Writing - 10 things for January

Lots about life and death this week.


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1. British boys receive £2.20 more pocket money per week than girls.


So they should - they spend it on the girls anyway.

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2. You can give birth while napping.


Painless then.

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3. An average of 1.8 people are murdered each year in Iceland.


Rough on the 0.2

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4. MI6's real-life "Q" is a woman.


God love us.

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5. An otter the size of a wolf once roamed China.


Really!

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6. "The wind was pushing me" is not an excuse that will get you off a speeding charge in Western Australia.


Nor should it - it displays a lack of imagination.

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7. A gorilla named John Daniel was raised in an English village as a human boy, had his own bedroom and could do the washing up.


Up to the standards of all human males.

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8. Travelling to a foreign country can change the way you think about right and wrong.


All down to the travel company you go with.

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9. Dogs' preferred musical genres are reggae and soft rock.


How would anyone know - the dogs may be lying.

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10. Melbourne is typically 0.3C hotter on Thursdays and Friday mornings, when commuters pour into the city, than on Sundays.

Down to cars!


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God Bless