3 random things i learnt today

3 random things i learnt today

1. My mother and her friend mary are prize winning scarecrow artists! Seriously, they won the village competition and they’ll be in the parish newsletter! I’m genuinely very proud, my mum has a really creative side and its nice to see it get some recognition.

2. Girls are better than boys. In stamina terms anyway. Its 10pm, lucys passed out and carlas asleep on the sofa! Not sure why carlas asleep but lucys came to bike club.

3. There’s such a thing as a “black carrot”

black carrot

I discovered it as a colouring in Lucozade!

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mysteries of the universe #46

why is if i put biscuits in a sealed box with sandwiches, when i open them later the bread has gone dry and the biscuits moist and soggy??

Its a mystery!

You’d think the bread would soak moisture from the air easier than the denser biscuit (a yummy combo of custard creams and bourbons i should add).

Anyone…?

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a good crop of april foolery

Last year, I don’t remember any good ones… there was some lame pun in the Echo I think.

This year, bumper crop!

1) BBC news – a great spoof viral effort about flying penguins – GENIUS work from Terry Gilliam (he of Python fame!)

2) YouTube – click on any clips featured on the homepage and you’ll get rickrolled 🙂

3) Slinky being bought by luminar leisure and turning to RnB – good skills Marc + Co – love the comments from people angry thinking it was real… even after the Boss posted his “april fools” 🙂

..and yes the Echo did a piece on a new health and safety training requirement being bought in for deck chairs this summer – not a bad effort!

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