BoJo has announced that Londoners are going to have access to a new £150,000 fund to grow fruit and vegetables on disused land in the city.

(We presume this means canal banks, schools and public gardens rather than trying to grow courgettes on a roundabout in the middle of the A4).

The £150,000 fund is part of the Capital Growth Scheme, which aims to create 2,012 growing spaces in disused parts of the city by 2012. “Lush patches of fruit and veg are springing up around the city thanks to Capital Growth,” said the Mayor. “This helps to make our urban environment far more pleasant and provides a cheap, fun way to grow food.”

Transport for London has signed up to the scheme by providing a brownfield site above Southwark Tube Station where residents from local flats will be able to grow their own food. If you do, therefore, encounter an blackcurrant bush or a row of butternut squash on a patch of land where you weren’t expecting it, this will be why….

With 1,000 days to go until the start of the Paralympic Games in London, Boris has called on the main mobile phone providers to work together to develop new technology to allow people to watch the 2012 games on their mobile handsets.

“I want Londoners and visitors alike to be buzzing with the excitement of the Games as they happen, wherever they are in the city,’ said the Mayor. “I want everyone to share in the same information at the same time and the key to achieving this is through the one item we never part with – our mobile phones.”

Bozza is, according to recent reports, also keen for the networks to enable consumers to pay for smaller purchases, such as a cup of tea, with their mobile handsets.

Further reports that Johnson wants the competitors to be able to control robots of themselves at events with their bluetooth enabled mobile phone (so no-one has to actually leave the Olympic village and put pressure on the transport system) have yet to be confirmed.

Apparently, it’s called ‘hypothecating’.  No, it’s nothing to do with right angled triangles, and not a medical procedure, but the term for a funding ethos where local taxes are collected to fund local spending.

BoJo wants to introduce such a hypothecatory [are you sure that's a word? - Boriswatch Ed] system into London and has darn well written to the Chief Secretary of the Treasury. He’s the person who would agree to the hypothecisation [Really? Boriswatch Ed] of London, you see.

“Already punching above its weight, with just 12 per cent of the country’s population, London contributes more to the Treasury than any other region; its economy is greater than that of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the East Midlands combined. To maintain its position, the capital needs continued investment, but with greater freedom for the boroughs to decide how money is spent.”

Bozza’s office have been quick to deny that this is a ploy from the Mayor to be able to set the levels of local taxation, but that it was an effort to “earmark future tax income raised in a local area to finance local regeneration”. He presumably wants to create a hypothecracy [Ahem - Boriswatch Ed] in London which would allow the hypothecation of funds to a central hypothecary, run by the Chief Hypothecist under supervision from a central Hypothe [That's quite enough of that - Boriswatch Ed]