Miserable misty stuff, much lack of warm, minimal
atmospheric movement and sod all solar stuff at the Castle this morn, the
butler is feeding fat, carbon neutral teenagers into the furnace with a will
and his Maj has discovered the joy of ambush from the top of the kitchen
cupboards.
I am orf to the General Medic tomorrow to have my elbow “pecked”
so there may not be a post for a day-or three...
Apparently until the 1980s, Villa Epceun was a thriving
tourist hotspot 350 miles south of the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires. All
that changed on November 10, 1985 though, when a prolonged period of heavy rain
caused the salt water lagoon that brought so many visitors to the area to burst
its banks, submerging the entire village in 30 feet of water.
But 27 years later the waters have almost entirely receded
and the town has re-emerged from the murk.
Roads can still clearly be made out, particularly around the
town's slaughterhouse and its religious monuments.
A launderette, complete with tumble dryers and washing
machines, can be seen in one image but, as with much of the rest of the town,
the sheer force of the water that engulfed it has left the area in ruins.
And as always an Argy has claimed a bit of land and has
moved back in, the village's sole occupant Pablo Novak said he spends his days
cycling around the ruins, remembering his home town's “glory days”.
The 81-year-old said: “Until about four or five years
after the flood, when the waters were still high, nobody came around here at
all...I was totally alone. All day, every day”.
Mr Novak says that in recent months, more and more visitors
have been returning to the area, some to view the waterlogged village, while others
return in an attempt to salvage possessions they never thought they'd see
again.
Spiffing; with the extra territory they don’t need the
Falklands then....
In a forthcoming
BBC 2 documentary, the mayor of London says he thinks the job of PM is
"very, very tough".
But he will say he
would like to "have a crack" at it "if the ball came loose from
the back of a scrum".
The mayor has been
talked up as a possible future Conservative leader, but he has always said he
would see out his second term as mayor until 2016.
Documentary maker
Michael Cockerell told the Radio Times that when asked whether he harboured any
desires for the top job, Mr Johnson answered: "I think it's a very tough
job being prime minister.
"Obviously, if
the ball came loose from the back of a scrum - which it won't - it would be a
great, great thing to have a crack at.
"But it's not
going to happen."
In the documentary,
Mr Johnson says he feels embarrassed about his past as a member of the
notorious Bullingdon Club, a dining group for ex-public schoolboys at Oxford
University, whose members also included Mr Cameron.
"This is a
truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance,
toffishness and twittishness," he said.
"But at the
time you felt it was wonderful to be going round swanking it up. Or was it?
Actually I remember the dinners being incredibly drunken."
Asked about the
club's reputation for smashing up restaurants, he admitted: "Yes. And the
abiding memory is of deep, deep self-loathing."
Bonkers Boris also
reveals there is a strategy behind his public persona: "As a general
tactic in life, it is often useful to give the slight impression that you are
deliberately pretending not to know what's going on - because the reality may
be that you don't know what's going on, but people won't be able to tell the
difference."
No change there then.....
Police in Pennsylvania said a man is facing weapons charges
after shooting his own finger while attempting to "get rid of his wedding
ring."
Bradford police said officers responded at 8:56 p.m. March 2
to a home on a report of a man intentionally shooting off his own finger and
they arrived to find Alfredo Fortunato Malespini III, 31, a lieutenant at the
Federal Correctional Institution-McKean, bleeding from a severe wound to his
left hand, The Bradford Era reported Monday.
Malespini, who police said was highly intoxicated, told
officers he was "trying to get rid of his wedding ring" and had
decided to "shoot it off."
Police said the man's attempt had been unsuccessful, as the
finger was nearly severed but the ring was still attached.
Twat....should have used some Vaseline-I’m sure there is an ample supply in the prison.
Allegedly having a Brazilian is bad for your health, a dermatologist in Nice, France, observed
more and more patients coming to his office with molluscum contagiosum virus
(MCV) outbreaks in their nether regions. About 93 percent of
these 30 patients, both male and female, shaved, waxed, or clipped their pubic
hair. This made Dr. Francois Desruelles, MD, wonder about the relationship
between grooming downstairs and the spread of MCV.
“Pubic hair removal
is a body modification for the sake of fashion, especially in young women and
adolescents, but also growing among men,” writes Desruelles in a letter
published online in the British Medical Journal. “Anyway, pubic hair removal may be a
risk factor for STMC [sexually transmitted MCV] or perhaps other STIs …”
MCV, a pox virus,
spreads by skin-to-skin contact, from sharing items such as towels or clothes,
or sexual contact. It causes pearly papules with dimples in the middle. While
MCV looks unsightly, it is not painful and often goes away without treatment.
Although a few bumps might be an inconvenience, some people develop hundreds of
these papules, which can be embarrassing and disfiguring.
After looking at
cases of sexually transmitted MCV, Desruelles believes that people are self-inoculating,
meaning they are giving themselves pubic MCV from grooming. A person might
shave a papule on her leg, for example, and the virus remains on the blade,
which transfers it to her lady parts.
You’d need a strimmer to sort out my nether hair...
A New York man is
marketing the world's strongest coffee - under the brand name of Death Wish
Coffee.
Double the strength
of an espresso, Death Wish Coffee even comes with a disclaimer warning drinkers
to expect 'many sleepless nights'.
Mike Brown, the man
behind the blend, used to work in a small coffee shop in New York, but got fed
up with customers asking for stronger coffee.
"I always had
customers coming in asking for our strongest and boldest roast," he said.
"I had to go
through the process every day of explaining to them that dark roasts were
actually the least caffeinated.
"This began my
journey for finding and roasting the Death Wish bean and after many trial and
error processes I found it.
"The type of
blend, bean and roasting process we use makes Death Wish Coffee the strongest
in the world.
"Its actual
process is a secret because we have created something revolutionary and we do
not want it stolen."
The extra-strong
coffee is available to buy on Amazon
and can be bought in packs of either ground coffee or whole beans.
Think I’ll stick to
the instant stuff...
And finally:
The largest pain management centre in the world, and a
popular health tourism destination, the Healing Caves of Gastein welcome over
75,000 people every year. They all flock to this miraculous place to undergo
a controversial form of therapy with radioactive radon gas used to cure a variety
of medical conditions, from arthritis to psoriasis.
When the people of Gastein started exploring the
nearby Radhausberg Mountain in search of gold, they had no idea they would
discover something infinitely more valuable – naturally occurring low levels
of radon gas. In time, they realized that the radioactive gas combined with
the mountain caves’ high humidity and temperatures of up
to 41.5° Celsius helped strengthen their immune system and cured some very
serious illnesses. Word about the Gastein Healing Caves spread
like wild fire throughout all of Austria, Germany and other Central
European countries, and today Gastein is known not only as a world-class skiing
destination, but also as a miraculous place of healing with a mind-blowing success
rate of 90%. Most of the people who come here for radon treatment say a few
sessions in the caves keep them pain-free for a whole year. Apparently,
the radioactive gas is absorbed through the skin and lungs, activating the body
at a cellular level and stimulating the self-healing process.
Pass.....
That’s it: I’m orf to track the old
eyes
And today’s thought:
Who is next...?
Angus
