Great news!

The BBC Religion & Ethics website upon which I lavish my workday attention has been nominated for a Webby Award. These are big things, apparently (I'm told) the Oscars of the internet.

We're up against stiff competition from our old nemesis, the well-funded and magaziney Beliefnet. If you do care to pop along and vote for us in the People's Vote category, I'll not be the slightest bit aghast.

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Priorities, dahlings...

Volunteer dogs can be 'Therapets'

Skyscraper powered by wind but not quite as epic as it sounds. (page with embedded video, requires Flash)

Death to pupae?

'Spitting vicar' sacked by bishop

Ancient snake's second leg is discovered

A man who broke his girlfriend's leg in a compensation claim scam has been jailed for three years.

There are Springwatch/Breathing Places/Dirty Hippie Squad people in the Club bar today, persuading everyone to plant baby wildflower seeds in biodegradable pots and take them home for the bees and butterflies. It's cute. I have duly acquired a little cardboard pot of black stuff and seeds for me mum.

(The seed packet says: Corn cockle, cornflower, corn chamomile, corn marigold, corn poppy, night-flowering catchfly (aha, that sounds more like it!), lady's bedstraw, meadow buttercup, ox-eye daisy (how unutterably vulgar and maudlin), red campion, toadflax, yarrow.)

I hate flowers.

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