Gordon Brown Shows Off His Courage: Making Hay While the Sun Shines

There was enough sun today for young Arnie Ryan Sidebottom to take another four-for and see the West Indies to their worst test defeat I'm told in more than 50 years.

Yesterday was not so dry with our Prime Minister in waiting cracking hilarious jokes left right and centre, in conversation with one Mariella Fostrup at the Guardian Hay Festival.

Boy am I glad I didn't blog Gordon's off the cuff remarks and anecdotes when he first passed the no-contest threshold all those days ago, in conversation with Oona King that time. But now the Guardian have stuck some of his best material in the google-sphere we may need to revisit.

Mariella of course was just moving on from the Ferret and Spanner plugging operation as Distant Cousins moved in as clients around 1989. The girl's done well hasn't she? Though I do recall a certain cattiness from the day. Both conversationalists have come along way since then.

THE LINK: Also includes SP that GB will fix the FOI PMB so no MP EXES on the QT.