Creator Alme Siderum

Back to Volume 1 of the Breviary! Next time we use Volume 3 it will be the day after Pentecost Sunday (let the reader understand!).

Marmite thieves strike!!!!

I was amused by this story. I hate and loathe Marmite from the depths of my being!!

Savoury spread giant Marmite has been left £60,000 short of stock after thieves broke into a UK warehouse and snatched thousands of items from this year’s Christmas range.

The Marmite thieves allegedly left the premises with a truck full of limited edition products, including 15,000 bars of Peculiar Milk Chocolate Marmite and over 2,000 products of its Christmas Gifting range, just weeks before the busy festive period.

Police, who are appealing for witnesses, confirmed to Yahoo! News earlier that the break-in occurred on Sunday 14 November at an anonymous location in West Yorkshire. The company, which has been left stunned by the incident, also urges people to come forward with information.

Halal meat in supermarkets

As the great month of binge eating begins it seems a good time to have been alerted to a situation where, apparently most of the meat on our supermarkets is Halal slaughtered but not labelled as such (Morrison’s aside which does not use any Halal slaughtered meat). This has been raised in an article by the Christian Voice e-magazine which you may find helpful for a fairly detailed analysis and report:

http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press167.html

I flag this up as a matter of real concern, which I was unaware of, since I understand from the article that:

· Such animals are killed by having their throats cut and some supermarkets do not require stunning of the animals, which is inherently cruel.

· Many may object to the use of an Islamic blessing as a necessary part of the slaughter process

· For Sikhs it is totally unacceptable to eat Halal meat

I would value hearing your views on this as I would like to lobby our MP’s but would want this to represent our collective mind on this. Please note that this is not in anyway meant to be anti-Muslim; my concern is that people are appropriately informed so they can choose what they eat, and by implication, how it is slaughtered.

Harry Potter found buried in Israel

A graveyard in Israel has become besieged by Harry Potter fans, after it was revealed a tombstone bears the same name as the teen wizard.

Private Harry Potter was a British soldier killed in 1939 after a battle with an armed band. He was 18, but is mistakenly marked down as 19 on the tombstone after lying about his age in a bid to enlist in the army.

A tour guide at the small Israeli town of Ramle said, "There is no connection with the Harry Potter we know from literature, but the name sells, the name is marketable."

The morbid interest began about five years ago, and its popularly has grown and grown after it was listed on a tourism website.

"It's a type of pilgrimage for some man whose name stands out. If you didn't say that Harry Potter was buried here, no one would come here," said Josef Peretz from Tel Aviv.

Gingerbread man? No, it’s gingerbread person

The Shropshire home of gingerbread today hit back at council bureaucrats who took away the biscuit’s manhood.

Council bosses in Lancashire have renamed gingerbread men gingerbread persons in their latest menus for the area’s primary school meals.

But people in Market Drayton have described the news as “very sad” and have called on the PC Brigade to stop meddling with tradition.

Councillor Roger Hughes, of Market Drayton, says the name change represents everything that is wrong with the country.

He said: “I don’t understand people’s views on wanting to change it. What is wrong with using the name people have used for years?

“I think changing the name is very sad. Every time something like this happens it costs money which we haven’t got.”

A Market Drayton resident, who did not wish to be named, said: “My personal opinion is that it is wrong to start changing the name of the gingerbread man.

“I can understand that it comes across as a bit sexist but it has always been the gingerbread man and people still refer to that today.”

Parents in Lancashire said they were were astonished when they discovered the change with some describing it as “absolutely ridiculous” and “almost offensive”.

Lancashire County Council confirmed the gingerbread man would be back on school menus.

It is not the first time the gingerbread man’s gender has come under threat from political correctness.

In 2006 branches of Bakers Oven in the West Midlands changed the name of gingerbread men to gingerbread persons, but reversed the decision after opposition from the public.

Laura Midgley, of the Campaign Against Political Correctness, added: “It is totally ridiculous political correctness, nobody wants to talk about gingerbread people. They are what they are. It is not just an innocent mistake. Whoever did it, I hope they will think long and hard about it.

“If these sorts of things go unchallenged, they become the norm.”

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