Were you as disgusted as I was about the appalling scenes witnessed during last year's International Carrot Day?
And we're only now paying the price, apparently, with all these babies now being born to 'celebrants', i.e. to the so-called "Carrotteers". It was all in the Onion News today, I expect you saw. And before I forget, I must offer my thanks to those hard working local Onion News journalists who broke the story. And my thanks also to those hard-working researchers at Basingstoke University, who uncovered the shocking facts in the first place.
Kudos, guys!
Today (Friday May 2nd) is another "big day", the papers are telling us now - World Tuna Day, if you please, designated by the UN 9 years ago, with the aim of "highlighting the importance of responsible tuna fishing", so let's hope that today's tuna-guzzling revellers behave with a little more decorum than their disgusting carrot-worshipping colleagues did last April (!).
Yes, no more please, BBC!
We've only just got over International Jazz Day (April 30th) and World Day for Safety and Health at work (April 28th). And we were already exhausted by the April 26th shenanigans, which was (1) International Chernobyl Disaster Day and also (2) World Intellectual Property Day. [What that? - Ed]
And International-Day-men say there's more to come - what madness !!!!
of a packed programme of days coming up later in the week.
And by the way, where is Argania - in Africa somewhere????
I think we should be told !!!!
"What madness!", as indeed it says in my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois's copy of "The Week" magazine, which gives a digest of the past week's big stories from home and abroad, and which "plopped" through our letterbox this morning.
Lois's copy of "The Week" magazine, which "plopped"
through our letterbox this afternoon
International days have proliferated beyond all reason, according to the magazine. "But have we already reached International Day 'gridlock'????", the mag's editor asks, in a thoughtful editorial. "There are simply far too many "awareness" days now", writes editor Theo Tait, "at the hands of bureaucrats, charities, PR people, HR people, not to mention the self-appointed 'funsters', responsible for thinking up 'International Talk Like a Pirate Day', and 'No Pants Day' ".
What madness, isn't it!! And just how much more actual "awareness" can we take?!!!!
Flashback to International Carrot Day in the 'good old days'
(no pun intended!), celebrated in the traditional way, with just
a small note on the office whiteboard, and orgies etc just
'not on the agenda' - simpler times!!!
10:00 For Lois and me, however, on our morning "old codger" walk today through nearby cool, semi-leafy Radford Park, our talk is centring on another article in "The Week" - a warning to all "old codgers" about how a 'normal' body mass index (BMI) is potentially 'catastrophic' for us oldsters, and that we actually need a 'buffer', of solid fat, presumably?
Yikes!!!!
us on our morning "old codger" walk through nearby semi-leafy Radford Park
today, and (left) the shock article in Lois's copy of "The Week" magazine,
taken from the organ's popular "What Science Is Saying" column
What a fool I've been !!!!
Even Lois has been talking just today about "going down a dress size", and about our scheduled trip to Petersfield tomorrow, just 10 miles down the A3, when we plan to "hit the dress shops" - there aren't any at all in little Liphook, needless to say (!).
our tentative campaign plan for when we travel to Petersfield tomorrow
to 'hit the dress shops': from 'Crew Clothing" in the north-west
to 'Butterflies Lingerie' in the south-east: a busy day is on the cards (!)
Lois adds that she was intending to wear her blue denim skirt today, but that it just "fell off her", like a lot of her skirts and jeans are doing these days, she says, not a problem in the house, but a potential cause for major embarrassment if it happened in public.
And the career of Texas-born pop star PJ Proby never fully recovered, did it, after his trousers famously split on stage at Croydon, Surrey, back in 1965. Just saying !!!!
But what a crazy world we live in !!!!
21:00 It's also been a bit of a crazy day in the UK in general, apparently, what with the local elections and all - although there isn't one here in East Hampshire this time around.
Lois and I often tend to spend the afternoon in bed between 2pm and 4pm, which is our statutory "nap time", so today's 'mayhem' has passed us by. Luckily, however, Steve, our American brother-in-law, is monitoring things for us, and later he sends us this great summary in a text, a summary so good that it's saved us turning on the "telly" for the 6 o'clock news, which is nice (!).
What a crazy country we live in !!!!!
Before we go back to bed (!), we turn on the "telly" at 9 pm for this week's edition of the comedy quiz "Have I Got News For You". There isn't anything about today's local elections, however, because the programme is recorded every Thursday for transmission at 9pm on Fridays. That doesn't mean, however, that there weren't any 'biggies' in this week's stories, to put it mildly!
This week, Keir Starmer has been getting tough with fly-tippers, team captain Ian Hislop notes.
I wonder..... !
Keir's tweet was timely, however, because of that other story that cameout of Gloucestershire this week, the one about "that sofa" (!).
Yes, a few weeks ago, person or persons unknown fly-tipped a sofa on a piece of waste ground just off the B4234, near the village of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, and since last month it's even been attracting tourists.
And now that it's a big tourist attraction, the locals too have apparently become quite proud of it, and they've been "adding to it".
This week's presenter Sue Perkins adds that she admires the fly-tippers' timing in dumping the sofa when they did.
I don't know! What a crazy country we live in!!!! [You've done that one already, Colin! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzz!!!!
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