Reporter’s diary
Return of the lily AS humans are donning their winter clothing, Mrs Gabrielle Archer, of St Albans, is enjoying a plant that is normally a herald of summer: a Christmas lily. Mrs Archer’s metrehigh lily with six blooms has already flowered during the season. But it shows great enthusiasm for the job and has bloomed again in spite of cold weather and frosts. Mrs Archer notes that at this time last year there was snow on the ground in Christchurch. She never dreamt that this year in winter she would be savouring the perfume of a Christmas lily. Fleet of feet
SIXTY-NINE ’ people named in outstanding warrants were lured to a store in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the police were waiting with open arms and handcuffs. The police had written to 500 such people offering them a free pair of shoes. The suspects should have spotted the clues. The shoe shop was called Grabar Athletic Footwear — a pun on greybar, a slang for jail. The shop’s advertising was even more of a giveaway: “A new concept in athletic footwear for people on the run.” Sherriff Tuffing said that two attorneys were threatening to sue for shoes that their clients were promised.
Cracker animals YUPPIES looking for a new trend to set, how about making zonies or zdonks popular? Farmer Glawson Gantt, who sells cattle, horses and donkeys on his North Louisana
farm, plans to expand his stock by breeding two zebra stallions to his donkeys and Shetland ponies. The resultant mixes are zdonks and zonies, costing up to $5737 and $2459 respectively. Gantt said zebras were “mean,” but “mix them with a donkey
or Shetland pony and what you get is as sweet as can be.” He has already combined sheep and goats to make bobbydoes, which can sell for up to SUS6OO. Be warned JOHN Le Carre, the spy author, stayed in Moscow’s Minsk Hotel last year. A subsequent visitor found an official notice on the back of the bedroom door: “It is not allowed to keep inflammable agents in the room.” Well adjusted A Mossburn (brrr, shivershiver) expatriate now living in Perth wrote asking for her electric blanket to be taken to her at once. Temperatures there are plunging into the wintery depths, and during the day she freezes in chills between 20deg. and 26 deg. Time she returned home for a refresher course in refrigeration. Looking for something? YOU may remember being taught in school that no two snowflakes are alike. Forget it. Nancy Knight, of Colorado, discovered a matching pair last year. Bully for her. Some of us can not even find matching socks in the same drawer. —Jenny Setchell
Reporter’s diary
Press, 29 May 1989, Page 2
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