What exactly is France up to in their diplomatic dealings with Russia? Whilst France has just regained full NATO membership after withdrawing it's troops in 1966 : PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that France intended to become a full member of...
Deathrow’s Metal Sunday
After awakening from my slumbers on this brand new year and not actually feeling hungover from excessive drinking I thought that there is nothing better this week than a little thrash metal to get the year started. Naturally, we are talking about thrash metal from...
Best headline ever – Police whack giant snow penis.
A great one to start the new year : Police whack giant snow penis New Windsor - What, some might ask Jessica Sherer, is with the giant snow penis she built on her boyfriend's lawn this week?As everyone knows, phallic displays were central to Viking winter solstice...
The Waspsnest – Now with Mobile Browsing
Hopefully, you can now view The Waspsnest on a mobile device in a display friendly format thanks to the WPTouch plugin (and equally hopefully, I haven't loused anythign else up in the process). Please let me know in comments if you have any issues with the display or...
The Waspsnest review of 2010 – Part I
As 2010 comes to a close and The Waspsnest approaches its first anniversary, what better time than to have a trawl through my witterings for the highlights and lowlights of the year. January Whilst The Daily Mail brought us a story of Midget Mayhem as a 3 foot 9 inch,...
The Waspsnest review of 2010 – Part II
And on we go to the second half of 2010. July Wasp spent most of the month in Estonia where this wonderful sign was seen highlighting the different view of personal responsibility in Estonia compared to the UK : Estonia - No drunken swimming UK - English water is much...
The Moose tagged me.
After Dick Puddlecote started a "describe your blogspace" tag session, I have been tagged by the Fuel Injected Moose to descibe the contents of The Waspsnest. As The Wasp is of the solitary wasp species things are none too tidy in the nest. I even managed to kick over...
More restrictions on liberty coming into force next month.
While Labour have been out of power for 7 months, sleeping elements of their legislation are still being brought into force by Statutory Instrument under the authority of the Home Office. Amongst a large raft of SI's signed recently is this one : The Policing and...
What was the emergency at London City Airport on 19th December?
Looking through the list of Satutory Instruments coming into force , I discovered this rather strange item (pdf) : The order was rescinded (by another SI) at 13:15 on the 20th December with the following : That emergency having now passed, the Secretary of State no...
Czech MP’s 2011 calendar
Having been rather impressed with last years version of the Czech parliamentarians calendar I was delighted to find their 2011 offering today. January, April and September are below: I still can't quite decide if they are better than the 2011 German Farm Girls though....