A Good Idea Gone Wrong

 Every now and then helpful cleaners make the news and this blog ...

Old Library Newmarket ......

... so the fact that a helpful cleaner has done it again, is always worth a cheer!

No Tropical Paradise

Alabama man Richard J McGuire is a man who likes camping ....

No Tropical Paradise For Some .....

He particularly likes to camp in wild bits of paradise.

Adolph - The Count Of Scotchland

Count Adolph Humpfner is not a name you can easily forget if you have heard it ....

Bootleggers Have A Romantic Connotation In The US

... he was allegedly a bootlegger in the prohibition era.

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

The Covid-19 lockdowns have been wearing to all of us ....

Lockdown Boredom Strikes Teens Harder Than Most ....

 .... but for those unlikely to die of it, the lack of social life has been even more wearing. 

Cashing In On Troubles

Every time of adversity creates an opportunity for making money .....

Guillotines Made Someone Money .....

Monsieur Guillotine was falsely claimed to have cashed in on the French Revolution for example. Actually he didn't invent the device, and was actually a death penalty abolitionist who promoted it as a humane execution method ... but that's another story.

Inside A Pub Again

Well, our lords and masters have finally said that we can go back inside a pub again this week ....

The Pubs May Be 'Open Inside' Again,
.... But Still Under Some 'Covid' Isolation Rules.

 ... so hurrah for small mercies in our time of troubles.

Simian Surgery

It would appear that getting ill in the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago ...

Monkey Surgery Is Not Prohibited ...

..... is not necessarily a healthy thing to do if you need an operation.

How Fares The Empire?

 Now that the pubs are reopened ....

Beer Drinking Curbs Have Caused Some Desperation ......

... well sort of. 

The Flimflam Show

India has, under its nationalistic BJP Government ...

India Dreams Of Being A Big Power .....

.... long had pretensions of joining the Superpower club.

Florida Woman ... Again

We have touched on the subject of the Foridian's .....

A Slim Shadae ....

.... this is of course is the collective name for the natives of the state.

The Fat Rakes Progress

As part of the Covid-19 impact, I found that bad habits soon set in during the lockdowns, and that I had been piling on the pounds ....

Bad Habits Soon Set In During The Lockdowns ....

.... weight not money!

Hanging The Monkey

Hartlepool is a small port town in the North East of England ... 

The Hartlepool Monkey Hangers ....

... Its greatest claim to fame to-date, was when its residents allegedly hung a monkey as a French spy during the Napoleonic Wars.