Suits You, Sir

 

China vies for World Record for largest suit of clothes (6.5 metres)

Superstorm Sandy

 

Hurricane Sandy blows into New York

Expands Widthways

 

 Heston Blumenthal uses tampons as palate cleanser to refresh his taste buds.

 Don't think this will catch on.

Clocks Go Back

First Snow of Winter

 

 

 

Now you see it...now you don't

Shark Found on Golf Course

 

Live shark  found on the 12th tee  of San Juan Hills Golf Club in California..... 

(Tartan) Snakes On A Plane

Cabin crew at Glasgow airport found an 18 inch long snake underneath a row of seats......
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Superblog

The world of comics bows to cyberspace as Clark Kent quits the Daily Planet to blog & tweet

The Blue Screen of Death

 

 

BBC pulls the plug on Ceefax

HandelFest

 

London gets ready to celebrate the man who opened the door to music and also shared a house with Jimi Hendrix (250 years apart)...

Postman Pleb

 

Royal Mail may do away with 1st Class stamps...

Pleb Class Travel

 

Pleased to see Mr Osborne paid for his upgrade

Bloomin' Ada

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace ( 1815 –  1852),  commonly known as Ada Lovelace. 1st computer programmer forgotten by history books or plagiarising toff? Wikipedia reels as forgotten women of science are added en masse.

Starbucks Sucks

MPs to look into Starbuck's £1.2 billion unpaid UK tax bill

Utterley Butterley

 

Butterley Spillway, Marsden, makes it onto the Victorian Society's Top Ten Endangered Structures list

Space Jump

 

Jump from the edge of  Space

Felix Baumgartner plummets to earth from record breaking height

Just a Slight Breeze

25th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1987....Michael Fish's most famous weather report

Giant Eyeball

 

 

Beach combers in Florida found a giant eyeball looking up at them . As big as a cricket ball, it probably popped from a giant squid's eye socket...

Old Soaks

 

 Alcohol Concern report found the cost of hospital admissions linked to heavy drinking 55 to 74-year-olds in 2010-11 was more than £825m. Steady on now, it's Friday night after all......
 

Baby Boomer Bender

 

More NHS money is spent treating alcohol-related illness in Baby Boomers than young people....

Think Track, Think Train

 Scare tactics of the Pif (Public Info Film) are back. Alvin Stardust warned us in the 70s. There was "Think Once, Think Twice, Think (THUMP!) Bike" and now there's "Think Track, Think Train!"
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-sIfsW7tg&feature=youtu.be

Tarzan of the Stem Cell Jungle

 

Congratulations to Sir John "Tarzan" Gurdon, Nobel Prize winner for his work on cloning and stem cells. His school report rsaid; " Gurdon has ideas about becoming a scientist....this is quite ridiculous- he can't learn simple biological facts"

Shaken not Stirred

 

James Bond is 50. Here's hoping he glams it up a bit for  more escapist jiggery pokery in Skylark. More Safari suits and camp villains in extict volcanos less  sweaty t-shirts and exploding oil rigs

Ashes to Ashes

 

With apologies to Mr Bowie. Killer fungus is killing ash trees in Denmark, with fears the spores are already here in the UK. Horse chestnuts and oak are also victims. The tiny toadstools attack leaving  a tree skeleton....

Headbangers

 

See earlier blog, Air Guitar

Grease Is The Word

 

Word is out that Olivia Neutron Bomb and John Travolta are cutting a disc. Think chestnuts roasting by an open fire, mistletoe and wine, a wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom...

Wella Wella Wella Huh

Travolta story coming up next..........

It Must Be Something I Ate

 

Milk of Magnesia has been withdrawn from Chemist shelves

Doing a Shirley (Bassey)

 

Adele gets the Bond treatment with the new 007 theme tune, Skyfall. The song was leaked prior to its release, but no links I found worked, so here's one for  Shirl (Goldfinger):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdmAxGc1uzI

Costermongers

Pearly Kings and Queens strutted their stuff yesterday at the Costermonger's Harvest Festival (Dahn Landan Tahn, me old China)