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Disease, an unlikely event heard in the past? (5, 3)

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Swine flu

"Do or die!" a politcian cried

And so we did. But many died.

Q. Dear Aunty.

I am a restaurant reviewer for a local paper but they expect me to send my reviews almost immediately. What should I do?

Perplexed of Neasden

A. Dear Perplexed.

Thank for your letter.

I would suggest you file your copy “post taste”.

I do hope this helps.

Yours Aunty

Q. How did the sultana get away from the currant?

A. It went raisin off!

I bought some discount velcro. Turned out a complete rip-off.

I had a horrible nightmare in which I was a cocktail ingredient. I woke up really shaken.

Q. Name two kinds of windy cheese.

A. Blue and bries.

Examples seen by observers in the south east on Monday 17/06/2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/48665918

See also

https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=162944

This handsome flower which I spotted yesterday (you see I am a flowerspotter) is meadow cranesbill, Geranium pratense. It is called cranesbill because its seed-pods look like the bill of a crane. You may be suprised that it is a geranium, because it doesn't look quite like the geraniums you see in pots, but I believe they are more properly called pelargoniums, at least by botanists.

The Latin name Geranium is from the Greek γέρανος, 'geranos', which means a crane, and this give scope for confusion, because the name pelargonium is derived from the Greek πελαργός, 'pelargos', a stork, and some pelargoniums are called storksbills.

The French for crane is grue and this opens up another interesting byway, because it is thought the word pedigree originated fron medieval French pé de grue, cranes-foot. When scribes drew up family trees they showed descent by a symbol thought to resemble a crane's foot.

A. Because both are inconveniences.

I opened this email. “Can of worms” is what it said.