Confusing weather leaves North unsure what to have for tea

A MIX of cloud, rain, heat and occasional sunshine has left the whole of Northern England with no clear plan for its tea. 

Good, honest people from Liverpool to Newcastle have found themselves so discombobulated by the changeable weather they are struggling to find any evening meal that will suit.

Nathan Muir of Leeds said: “It were wet this morning, and on a Wednesday that means chippy tea. Don’t mind saying I was looking forward to it.

“But then all through the day it’s cloudy, it’s muggy, and I decide that’d be too claggy on the stomach. I wouldn’t want to spend the night flatulent when it’s going to hang so heavy in the air.

“So I called home, we settled on chicken Kievs and I got on with work with a settled mind. I can’t be spending all day worrying about what I’ll eat, not when I’m providing bespoke digital analytics solutions for the finance sector.

“By the time I’m heading home, though, bloody sun’s shining. So plans have to change again, we almost get Deliveroo involved. Half-nine by the time we’re settling down to omelettes. Nightmare.”

Girlfriend Emma Bradford said: “Rain all day tomoz. Good. You know where you are with rain.”

Astrology is real and Virgos are the worst, scientists confirm

A RESEARCH team has concluded that astrology is real and Virgos are total arseholes to a man. 

A rigorous programme of double-blind peer-reviewed tests have confirmed astrology has a solid scientific basis and, more importantly, that Virgo is the worst sign of the zodiac by a margin almost too large to measure.

Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: “Caring and dependable? Bollocks. Uptight, judgmental bastards more like.

“The grounding of astrology in fact is a mere side-issue compared to what we’ve proved about Virgos. For too long they’ve been overshadowed by more immediately annoying signs like Leo and Capricorn. But the data doesn’t lie.

“From their irritating compassion to their robot-like mindsets, there are no positives. Famous Virgos include Ivan the Terrible, Caligula, Lance Armstrong and skin-suit serial killer Ed Gein. Exactly.

“If you know a Virgo, cut them out of your life immediately. They’ll try to use their malevolent emotional intelligence to stop you, but don’t listen. Science is on your side.”

Virgo Tom Booker said: “Shit. They’ve rumbled us.”