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Barnhill, Jura. June 2015. (Thanks to the kindness of the Fletcher family).

"Please, sir, I want some more." (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)

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The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper…

'For MORE!' said Mr. Limbkins. 'Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly. Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?'

Mr. Bumble

Mr. Bumble

There is an interesting debate this evening in the House of Commons as a consequence of the current parliamentary session being scheduled to last longer than usual.

The Labour MP for Walsall South, Valerie Vaz, has tabled a motion to consider some difficulties resulting from the Government’s decision to hold a two-year parliamentary session.

Usually a parliamentary session only lasts one year.

Will one year’s worth of Opposition days now have to stretch across the two-year session?

Will the usual 13 private Members’ bills be doubled in this extended session?

The matter brings to mind a remark by Bilbo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring:

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”


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