We have a fantasy football league going in the CoverGirl office and when asked at the beginning of the season whether I would like to take part, at first, I declined. Then I thought about it - it's no more than shopping for men - so, I decided, I could do that.

My tactics were simple, my goal keepers began with G, my midfielders with M, my defenders with B (not enough defenders' names began with D I'm afraid) and I had a rough mixture up front of Tevez, Torres and Jones.

I gave them the gaudiest kit I could, called them the "We're So Pretty" team and I thought I'd just leave them to get on with it and see what happened.

But then, other members of my family joined the league in thinly disguised attempts to beat me and it was decided, in the office, that we should each pay a league fee to facilitate a winner-takes-all prize fund. Now I find myself, frantically looking through the football sites to find out who my defenders will be defending against and judiciously poring through the players to see who would be a suitable transfer candidate.

In short - I'm hooked. It's almost fascinating me as much as women's car insurance. I did say, only almost.

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Perhaps mistaking a petrol station for the Wild West, two cows stampeded through a petrol station shop closely followed by two cowboys.

Like something out of a John Wayne film, the runaways from a passing parade left shop workers and spectators stunned as they were rounded up and herded out from the shop by cowboys.

Although not something you would usually expect to see at a petrol station, apparently escaping cattle are quite a common site in the area during the parade. Last year a bull managed to run through a walk-in bank, but escaped before the cowboys were called in.

It is uncertain what the cows were hoping to find in the shop - perhaps this week's copy of Heatmagazine or maybe a chocolate bar or two.

However, according to spectators the cows were very unwilling to leave and it took a while for the cowboys to successfully herd the two out of the shop.

Maybe they wanted to finish reading up on the latest Katie and Peter divorce saga?

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When driving, especially after a long journey, eyes can end up strained and even a little blurry, don't you find? But surely not even the most weary car trip can compare to the eye-watering sight served up by an Indian woman seeking her few minutes of fame.

A brave or foolhardy (depending on your perspective) Anandita Dutta Tamuli broke a personal best record this year. She took 24 of the world's hottest chillies and rubbed all of them into her eyes in just one minute!

How about that?

Stunned silence is maybe how you greeted this remarkable news. Anandita took the two dozen Ghost chillies and, well, thrust the spicy vegetables into her eyes.

Fantastic, eh?

Thanks to the Internet, you can watch this rather macabre spectacle via a YouTube video:

Anandita, from Assam, said, "I am very happy to have broken my own record. Moreover, I am very proud to have performed in the presence of a team of observers from abroad (British TV crew). They praised me for my world record breaking feat. I really thank them for their initiative in recognising my feat."

Us women at CoverGirl car insurance aren't really thinking Anandita has furthered the advance of woman-kind by this painful-looking act. But we reckon it was a bloke's idea to record this for a television programme, don't you?

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