So Atkins Nutritionals has been shedding money quicker that the slaves to that diet have shed weight & has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York – tipping the scales at about US$ 24m into the naughty zone.
I suppose that Dr Robert Atkins cant have been all that bad, especially as he managed to incur reduce muesli munching nutritionists to paroxysms of tofu flinging fury by advocating eating lots & lots of yummy things like … bacon, which as we all know when properly fried, not grilled no no no no - is clear proof of the Holy Trinity.

But while we are on the subject of scoff, this week is the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia. The stats make very very happy reading:
Length of show: 5 days
No. of visitors: 45,000
Amount of beer sold: 200,000 pints
Rate of beer sales: 1.56 pints a second
When I read figures like this, I think for just a second that all is not lost in blighty … but then I sober up.