Dickie Decimal™ taxonomical dilemma resolved… The Bible gets shelved with the Epic Fantasy.
Filling our new bookshelves…
Overflowing
No human being would stack books like this!
Seems to me we need some sort of ‘overflow’ facility.
National New Hat Day
To mark National New Hat Day, I thought I'd try this one out. I was tempted by a solid-gold-studded-with-exquisite-gems affair, but decided cotton was more practical.
People Eating Tasty Animals
BBC: Eating fish same as eating cats, Cleethorpes animal rights poster suggests
The Peta digital billboard shows a fishmonger holding a fish which transforms into an image of a dead cat.
Thanks for the tip! I’ve never tried eating cats, but, if it’s even remotely like eating fish, it sounds delicious—and a lot more environmentally friendly.
League of bald-headed men
Down the pub with the in-laws yesterday, I attempted to take a group-selfie. It did not go to plan. But I kind of like the documentary feel of the resulting photo:
Couldn’t run a bath
Guardian: Seemingly ambitious Defra hedgerow targets actually due to typo
Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, has admitted that ambitious figures on hedgerows revealed in January were a typographical error.
Meanwhile, in other news, BORIS JOHNSON ACCIDENTALLY TELLS TRUTH.
Keep it clean, please, BBC!
BBC: What’s the cheapest way to stay warm in bed?
How could you keep warm at night for the lowest cost?
Man of the people
Guardian: Boris Johnson ‘agrees to buy’ £4m nine-bed Georgian manor house (with moat)
Boris Johnson is understood to have agreed to buy a nine-bedroom Grade II-listed Georgian manor house in Oxfordshire valued at £4m.
Lineages
Erm… I have news for you: it’s not just coffee and spuds—my own ancestors and, indeed, the ancestors of every organism alive today also survived the cataclysm that killed the [non-avian] dinosaurs.
Robot butlers
I was complaining to Jen the other day that, when I was a boy, everyone said that, by this time, we’d all have robot butlers and flying cars. But, on reflection, the biggest technological improvements I’ve seen during my life are:
- ring-pulls on cans on beans;
- longer-lasting, less leaky batteries;
- brighter bulbs on electric torches.
Jen reckoned, if they hadn’t frittered away quite so much time on batteries and torches, we would almost certainly have had our robot butlers by now.
Someone got their priorities wrong.