If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Outrageous
Wagamama has launched a vegan version of the great British breakfast with beetroot sausages and bacon made from gluten. Cultural appropriation surely?
Bad to wurst
If that offended any veggies out there, look away now. A butcher in Nuremberg has opened the world’s first and only sausage-themed hotel.
iMedal
Competitors at the 2020 Olympics will be presented with medals made from recycled mobile phones.
The bells of hell
Donald Tusk’s comment that there must be a special shelf in hell for those who promoted Brexit without any idea of how to carry it out safely, I enjoyed Guy Verhofstadt’s response below.
https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1093200394027761664
Stupid is as stupid does
Although the video shows a moonie cavalcade, I think we all know who the Pet Shop Boys are poking in their latest song Give Stupidity a Chance.
Valentine’s Day
If the prospect of Valentine’s Day has you all gooey-eyed then perhaps you should try some romantic optical illusions like the one on the right.
Give peace a chance
When Yoko Ono asked for ‘some advice that will make our lives heal and shine’ she probably wasn’t expecting the flurry of sarcastic replies. My favourites were:
- Don’t take laxatives if you have a tickly cough.
- If you add a little bit of olive oil to chopped kale, it’s easier to scrape it straight into the bin.
- Don’t carry light-bulbs in your back pocket.
- Never buy an umbrella in a pound shop.
Early doors
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of the earliest beer brewed in Britain alongside the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.
Brief Lives
The UK rapper Cadet; pharmacist Stewart Adams who discovered Ibuprofen; animator Don Lusk the last survivor of Disney’s golden age; novelist Rosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers and;
Oscar-nominated actor Albert Finney who I was privileged to see in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 1977 pictured right.