Sign of the week

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By George! features a symphony of the nation’s most evocative smells in an eminently wearable fragrance. The heart of the fragrance takes a journey through an English seaside garden with salty sea air notes mingling with damp earth, garden mint, carrots and beetroots and freshly cut grass...

The UKTelegraph describes it otherwise:
...a perfume designed to capture the essence of England - which includes the smell of the sea and lawnmower exhaust fumes.

and the article has a new vocabulary word for you: Quango
The term has its origin in a humorous shortening of quasi-NGO, an ostensibly non-governmental organization performing governmental functions, often in receipt of funding or other support from government, [1] while mainstream NGOs mostly get their donations or funds from the public and other organisations that support their cause.

Boys will be boys

Latest hijinks by Prince William was to land his copter in his girlfriend's front yard.

I like this kid better all the time. Sounds like another guy who sowed his wild oats...

Of course, unlike his brother Harry, it is doubted he will serve in war...