Warning this is going to be another wacky warning.
Until now I thought the one told me by cousin Clive was the best one;
"Warning this programme may contain images of nicotine abuse". That amounted apparently to two people smoking.
We tuned into the new Sue Perkins travel programme about Alaska. I find Sue Perkins entertaining.
Before this programme started we got a warning.
"Warning this programme contains extreme fishing images that some viewers may find upsetting." I was so amused by that I wrote it down immediately to ensure I hadn't misheard it.
The extreme images revolved around smacking a salmon over the head with a mallet in order to kill it after it had been caught. Oh and filleting a fish was a bit messy as well.
*. *. *
Quizzes I love em in all their forms although Christmas themed quizzes leave me cold - well they would as they always turn up in winter.
I regularly enjoy local quizzes and over the years have also set a number. Two that stand out in the memory were through mistakes rather than content.
The first was at Hethersett Middle School when I was a governor I expect the quiz was in aid of school PTA funds. I always write my own questions and have been accused of making them too obscure. But for me a quiz round should contain some easy questions that most people can answer, some medium questions that some can answer and a small number of difficult questions to sort out the men from the boys or should I say the ladies from the girls?
On this occasion I got a couple of answers wrong. I seem to remember one of them involved the poet Lord Byron. It ended with a couple of people disappearing to the school library to prove I was wrong. This was in the days before the internet or mobile phones. Who remembers those days? And I was wrong.
The second quiz I remember vividly was in Hethersett Village Hall. I sat at a table on the stage and had a sore throat which I found was slightly improved by working my way through a bottle of Prosecco. You can imagine by the end of the evening I was having problems reading the questions.
*. *. *
We have been up in North Norfolk for a couple of days and I hope to post a series of photographs shortly. I'm having problems again with my laptop.