Red Nose Day in Fakenham

If you go down to the town centre today, don’t be surprised if you bump into Darth Vader and Sponge Bob Square Pants!  Mark Baldwin and Heidi Pointer, who work at TEG Fisher, will be all dressed up collecting donations for Red Nose Day. If you spot them, please give generously. Nice one, you two!

Staff at the Henry IV (The Hungry Horse) in Greenway Lane are doing a 50 mile sponsored tandem bike ride dressed as Batman and Robin. They’re starting at the Greene King headquarters in Bury St. Edmunds and will hopefully arrive at the pub in plenty of time for tonoght’s karaoke (with a superhero theme) which starts at 9pm. Well done to Bill Vasey and Joseph Bane-Young – have a good trip and a great night tonight!

Luvvly Jubbly

Jubilee DesignAfter many recent multi-million pound apologies for logo designs by high-flying marketing studios, this one’s a real breath of fresh air. It was designed for a competition by 10-year-old Katherine Dewar, from Chester. Brilliant – and well chosen, whoever the judges were.

Next, the gubmint should commission this young lady to give the 2012 Olympic logo a swift makeover before the rest of the world start tuning in to our broadcast coverage and falling off their chairs with laughter.

A while back, I read an article on The Register describing how a derogatory spoof ’2012 logo’ was used in error by a South African news outlet to illustrate a story about ticket availability.

You can see why they got mixed up – the right and wrong versions are below :)

Mobile graffiti

There’s a car I see when I’m walking to work – somebody’s having great fun with the paintwork.  A few weeks ago it was covered in text. Now it looks like a cave painting on speed! Brilliant stuff.

car hands

Signs of the times?

A couple of signs I’ve spotted over the last few days. Who makes this stuff?

That’s the first phantom comma I’ve ever seen, plus a probable record for the number of phantom apostrophes on one sign. Impressive!

Fakenham: Warnings for moped riders – Local – Lynn News

Good to se the SNT focusing on this. The behaviour of these riders who seem to hang out in the car park next to Tesco has been extremely annoying at best and at worst, an accident waiting to happen.

Ed Millibands and his brother Mike WintersDo any of my older readers see a similarity between erstwhile climate change secretary and Labour MP Ed Milliband and the late comedian Bernie Winters?

Here’s a 1960′s snap of Ed and his brother Mike, who were a comedy double act at the time. That’s an uncanny parallel with Bernie, whose brother David Milliband makes up a comedy double act which will soon be running in the Labour leadership battle.