Run for your lives… the ANTS ARE COMING!

Photo by Penarc, via Wikipedia The BBC brings us disturbing news of the ongoing activities of the fiendish Argentine Ants, who appear to be in the throes of a diabolical and well advanced plan to take over the world, one leaf at a time. It seems that the appalling brutes all form part of one globe-spanning mega-colony, [...]

Pizza Rebellion

Mrs Fleet unpackaged two ostensibly identical pizzas this evening for dinner (I know, I know, but it’s been a busy day!) Suffice to say it appears that the calibration on the tomato adding machine needs some work, as one pizza had a grand total of seven slices while the other was blessed with so many [...]

Eg & Alice – Indian

Apologies for posting another YouTube video so soon after the last one (lazy blogging!) but this is an excellent track, a longtime favourite of mine, by Eg & Alice from their 1991 album 24 Years of Hunger. Eg and Alice were Eg White and Alice Temple, who found little commercial but huge critical success with [...]

Marillion – Tux On

Apropos of nothing much at all, here is the wonderful Fish-era Marillion track Tux On.

Food Festival

As always the Ladies in Pigs in particular had some delectable things to try. Later in the morning we spotted a young lady who was wandering the fields dispensing pesto from a large receptacle on her back. The weather has felt very thundery in the last day or so and I must confess that I did wonder what would happen in the event of a thunderstorm, and whether the unfortunate promotions girl would be identifiable after the immense detonation which might result if she was struck by lightning!