Another day, another top ten list of something probably already covered elsewhere but we’re compiling it anyway because we’re bored. This time it is the top ten most useful cookbooks ever written, compiled by Waitrose Food Illustrated. Roast Chicken and Other Stories, unknown in the Blighty household as we don’t eat meat, came in first. […]

In Hitchcock’s Birds it was poor Tippie Hedren who got pecked sore to the delight of the sadistic director. But in a quiet Somerset village the local seagulls are targeting the men. More specifically, postmen. These birds are obviously very discerning and a credit to the country.
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As British seagulls exist mainly […]

After ten years of listening to your neighbour strumming tunelessly on the Spanish guitar he bought while on holiday in Benidorm, you’re ready for a move. The first job is to drive down to B&Q to buy all the white paint you can fit in your car boot. This should then be plastered over your […]

The 17th Century was bad news if you were King and thought you could act like one. No longer could you parade about the kingdom lopping off people’s heads because they looked at you funny or knocked over your drink. Now you had to answer to Parliament and the New Model Army, an indie band […]

While taking a leisurely stroll along the seafront at Lytham a curious feeling grips the walker. A sense that there is something missing. That something is the sea. Lytham has the curious distinction of being a seaside town that is nowhere near water. It would be more accurately described as a sandside town. Blighty top […]

Today Blighty can update you on one of our dear old friends - the man we call ‘the nuddy arsed rambler’, aka Stephen Gough, ex-marine and ex-clothed eccentric. For those who don’t remember him, or have successfully banished him from your memory, you can read a previous post here. At that time he was planning […]

For an establishment to be afforded the accolade Grottiest Bed and Breakfast in the UK, it has to go beyond mere discomfort and hideous decor. Competition is keen in this particular category as it is an industry stuck firmly in the 1950s. Bamburgh Hall Farm, however, seems to be stuck in the Jacobean period, as […]

The Beeb will do anything for a good poll. Even the posh programmes want to get in on the act. The latest top ten best ever in the whole wide world topic is thinking. Yes, Melvyn Bragg and his fine Radio 4 show In Our Time, which you can listen to online (don’t all rush, […]

In the aftermath of the London bombings, with the call for western nations to be seen to stand together in the face of terrorism, the US army have told their staff to keep away because it’s “a ickle bit fwightning”. Today, in an effort to attract the American military back to the capital, Nellie Clarkson, […]

Sophia Severin has broken the world record for longest time spent snogging an ugly bloke who is glad for all he can get. Although, Sophia says James Belshaw was quite dashing when they started out on their marathon kiss, he just hasn’t aged very well. She says that his technique lost some of it’s appeal […]