The largest bill for fictitious work carried out on a woman’s car by garage mechanics was one of £6322.88 charged by Joskin Bros. Motors Ltd. of Stevenage. Calling in for a routine service on her one year old Peugot 305, Mrs. June Spears agreed to pay for, amongst other things, new trumpets (£752), cracked Gangle pin (£1785), realignment of main glib shaft (£2268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal Tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120). No work was actually carried out on the car during the six weeks it spent at the garage but 4000 miles was put on the clock and she later received a speeding summons from Italian police.

The longest recorded huff taken by a woman was one of 57 years 9 months 8 days by Mrs Glenda Bavington (GB). Following a misunderstanding over a sausage roll and an egg sandwich at a New Years Eve party in 1936, she went into a huff with her sister Betty and didn’t talk to her again until their father’s funeral on 8th October 1994. Despite working alongside each other on the bakery counter of the local Co-op in Aberystwyth, Dyfed for the first forty years of the record, Mrs. Bavington looked straight through her sister and pretended she wasn’t there. At a New Years Eve party in 1994, the subject of the sausage roll was brought up again and the huff recommenced, lasting until Betty’s death earlier this year.

The greatest amount of Australian soaps watched in a a single eight hour day without getting out of the chair was 34 hrs 28 mins by Mrs. Rita Cunliff (GB). This record was achieved using five television sets and three video recorders on 22nd January 1996. When Mrs. Cunliff’s husband returned from work he had to make his own tea.