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Ugh! Two years at QPR awaits us as the small-minded, but influential clowns that live around Fulham somehow managed to persuade a judge to reverse all previous decision and give them leave to appeal. The problem with these NIMBYs (not in my back yard, in case you didn’t know) is that it was already in the back yard, and had been since 1905. I guess hey assumed we would continue failing and quietly go out of business, which is the fate that awaits many of the current lowly football league clubs, unfortunately.

Still, I fear for Fulham too as Al Fayed is not getting any younger, his taste in shirts continues to deteriorate and the Inland Revenue are no doubt getting more and more interested in his financial affairs. All very worrying.

An early blog entry featured cucumber, so to maintain the salad theme as we hit an early summer here in NYC, here is an update from the Guardian about Sunday’s celery-throwing incident at the Fulham v Chelsea FA Cup Semi-Final, which we so frustratingly lost. It appears you can throw celery at someone in England, as long as you have the legal authority to do so.

Of course I’d agree that The Smiths were the most influential band in the last 50 years, but then I would also be described as a typical Smiths fan and NME reader when I was a lad etc etc. Anyway, that’s also the view of the current crop of lads & lasses that read the NME, apparently. It doesn’t seem as if their readership demographic has shifted one iota in 15-plus years. But The Strokes at No.17? That’s one short attention span.

Now this month’s pictures, I think you’ll agree are pretty darn good. He’s almost sitting up on his own (but not quite), his first tooth came through yesterday and we even let him sit on some grass the other day! (Where he lives, that’s not really possible.) Anyway, April’s pictures so far are here.

Christopher Hitchens turns his attention to the Queen Mother in quite the best summing up of what it’s all about in The Guardian.