StrangeSights

• Adam: “Ooh! An apple just for me. I’m Hank Marvin (starving), time for tea! Arf a mo! We’re both starkers! Oh no!” Don’t recall Adam saying that in Genesis? You’re probably not alone. It’s taken from a book in which Bible stories are retold in cockney rhyming slang. UK teacher Keith Park says he’s reworked the stories into a book Bible Stories in Cockney Rhyming Slang which he now uses in his lessons. Mr Park reportedly says there’s no disrespect intended, although not all are apparently pleased.

• As records go, it’s a fairly unusual one. Queenslander John Allwood reportedly recently broke his own world record for smashing the greatest number of watermelons in under a minute with his forehead. His record of 40 melons - set two years ago at the town of Chinchilla’s Melon Festival - was shattered when he went on to headbutt as many as 47 melons at this year’s festival.

• A Romanian woman has apparently made an entire wardrobe of clothes out of her own hair. Ioana Cioanca, 71, reportedly says she has so far made nine items: a hat, a shawl, a skirt, a blouse, a raincoat, a purse, a handbag and a pair of gloves.

• All has not been well in the Kingdom of Wallachia. Boleslav the Kind Hearted Forever was ousted in a royal coup (aka Bolik Polivka) with Vladimir Zhanel appointed the new monarch. A court case followed but Vladimir II, as he is officially known, remains as king. Not ringing any bells? Probably because Wallachia is a manufactured kingdom within the bounds of the Czech Republic, created by photographer Tomas Harabis in 1997 as a practical joke. Even so it does boast a citizenship of some 90,000 (it included George W. Bush before his was rescinded following the US invasion of Iraq) as well as its own navy, a bright yellow limousine for visiting heads of state and its own passports.

• A New South Wales council is reportedly providing a green burial option with a three hectare bushland cemetery where the dead are either wrapped in biodegradable shrouds or placed in coffins made from organic material before being lowered into the ground. There are no headstones either - instead loved ones receive GPS co-ordinates of the grave.

• You think that’s a snake? Scientists say they’ve found the remains of a snake which ate crocodiles for lunch and apparently used to live in the rainforests of Colombia. It apparently weighed up to 2000 kilos and measured some 15 metres from head to tail. Now that’s big…