Run for your lives… the ANTS ARE COMING!

Photo by Penarc, via Wikipedia

The BBC brings us disturbing news of the ongoing activities of the fiendish Argentine Ants, who appear to be in the throes of a diabolical and well advanced plan to take over the world, one leaf at a time.

It seems that the appalling brutes all form part of one globe-spanning mega-colony, and that when ants from the sinisterly named Californian and European Super-colonies meet with colleagues from the Japanese colony rather than fighting they act as though they were old friends.

It’s not hard to imagine that somewhere on the Argentine pampas, deep inside the original hive, lurks an unusually large ant with a scarred face, sitting in a tiny leather chair, stroking a tiny white cat, while cackling in a chilling manner. Meanwhile his minions, clad in little brightly-coloured boiler suits, scurry hither and yon to do his bidding, while John Barry music plays in the background.

All of this raises the question – WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?

And HOW CAN WE STOP THEM?

(Other than by using a very, very, very large kettle of boiling water, obviously. )

Pictured – The natural enemy of the Ant, the Kettle of Boiling Water (this rather nice one designed by architect Michael Graves)

Pizza Rebellion

Mrs Fleet unpackaged two ostensibly identical pizzas this evening for dinner (I know, I know, but it’s been a busy day!) Suffice to say it appears that the calibration on the tomato adding machine needs some work, as one pizza had a grand total of seven slices while the other was blessed with so many the rest of the pizza was barely visible. Could this be an act of rebellion by an enraged pizza making operative? Who knows. Frankly, who cares. But it made us laugh.

As did my discovery that design consultancy i-am have produced a beach hut called Jabba.

As in Jabba the Hut.

Well, it tickled me.