The King of Cornwall

The Eden Project, Tim Smit, Wibble Woo

To Eden Project - FAO Tim Smit - April 15th 2010

dear oh dear
are you losing it or what? you seem a bit, well, on edge? you're worried you say... i can understand that, this climate change thing, blah blah blah, wibble wibble wibble, wibble wibble woo...

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Cornwall Council, Climate Change Emails

To Cornwall Council...

please could you supply me with the following information...

copies of...
all emails, either in the subject line or in the body of the message, mentioning 'climate change'
all emails, either in the subject line or in the body of the message, mentioning 'climategate'

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And This - 18

upstairs she stirs, slipping i'm thinking into something skimpy, slinky and soft (she not of clay and wattles made, a fantasy yet, gone) i wake, from sleeping at the wheel, get out of the car, go that way, on foot, across the moors... (bodmin moor, and it's raining, raining hard) - there's murder here, killing you could get away with (the woman upstairs, whoever)

i say to eliot, more tea?

he, and shall we visit the tate st ives? and will it be worth the visit? will it? after all?

i (tongue-tied, flummoxed) say nothing

he, i believe michelangelo might be coming for tea (shall we stop in this while, and await upon his visit?)

i, andrew marvell's coming for matins (you want some madeleine?) and there's a woman upstairs, asleep

fish and chips at the jamaica inn, apple pie and custard   ...more

Correlating on a Chaise Longue

with a pot of black tea, opium pipe full, in a padded silk gown and in my best lady slippers, with the dictaphone on and with batteries to spare, i begin (then pause... then start again)

listen up chaps! (listen up ladies) the king's on his chaise longue today, thinking...   ...more

Hats for Global Warmers

Dear Cornwall Council Councillors

From: office@thekingofcornwall.com
To: leader@cornwall.gov.uk

Dear Leader & Councillors

The King has asked me to write to you re the recent Climategate revelations. Are you all up to speed on it? (Briefly, global warming's over and climate change is bunk!) What the King would like to know is, briefly, what are you all doing about it?   ...more

The King Does Climategate

Have you seen the news? No, not on the silly BBC (the real news here!) It's worse than we thought! Is it true? Is it? It is? I must write to the Queen!

Dear Queen of England

How has it come to this? I do accept Madam, I do, that if the Institutes of Science were overseen by   ...more


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