Hygiene notice
In a supermarket somewhere in the UK…
Using tongs would have been more hygienic in my opinion. 🙂
-
-
A motherly touch?
Today’s Bristol Post carries a piece by Gavin Thompson about the activities of property developers in Bedminster that has a novel twist – a maternal blueprint – as shown by the screenshot below.
Bedminster has so far escaped the worst attentions of property developers who’ve been allowed a very free hand by Bristol City Council to wreck the city’s outstanding heritage with cheap and nasty modern developments, as is happening currently on the site of the Ebenezer Chapel in Midland Road in St Philips (posts passim).
-
Handy holiday hint
-
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.
-
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.
-
How to fake a headline
-
Greenwash Capital moves to non-existent website
In a new move Bristol City Council has started advertising websites for non-existent domains as part of its tenure as European Green Capital 2015.
I’m indebted to Redvee for the photograph below.
Not only does the solar park itself not exist, neither does the domain shown on the sign, as a simple whois search reveals.
I wonder how much money has been wasted on the publicity for a non-existent solar park and its accompanying (and equally non-existent) website.
Would anyone from Bristol City Council care to comment?
Update 02/02/2015: a subsequent whois search today revealed that the domain in question was registered by a PR person working for Bristol City Council this morning and that the registrant contact details are currently awaiting validation.
-
Watch out, there’s an apostrophe thief about!
Seen in The Galleries, Bristol.
Bristols (noun, plural): English rhyming slang for breasts.
Bristol’s (possessive): from, of or pertaining to Bristol, a city in the west of England.
There’s obviously an apostrophe thief abroad in central Bristol. Could it be a greengrocer looking for fresh supplies (posts passim)? 😉
-
Headlining
One major skill in journalism is devising an appropriate headline for any news report.
Down at Bristol’s Temple Way Ministry of Truth getting a headline to match the article occasionally seems to create difficulties! 🙂
Click on the image for the full-sized version. About 5 minutes after the above screenshot was taken, the headline was amended.
-
Bristol Post Balls – Southmead Hospital: now in Long Ashton
The Bristol Post has come up with a classic mix-up today. A report on the city’s Southmead Hospital has been illustrated with a photo of cars vandalised in Long Ashton, the report of which the Post carried yesterday.
Still, why let a good picture go to waste? Use it often… and everywhere! 😉
Update 28/11/14: the correct photograph has since been attached to the article.
