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Budding expectations fail to blossom.
(From Off Licence News)
"I thought the prices seemed remarkably cheap for a guest house in Californian wine country," writes Lee Saged, of Hetton-le-Hole. "As a devotee of Blossom Hill I was desperate to explore the birthplace of my favourite tipple and when I stumbled on the website promising twin rooms on the estate for AGBP25 a night - with a packed lunch for AGBP5 - I ordered my ticket to San Francisco there and then.
"It was only when I showed my wife the website, blossom-hill.co.uk, that it was pointed out to me that the Blossom Hill B&B is actually in Hexham, Northumberland, run by a charming couple called John and Joan with no connection whatsoever to Californian wine. I tried to obtain some compensation through blossomhill.co.uk, but the people there claimed to run a design agency and knew very little about white Zinfandel. So I'tm off to Rhyl as usual this July and have switched to Echo Falls in protest." Old jokes home We were absolutely disgusted to receive the following "joke" by email and reproduce it here purely to allow readers to share in that disgust.
A husband and wife are shopping when the man picks up a crate of a reassuringly expensive lager brewed in Wales and sticks it in the trolley. "What do you think you'tre doing?" asks the wife.
"They'tre on offer, only AGBP10 for 12 cans," he says.
"Put them back. We can'tt afford it,"'t says the wife .
A few aisles later the woman picks up a AGBP20 jar of face cream and sticks it in the trolley."What do you think you'tre doing?" asks the man.
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