BEWARE OF WHAT LURKS UNDER THE SURFACE when safari cruising in Zimbabwe! The principal of the English Cumnor House School in Haywards Heath was shocked to learn this week that one of his staff needed a few days off work – to recover from a crocodile bite. The affected teacher,...
BEWARE OF WHAT LURKS UNDER THE SURFACE
when safari cruising in Zimbabwe!
The principal of the English Cumnor
House School in Haywards Heath was
shocked to learn this week that one of
his staff needed a few days off work –
to recover from a crocodile bite.
The affected teacher, Scott Brand,
had reportedly been bitten by the
hungry reptile whilst he was swimming
in a river on holiday in Zimbabwe.
The plot thickened however when it
was discovered that the bite was incurred
after Brand and his friends decided to
go for a quick spot of ‘croc wrestling’.
“I saw a four-foot long croc and just
jumped in and grabbed it,” Brand said.
“It went nuts and was really going
for me and it eventually got a hold of
my left arm and bit down.
“It was bloody sore, but I got back
on land and just poured some vodka
over it and bandaged it up,” the river
adventurer added.
COMING TO A CRUISE MENU NEAR YOU?
A US newspaper editor known as J.
Wilson, has decided that he will cut
out food entirely for Lent, and will
instead only consume beer and water.
Not dissimilar to some cruisers who
abstain from food sustenance in place
of a poolside cocktail diet, Wilson will
spend the lead-up to lent imbibing a
‘liquid bread beer’ which contains
6.67% alcohol and 228 calories per serve.
According to Wilson the diet is
designed to emulate that of the 17th
century German monks, who observed
the religious period by subsisting on a
diet of water and beer.
“Getting drunk is the last thing on
my to-do list at this time… this is an
historical study,” he said.
ONE OF THE TOP TEN LARGEST AND OLDEST
lobsters ever caught in the UK has been
saved from becoming dinner after a
compassionate fisherman donated him
to the Blue Reef aquarium in Portsmouth.
The four kilo crustacean has been
estimated at 50 years of age, some
15kgs and 30yrs shy of the record
holder, an 80yr old lobster imaginatively
named Mike who was caught in 1934.
