February 22 Dormant seeds from Ice Age pond project germinate

The press confernce began at 2pm, with the self styled jester with portfolio arriving on a BMX bike. The kind of situation the world has grown accustomed to nowadays, as we move towards expert extinction. If the planet has no long term future we might as well have some fun being the current mantra of most world leaders. 

“And whilst the jetpacks never materialised, nor dinosaur parks with real dinosaurs we have been able to study an algae from a time long before mankind existed.  

Unfortunately, as I guessed at the time, it is pretty much the same as algae found today, near as dammit and therefore I am today announcing the disbanding of all science projects with the money saved going to making brown bread taste nice and building really massive trampoline parks.

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