Just a quick note to flag up fellow Walsall blogger and agent provocateur The Plastic Hippo and a great post he published yesterday evening. The usually reassuringly grumpy commentator has clearly started to go a bit doolally in his dotage. What else can explain his apparent love for his adopted dog? Have the spin-doctors got him? Have Walsall Council’s press office been slipping prozac in the old water-buffalo’s lager? It surely is a wonder.

While you’re over there, do check out his recent posts. He’s really on form at the moment, and rarely has a truer word been spoken about the political situation in Walsall.

I’ll resume normal service this evening…