Inside an MP's postbag...

The four-hundreth postcard about tail-docking. Occasional rants about youths cycling on the pavement. Pornography.Well-produced corporate fabrication from the likes of BP and Shell telling us how corporately responsible they are ('for every Nigerian villager shot by our petro-dollar militias we plant two fridges in a landfill in Dungeness'). Such is the lot of the average MP's mailbag on an average day.

But today was different. For today we received correspondence from the British Precast Concrete Federation (Ltd). Oh yes. You can imagine my joy. Inside the envelope, along with registration forms for precast concrete events ('Concrete and Chico from Pop Idol - a match made in heaven?'), was a book...the 'little book of concrete'. Inside are 100 ways to maintain calmness through concrete, including the valuable information that precast concrete has the advantage of 'Rapid erection on site'. Ahem.

'Pornography' and 'erection' in the same post. I am desperate to increase my traffic...

For those of you not working in an MP's office, and who would like a copy, may I suggest you contact them at info@britishprecast.org They also hold out the attractive prospect of a follow-up by asking you to email them more suggestions of the advantages of precast. Don't let them down. Be creative. We could have a best-seller on our hands here.