Harry Hill does comedy series for kids. In many ways a no-brainer for Hill, as it was the Sunday afternoon repeat of TV Burp being discovered by kids that suddenly made it popular. And look at that photo on the BBC webpage. Is there any reason why TH[…]

I was born with this unlucky sneeze
And what is worse I came into the world the wrong way round
Pundits all agree I am the reason why
My father fell into the village pond and drowned.
So go the lyrics to the theme to James Bond. No: really. Monty Nor[…]

There are those who do not care for the beer festival, see Tim below. There are others who relish a challenge, will take on the enemy at face value and like the idea of a good Leo*. And so Sarah and Carsmile got there about three, and I rolled in at […]

Imagine if films had a money back guarantee. Well, Cinderella Man, the Russell Crowe depressingdepression boxing movie is being re-released with one. But that’s an actorly film, and this is the studio trying to back a film they think should not[…]

I was officially good at games as a kid. Note, that is games with a lower case g. Which means, in hip-hop parlance, games which were less dangerous, less likely to get me killed and generally played on a board. Or at least had plenty of garish, brigh[…]

Got a cough?
Slime it away!
I am not sure of the efficacy of using snail slime in cough mixture. But I am certainly not sure that Strawberry and Avocado is a proper flavour for a linctus. But further research shows that action the snails trail is a r[…]

There is little novelty now in food blogs which take a single, tiny area of the nosh world and plough them into entertaining furrows. Nevertheless two blogs by Russell Davies take the art of obviousness and raise them to truly stupendous heights.
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A standard Tuesday afternoon discussion of the correct spelling of humous (humus/hummus/houmous…) threw up this gastronomic delight. Worm Humus. Like standard, or even low-fat humus, worm humus is described as “grow media” and furth[…]

Just finished reading Love And Peace With Melody Paradise by Martin Millar and wondered if he had written anything else worth reading recently. Millar is one of those writers I occasionally stumble across, whose ability to turn a deceptively simple s[…]

They ain’t called Rockstar Games for nothing baby. How to perfectly market your second wave of sales. Except in Australia. What I find amusing is that these sex scenes will clearly have been programmed in extra time, making them either unpaid o[…]