Russell and Carol - hayle and hearty

So, in his testimony to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Rupert Murdoch says:

Q224 Jim Sheridan: Mr Blair visited you halfway round the world, before the 1997 election. Anyway, that does not matter.

Rupert Murdoch: That was something that Mr Cameron arranged—Campbell.

Meanwhile in Letters Guardian

The News International #notw story has probably been done to death - though I remain concerned that the big issues are being lost in the 'hacking' of phones (which of course wasn't hacking at all).

Seems to me that the real issue is privacy and ownership of data and we're reaching a tipping point where hopefully we might get some proper rights for once!

In the meantime - I loved Hugh Grant's comments in the Guardian which to me hit the nail firmly on the head

I've long been interested in the connections between BSE and nutrient deficiencies/excess so I was interested to see the following article in today's Western Morning News

Watching the Tour de France coverage reminded me about my French exchange and having forgotten the name of the town.  Much Googling later, I think we may have stayed near the Chateau de Maintenon

The view of the front of the Chateau,

Seems ages - guess it probably is! since we last went to St Ives, so enjoyed a few hours there this morning before the hordes descend in July...

Somehow I forgot to mark first harvest day here.  A sad oversight! too excited rushing home to eat the peas I suspect!

Many brave people are going with the Gaza Flotilla II assembling in the Med right now.  The Zionist Entity has made its usual revolting attempts to stop the ships before they sail and smear the people but the ships are going.  Shame on Greece, Cyprus, The USA, Canada, France and Australia for telling their citizens not to participate.  Interestingly The Zionist Entity is claiming that people on the flotilla entering Gazan waters 'will be treated as individuals having attempted to enter Israel illegally' (Jerusalem Post) thus demonstrating that they consider Gaza to be under the authority of the Zionist Entity...

Just finished the last episode of "The Shadow Line" (2011) (TV series) - quite astonishingly brilliant.

More like a proper play than TV drama, one of the absolute best things I've seen in years and the scene in Ireland with Gatehouse (Stephen Rea) and Crace was sublime and worth a programme of its own.

Walking on Godrevy,  the wildflowers were looking especially beautiful

Lovely walk in Tremayne Woods today, the bluebells and the light through the beech leaves were stunning with lovely views over the Helford river out to Falmouth