Carfull...!

Well, you can tell it's summertime. Cars flying off cliffs, kids using rubber rings and airbeds to try to cross the channel and barbies quietly rusting away, in a pool of rainwater that's conspired to turn most folks' lawns into pale imitations of Florida's Everglades. In the latest incident, an 11-year-old girl narrowly escaped from a car just before it rolled off a cliff in Benllech, crashing into rocks and the sea.
A Royal National Lifeboat Institution spokesman said the girl was in the car listening to music on Saturday when she accidentally knocked the handbrake off. Well, easy to do, I suppose. I mean - handbrake, steering wheel, nuclear launch button - who hasn't made these sorts of silly mistakes in their lives? Although what surprised us most was that it wasn't immediately followed by calls to abolish cliffs...

They used to call the period between Parliament knocking off for the extended holiday of a length MPs begrudge people who actually work for a living and Parliament re-opening, some time in Autumn, the 'silly season' because newspapers - anxious to maintain circulation at all costs - couldn't get their reliable daily fare of ministerial gaffes and party bickering to fill the pages opposite bare-breasted beauties claiming to have met Elvis while holidaying on the moon. It's actually a bit of a misnomer, because things don't get much sillier than when Parliament's doing its stuff. However, it does mean that real news - rather than opinions - actually tends to appear.

Over the years, people have asked why the media only report bad news. Why don't we hear about good things, for a change? The answer's simple of course; only bad news sells papers. People don't want to buy a paper which only reports positives. The local blogs are an excellent example of this phenomenon; readership is never higher than when there's controversy, either in the articles or in the comments. Or - in our case - than when we're running pictures of Naturists. Which is why the image at the top of today's offering has nothing whatsoever to do with the blog's content. Well, come on; we have to get the figures back up somehow, don't we?