A 79 year old grandmother, known locally as the Cat Lady because of her habit of taking in thousands of homeless cats over the years, has climbed a giant Oak tree in her front yard and has refused to come down.
Neighbors say that Mrs. Gloria Fel...
The Conundrum Club, London, 1895
Colonel Gulper (CG): This Carpetbag Steak's damned chewy, what?
Reverend Milke (RM): With respect, Colonel, that is a carpetbag you've got on your plate.
CG: What? Of course it's a carpetbag, you fool. I just said it was a carpetbag, a deuced chewy one, or are you going deaf in your old age, Reverend, what?
RM: No, Colonel, that is a bag, a carpet bag.
Individual Replies to my Unsolicited Mail received over the last 10 days:
From Southern Electric/Nottingham City Council:
Offering me the chance of, Cavity Wall insulation @ only £49
Reply: "Thank you kindly for the unsolicited offer. I already have cavity wall insulation. However, should anyone ask me about such a service, I will undoubtedly pass on your colourful leaflet.
From Eddieble P...
It was the fermented apples that did it, the moose claimed, but some suspected that he had been sipping the bubbly for quite some time and was simply on a bender.
Anyway, as he awaited rescue from the tree, the moose cheerfully entertained one a...
She's still a baby, but she already has her brother's name picked out: Pine Thyme Hart.
"I don't," Willow Sage said, "expect to be the only one around with a name containing a tree, an herb, and a body part." She wants company, and she demands...
Scientists in Point Lees University, Keele, have developed a new plastic that is biodegradable, made from renewable sources and versatile.
"This is the ultimate plastic," said Teresa Plant, lead materials science officer at Point Lees's chemistry...
Extra security precautions are to be taken by the SAS at Friday's royal wedding to protect the royal family and guests from terrorists.
Eight twenty foot high artificial English maple trees are to be positioned around Westminster Abbey with up to...
A group of Dutch Elm trees are saying that they are breaking a decades-old silence to show the nation about the controversy surrounding dandelions.
"For years we have been silent about this national tragedy. However, unlike my father, and my fathe...
The question everyone is asking those in favour of forests is : Can you live in a tree?
Monkeys can but humans have problems. Therefore sell off the forests, cut the trees down and build houses - making a considerable profit in the process for the developers.
A new scheme has been established, after extensive research among trees. They say they convert carbon dioxide into oxygen but this pro...
Two species of trees are known to have edible bark: the Ginkgo biloba, and the Acer pubica, or common exposed maple. Ginkgo is readily available in health food stores and used in various concoctions. Ginkgo is known to promote robust lateral phe...
A Warwickshire man has been left with no history, after council workers cut down and removed his family tree.
The tree, an oak, was positioned in the front garden of his house in a small village, and had stood there since his ancestors moved to th...
Professor Norton Folgate has a theory about trees.
And, as usual, he was only too willing to share his theory with us.
As it is too much like hard work to edit what the Prof witters on about, we are, once again, printing his latest theory in full.
"Trees are everywhere.
Most people think they are wonderful things. In fact there are some who go around hugging them.
Can you believe th...
One of the best feuds to surface since the famous Hatfield and McCoys has erupted in the aptly named, one horse town of, Western Mill,near Plymouth.
Seemingly, it all started way back in 1991 when broody,overweight, blond, blue-eyed East German ma...
Former shotgun murderer and NBA also-ran Jayson Williams will have to pay $16,433 to the estate of a tree he killed in January, says a Kings County, NY Judge.
In January, mere days after being sentenced for ventilating the torso of his limo driver...
A sudden and shocking gust of wind in a small cornish village caused a usually straight standing tree to 'lean dramatically'.
Eyewitness Kenwyn Cribbs told us "we were all in the pub when this gust came whippin' by! Next thing ol' leafy, thats the...
David Cameron is now trying the green policy in an attempt to gain votes. Yesterday he outlined the Tory Tree Policy which included a tree to be planted for every child in England, which was immediately attacked by people in Wales, Scotland and North...
The tree on the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Birch Grove was officially named 'Son Of A Beech' yesterday in a ribbon cutting ceremony by councillor Vincent Wayward.
The forty year old beech tree, believed to be the son of another beech tree follo...
Copenhagen - Al Gore spoke out this morning about the effect of trees on the 'greening' of earth.
"Trees, at night, produce copious amounts of carbon dioxide. They are at the center of all the global warming that no one has been able to prove. For...