I see that TV Licensing are so concerned about the public perception of a business that enforces payments that they are going to have their logo redesigned.

Hold on a minute is there a choice about who enforces payment?

No so rebranding would be a complete waste of money wouldn't it?

Not according to Richard Buchanon of the company Dave he says you need to make people feel good about paying the money. What utter crap, frankly Mr Buchanon I don't like paying up for TV sport, reality shows, soap opera and makeover shows but rebranding TV licensing won't make me feel any happier about coughing up for it.

Now what does the company Dave do?

Oh yes brand consultancy, now there is a surprise.

And who is going to pay for the rebranding?

Oh yeah its the licence payer and guess what Mr Buchanon I sure as hell ain't happy about that!

So what's going on in ITV's, its not really like Torchwood, honest but with dinosaurs, show.

A shark and a blobby seal thing with arms from the future - right like creatures from the future don't require any research and you can just make them and their behaviour up, or you can borrow it from the film Creep, like the bit where the blond kid and the basketball kid get stored in a watery pit.

For some reason I am strangely drawn to watching this show and there is now some kind of conspiracy cover up sub plot going on too that makes it a bit more interesting, but there is a real danger that it is soon going to become just too silly.

according to the papers, has said "I am not a crook" and claims that he has done nothing wrong. OK then why is he giving the money back and giving up his seat at the next election? I think its high time these so called representatives stopped handing out research, secretarial and personal assistant jobs to family at the tax payers expense.

Kenneth Carke admitted on Newsnight that had anyone behaved that way in business they'd have been sacked! This is our money these people are helping themselves to, MP's allowences should be properly audited to stop this kind of abuse.

Ok I know I havn't done much in way of food just lately so here is another dish to whet te appetite.

Empty a can of tuna in sunflower oil into the pan, add a teaspoon of Burmese Balachaung, a chopped onion, six chopped cloves of garlic, four chopped chile peppers, a lump of chopped ginger, a teaspoon of powdered lime, some finely chopped coriander and a good sprinkling of Thai Seven Spice powder. Give it a good stir around.

Once the onions are going a bit soft chuck in some prawns, a can of chopped tomatoes and a can of coconut milk and let it bubble away.

Boil some egg noodles until they are soft then chuck em in a frying pan with some frying Chinese leaves, peanut sprouts and chives. add a splash of soy sauce and some Chinese rice wine to finish off.

Plate up the noodles then pour some of the curry over it lovely with some cold beer or chilled Soave.

Music: This dish was prepared to the Blues Roots of Led Zeppelin including Ledbelly, John Lee Hooker and Big Bill Broonzy

Today's Telegraph included a list of stuff nicked from the police that has been made available under the Public Information Act. Now I think the cops mostly do a brilliant job, but you have to worry when they lose stuff like dogs (3) vehicles (27), computers (50)and 189 mobile phones.

Now I can understand how the odd cone goes missing but the Staffordshire force lost a flatbed truck and south Wales had two marked cop cars taken. The most outrageous theft though was of three flat screen TVs off the back of a lorry as they were being delivered to a police station in Cheshire.

Also missing are 187 pairs of handcuffs, er try looking in the girlfriend's knicker drawer a waggish friend suggests.

I bought this stuff in one of the supermarkets of this here London's Chinatown. It a kind of fish sauce made with shrimp, chili, garlic and tamarind and according to the instructions on the jar can be used as a sandwich filling, though having tried a bit on bread I wouldn't recomend it! however it is good in many far eastern inspired dishes.