A Cartoon and A Query

I had to post this cartoon (stolen from Kathryn of Virginia Kate Sagas, here http://tendergraces.blogspot.com/2009/10/saturday-funnies.html - who has stolen it herself from the US "Saturday funnies") as it raised an issue in our home.

The concept of the revenge of the pinata made me laugh a lot. My husband did not understand the joke, and wondered why the "colourful donkey" was beating children.

I thought the pinata was now so ubiquitous in the UK that this joke could cross both the Channel and the Atlantic, but of course I am the one who has to trawl through the party accessory catalogues each June for our double big day. In the party catalogues, pinatas are big, probably because they are so expensive. So, is the pinata known over here yet?

We end up, as usual, with the Thunderbirds napkins.

Secondly, when did Hannibal Lecter take up cricket?

This is Marcus Trescothick. Who has just flown home. I think that surname may count as excess baggage.