A legacy beyond music ...
One person's junk mail is another's treasure
Chris Thompson of Rothesay Bay volunteered to clear her neighbours' letterboxes when both were away. "I have a sign 'No Junk Mail' on my letterbox; one neighbour has 'No Circulars' and the other neighbour has no signs. I was astonished how much junk mail I was missing out on! And more curiously, the difference between the contents of my 'No Junk Mail' box versus the 'No Circulars' box. My box had the least, but I'm not totally immune. One day I saw someone drop something into my letterbox. I called out after him, asking if he had seen the sign. He replied 'But that isn't junk mail!' It was a flyer from a real-estate agent ..."
Venerable journalist's tattoo boo-boo
Famous, respected UK journalist and TV presenter David Dimbleby, 75, recently got his first tattoo: of a six-legged scorpion. Unfortunately, scorpions are arachnids, with eight legs. The scramble is on to identify a face-saving species that the tattoo could represent: the best bet so far is the Whip Scorpion, which has six good legs and two feeble, vestigial ones used as feelers; and various scorpion-esque arthropods.
