Shelducklings ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khDkr3BB73Q&feature=player_embedded

ETA: Less cute, but (in a way) v funny:
http://www.itv.com/news/cameron-ordered-out33095/

ETA2: Best retraction ever:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/hygiene/home/article190130.ece

ETA3: Fake Cricketer released by Worcestershire!
http://www.slcricket.com/general-cricket-chat/27562-fake-cricketer-released-worcestershire.html

Two of these via http://www.badscience.net/

(1) I think that William and Kate should put the wedding out to tender. Venues would be falling over themselves to host it - think of the extra business they'd get! If the happy couple manage it correctly, they could even turn a profit.

(2) I like today's Matt cartoon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

(3) I'm not obsessed by royal weddings, really! So, for your delectation and delight - The ultimate kitten snuggle. Stay with it 'til the reveal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McNRDGwitts&feature=player_embedded
via http://www.boingboing.net/

(4) "This is Battlelore’s first concept album – all the lyrics together tell the story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s tragic hero Túrin Turambar and his kin." How depressing is that?
http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/907/20450/Battlelore-issue-update.html

(5) Come to Loughborough in 2012!
http://once-upon-a-hobbit.blogspot.com/2010/11/return-of-ring-celebrating-tolkien-in.html
http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-return-of-ring-111111-loughborough.html

(6) We had a good look at a fox two evenings ago.

(7) A waxwing has made it down to Bristol! I hope it hangs around for a bit (or goes back to get its friends).

Video Killed the Radio Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ9AnNz47Y

Radio Ga Ga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE

Amateur footage of snow leopards
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zVJxupw-2m4

What not to buy your wife for Christmas
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XzADQV42vKw

Why decorating the Christmas tree should be left to the professionals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7788810.stm

Today's _dilbert_strip is great.

And, from knitting_hobbit, there is some impressive skiing here.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFqR_SqUMo

EDITED to correct spellings.

I've booked my ticket for the first night of Al Stewart's European tour! I'm going to see him in Zaandam (a suburb of Amsterdam) on 4 October. I'm sailing from Harwich overnight on 3 October, and sailing back overnight on 5 October.

Yay!

And here's a video of him:

Creatrix is away tonight*. MastermindChampion had a hospital visit today, and he needs a competent adult there. Then tomorrow, she's going down to London to meet her mother (let's call her GlassLady), and going to Covent Garden together.

Tonight, gundogs on Crufts :-) Go the flatcoats!

Tomorrow, I might pop over to Woburn. Apart from that, I'll be watching the rugby, and dashing round in the last five minutes before Creatrix gets back trying to tidy up.

I'm also waiting for my sister to ring - we're taking my nephew on holiday in May, and we're trying to co-ordinate travel arrangements.

Oh yes, and I might put a few things up on eBay.

*So please tell me something to cheer me up.

And have a couple of videos, just 'cos I felt like it: