Today's entry sees the return of the long-awaited Christmas champagne competition.
While there may be one or two more serious entries this year (today is the report stage and third reading of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, for example), today it's time to relax a little and give you a chance to enter this year's Christmas champagne competition. Gather your loved ones around the fireside this Christmas - there's nothing they will enjoy more than testing their knowledge of the Planning Act regime.
Here's what you have to do. In the following rather nonsensical text I have hidden words relating to the regime - they could be words relating to the Act, words from project names where applications have been made, or people. There may be abbreviations. For example: I sang using a carol book this year has 'Angus' hidden in it. Here goes - it is just the following italic text that counts.
Rather than skip Christmas shopping this year, I've been on a spree, sallying forth to the malls at the weekend. You may think Leyden Jars are an odd present but I bought one and I am going to ship it to my aunt filled with tulips. Wichita, Kansas - rather less exotic than Melanesia or Tashkent - is her address. I, mercifully far-flung, am blessed with strange relatives who require mental effort to satisfy.
When the Christmas rush gets too much I retire to an inn, sipping my favourite brew, or it might be soup tonight. I find my local is marvellous for such a quiet moment. I enjoy reading Charlie Brooker (you may know him from TV) who can write about anything - kangaroos, ecoterrorists and more serious work too. For example, exposing journalists where they shamefully hack innocent people's accounts and destroy their good name. Press regulation is a bit of a minefield, especially on the internet but no-one has dared ditch it yet. One moment you find everything all operating successfully and the next there are arrests, however nimbly the perpetrators try to avoid coppers knocking on their doors.
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