Dorset Piddle ‘n’ Cider
If you run a brewery in Piddlehinton by the river Piddle it has to be a clever marketing ploy to call yourself the Piddle Brewery and give the beers you brew names like Jimmy and […]
Silly Stuff
The real reason BBC Radio 4 replaced Ambridge’s Tony Archer?
The following is from January 2014. Regular listeners to the long running BBC Radio 4 rural soap opera ‘The Archers’ will have noticed that organic farmer Tony Archer sounds different these days. Colin Skipp who […]
Cool trick for Doctor Who fans on Google Street View
Google Street View is a great tool and one I turn to regularly both for work and leisure. It can take you to places both at home and in other countries that you would not […]
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat
It is Christmas day and I recalled the old verse “Christmas is coming, and the goose are getting fat“. I remember it from when I was a kid, but you don’t seem to hear it […]
What Has A Hazel Nut In Every Bite?
Remember when Topic chocolate bars were advertised with the slogan “Hazel Nut In Every Bite“? I haven’t had a Topic bar in years. I wasn’t even sure if this nougat, toffee and hazel nut confection […]
If you are going to request a radio station plays a certain song …
The screen grab from Twitter below raised a smile. Someone has made a request to BBC Radio 4.
Meeting at Northampton Station
I heard the following tale from someone who claimed it actually happened several years ago at a company he was working for in Northampton. The company were expecting a visit from a very important American […]
The North Petherton & South Petherton Conumdrum
There are plenty of places around called North, South, West or East something or other. For example in East Devon there are the villages of Southleigh and Northleigh, and in South Somerset the village of […]
Single seater sofa? Isn’t that an armchair?
Here is a screen grab from the web site of furniture retailer Funique. It shows there web page for ‘Single Seater Sofas’. Excuse my ignorance but I always thought they were called armchairs.
Hexbugs and Bristlebots
Hexbugs are little battery powered plastic bugs which scuttle along on their flexible plastic legs, driven along by a small internal vibrating motor. You can pick up an individual Hexbug quite cheaply from retailers such […]