And the award goes to…

This week’s award for perseverence has to go to this little chap, it’s the look on his face as he goes about his business!

Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

An Israeli woman decided to surprise her mother by buying her some new bedding, throwing out the old mattress and replacing it with a brand new one. She then told her mum what she had been up to, expecting to see her smile. Instead, mum almost fainted as she informed her daughter that the mattress contained her life savings, almost …

World record broken

The previous record was held by Castleblayney in County Monaghan, Ireland, with a total of 1,253, but this has now been more than doubled by the city of Swansea with a staggering 2,510. The world record attempt took place at the Oceana nightclub in Swansea and involved mainly students. Verification of the attempt took several hours and wasn’t made official …

May the farce be with you

The words of Chief Constable Peter Fahy have obviously not filtered down to Bournemouth yet as the town begins a crackdown on speeding cyclists.

With friends like these….

Meanwhile, back in Scamalot, Lord Sleaze is reported as stating in an email that Mr Bean is: insecure, self-conscious physically and emotionally, uncomfortable in his skin and angry This email was leaked just one day after Lord Sleaze stated: good-humoured Mr Bean was the best man to lead the Labour Party and Britain. The email was, according to Lord Sleaze, …

Another voice of reason

It’s taken a while, but as the Blair-Brown Empire crumbles, voices of common sense are slowly beginning to make themselves heard.

Hasty reshuffle as Mr Bean clings to power

The enigmatic unelected and beleagured Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, does at least have one staunch supporter as he hastily reshuffles his cabinet, himself. Ignoring calls to resign from his own Cabinet members, MP’s, party members and almost the entire population of the UK, he has now resorted to including in government seven equally non-elected peers, a tv reality star (Alan …

A sad way to go

Actor David Carradine, probably best remembered for his role as Grasshopper in the TV series ‘Kung Fu’ and Bill in the ‘Kill Bill’ films, has died at the age of 72 years. He was found ‘accidentally’ hanged in the wardrobe of a Bangkok hotel. He was apparently half-naked and the rope was round his neck and other unspecified parts of …

Sorted, hopefully

For forty years they’ve been at it. Scientists, linguists, scholars and every type of researcher imaginable have been in search of the answer to the question uppermost in people’s minds during those four decades. Now, finally, it appears to be resolved.

Aaah

Some fantastic pictures of a leopard and a mouse taken by photography student Casey Gutteridge at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire. It’s my dinner!