Fr. William Holtzinger plays the "Good Shepherd" during Mass with his poodle Benny at St. Anne's Parish, Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, 29th April, 2012.

The Daily Mail is reporting that the first ever slice of cake from the wedding of Kate and William has attracted bids of almost £1,500 as fans of the royal two vie to get their hands on the royal memorabilia.

With two weeks still to go on the auction, the bidding stands at £1,453 - but as is customary, the auction house expect a flurry of last-minute bids to push the value much higher by the time bidding closes on 24 May.

The boxed fruit cake, supplied to online auction house PFC Auctions...

God love this woman who writes in the Daily Mail.  I checked twice in case it was an April Fool.   The headline is: 'There are downsides to looking this pretty': Why women hate me for being beautiful.

As I read I was quietly screaming "make her stop, make her stop" as she went on and on.  All the free drinks she receives, the flowers from strangers on the street, the bills she doesn't have to pay and how other women don't like her for it.

And of course almost everyone woman reading the article ...

I'm man enough to stand up and admit I've made mistakes.  Well maybe one mistake.  For years I just presumed that Bishop Donal Mc Keown, when he wore his pectoral cross with rope over his episcopal house dress instead of with a chain, that it was because a) he was entirely ignorant of the correct manner; b) he couldn't care less; c) he did on purpose to annoy people like me.

Well now I've discovered that it was for none of these reasons, but out of devotion to and in imitation of his childhoo...

It really is true that every cloud has a silver lining.

While thousands were suffering the loss of water supplies, it did at least provide some amusement for the rest of us and helped me in my new year's resolution to laugh.

Not at the suffering you understand, but how people coped with it.  We coped with the Troubles by laughing and we really should be trying harder with the economic woes, bad weather, water shortages etc.

So the news that some East Belfast residents were using lemonade to flus...

A reader from America emailed to say he found me far too cryptic and what the hell was I talking about regarding boyfriend cardigans.  He hadn't followed the link and wasn't up to date in fashion trends.  Hardly surprising living in America.

He's a big fan of Ann Coulter and the Tea Party movement.  Come the elections he'll be partying like it's 1773.