Feb 28th

So forget everything else. Harry is in Afghanistan. Not only that but Harry has been in Afghanistan for a couple of months now. The press stitched up a deal to keep schtum, and off he went, brave little Harry that he is. The Drudge report found out about it, told the world, and now everyone comes clean. So forget everything else. Earthquakes in Lincolnshire, (ok fair enough they were bever going to string more than a day out of that), possible mass murders of Jersey children, the world teetering on the brink of econommic collapse. Forget it. Harry's been in Afghanistan, and the story must consume every available news minute, every phone in, every minute of our every thought.
Now the story is broken of course, it's each man for himself. Apparently he's come within shooting distance of the Taliban, but he sure as hell has come a lot closer to the droves of pressmen in on the stroy from the beginning. who now believe we should be fed details of every day, every night, every meal, every shit and every wank he's had since arriving in the godforsaken sandpit.
Make no mistake, he is on the FRONT LINE . Well, actually not the front line where anyone has actually been shot at or blown to smitherines, in fact, it later transpires that he spends most of his days in a kind of garden lean to made out of mud bricks watching telly pictures of the Taliban, and occasionally getting on the blower to ask a passing plane to blow them to pieces. Reminds me of Dan's life on World of Warcraft a little.
What troubles is me is we we are expected to give a toss what he is doing, where he is doing it, how long he has been doing it for, or how much longer he'll be doing it. (Not much longer I suspect as Osama & the bruvs have presumably pinpointed his hut via the medium of News at Ten.) I also wonder about those tragic folk who spend their lives hanging on the every movement of the inbreds. Haven't they notices he's been missing these past ten weeks?
Of course the episode is used to demonstrate the natural superiority of our island race, with possibly the most absurd comment coming from Jilly Cooper, who opines, "Of course the Americans can't understand how anyone in such a position would want to put themselves in such danger. Presumably the sub plot to this is that 200 million yanks are all of the opinion that this display of derring do really does underline the fact that, run the world as they might (cos we'd really be in Afghanistan if they hadn't thought of it first), there is no substitute for good old fashioned royal british backbone. Ludicrous.
The video project continues apace. Our fast moving view on life has seen Emma enter the world, Daniel learn to hold an intelligent conversation, Elsa arrive, and I think poor old Lou has now shuffled off this mortal coil. I certainly haven't seen her for a good few tapes now. She's missed in fast rewind as in real life. Her cantankerous exhibitionism brought many a smile!