Yes, Friends, when did YOU last eat a piece of fruit? If more than half an hour, better think about maybe "topping up" with another one, and do it quick!
Fruit is dominating the headlines today - take Onion News, which has 3 "fruity" headlines on page 94 alone, if I'm not very much mistaken!!!!
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
You see, today is yet another unusually busy day for us, would you believe! With temperatures slightly cooler, we shop for fruit and other essentials in Liphook's flagship Sainsbury's Supermarket, and later spend a "fruity" afternoon in bed with handfuls of blackberries each for use in "statutory nap-time", an experience which somehow suddenly feels way more comfortable today, after the recent succession of torrid heatwaves!
And on top of all that, we somehow find time to squeeze in a 4000-step walk over the "hallowed, but parched turf" of local soccer giants Liphook United, which is mad (!), even stopping to pick tubs of blackberries in the bushes along the way!
Lois and I are both seriously out of shape, stuck in the house day after day recently, because of all this summer's heatwaves, so we're starting a programme of increasing our daily step-count "one step at a time", as people say. So it'll be a 4001-step walk tomorrow (!). And if you know a local walk that length, send us a postcard giving details, maps, places to stop for a coffee and doughnut: all the relevant "gen", if you please haha!!!
another busy day, with temperatures at last starting to cool: (above, centre)
shopping for fruit in Liphook's flagship Sainsbury's Supermarket,
and (below) doing a 4000-step walk over the "hallowed but parched turf"
of local soccer giants Liphook United - what madness, isn't it!
No wonder neighbours have dubbed us "Liphook's busiest-looking retired couple", a title which we earn "in spades" today - no question about that!!!! And our "super-fruity" day is climaxed at 6pm, when those freshly-picked blackberries come in very handy at tea-time, with dessert a gorgeous mix of blackberry and apple with yoghurt - yum yum, what's not to like haha!
There's even a fruit question on tonight's Only Connect, our favourite TV quiz, which tests lateral thinking. Can you spot the connection between these 4 seemingly unrelated "things"?
I think you've guessed this one already, haven't you, with the benefit of my "heavy hint" above! Am I right? Or am I right!
Yes these are each an expression of a fruit with a letter "y" on the end: very satisfactory ("peachy"), American slang for British person ("limey"), upper-class accent ("plummy") and ostensible author" of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" ("Lemony Snicket"). Simples !!!!!
Here's a more difficult one for you, however - from the programme's "Sequences Round". Can YOU name the fourth element in this sequence?
The missing 4th element is the USA and the programme chooses Linus Pauling as the US example, given that he's one of the only two Nobel recipients to have won more than one prize: in both chemistry and peace. The only other double-recipient was Marie Curie, who got both the physics and the chemistry prize, which are "almost the same thing", as programme-presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell points out (!).
Victoria Coren Mitchell goes on to tell us some of the numbers: France (79 prizes), Germany (116), UK (145), and then she asks the teams to guess the number for the US:
And, on the subject of politics, Victoria uses a question about wartime UK Prime Ministers to acquaint the programme's viewers with another "fun fact".
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
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