The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

That pumpkin is brilliant

I first discovered Lou Reed had died from TMN (second time this has happened, I also learned Elizabeth Sladen had died that way) - shows how much I had paid attention to the news on Sunday. I had no idea he was that old.

Seems he was doing Tai Chi a hour before his death & was fine.

Going for sociology, [removed]? Is it a case of going for the subject you enjoy or going for the one with a set career in mind?

Good to see you survived the storm Caspin. I think they were lucky that much of it happened very early in the morning when the streets were clear of people. Someone on the news said the damage wasn't as bad this time round because so many trees were felled back in the great storm of 1987 & were never replaced tree for tree.

The weirdest story of the lot from that time was the storm resulted in the reintroduction of wild boars after being extinct for 400 years - a number of private collections & animal sanctuaries were smashed to pieces in places near to the New Forest & Forest of Dean & the terrified boars ran for the one piece of standing cover they could see - the dense trees. By the time anyone got around to trying to recover them, it was decided they'd become too wild to attempt to recapture without danger to the boars or themselves.

The weather up here has been surprisingly beautiful the last two days, but VERY cold. We're also getting weird half a minute rainstorms out of clear skies at random. Oh, & those damn wasps STILL aren't dead. What are they, zombie undead wasps coming from the grave?

Last night I had to throw out a crane fly from my bedroom - I caught it with a beer glass & mat, but as I went to release it outside, my hand sort of slipped while holding it (I think there may have been some washing up liquid residue still on it) & the glass went flying out of the window. There was no smash - it sounded like it had luckily landed in the guttering of the ground floor extension.

With it being pitch black, I left it until this morning to get out the stepladders to retrieve it - unfortunately one of the neighbours spotted me doing so & joked it must have been some party in my house last night.