IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

A Canadian woman was reunited with the diamond ring she lost in 2004, after it was pulled out of the ground on a carrot. Mary Grams, 84, was devastated when the ring fell off her finger while she was weeding on her farm in Alberta – and was so embarrassed, she told only her son. However, her daughter-in-law recently discovered her secret when she went out to pick some vegetables for supper. The carrot had grown straight through the ring – making it easy to pluck out. Curiously, it’s not the first time a diamond ring has been found on a carrot: in 2011, a Swedish woman found her wedding ring in her garden, 16 years after losing it.

Cooking videos are old hat. The latest online craze is for tiny cooking – miniature morsels produced in dolls’ house-sized kitchens. Based on a Japanese TV show, the Tiny Kitchen series features godlike hands preparing incy-wincy ingredients, in teeny-weeny bowls, that are then cooked on dinky, candle-powered hobs. One of its videos, Tiny Vegetable Curry and Rice, has been watched 39 million times. “It’s very therapeutic to watch and do,” said British tiny cook Kate Murdoch.

German police have warned sweet-toothed citizens to be wary of anyone offering them cheap chocolate, after 22 tonnes of Nutella, Kinder Surprise eggs and other chocolate treats were stolen from a refrigerated trailer in the town of Neustadt. The haul was so large and heavy, police said the thieves must have brought a truck of their own in which to take the goodies away.