Casting pearls

Flicking through LinkedIn the other day I came across this profile.

Call me old-fashioned, but it's not too long ago that attending University was something worth doing.

I'm surprised the word Education isn't in inverted commas.

OK, quotation marks.

As I said, I'm old-fashioned.

Taking action

You may get more than you bargained for when you steal from this shop.

Well, I suppose it's one way of collecting the fine.

Song Sung Ginger

Yes, he may well have sung, as we are wont to do, at the funeral of an old friend.

But there's no way on God's green earth that Ginger Baker can be described as a singer.

Here's the nearest he got.

Not exactly Ave Maria, is it?

Brooklyn: my kind of town

Ellie J stopped dead in her tracks at the weekend when she stumbled across this t-shirt for sale at Primark in Nottingham.

It has the word Brooklyn emblazoned across it, together with New York USA.

It also has a photograph taken in er, Lincoln Park, Chicago, nearly 800 miles away.

I've read that Primark has plans to open some shops in New York in 2015.

It'll be interesting to see exactly where they end up.

Milk snake

No.

Not this milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis, which originates from Central America and whose name derives from the myth that it drinks milk from grazing cows.

But this equally eye-catching one, found on the Tesco shelves in Terenure, Ireland.

I know which one I'd rather face.

After all, the milk snake is harmless to humans.

Unlike the packaging design which could scar you for life.