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Handy holiday hint
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Bristol Post discovers time travel
Today this blog can reveal exclusively that the much-maligned Bristol Post has discovered time travel. This was shown by an item published today, 20th March, entitled “Seven things to do in Bristol tomorrow, March 17“.
I’m now waiting for the follow-up article from the Post detailing how I can travel back in time to do those aforementioned seven things. 🙂
Hat tip: Redvee.
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More lookalikes
Is there a certain similarity between the Little Britain character Vicky Pollard and the UKIP MEP and candidate for the Folkestone and Hythe constituency in the forthcoming general election, Janice Atkinson, who has now been suspended by the party over allegations of a “serious financial nature“?
“No, but, but, not, yeah, but, no, yeah, no, but…” 😉
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Bristol Post exclusive: Weston-super-Mare beach now motorway
The Bristol Post is not immune to the odd error every five minutes or so and today is no exception, as is amply demonstrated by the screenshot below of an item from today’s online edition.
Even the image tag’s alt attributes include the wording “A day on the beach at Weston-super-Mare”.
If Weston beach has been covered in tarmac and is now reserved for use by motor vehicles, I do hope the highway engineers built it well above the high water mark for spring tides, which have a range sometimes in excess of 13 metres.
On the other hand, the Bristol Post does have form when it comes to writing the wrong captions for images on its website (posts passim).
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Special opening offer
Thanks to skimping on proof-reading, La Despensa Del Gourmet, a new Spanish delicatessen that’s recently opened in Prince Street, Bristol has a rather unusual offer at present, which sounds a bargain at £3.50!
Picture courtesy of Bristol Bites Speculation has it that the proprietors are actually trying to offer a carbonated soft drink originally from America… However, that could be phallusy! 😉
Hat tip: Bristol Bites.
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Is this yours, George?
Spotted on the pavement opposite House of Fraser, Cabot Circus, Bristol – one red bra.
Whose could it be?
There’s one person in Bristol who is well known for wearing red – the city’s elected Mayor, George Ferguson.
It is suspected that George has shed his clothing in public before, notably in Easton (posts passim).
Could the Mayor’s secret penchant for transvestism or covert gender reassignment finally have been revealed? If so, when will George tell the citizens of Bristol?
That’s a matter for George’s conscience and our speculation.
However, turning to serious matters, shedding clothing on the highway is technically littering. Bristolians can report litter, fly-tipping, graffiti, dog fouling and the like online via the links on the city council’s street care and cleaning page.
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How to fake a headline
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Coracle!
I’ve been in London for the weekend and one of the joys of visiting is a chance to see my niece Katherine.
She’s currently in the middle of a project and is building a coracle in her flat in Bermondsey.
Picture courtesy of Katherine Midgley Like other vessels covered by a membrane stretched over a frame, coracles are an ancient form of water craft. The use of coracles in Britain was noted by Julius Caesar on the occasion of his invasion of Britain in 55 BCE.
The etymology of coracle is from the Welsh corwgl, which is in turn related to Irish curach, meaning a boat.
Although an ancient form of craft, coracles have still found working uses up to the present day. For instance, for many years until 1979, Shrewsbury coracle maker Fred Davies achieved some notability amongst football fans; he would sit in his coracle during Shrewsbury Town FC home matches at their old riverside ground of Gay Meadow and retrieve stray balls from the River Severn. His coracle was last heard of in the National Football Museum.
Coracles are difficult to manoeuvre as they are unstable due to their sitting “on” that water. In addition, coracles can easily be carried by currents and the wind. Nevertheless, let’s hope the maiden voyage is recorded for posterity.
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After the book and film, the HTML colo(u)r chart
There’s been a lot of interest in the media in recent days over the impending release of the film of E.L. James’ 2011 erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
Following hard on the heels of the media interest, comes the HTML colo(u)r* chart.
If you need to pick colours for web pages, fonts and the like, the W3C has a handy picker.
* In HTML American spellings – e.g. color, center – are used.
