Hello Hello silverites and hello to all you sunny positive people of the Hive
April is the month that we have April Fool's Day!
The pictures that you see in this post were all taken by me on 21st April 2023 in our local park ..Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
As you can see the weather was absolutely glorious! We could with more of that weather now, as so far this year has been pretty miserable.
If you live in a hot country, be glad you don't suffer our depressing winter!
Before I take you further, you should know that this post is a non what's the word eligible maybe, fluffing heck I can't believe I can't think of the word I want!
Anyway to cut a long story short this post is in response to the #bom from Silver Bloggers community, more specifically Blog of the Month Returns - It's not an April Fool's joke
Have you seen anything peculiar about these trees. This is spring so the trees are devoid of leaves in case you were wondering.
There is one particular April Fool's that I don't know if I remember from the original airing or the several replays over the years.
Spaghetti grows from trees
Who knew!
So there was an afternoon/evening show called Nationwide I think it was.
One year they ran a prank for April.
They had pictures of trees with yes you guessed it, spaghetti hanging off the branches!
Of course when I actually saw these fluffing shoes hanging from the branches it made me think of this prank!
What the fluff are shoes doing hanging from the trees?
It is not just pairs of shoes but also bicycle tyres!
Bumper spaghetti crop thanks to mild winter and removal of spaghetti weevil
Basically I got myself intrigued and went searching and found that the prank was Before my time! The TV programme was Panorama not Nationwide, which makes it all the more remarkable as Panorama was a deadly serious BBC documentary that ran for years.
The Prank ...
Panorama reported from Switzerland, where the combination of a mild winter and the virtual disappearance of pests like the spaghetti weevil, has resulted in a bumper spaghetti crop.
Fake news
This clip is believed to be one of the first televised April Fools pranks - the original fake news.
Back in the day (1957) some viewers in the words of Queen Victoria We Are Not Amused... Yep they didn't see what was funny because Panorama was supposed to be a serious fact based program! They criticised the BBC ... fluffing killjoys!
Was the prank a success?
Well some viewers wrote into the BBC to ask where they could purchase their own spaghetti bushes!
That sounds like a result to me...
What do you think? Have you heard about this fake news...
This is my unofficial entry to Blog of the Month Returns - It's not an April Fool's joke from the fantastically fun @fionasfavourites and the superb Silver Bloggers community.
PS get your entries in, it closes on midnight GMT (also known as UTC) on Tuesday 16 April 2023
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo taken with my Canon Powershot HS70 bridge camera.
@tengolotodo April 11th 2024
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