You may or may not have read a scurrilous article about the shame of MPs heating costs and their inclination to preach to everyone else.
Well, Heinz have decided HP Sauce (which OF COURSE stands for Houses of Parliament, hence the picture on the bottle), invented in this country and consumed mostly in this country, shouldn't be made in this country any more.
They are moving it to Holland (Click for report), where I suppose they will add their 'potato salad' cooking flair to the product. Then ship it back here to where all the HP addicts live.
Actually, if you look at the effort they put into the HP Foods website after they took HP Foods over, you might be inclined to say "Probably should have seen that coming, about on day 2 of the takeover negotiations, if there were any.
Is nothing sacred. What would Jack Sprat say?
Incredibly though, we did get Aston Martin back from Ford Motor Company.
Seems it has been making money while Ford in general has not, and so it was a sellable asset. Even then I understand they did a 1/2 price deal on it!!
Oh well. Hurrah!
Oh yeah, and you can get Casino Royale on DVD Now. Hip Hurrah!
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