Guest blog - Barbarians at the gates of Friern by Joanna Fryer

By Joanna Fryer,

Before the Olympic torch bearer reached Friern Barnet Library Green we arrived to set up the Friern Barnet People's Library and found twelve council workers waiting for us in anticipation of the "trouble" the Council told them to expect from us. We told them that only a barbarian from the Council would think that we in Friern Barnet would disrupt the Olympic torch. We have always been scrupulously polite in our dealings with the Council -- far more polite than the Cabinet has ever been with us --mocking us, Brain Coleman calling us names, Robert Rams making flippant answers to our questions and telling untruths, and Richard Cornelius pretending that he was trying to help us when he was doing the very opposite. We did not disrupt the torch race. We passed out books to amuse the children waiting for the torch to come by and mingled among the crowd chatting, and, Oh yes, telling them all about what the barbarians in the Council did to us but in a completely civilised way.
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Joanna Fryer is the secretary of the Save Friern Barnet Library Group and a Banet resident. Guest blogs are alway welcome at the Barnet Eye. Please note that this blog is the private view of Joanna Fryer and is not a statement issued byu the Save FBL group.

What is the story behind the Theresa Villiers sexy pics?

Us Barnet bloggers are a competive bunch. Today Mrs Angry reported a huge number of blog hits from people seeking details of the Olympic Torch procession in Finchley. As this was the only story in town today, we decided to check our own blog stats and see what our most popular search phrase was. Imagine my surprise to find that it wasn't anything to do with the Olympics. It wasn't anything I've ever seen searched for before. Nope the most popular google search phrase today for people stumbling upon the Barnet Eye by accident was "Theresa Villiers Sexy pics" Sure enough, if you do a Google search on this phrase, the Barnet Eye is the third most popular search item. I decided to see if there were actually some naughty piccies of Big Tess on the net (purely as reasearch for this blog I hasten to add), so I did the same search as an image search. Not a single piccie was returned. I removed the quotation marks and this was the top of the pile of  pictures I got.

I got pictures of Nick Clegg, planes,bikes and cars. I didn't however get a single sexy shot of big Tess. One wonders why all of a sudden this has become a hot google search item? I must admit that I was rather pleased that there weren't a load of embarrassing pictures of the Chipping Barnet MP on the net.

We can only guess as to who was searching and why. I suspect they were rather disappointed. with the blog they landed on at the Barnet Eye. It seems that Theresa has lead a very pure and wholesome life as far as the net is concerned. And there is no shame in that !

As ever, this blog must also mention that the rumours (started by a scurrilous blogger) that Ms Villiers used to sing backing vocals in my band - The False Dots are completely untrue. One wonders what Ms Villiers has done to deserve these rumours. She's always been very pleasant when we've met her.