What's the date?

Is it April the 1st again? I think it must be because the bbc have just reported that as part of the Museums at Night cultural festival the SS Great Britain is going to be floated on a sea of 55,000 litres of lime green jelly. WTF?!


According to the bbc:

A spokesman for the tourist attraction said the jellymongers' work would make a "stunning" piece of modern art.

Artist Harry Parr, from jellymongers Bompas and Parr, said the mixture used sodium alginate derived from seaweed, industrial dye and a lime flavouring.

"It smells incredible, we're setting the ship afloat on a sea of lime green jelly," he said.

"I've never done anything like this before... the team's going to push the jelly around the boat which will take about six hours.

"It will look beautiful during the day with its fluorescent green glow but as the light falls later it will be lit from below and will be really spectacular."

Wonder what Brunel would make of it?!! I think the thing that amuses me most about this is the fact that the artists describe themselves as jellymongers XD