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Uranus Wiper : A cheeky name for a brand of toilet paper!
I came across this on Amazon and decided it was amusing enough to share. Hats off to whoever came up with the Uranus Wiper brand name.
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Waitrose comes to Sherbourne (not Sherborne)
The peice below was originally posted in March 2014. As you may well have heard Waitrose are coming to Sherborne. They have done a deal to take over the Co-operative store in the middle of […]
When The Australians Went Decimal
Back in February 1966 Australia changed its currency and went decimal. Out went Australian Pounds, Shillings and Pence to be replaced with Australian Dollars and Cents. Two new Dollars would be equivalent to one old […]
Anchor Butter … It’s from New Zealand … isn’t it?
I have always associated Anchor butter with New Zealand, the packs on UK supermarket shelves used to state “New Zealand Butter”. But it seems that is no longer the case. The Anchor brand is owned […]
Goodbye McAfee, Hello Avast anti-virus
A tale from February 2014. Still no fan of McAfee but have moved on from Avast to the free version of Bitdefender. When I purchased my new Dell desktop computer about a year ago it […]
Stockland Hill transmitter not getting BBC4 HD
Below is an article from December 2013. Some HD channels have moved channel number but still no BBC4. A few weeks ago I noticed a ‘Coming Soon‘ type message for BBC3 HD on channel 105 […]
If you are going to request a radio station plays a certain song …
The screen grab from Twitter below raised a smile. Someone has made a request to BBC Radio 4.
The North Petherton & South Petherton Conumdrum
There are plenty of places around called North, South, West or East something or other. For example in East Devon there are the villages of Southleigh and Northleigh, and in South Somerset the village of […]
Single seater sofa? Isn’t that an armchair?
Here is a screen grab from the web site of furniture retailer Funique. It shows there web page for ‘Single Seater Sofas’. Excuse my ignorance but I always thought they were called armchairs.
It points to Abbots Wootton and where?
Travel between Wootton Fitzpaine and Whitchurch Canonicorum in West Dorset and you will come across the finger post pictured here at Baker’s Cross. Look at the sign closely and you might notice a couple of […]