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i didnt see any mutants.
mechanical mutants – the Lanz Bulldog road tractors! A marriage of primitive diesel technology (single-cylinder hot-bulb 2-stroke diesel engine), a farm tractor and elegant 1930’s car-style bodywork perched on top!
It’s probably too early to know what sort of post-viral infections might linger after people have got over the swine flu.
Also, in Argentina, where it’s winter, swine flu has spread very rapidly and the death rate is much higher than anywhere else.
We should have a UK day – 22nd July, to commemorate the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland on that day in 1706 – the birth of the United Kingdom, when our island became one nation for the first time.
It’s in my town and some of the nearby towns. People who attended the Glastonbury festival seem to have caught it there.
PS it’s just been reported on BBC that the there’s been the first death in England of a healthy person from swine flu – i.e. someone who had no previous underlying health problem.
Presumably his wife is a free individual who is at liberty to publish her family details on Facebook just like anyone else. She is not about to become the boss of MI6, is she?
Perhaps a more accurate name would be “British Fail”.
Doesn’t that term apply to the whole country?
Charlie is a feline equivalent of Muttley
Sorry, I amended my reply while you were replying!
I’ve got national pride but that doesn’t extend to the currency, it’s just something we use to buy things. Most of the pounds we spend are exchanged by means of plastic cards or direct debits anyway.
Other countries were willing to give up their currencies to join the euro, I don’t see what’s different about Britain.
Now that these scooters are available secondhand quite cheap, I’m suspicious that a minority of the people who use them are the ‘unfit able-bodied’, who see them as a lazy alternative to walking or cycling.
