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..!
STOP PRESS:
RIP, Reader's Digest after 86 years...
