I don’t believe in fate/destiny/etc but yesterday changed that… a little. To celebrate the Chinese New Year, we (Ray, Laura, Will, Eleanor and I) went for a lovely Dim Sum spread. It was a fantastic meal! I think Will’s personal highlight was when the waiter and Ray were jabbering away in Chinese & all of a sudden we heard “Well it’s like fish with pork scratchin’s”.
Sorry, I digress. At the end of the meal, instead of recieving the bill and plate full of mint imperials (probably plucked out from peoples coat pockets), we recieved the bill and… a red envelope. “Exciting!” I hear you say. Well, no, but what was inside the envelope is what freaked me out a little (tho the significance of the contents only occured to me a few hours later whilst on the phone). Inside this red envelope was… a ticket! A National Lottery Ticket!! For this wednesday’s draw!!! You’re probably think, “Lucky you! But what’s with the destiny/fate stuff?”. Well, one of my 25 challenges for this year is to win on the lottery without buying a ticket! I have to admit when I came up with that particular challenge I was thinking I’d have to bribe people to buy me tickets, but I never expected to actually get a ticket like this! I’m so excited and slightly freaked out by this coincidence.
Well, if you never come back to manc, we know why :p
In the interest of futhering your challenges, I would like to direct you to the comments by the hon. Gentleman from Somerton and Frome;
“Under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, for instance, it is still illegal to fly a kite or slide on ice in a public place. Happily, it is not often enforced.”
from http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020227/debtext/20227-31.htm
It might help
Moreso
“Under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 it is an offence (carrying a maximum penalty of £200 for each offence or 14 days imprisonment)
(a) to beat or shake any carpet, rug or mat in any street (except door mats beaten or shaken before the hour of eight in the morning);
(b) to fly a kite, to make or use a slide on ice or snow in any street;
(c) wilfully and wantonly to disturb any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any doorbell, or knocking at a door;
(d) wilfully and unlawfully to extinguish the light of any lamp in any street;
(e) to leave any furniture, goods, wares or bucket on any footway;
(f) to roll any cask, tub, hoop or wheel upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or unloading a cart or carriage or of crossing the footway;
(g) to erect a washing line across any street or hang washing on it;
(h) publicly to sing any profane or obscene song or ballad in any street;
(i) to order or permit any servant to stand on the sill of any window to clean or paint it;
(j) to keep any pig sty at the front of any street (unless shut off by a sufficient wall or fence) or keep any swine in or near any street so as to be a common nuisance.”
from http://www.oxfordlawsoc.com/files/Beloff.doc
The oxford law society – pretty credible? You could do 5 of those at once, and win a whole bunch of points.