View from the Potting Shed

How did I completely miss Mitchell and Webb’s Peep Show when it was on the electric television?!
It was my cousin Zack who emailed me a few months ago from the United States of Americans and recommended it. “Why is British comedy so much better than American?” he said. Or something like that. He uses […]

A few months back I stumbled across a website that had this bright red box proudly displayed on its page:

It was clearly an advert for something, but I thought that it might be quite fun to see what it reckoned “the exact name of my perfect lover” would be.
I already knew: Jane Ellison Saunders.
So I […]

Why do the Japanese always have better TV game shows than we do?
The best we have at the moment is Noel Edmonds presenting Channel 4’s Guess-What-Box-The-Big-Number-Is-In. Meanwhile the Japanese are getting to watch Human Tetris.
Utterly genius!

Yesterday evening I decided that I should like to listen to the soothing tones of Halford:

Just to clarify, I do not mean Halfords (with an ’s’), high street purveyor of car accessories, components and bicycles (at the Bike Hut).

As an aside, I do not believe that Bike Hut will become as popular as Pizza […]

The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. (Map courtesy of Wikipedia)
I have a theory about climate change — have you noticed that people don’t call it “global warming” anymore? My theory is simply that climate change was invented by British scientists. Let me explain.
Now, […]

This isn’t new but it is funny; it’s been doing the rounds on YouTube and Facebook for the last couple of weeks.
The background
In the final round of the Miss Teen USA 2007 competition the five remaining contestants had to answer a question from one of the judges, picked at random. The answer could be no […]

In common with all other Scottish Christian blogs, I may have given the impression that I thought that the Powerpoint Edinburgh committee had lost their minds in inviting such a controversial public figure to speak at this season’s opening event at St Thomas’, Glasgow Road, tonight.
Blog post titles such as “Theroux a glass darkly”, “When […]