Oodles of mist and mellow fruitfulness, just a whimsy of
atmospheric movement, not a jot of skywater and bugger all solar stuff at the
Castle this morn.
It’s been a bit of a “funny” last couple of months, two
close members of the family have shuffled orf this mortal coil, my sister
(expected) and “M”’s brother who decided to give up the ghost one day after the
ninth anniversary of her exit (not expected).
On the way back from my sister’s thingy (400 mile round
trip) the timing belt on the Honda also decided to expire and the engine blew
up on the M4.
So I decided to go “European” and am now the owner of a
Peugeot 206 in French “racing” green, not a bad motor, only done a handful of
miles, it even has automatic lights and wipers (which behave like the
French-they only seem to work in the mornings) and an “adaptive automatic
gearbox” which is not bilingual.
Time will tell...
Poor old Angus has a touch of Ginger’s brother Arthur in his
left knee and whilst visiting my general medic he decided to take an inordinate
amount of interest in my prostate and rear exit suggesting that he should insert
his finger into said orifice to check it out. The second word uttered by poor
old Angus was orf, so we settled on a blood test instead.
More to come....
Apparently the annual floods have arrived in Pakistan
causing many problems and lack of life, the solution was to blow up a couple of
dykes.
How homophobic can you get.....?
Inappropriately shaped lollies on sale exclusively in the
South Island have been branded offensive and recalled from shops.
Barrie Aburn, of Dunedin, said his daughters Cadence (8),
Rhianna (6) and Payton (5) bought a bag of Dragon Sweets from Moyles SuperValue
in Green Island and gave it to him for his birthday.
Mr Aburn's partner, Jacqui Hawkins, said she randomly took a
sweet from the bag and found it was shaped in the form of male genitals.
Another lolly in the bag was a gummy baby with a penis, she
said.
''I don't find anything amusing about it at all. I find it
disgusting,'' she said.
Dutch Rusk managing director Willem Van de Geest, of Nelson,
said the Stoke confectionery company imported 7200 bags of mixed gummy lollies,
called Dragon Sweets, from a Chinese manufacturer about six weeks ago.
The lollies were originally designed for
sale in England and were not considered offensive in Asia.
In Asia, the shape was considered a sign of fertility and
health, he said.
Too much whacky baccy Mr Geest?
The statue of a
devil with an erect penis could be back up in Vancouver if the city caves to
residents who started a petition after it was removed.
Municipal crews
in Vancouver took the statue away Tuesday after it mysteriously appeared near a
highway, atop a pedestal that used to have a commemorative statue of
Christopher Columbus.
The life-size red
devil has black horns, a forked tail and an anatomically faithful -- and naked
-- physique.
Officials told
Global News it wasn't commissioned by the city.
But plenty of
people want the "Beelzebub-With-a-Boner" statue re-erected, according
to a Change.org
petition which had more than 1,500 signatures as of Thursday
evening.
"(It) should
be reinstalled as a piece of public art and serve as a reminder that art is in
the eye of the beholder and nothing more," Darryl Greer, who started the
petition, wrote.
Greer points out
the statue cost the city nothing, unlike a "cartoonish" porcelain dog
on Main Street that cost nearly $100,000.
The devils in the detail.....
A new
development, 42 Crosby Street, is pushing the limits of New York City real
estate to new heights with 10 underground parking spots that will cost more per
square foot than the apartments being sold upstairs.
The
million-dollar parking spots will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis
to buyers at the 10-unit luxury apartment building being developed by Atlas
Capital Group at Broome and Crosby Streets, itself the former site of a parking
lot. At $250,000 a tire, the parking spaces in the underground garage cost more
than four times the national median sales price for a home, which is $217,800,
according to Zillow.
So
instead of a 5,000-square-foot house with a wine cellar in Dallas or a
3,500-square-foot home with a sauna in Seattle, one could choose 150 square
feet in the basement of 42 Crosby, a condominium designed by the architect Annabelle
Selldorf.
B loody hell! I hope Grimly dark
doesn’t hear about this....
If they vote no then we will continue to be governed by
plonkers with names like Cameron and Alexander, until next year anyway and all
will calm dahn and Salmond will crawl back into his sporran and desist his ranting.
Maureen McKenna,
58, was caught on CCTV cameras for 40 minutes nicking a lawn.
With an accomplice, she removed the front lawn at 5am and both were seen
walking away with pieces of it.
They even stopped for a cigarette break in Skelmersdale, Lancs.
McKenna was arrested and charged with theft after the footage circulated
in July.
Appearing at
Ormskirk Magistrates Court, she was sentenced to three months prison.
Grassed up?
And finally:
Apparently there is going to be a vote in the land of
noisy squashy bags and deep fried mars bars about whether the Scots want to remain part
of the UK or not.
Good luck to them, if they vote yes then Hadrian’s Wall will
have to be heightened and extended, many-many people will have to apply for a new
passport, oodles of Scottish MPs will have to be deported and the blue will
disappear from the Union flag thingy.
Or not.....
That’s it: I’m orf to get a
Boris
And today’s thought:
Angus
