Crucified Mayor

Being a Mayor in France can be tough .....

Bernard Denis, Ex-Mayor of Saint-Come-du-Mont

.... trying to satisfy everyone can make it an impossible job, and lead you to make some strange decisions.

Just A Russian Scandal

Russians Tatyana Bakalchuk, and her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, are the founders in 2004 of the website Wildberries .....

Wildberries

 ... it wasn't exactly an innovative site, but rather a Russian copy of Amazon, a bit like the Chinese Taobao (eBay lookalike) or Alibaba (Amazon lookalike), but it made her a billionairess worth £6.1 billion.

The Man In The Hooded Mask

When I was younger, I was much troubled after seeing a version of the The Man In The Iron Mask ...

The Man In The Iron Mask

.... in which there was a scene when the iron mask, still hot, was forced over the head of the prisoner.

Stunted Development

 Humanity can be a strange breed ......

Ron Should Have Googled Loch Ness

 .... We often get  the urge to do and think strange things, and disconnect our cognitive processes and reasoning abilities.

Taxing The Walking Dead

The UK is fast heading towards taxing the state Retirement Pension ....

Robbed By Labour For Not Working Anymore

 .... how disgraceful is that for any society, let alone a Western democracy?

Frittering Away The Family Fortune

Inheriting great wealth can prove to be more than a mixed blessing as we have seen before .....

Henry Cyril Paget, Fifth Marquis of Anglesey

For instance at just aged 23, Henry Cyril Paget (1875-1905) - nicknamed 'Toppy', became Fifth Marquis of Anglesey, and inherited an estate providing an annual income of £110,000 (equivalent to £13 million per year in 2023). The estate of about 30,000 acres, may have been worth £200 million at today's values.

Old Lemon

An old 19th century chest was scheduled for sale at auction in Newport, Shropshire, England in late 2023 ......

Old Lemon Sold By Auction

 ..... so to that end, the chest was being photographed.

The Weeping Woman Weeps No More

In Mexican folklore La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) .....

Practical Joke Goes Bad

...... is a ghost of a young woman who weeps for her two children who she drowned in revenge after her husband was seen with another young woman. 

Innocents Abroad

President Trump appointed two real estate developers, Steve Witkoff and Presidential Advisor Jared Kushner to handle his Middle East negotiating .....

Innocents Abroad -  Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner

...... firstly between Hamas and Isreal in Gaza, and then to negotiate with Iran.

Silence Is Golden

The UK produces its fair share of eccentrics and oddballs .....

Known As The Silent Man - David Hampson

 .... not least the men who insist on being naked, but there are others just as odd in other ways.

High On The Hog And Other Tales

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly of Law and Order: 

First the Bad Boys: In 2019 the Italian Police were trailing a drug gang, comprised of Albanians and Italians ......

Porky Was In Hog Heaven

..... and had bugged one of the criminals phones.

Pig Headed

In 2019 Steven Evans was a 56 year old former soldier (Royal Corps of Signals), who lived in town of Malvern in Worcestershire, England. 

Strange Behaviour

He also started acting rather strangely with respect to a local school. 

They Need A Good Lickin

In July 2019, police in Lufkin Texas, were reported to be trying to identify and find a woman .....

Unnamed Ice Cream Licker

 ..... who was seen on CCTV opening a tub of Bluebell ice cream, licking the contents, then replacing the lid and returning the tub to the freezer.

Looking To The Healthy Future

An new test using retinal scans has shown great promise in spotting warning signs that a patient may be developing Alzheimers Disease. 

People with thinning retinas were found to often have dangerous levels of the two rogue enzymes associated with the plaques amyloid beta and tau, that are part of the frightening disease (which remains incurable).

God By Another Name?

Science, Scientists and God have a mixed relationship .....

Homer Simpson And The God Particle

.... after all, often their work seems to prove that no divine order is in place, but rather that a natural order exists with empirical evidence.