The kind of news I like.

This must be the best day news-wise I have ever experienced.
Japanes scientists have managed to film a live Giant squid at a depth of 900 metres.
A huge treasure of Inca gold worth 10 billion dollars has been discovered on the "Robinson Crusoe", island off the coast of Chile.
And, US navy trained "Killer Dolphins", have escaped captivity and are possibly armed.
Has Reuter's been hijacked by the descendants of Jules Verne?
If that is the case they are doing a great job.
Keep it coming!

BZZZZZZzzzzz

It is midnight, the in-laws are sleeping in the guest room next door. My wife comes into our bedroom with something vibrating wrapped in a towel.
"Deal with this, I can't turn it off!".
It is the Braun electric toothbrush.
Something has shorted inside it and i am desperately trying to turn it off without any luck while it is vibrating away, rather noisily, threatening to wake the whole house.
We wrap the toothbrush in the towel and a thick blanket and stick it in the closet.
After maybe half an hour it shuts itself off and the next day it works fine again.
It has happened once before.
I see this as evidence that German engineers do have a sense of humour.

Aldi and I

I must confess to having a secret fascination with the German Discount Supermarket chain; ALDI.
The branch close to where i work looks more like something out of coldwar Russia than a modern supermarket, and it is full of products that at first glance looks like the brands you normally buy, yet the spelling is slightly different; Bacardi might be Wacardi etc.
They also occasionally sell weird appliances like chainsaws and hand powered flashlights and I am drawn to these objects like a moth to a flame.
Last week they were selling metal detectors and night vision goggles at some insanely low price.
For a moment I thought it sounded like a really good deal, but then the truth hit me:
It must be part of some Serial Killer Profiling Scheme.
The moment someone lines up at the counter in ALDI with, say a pair of night vision goggles, a roll of duct tape and some black bin liners, the salesperson hits an alarm button and a SWAT team
will overpower the individual, who will be taken into custody and never seen again.
What will they think of next?

The cat and the car.

Last night our cat did not come home.
Shaking the cat biscuits by the kitchen door ususally does the trick, but there was no sign of him.
Around midnight I remembered he had been sneaking round the car as I checked the oil earlier.
I went to the car and there he was asleep on the back seat.

I should have left him there.

This morning we found a window in the car smashed and the stereo gone.
Imagine if the cat had been in the car, wouldn't a hissing furball with claws have freaked the burglar?

Mickey and the butterfly bush

In our -tiny garden we have a Buddleia(Butterfly bush)
It really does what the name suggests apart from growing like a weed on steorids;
Butterflies are helplessly attracted to the flowers.
This would all be fine if it wasn't for the fact that our cat Mickey has developed a taste for fresh
butterfly.
So, on one hand our plant is providing all the butterflies with lots of nectar.
On the other hand there is always a well oiled killing machine lying in wait underneath the bush.

Poor bird...

There must be a bird flying round Copenhagen with a major headache these days.
This imprint was left on one of the windows in our office. The picture doesn't really do the smear justice so i have traced the outline.
Close up you can se the individual feathers. On impact it must have been like something out of a chuck jones cartoon.
-And yes the view from our office is pretty much as grim as the picture indicates.

Makes you itch!

Every morning I walk past a kindergarden on my way to work. They put little notices for the parents in the window.
This one made me laugh and reach for my cameraphone.
It says:"Go on, check the hair for lice, thank you".
Now my scalp feels all itchy.