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Andy Y

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A small incident amidst the misery of the Somerset Levels raised a wry smile:

The Beeb's Chris Eakin, flood water in a village street nearly up to the top of his wellies, was talking to camera when a white van appeared in shot. Brightening, he approached the driver to ask if they had been sent by the Environmental Agency on a mission of mercy.

"No, we're delivering for Waitrose."

The van moved on, its rear doors filling the screen and flaunting the name of that supermarket chain.

Eakin watched it go, and remarked drily : "Well, you can't buy that kind of advertising ..."

 

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Andy, I knew you had a big heart but that is so sweet. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151888271860658&set=a.10150523921480658.372668.270212045657&type=1&theater

 

Sorry but I could not resist the picture.

 

Terry

 

Waiting for the frying pan to come through the door.

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A couple of things off today's BBC news that made me not so much smile as wryly amused. "Staines-upon-Thames", when did the name change? Not only was the BBC man stumbling over it when he said it, it's ruined a classic old joke*. And the Network Rail man "this is groundwater rising, not flooding". Now in my book, if groundwater is above ground, it's a flood.

 

*"How do you get rid of stains?" "Drop a bomb on it"

 

Pete

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