Monthly Archives: February 2011

        “The Telegraph are clearly trying to make all “UFO/Alien believers” look like silly people with vivid imaginations. The time has come for change, change in the way the media represents UFO stories.” From:   http://paranormal-mysteries.co.uk/?p=692　   … Continue reading →

  Four years ago I saw this report in The Times and had to blog. They say recycling is a good thing.  14th February 2007: Two explorers are aiming to measure the colour of snow while attempting to complete the longest Arctic … Continue reading →

 Captain Limey was recently voted the World’s Foremost Expert On Absolutely Everything* (which was nice). Being the selfless sort, he has decided to make the canyons of his mind available for cheap tourism. If you have a question for which … Continue reading →

  With dictators facing the brunt of people power in North Africa and the Middle East, I thought it timely to consider another, who has been out of the news lately, but who has really changed little since I first wrote … Continue reading →

Call me an old fuddy duddy who doesn’t have his finger on the pulse, but for years I have worried about the loopier aspects of modern art. I have come to realise, however, that if you can’t beat them, there … Continue reading →

Scenes of smoking have been cut from Tom and Jerry cartoons by Turner Broadcasting, following a complaint to Ofwatch, the television watchdog, that children might be given a positive image of smoking .   Tom the Cat is politeness itself as … Continue reading →

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Two Irish men who stole a fishing trawler after missing their ferry had to be rescued off the British coast where they were going in circles because they did not know how to sail. After hours at … Continue reading →

Today a remarkable thing appeared to happen: I was followed on Twitter by David Hasselhoff. At first I was ~ well ~ gobsmacked, encouraged, delighted and amazed. It was as if a whole new horizon arose before me. Here was Captain Limey and there was … Continue reading →

Woman Hits Breeder With Chihuahua A woman, angry that her new puppy had died, pushed her way into a dog breeder’s home and repeatedly hit her on the head with the dead Chihuahua, St Louis police authories report. The 33-year-old … Continue reading →

It started as a dribble of blood from my left nostril, and swiftly became a rich torrent. I hastened to the bathroom; it had been years since I had last had a nosebleed, but I vaguely remembered something about putting … Continue reading →