We had a holiday on Friday, another one today with yet another on coming up in a fortnight.
Great stuff eh! I can live with that, although note that I’m still working hard today!
As it’s Easter it seemed appropriate to bring you a snippet of news from the Vatican, where it seems they were forced to withdraw from sale 6,000 copies of a papal medal on which the name of Jesus was misspelt.
Oops!
In an inscription around the edge of the coin, Jesus was mistakenly spelt with an L.
Keen-eyed experts snapped up a handful of the coins, which were struck in gold, silver and bronze by the Italian mint, before the mistake was spotted.
Vatican coins and medals bearing the face of Pope Francis are bought by collectors all over the world.
A few collectors may make a fortune because of the scarcity value of the flawed medals.
New medals are struck when every new pope is elected and they provide a useful source of income for the Vatican, which has been undergoing a major spending review.
As news of the error spread, social media users cracked jokes about this new religious figure, “Lesus” Christ. “I blame the Lesuits,” went one tweet, whilst another had “Let us prey Lesus”.
Moving swiftly on, in the second hour of today’s show we reported on Daniel McConachie, a 30-year old Glaswegian who became terrified that he might be losing his hearing.
His concerns increased after apparently suffering a painful ear infection for which his doctor had prescribed a course of antibiotics.
Then one night, whilst lying in bed, he felt a terrifying surge in pressure on the right side of his head.
As the pressure continued to build, he sat straight up believing that his ear had ruptured, and then to his dismay, he felt something dislodge in his ear and start moving around.
All of a sudden he felt something small and round shoot out of his ear.
He felt for the object in the dark and panicked that it might be a piece of his inner ear.
As he held the item in his hand, he grabbed his mobile phone and using the torch to look more closely at what had emerged, was shocked to find that he was looking at a piece of wax covered Lego.
The pain and pressure had gone and what’s more he could now hear everything clearly through both ears.
Given that he had obviously had not played with Lego since he was a young boy, it became clear that the piece of Lego had probably been stuck in his ear for the best part of 20 years.
His GP was equally astonished and stated that she was pretty sure that there were no other items of Lego stuck in his ear or indeed, any other orifice!
All being well I hope to have the pleasure of your company once again tomorrow,
Scott
