Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Jemima Packington of Somerset is the world’s first and only “asparamancer” — to wit, she makes predictions about the future based on the arrangement of asparagus spears that have been tossed on the ground.
“It might sound silly to some people but my readings are very accurate,” says Ms. Packington, who claims to have predicted the fall of Gordon Brown, the global financial crisis, and The King’s Speech‘s Best Picture get.
For 2012, the spearseer says the euro will experience a total collapse; one of the UK’s main political parties will undergo a leadership change; a high-profile British figure will die; and not one, but two Royal pregnancies will be announced.
So let’s meet back here next year and see how well she did.
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