Keith Ledger

So, Keith Ledger died yesterday and there are already over 500 in memoriam posts on Facebook. Not that I am unsympathetic or anything but I never did see Broke Back Mountain, nor have I any intention of doing so and I am unlikely to see the next Batman movie (well until the Christmas 2010 repeats anyway), so I fear, sad though it may be his passing is not likely to mean much to me.
Of much more importance was Spurs' stuffing of Arsenal last night. There had to be some justification for me sitting in a traffic jam for over an hour waiting to reach a road that the police promptly closed so that a 7 mile journey to Archway involved a diversion via Shoreditch and took over two hours! Even then I couldn't get into the university car park and had to abandon the car in a resident's only bay and trust that the police were busy watching the football. Am I the only one to find that bits of London move on dark wet nights and turn up in places you weren't expecting them just to try and get you lost? Spurs in the Carling Cup final, Palace in the play off zone and United topping the league, most of the family will be happy.
I have temporarily given up listening to Radio 4 as the news about the FTSE just makes me want to cry. 20% wiped off the family savings, pension plan in freefall (along with everyone else). I guess this is the government's answer to the baby boom and the looming pensions crisis. Make sure that we all remain economically dependant and have to continue working to 75 or even 80 and then conveniently drop dead to ease the burden on the NHS. Maybe I should invest in shares in funeral directors next time.