Sideswipe: Add some eggs and call it breakfast

For those who don't like a mouthful of mint. Photo / Supplied

I get the bond, where's the bonus?

Margaret has held Bonus Bonds for many years, and has won several "prizes" of $20, and one for $40. Has anyone ever won any of the big payouts promised?

Slice of summer

A strawberries and cream sandwich, said to be a world-first, is to go on sale at supermarkets across Britain. It was created by supermarket chain Tesco to mark the start of the Northern summer, Wimbledon fortnight and the quintessential British treat. The company said it was celebrating the biggest crop of home-grown strawberries for at least 20 years by launching the product, which will be sold in distinctive Union flag packaging. (Source: PA)

Thanks to two urban angels

John writes, "I would like to thank the two men in a Kia wagon who last Friday stopped and gave me a lift to a local petrol station and then drove me back to my purple Honda CRV. I had run out of petrol at the end of the shoulder approach at the western end to the Waipuna Bridge. I was walking on the water side of the bridge with my petrol can in very windy conditions. They even checked if I had any money to get the petrol. So thanks again to these two men."

Full hand a straight flush

A Scottish businessman flushed hundreds of pounds in supposedly fake notes down the toilet, only to be told days later that they were genuine, a report said. The man, who asked not to be named, said he had obtained about £200 ($400.59) in 20 notes from an ATM on the Isle of Lewis off the north coast of Scotland, the Daily Telegraph reported. The Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland refused to accept them amid warnings of a suspected counterfeiting operation and the businessman tore them up and put them down the toilet. But Inspector Robbie MacDonald of the Northern Constabulary said tests by Britain's Serious and Organised Crime Agency later discovered they were genuine. The businessman said he blamed the banks for their "failure" to properly train staff on how to spot fake notes, adding that he had flushed the notes as a "public duty" to stop them getting back into circulation. A spokesman for the Bank of Scotland said: "We found what we thought were inconsistencies with some banknotes and as a precaution we set these notes aside so they were no longer in circulation." They were then tested. (Source: AFP)