Friday 29 May 2009

How many septic tanks are there in Scotland?

Proud owners of septic tanks in Scotland have to register their little beauties with SEPA - the deadline for doing this free** is today. SEPA have kindly given me a 19 digit reference number (which includes 7 letters), suffixed with the house name. Roughly speaking, ignoring the suffix, this reference number has 8x10 to the power 21 permutations - which, roughly speaking, is how many grains of sand there are on planet earth.

Does SEPA know something about population trends in Scotland? If so we should be told - and I'm outta here!

Meanwhile I noticed on TV last night that Fairy have introduced the UKs first squeezable non bio gel. I suppose that all the furore about MP expenses has prevented this landmark from hitting the front pages - but I find it hard to imagine a more significant event. I mean a squeezable - non-bio - GEL!! Mama Mia - it's beyond words.

And another thing - don't you think that Toblerone would be nicer if it didn't have those pesky nuts in. I mean really we just want chocolate with nougatty bits - those nuts just darn well get in the way.

**Well then there's the £1 administration charge for doing it on-line + 2p credit card surcharge.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Simon
I have emailed you instead of commenting on your comment on my comment!
Lynda

Jo said...

Toblerone needs its nuts. Fruit and nut, on the other hand, is just a waste.

The Speaking Goat said...

OH dear - now we are getting controversial. Fruit and nut is fruit and nut. Without the nuts it wouldn't be fruit and nut just as it wouldn't be fruit and nut without the fruit. No fruit and nut is fine - does what it sez on the tin as it were. But toblerone is scrummy chocolate and scrummy chewy nougat and friggin interfering nuts!