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Brian Sollitt, the inventor of the After Eight mint, Matchmakers, Yorkies and Lion Bars, has died. According to this article he had "molten chocolate in his veins", which is probably what killed him.

Just got myself a box of animal crackers from the shop! Not had them in years. Had to take them back though...the seal was broken.

Just watching news on TV in Cologne airport and is it me or does Angela Merkel seem to now have adopted a confused old lady expression reminiscent of an auntie who is trying to find her cat but you don't have the heart to tell her it died three years ago.

If appears that Tian Tian's pregnancy dates may be a little out! "If Tian Tian is to give birth, it may happen two weeks later than previously thought, experts at Edinburgh Zoo have said." Sounds to me like their clutching at bamboo shoots! http://www.scotsman....ssing-1-3083391

Know what? May as well make Canterbury the "full-on" DL Con VI for this year and "do" Scotland next year in the late spring or early summer. November the 9th in Edinburgh sounds a mite bleak, and more like us just chancing our arm.

Yeh but at least elephants are useful, a hollowed out foot makes an excellent safari-themed umbrella stand. That, and they kill elderly Frenchmen. The article fails to explain why the elephant played petanque. regards, Hein I think it's obvious why the elephant plays petanque - he can't hold a croquet bat. And funnily enough, my town has a two-tonne elephant named Tanya - to be found legs akimbo out back of Wetherspoons on a Friday night.

Who? Author of Brave New World, Crome Yellow, After Many A Summer etc. Rather well known in an Anglo-Californian sort of way. You'll be delighted to learn that I read some of his books. My point was rather that I was an infant when he died. That, and a joke. Oh well. regards, Hein Six and a half years later, I will explain Pooka's joke to Magere. The passing of Huxley (and that of another famous early British fantasy/SF writer, C. S. Lewis), which would normally have been big news, was completely overshadowed by the fact that JFK was assassinated that same weekend. PS - it was also the weekend that Dr Who debuted on television, so quite a momentous time for SF afficionados.