Almost a year after his sudden shutdown on Indie 103.1, ex-Pistol turned radio DJ Steve Jones is tentatively back on air with Jonesy’s Jukebox shows pencilled in for every Monday-Friday at noon-1pm (LA time).
Listen in here – Jonesy’s Jukebox Live.
If this isn’t good news to start off the year, then I don’t know what is.
The UK Guardian’s politics section is running a competition for financial experts in an attempt to unravel Tony Blair’s highly complicated financial arrangements.
Here’s the deal:
We’re offering a prize of an original Steve Bell cartoon for the best explanation of Tony Blair’s opaque financial structures received by 16 December. We’re making the key documents available here. Send us your remarks or annotations; we’ll publish interesting observations, and credit you if you’d like us to. If you’d like to get in touch directly then email david.leigh@guardian.co.uk
The full introduction and background to all of this is here; ‘The Mystery Of Tony Blair’s Finances’ and links to all of the relevant documents you might need are on the sidebar on that page.
Can you shed any light on the mystery? If you can, enquiring minds would love to hear from you.
An important reminder now that the holiday season is approaching; raisins and grapes can kill dogs.
‘This is not to say you need live in fear of your dog keeling over dead if he swallows a grape or two. However, if he downs a handful of grapes or even a smaller amount of raisins, get him to your veterinarian right away. Aggressive treatment with intravenous fluids and close monitoring are his best chance for survival.’
At this time of the year there are often a lot of cakes, biscuits, puddings, deserts and so on around that contain grapes and/or raisins. Do not allow your dog to eat any of these things as grapes and raisins are highly toxic to dogs and can easily kill them.
There are more details here on this old post of mine: Raisin the alarm, do not poison your dogs.
Take heed as dogs will eat foods containing these things given a chance. Make sure that it is a chance they do not get.
International martial arts, piano master classes, Fado, Latin and African beats at the casino, a gathering of bands performing music from the Middle Ages, markets in the old quarter and castle, stages of the Open Rally Championship, the Portuguese Masters golf tournament…and much more.
See the full guide for details; Loulé Agenda for October 2009. (2.7Mb .pdf in English and Portuguese).
I was earlier reading an article on the BBC news website regarding the shortage of hire cars at European holiday destinations;
Holidaymakers in parts of the UK and Europe are facing bigger bills for hire cars – or risk not getting one at all – due to a shortage of vehicles.
I think that it is worth pointing out that this shortage of hire cars also applies very much to the Algarve, as there are plenty of stories such as these being heard locally.
There have also been cases of people arriving at Faro airport to begin their holiday, with a hire car pre-booked, only to find on arrival that there are in fact no cars available for them regardless of the pre-booking.
Worse, there does not appear to be any solution for those affected as the shortage of cars applies to all of the hire car companies.
If you have pre-booked a hire car for your holiday in the Algarve, you should check – repeatedly if possible – by telephone that a car really will be waiting for you.
If you are planning to spend time in the Algarve and have not pre-booked your hire car, be aware that your chances of finding one available are extremely low.
