Thursday, August 24, 2006

Did you hear the one about the chemical spill? I didn't. Not until I got up and discovered a message from Stewart Cruickshank about it this morning. Tis said to have taken place yesterday at 4pm or thereabouts but I heard nada. No sirens, nowt. Didn't have the TV or radio either and all of this was going on yards from the bunker here. The person quoted in this news report is my downstairs neighbour. I can see the road closure from my front window.
Divinyl Benzene on the loose allegedly, I thought to myself, isn't he that new folk guy? The one that sounds vaguely Bolan-ey. Hey you say Baloney, I say... no harm done - eh?

5 comments:

ClearPlan said...

That's a funny one.

Tom Morton said...

Is it true that women in Grangemouth used to get a special allowance to compensate for the fact that chemical fumes dissolved their stockings?

Lindsay Hutton said...

Never heard that one. That's a real rumour?

martin63 said...

I heard that the presence of the local BP refinery in the late 70s allegedly resulted in the locals in Grangemouth doing crazy things like listening to too many Ramones albums, writing up zany stuff on bands like the Dictators and the Rezillos and all kinds of weirdos from down under and then forming fan clubs for bands like the Cramps. All very hard to believe I know...... but you never know what's in the water in Grangemouth! ;-)

The Creature from the Innovene Lagoon

Lindsay Hutton said...

Now that's just TOO outlandish, like that could ever 'appen!