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the marrow of life

My elderly mother lives alone. One of her main interests is the vegetable garden, which keeps her busy and fairly fit, but I guess I do occasionally worry that there would be no one there to help in an emergency.

Mind you, this headline from the BBC reasssures me that, while her garden continues productive, she has the means at hand to deal with certain dangers.

Only, I really do think it’d take more than a courgette to deter a ‘200lb (91kg) black bear’. (Some other sites are referring to the weapon as a zucchini, but both the BBC and the Telegraph call it a courgette.)
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same old, same old…

Today appears to be completely bland and lacking in controversy, if this screen from reddit is anything to go by:

No links found under today-most controversial on Reddit

I probably should be glad that everything’s going so calmly, but, quite frankly, I’m a little disappointed.

see saw

Another BBC website headline that interests me:

There’s nothing actually wrong with it, of course. It heads a story that starts:

Serial killer franchise Saw has been named the most successful horror movie series by the Guinness World Records.

But the phrasing demonstrates the problems of trying to write headlines that fit into a measured space on a web page (or printed page, for that matter.)
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