Masses of skywater, minimum atmospheric movement, much lack
of warm and bugger all solar stuff (as usual) at the Castle this morn, the
right elbow is still excruciatingly painful but at least I can use one
finger-hence today’s load of old bollocks.
George (fiddler in the sideboard) Osborne has decided to
concentrate his massive lack of intelligence on something even more important
than the economy-he wants to get more followers on Twitter than starey eyes Ed Balls.
Mathematically challenged Osborne who started using his
account (@George_Osborne) yesterday morning, has already racked up over 34,000
followers despite having only sent four tweets.
In contrast, the Shadow Chancellor has sent over 3,000
tweets, and has gained over 77,000 followers.
When challenged by Daybreak presenter Lorraine Kelly as to
whether he spent most of yesterday on the micro blogging site, Osborne replied:
"I confess I didn't spend most of yesterday doing it. I did a couple of
tweets and I'm getting used to it. But it's a pretty fast and furious world out
there on Twitter.”
Within minutes of sending his first tweet, which included a
photograph of the Chancellor apparently adding some final touches to his
Budget, he was bombarded with abusive tweets.
Took me bloody ages to write them....
Marmite has returned to New Zealand, after the 2011
earthquake in Christchurch makers, Sanitarium, closed its factory but "From
March 20, Marmite is back on supermarket shelves across NZ.
Marmite was originally imported into New Zealand but by 1919
the country had come up with its own version, which tastes quite different from
the English version.
As a result, importing English Marmite simply would not
work, said Pierre van Heerden, Sanitarium's general manager.
Earlier in March Mr Van Heerden and former All Blacks
captain Buck Shelford visited Christchurch to deliver some of the new jars.
Spiffing, think I’ll stick to the Blighty version
Gardeners will now be able to grow cucamelons which are the size
of a grape but looks like a watermelon and it tastes like a cross between a
cucumber and a lime.
Suttons Seeds has started stocking the plants, Latin name
Melothria Scabra.
A spokesman said: “The fruit can be used in a variety of dishes, including salads and salsa, or on a cocktail stick in a Martini, which works quite well.”
Can’t wait, all you have to do is dig through the snow,
break up the frozen soil with a pickaxe, sow your cucamelons and wait, and wait
and.......
Ontario
anti-smoking ads featuring young adults farting up a storm at a party has gone
viral.
In its new Quit The
Denial campaign, the province's health ministry compares social smoking to
social farting.
"Well, it's
true that I fart. But I wouldn't call myself a farter. I'm a social
farter," says the blonde woman featured in the ads, as the camera pans
across a party full of young, hip Ontarians letting 'em rip.
"I really only
do it when I hang out with my friends that fart. We hang out. We drink. We dance.
Just have some fun being together, farting."
The campaign
highlights similarities between social smokers and social farters, noting they
both do it to break the ice, and the smell tends to linger.
The video has run
on blogs, ad sites and newspapers around the world.
Since then, the
province has released videos comparing social smoking to social earwax picking
and social nibbling food off other people's plates.
Nice to see that Canadians are into social equality....
And finally:
Tucked away in the small island is a place you’d probably
never expect to find in the real world– Popeye’s Village. Also known as
Sweethaven Village, it is an ideal family-vacation spot and one of Malta’s
major tourist attractions. The fun park is modelled on the theme of
the favourite children’s cartoon character, Popeye the Sailor Man.
Interestingly, this village was the actual set used by Paramount Pictures and
Walt Disney Productions to shoot the 1980 film Popeye, based on the comic strips
by E. C. Segar.
At Sweethaven, you can expect to see models of all the main
characters of the popular children’s cartoon – Popeye the Sailor, Olive Oyl,
Bluto, Swee’Pea and Wimpy. You can also go on joy rides and visit play houses,
puppet shows, museums, and cinema sessions featuring the film Popeye and the
construction of the set. You can even star in your own film, record it and take
it home. But that’s not all, there are a host of other things to see and
experience, like face painting, balloon modelling, storytelling, open-air
barbeques, crafts and Wii games. There’s also a mini golf course and a free
wine tasting for adults. The season-specific activities are a huge hit as well,
these include water trampolines, play pools and boat rides during the summer
and a Christmas Parade along with Santa’s toy town in December.
Lovely, but at least the banks are still open….
And today’s thought:
Aspiration Nation
