Sunday !

Old English Sunnandæg ‘day of the sun’, translation of Latin dies solis .


In Today's Issue

The Daily Serial - By Sue McCartney
World UFO Day
Breaking The Law
UFO's
Random Joke of the Day
Finish with a Song

Daily Serial -
Merlin Stories by Susan McCartney
Part 2

The mix-up:

Egbert groaned.  ‘My Master Merlin just would not let it be.  He had to meddle with that wretched spell book.  The idea had been good but the application not so. We were summoned by King Arthur who told us that delinquent dragons were causing chaos all over the Kingdom. Master had to brag!’ Egbert rolled his eyes.

‘Your Majesty I have the very solution,’ Master had said with the confidence of the deluded. ‘Leave it to me.’

‘I begged Master to be careful but he would have that tenth goblet of mead. A careless chanting of the incantation and the result?  Dragons in distress being rescued by the fair maidens and the knights redundant. What a mess. The members of the Round Table were furious. Now Arthur has ordered steaks and piles of faggots.  We can smell the smoke! Merlin is hiding under the bed whimpering.  Arthur is outside bellowing!’

‘Merlin, Merlin, this is a message for you.  Merlin, Merlin,’ Arthur roars.  ‘We are having a barbeque and YOU are not invited.’

The recipe:

The servant, Egbert, bowed his head and sobbed.  ‘My poor Master Merlin,’ he wailed.  ‘I curse the day he brought home that terrible book.  How were we to know?  I mixed the potion to my Master’s direction.’  Egbert frowned.  ‘Did I?  I’m sure I measured the alchemists’ bones and salts with care.’ His fists pounded the table.  His face contorted.  ‘A terrible doom has come to us.’  Sobs shook his skeletal frame.  ‘I pity poor mortals who put great faith in such recipes.  My poor Master placed the dish in front of the King – proud of his creation.  The King raised the dish to his lips.’  Egbert wailed.  ‘The King hurled the dish to the floor. Salt!  Too much salt in the soup!’

Part 3 tomorrow.

World UFO Day

Yay !! today is the day we can celebrate flying saucers and cigar shaped thingy's.

Do you believe in UFO's have you been abducted and probed? ( I wish ).

I once saw a green man across the highway, half way over the road he disappeared, it's at that moment I got hit by a car !

So let's today all have a close encounter and lets hope they're friendly.

Breaking the Law

This is where I give you a crazy law. Is it real? or have I made it up?

In London it is illegal to fly a kite on any given Sunday unless that kite has the image of

the current prime minister on it.

UFO's

The term ‘UFO’ for Unidentified Flying Object was coined by US Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt in 

1952.

 Before that, the term ‘flying saucer’ had been used since 1947.

This followed a sighting of nine flying objects by pilot Kenneth Arnold in June 1947, whose motion he likened to a saucer skimmed across water.

The first country to depict flying saucers on its postage stamps was Equatorial Guinea in 1975.

More than 40,000 Americans have taken out insurance against being abducted by aliens.

The rice paper discs filled with sherbert known as ‘flying saucers’ were voted the most popular sweet of all time in a 2004 survey.

US President Jimmy Carter thought he saw a flying saucer in 1973 but it was probably the planet Venus.

There was a mass sighting of a flying saucer-type object over Nuremberg in 1561.

Over the past 40 years there has been a daily average of about six reported UFO sightings.

These occur most often on Fridays, in the West, during drinking hours.

Random Joke of The Day

What's ET short for?

He's only got little legs !!!

Breaking the Law

Earlier I asked ...... Whether In London it is illegal to fly a kite on any given Sunday unless that kite has the image of

the current prime minister on it.

I made it up !!

Finish With a Song

Given today's theme, Here is UFO with Doctor Doctor released in 1974.