WHAT a year full of silliness we have had and it's only September!
We have found out that crows have higher IQs than some people.
A brain mapper has declared that a large number of people use only half their brain. Which half he left us to decide.
The world leaders do their stuff to help Africa by going to a conference at great public expense and showing the starving an alternative way of life by living it up in luxury surroundings.
The Ministry of Rubbish Collection proposed to charge a pound for all bags over an initial free one. They obviously realised that the money collected could be used to keep the countryside free of the bags of rubbish dumped by those who didn't have the change available when the dustman called.
Consignia has gone and the Royal Mail is back!
The NHS is buying more herbs to spice up hospital food to show elderly patients what they have been denied throughout their lives or is it a hidden agenda of euthanasia by the back door?
And now I read that hospitals in Gloucestershire are changing their menus back from 'Spotted Richard' to 'Spotted Dick'. But the BBC will not allow that to be mentioned before 9pm, will they? It makes yer fink, don't it!
Leslie Loader
Mildenhall
Marlborough
Wilts
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