Thursday, May 31, 2012

Oddities

1. Driving to Mumbles the other day I spotted 4 swans swimming on the sea - and for once I didn't have my camera.


2. The garage we stopped at on the edge of Swansea has been refurbished with a Deli2Go and on the window are listed all the goodies it offers including basil. Of all the things one might buy in a deli in a garage basil isn't the first that comes to mind.


3. We saw a wing walker the day after hearing someone on the television talk about one. Not particularly interesting but a coincidence.


4. A country fair near Daughter's village in Devon advertises as one of its star attractions the Essex Dog Team. I can just see them, can't you? All bling and fake tans.


5. Two people I know have recently seen a man chewing a lamp-post. The same lamp-post so one suspects the same man.


6. And my favourite. One of the signs on the M4 tells people to leave at the next junction if they want to get to the Oracle. I love the idea of a long-haired, tattily-clothed hermit living in a cave wondering why all these people keep turning up and asking him to give them answers.

6 comments:

jams o donnell said...

Chewing a lamp post? Surely there are better ways to get an iron supplement!

Stu said...

Re 2: Perchance the garage is called "Fawlty Towers" ? ;-)

Furtheron said...

The Essex Dog Team... didn't they think what people might picture? Also why are they doing a fair in Devon, doesn't anywhere west of Essex have a dog team?

Chewing a lamp post... that is a new one. We have a local guy known as "The Sheriff" who happily, sings, shouts, chats, waves to everyone. However he isn't a total goon, when my son was last back from Wales we walked past him, he waved his red gloved hands at us, my son waved back, he then shouted at him - "How is it in Aberystwyth?" My son then told him about "cat man" who walks around Aberystwyth with a cat on his shoulder - like a pirate with a parrot but a cat instead. The Sheriff shrugged and sang in his falsetto voice "What a nutter!" and off he went skipping and singing... takes one to know one

SmitoniusAndSonata said...

i love 6 . Very Pythonesque !
And I'll have to think about the lamp post chewing . Which part of it .... not , we hope , at ground level ?

nick said...

As long as the Essex dog team weren't wing walking or chewing lampposts....

NitWit1 said...

I pity the dentist who is called upon the repair the teeth of the man chewing on a lamppost.