Dubious Honours

The regular New Year feast of honours was announced today. The usual crew of luvvies were awarded. And, also as is now usual, a few 'common folk' got awarded for services to their respective communities/professions. These are typically people who have had the same job delivering post/serving chips for a squillion years and now that they are 90 they get an MBE for their dedication. Of course, you are meant to think "oh, isn't that nice".
Well, no, it isn't nice, its daft. These people have been doing the same mediocre thing for all their life with no ambition, no change, not a single forward thought.
I don't grudge them a reward but they seem, in these instances, more like consolation prizes for an unimaginitive life.
I know the idea is to make the otherwise pointless awards more relative to the populace but it would be much better targetted at acheivment rather than this dismal longevity thing.

(not much) Foggy Photography

Despite having more time off work than I can remember over the festive period, didn't do much photography. Only managed one trip out on a very foggy and cold Christmas Eve, went down to the bridges to see what they looked like.

Covert Spam Conspiracy

Users of GMail will know that it gives a single text link at the top of the mail, usually in context of what is going on on the page. This is a news story or other item of interest. The strange thing is that when you are in your 'Spam' folder deleting out the rubbish, the oh-so-clever Google algorithm almost always presents you with a link to a recipe involving Spam (the meat).
It strikes me that this is FAR more exposure that anything Spam related would get normally. Are Google moving into the processed meat market? Are they involved in a covert plot to promote all things Spam?

Spam Skillet Casserole anyone?

Honorable Mention

I'm delighted to say I got an 'Honorable Mention' in The Everyman Photo contest landscape section. Got into the top 10 of a few of the 21 judges.
The image I entered was:



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