Another "snippets post" today, dear reader:
- Happy news: It's National Gardening Week here in the UK! Here at Dolores Delargo Towers, of course, it is "gardening week" every week of the year...
- Technology can't cope news: A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with American Airways' booking system!
- Know your history: Pizza isn't really Italian, and croissants aren't French...
- That'd take a lot of batter: The biggest freshwater fish caught on a rod in Britain, a whopping 143lb (64.4kg) catfish, was landed by an amateur angler after a 50-minute struggle in Maldon, Essex.
- Ophidiophobia news: Speaking of monsters - bones from one of the largest prehistoric snakes ever recorded have been discovered in India - measuring an estimated 36 to 50 feet long!
- And finally - a Terpsichorean triumph: Michael Flatley - whose Riverdance dance troupe stunned the world when they appeared as the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest twenty years ago today - recalls being begged "not to embarrass traditional Irish dancing" by doing something that was not in their rules. The rest is history...
The weather? Suddenly, gorgeous again..!
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RIP, Reader's Digest after 86 years...
The gardens at Delores Delargo Towers are magnificent.
ReplyDeleteWe do try our best, dear... Jx
DeleteThose tulips are drop dead gorgeous, sweetpea!! Your garden is superb! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThere's so much more to see at the "other half" Madam Arcati's blog! Jx
DeletePS It's only 12ft by 30ft, and mostly paved, so all you see is in pots...
Lovely
ReplyDeleteI know I am. Thank you, John! 🤣 Jx
DeleteAnd in honor of your National Gardening Week, I planted two new rose bushes in the garden tonight.
ReplyDeleteHooray! We have three roses, but can't grow as many varieties as we would like because we have so little actual "ground" to plant them in, and most of the better ones don't like growing in pots (thankfully "Gertrude Jekyll" is OK with it). Jx
DeleteReaders' Digest was something I think you could reliably find in any grandmother's home.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes indeed - and all the various books and LPs they published, too! Jx
DeleteThanks for the mention. It was lovely to see some new visitors to our garden.
ReplyDeleteInteresting round up of odd news.I knew about Pizza but not the Marie Antoinette link to croissants
I found that article fascinating, too. Jx
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