Only in the UK: the annual cheese-rolling race down the treacherous Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire resulted in two injured - and a shirtless German hunk winning it!
Yes, it's another "snippets post today", dear reader...
- Dedication to her job news: A news anchor in the US went into labour live on air - and carried on hosting the three-hour show!
- Nightmares in wax news: To mark National Sausage Roll Day next week [yes, such a thing does exist!], Madame Tussauds will unveil a waxwork of a Greggs sausage roll in pride of place in its display of "national treasures". No, it's not April Fools' Day...
- Canoeing totty news: A British canoeist has been banned from official competition because of his X-rated OnlyFans profile (that he apparently uses to raise money for his career), he claims. Now, which would you prefer? Watching a man try and manoeuvre a flimsy boat through cold water, or whopping his willy out on camera? Hmmmm...
- Happy Oak Apple Day! To mark the date of the restoration of monarchy under Charles II in 1660, people used to wear "oak apples" or a sprig of oak on this day every year. Despite the fact it is no longer a national holiday, across the country there are still "oak-related" events to mark the occasion.
- "The happy world of Haribo" news: Sweets manufactured under the Haribo label in the Netherlands have been recalled - because they contained cannabis! As if kids with a "sugar rush" weren't bad enough...
- And finally: It's "Scary Spice" Mel B's 50th birthday today! Time flies...
That song is twenty-seven years old [and was in the charts when Madam Arcati and I got together]!
And the weather? Still blustery, but warming up nicely for the weekend...
I am far more out of it than I thought (meds here) because I thought the photo of the canoeist was part of the sausage roll story!!! Although, in hindsight, it COULD have been, right? xoxox
ReplyDeleteHa! He can but live in hope that his "sausage roll" might one day be immortalised in Madame Tussauds... Jx
DeleteHealth and safety seems to bypass the West Country - Cheese rolling; tar barrel burning and Obby Oss festivals - all flipping dangerous.
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"There be dragons"... Jx
DeleteScary Spice at 50. Hard to believe! I’m suddenty craving some gummies. I wonder if they DID get them all off the shelves. I don’t know why it matters that the canoeist makes money on Only Fans. As Melanie Drumpf would say, I really don’t care. Do you?
ReplyDeleteScary, indeed - she's joined the "50-in-2025 club" alongside the likes of Drew Barrymore, Natalie Imbruglia, Eva Longoria, Jamie Oliver, Will.i.am and David Beckham, with Angelina Jolie, Mark Ronson, Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Bublé, Kate Winslet, Sia, and Tiger Woods still to come... Jx
DeletePS It's bizarre why people express such faux "moral panic" over willies and tits. Everyone's got one or the other.
I am with Ms Scarlet.
ReplyDelete"Cheese rolling; tar barrel burning and Obby Oss festivals" -
May Poles, the floral dance, Morris Men and Mummers; Makes you proud to be British.
Now where did I put my Oak Apple.
Did you toss it with your pancake while racing, or maybe it got burned at the Lewes bonfire night parade? Britain's chock-a-block with weird and wonderful traditions - and amen for that! Jx
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