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Sunday 30 September 2012
Dust Down the Invisible Axe
Justin "Nordic Thunder" Howard, US Champ tunes up......UK Air Guitar Championships, tonight, Brighton.
Saturday 29 September 2012
Persistent Vegetable State
Good news though for fans of ugly, lumpy, mis-shapen veg. We'll be seeing more of them in supermarkets after the wet summer affects harvests. (Apart from the EEC-exempt Stewart Courgette Mountain)
Friday 28 September 2012
Go Forth Coastguard (apologies to Jo & Petunia, PIF, 1968)
The Forth Coastguard station closes after more than a century watching the seas, victim of Government cuts. To see the wonderful Jo & Petunia, Public Information Film superstars,
See "Coastguard PIF": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHIBkQ7_CE
Thursday 27 September 2012
Wallace's Beetlemania
The forgotten man of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace gets some recognition at last. Insects, birds and mammals named after Wallace include Calodema wallacei (Wallace's Jewel Beetle): Also see a great site : http://wallacefund.info/
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Cock-A-Hoop Coop
Plans for a neo-classical hen coop have been submitted to The Forset of Dean Council by Mr Crispin Odey, Hedge Fund Manager.....
Tuesday 25 September 2012
The Fastest Milkcart In The West
Dairy farmers who blockaded Dairy Crest are celebrating a victory of sorts as they will now pay 29p a litre for milk. This calls for an innuendo-laden Benny Hill Song.....
Monday 24 September 2012
Sunday 23 September 2012
Champagne and a Deep Fried Mars Bar?
Some Scots wag has applied to the EU for "Protected Designation of Origin" for the Deep Fried Mars Bar.
Saturday 22 September 2012
Keats Got Wasted
"..My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains..."
New book out says Keats wrote his Odes whilst high on laudanum. Well what a cockadoodle shock...
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains..."
New book out says Keats wrote his Odes whilst high on laudanum. Well what a cockadoodle shock...
Wednesday 19 September 2012
Lost in Texas
"If found, please return to ..." a desert in Texas is being searched for a radioactive rod, which dropped off the back of a lorry.....
Sunday 16 September 2012
Skidmore & Richard The Third
Chris Skidmore MP calls for a State funeral for the skeleton in the Leicester car park which is thought to be Richard the Third. Hunchbacked and with an arrow in the back of the skull, the remains have gone off for DNA testing.
Peter's Monster Cabbage
Giant Veg Grower Peter Glazebrook triumphs again with a whopping 81lb 6oz cabbage at Harrogate Autumn Flower Show
Friday 14 September 2012
Brand New Monkey Magic
New monkey species discovered in the Congo. The Lesula looks set to go straight onto the endangered species list...
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Murray Mints
Andy Murray triumphs at the US Open...meanwhile, the Aberdeenshire chippy which invented the deep fried Mars Bar receives a solicitor's letter from the confectioners complaining that it is conflicting with their health message by selling the celebrated items..
Monday 10 September 2012
Saturday 8 September 2012
Hunmanby Gap
Here we are swimming in the North Sea. It took half an hour for the feeling to come back into my finger ends....
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