Dispensary Corner 21 Feb 12
February 21, 2012
PRENANT cravings.
Some pregnant women crave
chocolate and chips together
whilst others crave anchovies and
vegemite on toast, but one
British mother-to-be is challenging
for the weirdest pregnancy
craving of them all, newspaper.
According to reports the 35-year
old Ann Curran’s newspaper of
choice is the Dundee Evening
Telegraph which she says has the
“right flavour”.
Not satisfied to just snack at
home, Curran says she likes to
shred sections of the Dundee
Tele and store them in her
handbag so that she can have a
tasty treat when on the go.
“If you shredded up lots of
different bits of paper, I would
know exactly which one was the
Evening Telegraph,” she said.
“My pals keep papers for me
but I have to buy a couple of
extras to get me through the
weekend,” she added.
BEAR Grylls eat your heart out.
A 44-year old Swedish man has
been discovered alive after months
trapped in a snowdrift in his car.
The man was discovered by
snowmobile riders just off a
forest track, after two months of
being stuck in his car under the
snow in temperatures which
dropped as low as -30°C.
According to reports the man
survived by eating handfuls of
snow and bunking down covered
by a sleeping blanket which was
fortuitously in his car at the time
it got stuck.
Experts say the cold may have
slowed down the man’s
metabolism, placing him in a sort
of hibernative state, whilst the
warm clothing he was wearing
combined with the warm air in
the car created an igloo effect
which held off the worst effects
of the below zero temperatures.
Although having lost
considerable amounts of weight,
the man is said to be recovering
well in hospital.
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