Cold, calm and decidedly non Crimbo at the Castle this morn,
the new front toof is back in place anchored with what feels like a scaffold
pole driven through the top of my skull, I am back to the un connected
computers in the study and his Maj needs a new bed.
The Royal Australian Navy has sent a delegation to Britain
to recruit some of the 5,000 Royal Navy personnel due to lose their jobs over
the next four years.
It is understood that the Australian navy wants to speak
directly to sailors facing redundancy to offer them “career transition
options”.
Australia’s Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, promised
his British counterpart, First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, that
Australia will not recruit personnel needed by the British.
Royal Navy officers are said to have told the Australians
they were “very comfortable” with the plan.
Villagers in Stilton are a bit more than miffed after an
unusual law upheld by the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs
prevents them from naming their cheese after their home town.
The Stilton Cheese Makers Association has been fighting
against the 1996 Protected Designation of Origin order, which has prevented Stilton
cheese from being officially named so, outside of Leicester, Nottinghamshire
and Derbyshire.
Liam McGivern, the landlord of the Bell Inn pub, said he is
upset by Defra's decision to let him make the cheese but not give it the
Stilton name.
'Anyone can make the cheese but they won't let us call it
Stilton,' Mr McGivern said.
In the 18th century, the Bell Inn's pub owner was said to be
the first to market the cheese,
Now, by law, the establishment must sell the cheese as
'blue-veined cheese made in Stilton'. Mr McGivern markets the cheese as 'Bell
Blue'.
Smells a bit fishy to me.....
Along with tiny Tokelau to the north the inhabitants of Samoa are going
from midnight tonight straight to New Year's Eve.
After 119 years to the east of the International Date Line, Samoa is shifting
to the west so they can be on the same calendar day as their main economic
partners, Australia and New Zealand.When Samoa went the other way in 1892, because most of its trade had shifted from Sydney to San Francisco, writer Robert Louis Stevenson was living there.
Wonder if we could “shift” Blighty about two thousand miles
south, that’ll piss orf the “energy providers”.
The annual broom battle took place again this Crimbo: Palestinian police stormed the basilica of
the Nativity in Bethlehem after rival groups of Orthodox and Armenian clerics
clashed in a row over the boundaries of their respective ancient jurisdictions
inside the church.
Armed with brooms,
around 100 priests and monks came to blows during the cleaning of the church in
preparation for Orthodox Christmas celebrations.
Nice to see that JC’s mantra is working so well....
And finally:
Jeremy Wade, 53, spent weeks hunting for the perpetrator in
remote Papua New Guinea after locals reported a mysterious beast which was
castrating young fishermen.
He finally unmasked the monster as the Pacu fish - known
locally as ‘The Ball Cutter’ - and managed to catch one in his small wooden
fishing boat.
Mr Wade wrestled the 40lb monster on to the floor of his
boat and opened its snapping jaws with his naked hands - to discover a
jaw-dropping array of human-style teeth.
The Ball Cutter boasts an impressive set of man-like molars,
which tear off the testicles of unwitting hunters, leaving them to bleed to
death.
Pacu fish are usually found in the Amazon, where they need
their teeth to crack into the tough cases of nuts and seeds.
The previously vegetarian fish were introduced to Papua New
Guinea 15 years ago to increase stocks.
They quickly used their special technique to chomp meat due
to a lack of suitable vegetation in the waters - making short work of human
testicles.
Brings tears to one’s eyes...
That’s it: I’m orf to hack a chuff-chuff
And today’s thought:
Angus
3 comments:
".....where they need their teeth to crack into the tough cases of nuts..."
Say no more!
Ouch!
Perhaps you should get a set of 'nashers' like that, for getting into walnuts! :)
That is one ugly looking fish!!
And they say angling is relaxing Bernard the nut cracker:)
And it's diet isn't much better CherryPie;)
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