Back to the 2000s

A british mom of three is so enamoured with everything from the year 2000 that shersquos turned her home into a Y2K erainspired playground Jemma Murphy 33 from Solihull in Warwickshire England even pulled off the DIY dated decor on a thrifty 1200 R10000 budget ldquoIrsquom obsessed with the Y2K lookmdashit inspires my house and the way I dress and do my hairrdquo Murphy said ldquoI love a girly fem look which includes anything pink flowers hearts and butterfliesrdquoShe said she first rented her house in 2021 and ldquocouldnrsquot wait to inject some colourrdquo into the abode which she described as being ldquodrabrdquo Murphy additionally shares her threebedroom home with her partner Aaron 27 and her two other kids Brandon 10 Cody 8 Her boys are a lot less impressed with that dollthemed room although they like other playful aspects of the housersquos designmdashlike her ldquoteddy bear wallrdquo Murphy said she spent four hours pinning 80 stuffed Care Bears along with Pokeacutemon and My Little Pony toys to a hallway in her home ldquoI didnrsquot want to spend a fortune so about 60 per cent are from charity shops others were ones the kids didnrsquot mind me usingrdquo she said of the toy wallThe bathroom was the first room in the house that Murphy completedmdashand it took her three weeks to accomplish She ordered a Bratz doll shower curtain and bathmat from retailer Dolls Kill costing around 30 each Rs 2499 and continued to build on that theme ldquoI found the Bratz doll head on eBay for 21 Rs 1750rdquo In addition to being inspired by the early 2000s Murphy also loves ldquogothrdquo decor and painted her living room walls blackRs 1750Cost of the Bratz doll head that is perched in Murphyrsquos bathroomThe book that keeps on givingWhy one book club took a casual 28 years to finish James Joycersquos bookA Californiabased book club has recently finished its first reading of James Joycersquos Finneganrsquos Wake a notoriously difficult book that it started reading 28 years ago The club hosted by filmmaker Gerry Fialka has tried to decipher Finneganrsquos Wake page by page since 1995 in an attempt to figure out its many mysteries The book is so difficult to read that no one can truly say they lsquoget itrsquo Itrsquos written in a convoluted mix of reinvented words puns and allusions referencing about 80 languages and people canrsquot even agree on where the book is set or who the characters are Some members left and others joined the group over the past 28 yearsFly in the intestineThe American Journal of Gastroenterology recently published the bizarre case of a 63yearold man who had a fly living inside his intestines The man had shown up for a routine colon cancer screening earlier this year and doctors at a Missouri hospital conducted a colonoscopy The physicians found a strange foreign object while exploring the patientrsquos traverse colon an intact fly that had somehow survivedAlso read The surgical serendipityCake me to courtA retiring Dutch cook Mariska who wanted to say goodbye to her colleagues in a special way cooked a cannabisinfused cake for them Not knowing what was in the cake two of her colleagues ate a few slices and became nauseous and ill The two took her to courtGoing bananasA 50something Japanese man from Kurume City was recently ordered to remove three banana trees he had illegally planted and cared for in the median strip of a busy city road for a couple of years Itrsquos unclear why the man chose to plant the trees on public property and water them dailyMoose on the looseA herd of followers are tracking a moose on the loose in southern Minnesota hoping the majestic animalrsquos journey ends safely after it was spotted Tuesday 140 miles 225 km northwest of Minneapolis Fans have been tracking the young male moose for weeks and posting updates on a Facebook page that as of Tuesday had more than 18000 followersLoch Nesshellip algaeApparently the Loch Ness Monster is made of algae according to DNA samples taken from the waters of Scotlandrsquos Borlum Bay In one of the largest investigations of the elusive creature search volunteers Marry Wiles 49 and Aga Balinska 42 swear they got a glimpse of the two humps and some sort of third appendage during an early morning swim in August