted and also speed read the books I read, for some reason, every time I see the word country in the print I always seem to read Coventry! Strange or what!

I am trying to stick to GB's guidelines on not becoming obese, and I realised last night that my meal yesterday cost only 50p....noodles with sliced onions and mustard. In fact that has been my meal everyday for the last week....I eat less than refugees in Darfur, but of course am much healthier!

I hear the Chinese are spying on Brits in Peking ( diplomats or officials, I don't know, nor care) through their mobile phones. Why! What would they know that the Chinese would need? Maybe they want to steal some recipes for British food to vary the rather limited varieties that they already have. I think John le Carre is involved here somewhere!

According to Bloomberg Financial news the figures for unemployment are being understated. This is not a conspiracy, but down to bureaucratic inefficiency due to all the rules applying to measurement by differing departments etc. Same old, same old!

Pythagoras' Theorem has 24 words, the Ten Commandments contain 179 words.....since 1979 GB has introduced +/- 2,000,00 words relating to complex and completely incomprehensible tax rules. What do you make of that?

Well anyway, have a nice weekend and we reconvene on Monday. Please leave comments below. Do you think I am a donkey?

Geography spot:

Turkmenbashi, Novorossisk,Dhaka, Phnom Penh, Managua.

Word spot:

Beyond the Pale, beyond the black stump, beyond credulity, electoral franchise, incompetence.