Some people thrive on hot air and gas, but few promote it in bright lights. Everything below the name is multi-storey car parking!
Until we speak again, while you are in Chicago (or anywhere else) try to stay above the twit guano.
So, what did we learn from watching more than 124,000 seconds of Championship football home matches at the Cardiff City Stadium across 2016/7? The main message to take into the summer:
Football is… a bunch of fat blokes sitting down, telling a bunch of fit blokes running around, what to do.

And, for those cats who prefer the scintillating excitement of watching on TV from the comfort of their sofa…

Until we speak again, choose your refreshment to get into shape, and build your ridiculously high expectations for your team, in time for the new season in August!
[For the record the Mighty Bluebirds have risen from 24th in October 2016 to finish 12th at the end of this season. Project that rise forward, and… no, I’d better not go there, at least until too much sun has fried my brain.]
[With acknowledgements to Zak Show.com & 9GAG for the original images used to illustrate this post.]
Let it go folks… once President Obama was out of the door there was no longer an option for dignity and oratory. One Clinton may have dignity, and another may have oratory, but none of them have both. As for the new incumbent… well, viewing from afar is like watching a good friend skidding down the road heading straight into a slow motion car crash.
The 8 year experience of slick Obama speak has lulled us into a false sense of expectation. The new zeitgeist of the nightmarish dark hours tweet fest is beginning to look something altogether different…

Little did we know that the poor little bum-crack combover was being spied on, by the order of the outgoing President and through the skilled practitioners of the UK spy industry…

There is no value in challenging these facts, because they are carefully disguised in an evidence-free shroud where conspiracy theory has become incontrovertible. To mangle a quote from Groucho Marx “I have facts, but if you don’t like them, well, I have other facts!”
George W Bush might well have been the prime architect of Dumbfuckistan, but for those of you who have lamented its passing, fret no more. Evidence is beginning to pour in from the focal point of the free-world to suggest that Dumbfuckistan has been resurrected and is thriving again in its assault on rational thought.
For a start, just the other day I was browsing my weekly digest of national and international news, when I nearly choked on my personal sense of my place on the planet. It seems the new administration of the country that wants to tell the world how to be has just scrapped requirements on major telecoms providers to take reasonable measures in order to protect our data from the hands of unscrupulous vultures. Then there is the perennial Republican favourite… “want guns, have guns, get your hands off my guns buddy.” Good news for the equal rights for the mentally disturbed lobby, as those declared mentally incapable of managing their own affairs are at least free to buy guns!

It seems this freedom from rational thinking is rapidly filtering down from the White House and Capitol Hill, to State legislatures. Why, only the other day the good folk of Arkansas realised a way of grabbing a bargain before deadline day… it seems their stocks of killer drugs are fast approaching their sell-by-date. A State that has not executed anybody in 12 years has found a solution to the dilemma of wasting perfectly good stocks of lethal injection juice… let’s have some mass executions while stocks still last!

If the so-called Islamic State were ever in need of some fresh thinking, there is an abundant source of ideas simply oozing from the resurrected state of Dumbfuckistan.
As for Bella, she was always well prepared with a copy of the relevant constitutional amendments for any challenge to her right to take down any animate or inanimate object of her choosing.

Until we speak again, sleep tight, and try not to let those early morning tweets bight!
[Set up a mobile brewing facility] Take a group of men, any ordinary men, say a group like this…
[Source desired ingredients] Direct them towards a pub with some good beer; we’re talking proper ale here. A good hoppy pale ale like this normally brings them back for more…
[Processing and storage] Good ale is converted into lager by a natural rapid fermentation method, encased within a human frame. But, it needs close proximity storage, before the onward distribution to preferred lager outlets (i.e. other places not frequented by those who like good beer). The Hopbunker in Cardiff has perfected the storage solution…
[Distribution] Until we speak again, just don’t ask where the above storage units are subsequently distributed to! I think I’m going to be a little more cautious about what I drink.
For Juno and Bella this would certainly have represented dreams of ‘fast food’; much too fast for either cat, who took a simple view of olympic feats… usually taking the form of lengthy snoozes on a sun-soaked window cill. But, for other members of the animal kingdom, the olympics are drawing close, so practice is essential.
[Note to UK readers… a particular Mission Impossible soundtrack ad may help you to seriously appreciate the following event… though hopefully not the urine of the gnat product!].
Right, on your marks, get set…
Go…
C’mon Usain Bolt, keep up!
Hey, where is my medal?
WHO ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
I knew there was a reason why I run so fast…
Until we speak again, keep practicing!
There I was ambling along City Road in Cardiff the other day, when it suddenly seems to me that you can buy just about anything in the January sales these days. But just don’t expect all of the items to look so pleased about being for sale!
Until we speak again this Bella is going to have a keen eye on such sales. Anyone know of a good talon removing service, and an extra large feeding bowl before I buy?
Seems that the good burghers of Grangetown in Cardiff don’t hold out the warmest of welcomes for posh people!
But revenge looks sweet, as the owners are no doubt members of the landed gentry; and my guess is they decided if we are not getting in then nobody is getting in!
Until we speak again this Bella hopes that all of your preferred lotion is accessible!
Sex: Female.
Kitten: Previous Job.
Porn: What the internet was for before kittens arrived.
Calendar: sequential collection of days, weeks and months that my ‘in-house numpty’ doesn’t share the really good food.
Miss January:
That’s the best pose you’re getting in this weather!
Miss February:
Who are you looking at?
Miss March:
Which is my best side?
Miss April:
Thinking man’s crumpet!
Miss May:
Searching for that page three pose.
Miss June:
Got it!
Miss July:
Catching some rays on the rare sunny day.
Miss August:
You looking at me?
Miss September:
Trying out a sporty pose.
Miss October:
How much more to the right do you want?
Miss November:
That’s as BDSM as it gets!
Miss December:
Go away… wake me up when christmas is over!
Until we speak again I’m Bella, and the coat stays on!