All right. Are you sitting comfortably two-square on your botty? Then I’ll begin. Here are five villages: Virginia Water, Filey, Haworth Village, Ottery St Mary and Boscombe. There are twenty statements here, associated with these villages. Answers will appear today at 2100, London time, in the form of the original five articles from which the facts were drawn. [America – your turn is tomorrow.] Good luck!
This is part one of a new series on spots in the world which have puzzled man for centuries. The Sargasso Sea [see map] is part of the North Atlantic Ocean, lying roughly between the West Indies and the Azores. Here, the heart of the Bermuda Triangle is covered by the strangest and most notorious sea on the planet - named after a kind of seaweed which lazily floats over its entire expanse, called sargassum. The myths [and maybe truths] about this sea predate the more infamous Bermuda Triangle by a considerable period. Read on.
Nothing unusual in this quote, except that it’s from a woman herself: "What is this sock madness? Is it possible for a pair of socks to actually be worth $30, to contain that much expensive labor and fine yarns? No, socks are one of the least labor-intensive apparel products to produce. But really, that's a rhetorical question, akin to asking a woman whether a pair of shoes is actually worth $400. What's the price of pleasure?" [Robin Givhan, Washington Post Fashion Editor]. I might add that a man who would pay $420 for a Hermes scarf [and was it genuine anyway?] himself raises the question in all this, ‘Who’s the fool?’
There are known knowns and known unknowns. We knew the moment Tony Blair made his rash statement, all hell would break loose. It has, on Gordon Brown: "deluded control freak", "massive weakness is that he can't work with people", " totally, totally uncollegiate" etc. And it all could have been avoided. Why oh why will the British not look at the parallel situation in Australia where John Howard also has Peter Costello waiting, disgruntled, in the wings but has done it far more cleverly? Downunder - Guardian and Independent type polls and the media circus can’t get a foot in. Or failing that, why not look at the Bush situation?
