Life rolls on...
Good Lord, a twelfth of the year has already slipped by! How did that happen?? So much to do, so little time!
On the way home from the school bus run this morning, I was peering at something in the road ahead of me and thought someone's cat had got run over but it wasn't a cat. It was an OTTER! Couldn't believe my eyes! M thought he saw an otter in the river a couple of years ago but this is proof, which is fabulous, although I'd much rather have seen him frolicking in the river than dead in the middle of the tarmac. :o( I've spoken to the Environment Agency and they are passing the details onto Cardiff University who have an ongoing research programme on otters. Someone is coming to collect the body for a post mortem. Otters are such beautiful animals, I'm sad this one had to die but I'm thrilled to know they're living in such close proximity to us.
Has anyone else seen that silly Hovis advert advertising crust free bread?? I've seen it all now! Are there really people holed up somewhere coming up with these stupid ideas and then convincing us that we need to buy them for an inflated price?? At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old woman (again!), I'd like to nominate this product for the Biggest Waste of Money Consumer Award. And a close runner up would be a product I saw in the Devil's Supermarket recently - garden furniture wipes!! Never heard of a wet rag?? Grrrrrrrr
On the way home from the school bus run this morning, I was peering at something in the road ahead of me and thought someone's cat had got run over but it wasn't a cat. It was an OTTER! Couldn't believe my eyes! M thought he saw an otter in the river a couple of years ago but this is proof, which is fabulous, although I'd much rather have seen him frolicking in the river than dead in the middle of the tarmac. :o( I've spoken to the Environment Agency and they are passing the details onto Cardiff University who have an ongoing research programme on otters. Someone is coming to collect the body for a post mortem. Otters are such beautiful animals, I'm sad this one had to die but I'm thrilled to know they're living in such close proximity to us.
Has anyone else seen that silly Hovis advert advertising crust free bread?? I've seen it all now! Are there really people holed up somewhere coming up with these stupid ideas and then convincing us that we need to buy them for an inflated price?? At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old woman (again!), I'd like to nominate this product for the Biggest Waste of Money Consumer Award. And a close runner up would be a product I saw in the Devil's Supermarket recently - garden furniture wipes!! Never heard of a wet rag?? Grrrrrrrr
posted by artfulzebra at 10:38 AM
4 Comments:
How wonderful to see an otter. I thought I saw a badger at the bottom of next door's garden yesterday morning. It was actually a magpie on what was probably a garden chair.
Do you get Mairi Hedderwick's books in the library, eg Katie Morag? If so, have you seen Utterly Otterly? I bought it for the English grandson of Stornoway people in Lincolnshire. It's on a par with Katie Morag, has a map at the front and back (that always was a good sign in children's books) and is about a family of otters. I only had time to read it once and I barely looked at the pictures.
aWW, how lovely to know you have them around, shame this one didn't make it. I shall check out those books that Elizabeth mentions although I am still traumatised by Ring of Bright Water 30+ years after first reading it.
Crustless bread does seem to be another way to spend more money on less and as for garden furniture wipes (snort!) how stooopid!
Lets see if we can invent something just as pointless - how about half chewed bread that comes ready masticated?
Hugs,
Kari x
Elizabeth, I LOVE Katie Morag! :o) The KM stories used to feature on a kid's programme that E liked, can't remember what it was called but it featured a cat called Poppy! And I see Katie Morag most days at work, of course. ;o)
Icecubes figure in my list of ridiculous products too, Kari! Thinking caps on!
Maz x
Hanging head in shame - we have bought ice cubes for party use once - it would have taken an age to freeze off that many and involved far too huge a degree of preparedness!
Certain catalogues that come through the door featuring lots of plastic items seem to specialise in useless and therefore over priced tat
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