(I suppose I might mention that the new girl in the chip
shop continues to give me more chips in a standard portion than her predecessor
did – which is good because I like chips. Then again, I might not.)
I was quite pleased by one of the minor matters I came
across in the news today. Remember what I said about Boris Johnson and his assertion
that the EU bears parallels with Hitler? Well, it seems that even some senior
Tories agree with me. They’re muttering things like ‘Please ignore Boris, he’s
losing the plot.’ And I’m not blind to the fact that this bears some comparison
with matters affecting our American cousins, because I gather many senior
Republicans are saying pretty much the same about Donald Trump. And to make the
comparison even more tantalising, it might be noted that both men are still
sporting the same hairstyle as they did when they were fourteen. In Trump’s
case it’s a sort of exaggerated Beach Boys, whereas Boris’s mop is more a restrained
Beatles. But it’s still a telling coincidence, isn’t it?
The big news, though, is some intelligence I received from
an ex-pat Aussie woman with whom I’ve been corresponding on YouTube. She tells
me that Australia
(among other places down in that part of the world) is home to a very dangerous bird called the
Cassowary, so I looked it up on Wiki and came across the following:
Of 221 attacks studied
in 2003, 150 were against humans. 75% of these were from cassowaries that had
been fed by people.
OK, so if ever I move to north eastern Australia
(which is unlikely, but you never know) I give up feeding the birds. Got it.
What was that you just said about my mother?
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