Categories: overheard
Date: 09 February 2008 12:34:01
Just heard a contributor to 'From our own correspondent' on Radio 4 saying that there were '6,000 down telephone lines in China needing to be repaired'. Well, I'm not surprised they don't work, if they make their telephone lines out of a goose's underneath feathers. Apparently Mr Wen, the prime minister (as opposed to Mr - or Dr - Hu, the president!) went to give a 'warm and fuzzy' pep talk to citizens who were affected by the heavy snow. Presumably that (the talk, not the snow) was made of goose feathers too?