Things I Have Learned This Week

This week my wife, 8 year-old daughter and myself have been on the Lincolnshire coast. We've never visited that area before and, regardless of the unusual experience of actually seeing some sun during a UK holiday, it was an enjoyable week. Things did seem a little different there however, almost like going to another country.

1. For starters, this was one of the local shops. Wondered if we had slipped through a portal into Utah or somewhere equally survival-tastic:

For all your..um...sniping needs, apparently.

Of course, as the world economy seems to be going down the toilet, we may all have to brush up on survivalist techniques. A year from now, peering into the store cupboard in our makeshift cabin might give this sobering view è:

2. Anyhoo, during our trip we were fortunate enough to meet The Mayor of Skegness...

And the good Lady Mayoress...

3. Can't say we got on too well with the locals, 95% of whom were really irritating and looked like this:

The "10 whacks of a flip-flop to kill it" species of Hover fly

4. Back home, today it seems the BBC News Channel are having a "Star Trek Original Series" dress-up day:

Though for newsreader Jon Sopel it's an everyday thing...

5. Inside the mind of Shane Warne:

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Things I Have Learned This Week

Not doing that thing where you put the names the wrong way round - apologies

1. Back in court this week was John Galliano, who I have long thought resembles Dick Dastardly. 

 

Certainly seems like a 

I really should go on a course for this shit Þ 

(allegedly)

The entertainment isn't
up to much either

2. Tony Blair is charging parents £10 for their children to attend his son's birthday party. It's an extra tenner to ask about the decision to invade Iraq.

Who knew?

3. When a friend tells you he has received his estranged wife's divorce petition. apparently it's NOT OKAY to ask "Did she get many signatures?".

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5. This little girl just got herself one of them thar university degrees. Her Dad is pretty proud.

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