Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

Ho ho ho! I'm really getting into the festive spirit thanks to all the cards you've been sending! Here's a personalised one from reader Terracotta Glenn:
Ha ha, er, jolly good TG! Although as you know, I've yet to hit 30, so I'm only at the 'Money, Money, Sex' stage. Maybe it's a spot of payback for all the times I've published that photo of you in the giant Chinese warrior outfit. Moving swiftly on, and reader Mr X has sent me this card based on a Margate nativity scene:

Keep them coming!

'Ello Me Old China

I see the President of France today signed £14.5bn worth of deals with the Chinese. So, have Thanet's illustrious leaders, who've also recently been in China, done as well? Here's an extract from Sandy's China Diary, which I found on a CD marked 'top secret' that TNT popped through the letterbox this morning:

Day 1: Lord luvva duck! Those tossers at BA lost my effing bag. F*cking tossers. 'Ad a couple of Axminster samples in it too. Tossers.
Day 2: Bleedin' 'ell. They served up snake liver last night. Tossers!
Day 3: One of their blokes woz in me face this morning. IN ME FACE! So I told him to eff off. F*cking tosser!

Speaking of China, don't forget you can catch the Terracotta Army exhibition at the British Museum until next April. Which gives me a perfect excuse to run my picture of reader Terracotta Glenn again!

China Syndrome

Reader Jan writes:

It seems we're all turning Chinese here on the Ile de Thanet, what with the announcement of a new development for 3,000,000 Chinese businesses at Manston, and your plan to re-brand our local disused power station as 'Richborough - Our Great Wall of China'. Do you by any chance have any pictures that would show the Chinese how much we welcome their cultural and business input here in Thanet?

Happy to oblige, Jan: