Thursday, February 19, 2004

The Things Daily Mail Readers Say

This one beggars belief.

"The cockle pickers at Morecambe could learn something from those at Leigh-on-Sea. Here, boats are equipped with pumps that act like vacuum cleaners, sucking up cockles from the sea-bed and filitering out the silt. Why, tragically, did they do it the hard way"

Jim Brown, Essex

And why didn't they use spy satellites to spot cockles from space?