Europe’s Venus Express is departing this week, so if you fancy a short break to our nearest planetary neighbour, buy your ticket quick. It won’t actually reach the planet until next year, however, so some time off work would be required. It is ‘express’ in the same way as the rush hour train in the […]

We’ve all been surprised, at some point, on being told by a bald headed man with a face like a map of central London that he’s doing his GCSEs this year and is actually female ‘you cheeky beggar!’, or by a soft skinned man with abundant locks of hair that he’s popping to the Post […]

You know what it’s like. You’re house hunting. You find a place that meets all your requirements. The right area, good view, ample space, no teenagers living next door. But there’s just something not right. A missing piece of the jigsaw. What you really want is a free pig chucked in! Well, that’s what […]

As Blighty is currently reading Simon Singh’s book ‘The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography’ (no, it’s not a snappy title is it, I prefer The Catcher in the Rye myself) today’s post is in code. No not this bit! The bit below, it might not be quantum cryptography, […]

If you’re not walking around your garden bumping into prophet bearing tree trunks this weekend (see below), you could well be stumbling across wrinkled old arses belonging to people like Mr and Mrs Pollard of Malmesbury. They have organised a day for people to wander around their garden without any clothes on. They have notified […]

Another day another bizarre World Championship in something silly enough to make the BBC website. And we’re not talking about the athletics, although the British jokers in Finland are ridiculous enough. No, we’re talking about the World Memory Championships taking place at Oxford University this weekend. Fifty competitors from around the world are taking part, […]

The Blighty family are off to London for a long weekend. We booked the break weeks before the bombing but a few religious lunatics won’t alter our lives. Anyway, if you don’t hear anything by early next week inform the authorities. For identification purposes, below is a pic of the Blighty family taken just before […]

Sometimes you have to sympathise with the locals in Cornwall’s picturesque seaside towns. Living in one of the most attractive places in Britain comes at a cost. During the summer, if they’re not being kept awake by late night revellers they’re stumbling across injured bodies on the rocks belonging to Australians who think that […]

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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