Alphagoogle

Someone with too much time on her hands put this lovely set of 26 images together.

The pics are of Britain so the last letter is pronounced zed just in case you’re wondering.

Do you have swine flu?

Because we’re heading to Papua New Guinea where pigs are like gold to the people there and are the only common large mammal, we’ve been following closely the developing news on swine flu.

I’ve found a link that is really helpful as we all face what could be a global pandemic. In the interests of public health, I feel we need to share it with you.

A bit of hilarity…

A bit quiet on the blog front recently eh…?

Well, I’ve just read Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. Absolutely hilarious. Afterwards, I went online to find out more info about him. I came across this exctract from a letter to his wife. It was written during WW2.

No.3 Commando [part of the army] was very anxious to be chums with Lord Glasgow so they offered to blow up an old tree stump for him and he was very grateful and said don’t spoil the plantation of young trees near it because that is the apple of my eye and they said no of course not we can blow a tree down so it falls on a sixpence and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever and he asked them all to luncheon for the great explosion.

So Col. Durnford-Slater DSO said to his subaltern, have you put enough explosive in the tree?. Yes, sir, 75lbs. Is that enough? Yes sir I worked it out by mathematics it is exactly right. Well better put a bit more. Very good sir.
And when Col. D Slater DSO had had his port he sent for the subaltern and said subaltern better put a bit more explosive in that tree. I don’t want to disappoint Lord Glasgow. Very good sir.

Then they all went out to see the explosion and Col. DS DSO said you will see that tree fall flat at just the angle where it will hurt no young trees and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever.

So soon they lit the fuse and waited for the explosion and presently the tree, instead of falling quietly sideways, rose 50 feet into the air taking with it ½ acre of soil and the whole young plantation.

And the subaltern said “Sir, I made a mistake, it should have been 7½ not 75.” Lord Glasgow was so upset he walked in dead silence back to his castle and when they came to the turn of the drive in sight of his castle what should they find but that every pane of glass in the building was broken.

So Lord Glasgow gave a little cry and ran to hide his emotions in the lavatory and there when he pulled the plug [flushed the toilet] the entire ceiling, loosened by the explosion, fell on his head.

This is quite true.