My Life on a Plate

Oh Ye Of Little Faith

Would Scarlett lie to you? Would she even contemplate pulling your leg (or other bits) over a serious issue like National Nude Recreation Week? Oh, I am shocked, nay deeply wounded over the doubting (John) Thomas's who have suggested this is but a figment of my imagination. 'Tis true I tell thee and all you have to do is Google to find many sites covering (uncovering) this event. But for those too idle or scared to do that I thank zwisis for her suggestion of posting a link. Here's one of them -

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.21.97/slices-9734.html

Or you could visit www.clothesfree.com for more extensive uncoverage and even get to see the moderator of the site, Naked Gary, whose motto is clearly 'Size Doesn't Matter.'

What were you saying about Guttersville Nada ?

Moving on, I do find it odd that though readers still appear to use Imperial measures, a 'stone' seems to be unheard of. I can still remember the many chants we learnt at Infant school, one of them regarding the weights and measures of that time -

Sixteen Drams is One Ounce (oz)
Sixteen Ounces is One Pound (lb)
Fourteen Pounds is One Stone. (st)
Two Stones is One Quarter (qu)
Four Quarters is One Hundredweight (cwt)
Twenty Hundredweight is One Ton.

Complicated for a five-year-old to retain and understand, but still more meaningful to me than the damned metric system forced upon us by being part of the EU. Gawd, even our bananas have to bend at the correct number of degrees to be acceptable by European standards. Anyway, I digress. Oh look a chicken.

So there you are. A stone is fourteen pounds and it IS National Nude Recreation Week for many of you, so I'm still sitting here waiting for evidence you've joined in. Come on, you know you want to.