It's game on, 1930s style.
House-hunting fun
While considering toys and games for inclusion in the book The Fascinating History of Toys and Games around the World, Warwick Henderson came across many fascinating games including HouseHunting, an English game from
the 1930s where the object was to correctly match the property to the description of 12 houses. "Things have improved considerably from being 'opposite a butcher's' or 'Gypsy encampments', although opposite a butcher's was exactly where I was in the early 80s with a bungalow in Bath St, Parnell, opposite Hellaby's Meats [now gone]. Things were a bit pokey, the fences were broken, the garden was overgrown, the wallpaper was awful and spiders were everywhere too. I still bought it!"
Fat's in fire when porker pigs out on pedometer
A pig started a fire in its pen when it swallowed a pedometer. Fire crews were called to a farm near Leeds after copper from the pedometer's batteries reacted with the pig's excrement and dry bedding. No animals or people were harmed in the fire. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had gone in to "save the bacon".
Way to be nice to be near in bed