Getting bees-y with it
I just had to post this photo of my nearest and undoubtedly dearest donning, for the very first time, the bee keeping suit I bought him for his birthday last week. It’s the combination of the gay astronaut look and the expression on our friend’s face (perhaps saying, “well ain’t that a typical pose”) that still has me cackling. That, and I’m not sure if her lovely daughter was simply asking her mum for a cuddle or was instead wondering if disaster was imminent.
Some people
I was in a shop yesterday queuing to pay for just two items. But when it was my turn at the till, the old woman who was standing in the queue behind simply walked forwards as if I was invisible, and plonked her intended purchases in front of the checkout girl. “Er, excuse me,” I said, “I was before you.”
For this bold defence of my right to go first, I got the evil eye. “You could try being a gentleman,” she said. “You could try at your age learning to be a lady,” I replied. I got my way. There was never any doubt that I would.
Nanotechnology joins GM in fucking up the food chain, while the RSPCA rubber-stamps animal cruelty for supermarkets
The chicken meme is riding high across the planet. On the same day I discovered, courtesy of a friend pointing me to this video, that the RSPCA fails miserably in its duty of care towards the nation’s animals by providing Freedom Food certification for chickens that are far from being free-range and healthy, I also found this story about how, in the US, nanotechnology is to be employed to deal with the nasty diseases battery and broiler hens carry due to their unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions.
