A coastguard spokesman has expressed surprise that parents have been taking young children down to the beaches of South Devon at night and abandoning them on the sand while they scavenge for loot from the wrecked cargo ship. From my observations of the British population over the past 38 years, I have to say that I’m not that surprised. What’s more shocking is the kind of garbage that people have being picking up. I mean, a brand new BMW bike is one thing, but packets of nappies washed up by the tide? That is seriously chavvy.
Regular readers may recall that I once doubted the existence of Yeo Valley. I'd never heard of the Yeo mountain range and I therefore rated the likelihood of there being a valley at somewhere between 0 and 5%. Of course, I had yoghurt all over my face when I discovered that the place really does exist. Somewhere in Somerset, I seem to recall. Today, having read an article in the latest edition of The Marketer magazine, I'm astonished to discover that there really was a Captain Birdseye. Well, I need to qualify that just a little. There was a Mister Clarence Birdseye who invented the fish finger back in 1955. The avuncular, uniformed figure who dominated our TV screens for about thirty years may have been an invention of over-eager advertising creatives, but he didn't blow in on a trawler during a squall. There was actually some connection to a real human being. These revelations about fish and yoghurt are causing me considerable disquiet, because I'm wondering h...
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