Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Going home

A little treat for you before you head home - why not jazz up your season ticket like Miriam Elia did?

Ladbroke grove, 7:30pm


Here's a few ideas on how to make your journey home that bit more fun...

1. When you get home, have a loved one or pet wrap a tinfoil cape around you and check your time against a 'personal best'.

2. Put on a top hat as you leave and and sturdily announce: "Yes! I take your challenge, and I shall go home in... eighty days?"

3. Get friends to let off flashbulbs as you step out onto the pavement, shielding your eyes. Later complain about them to Martin Bashir.

4. Arrange for James May and Richard Hammond to race you home in rocket cars made out of old dialysis machines to prove something or other.

5. Don't go home. Build a den under your desk and live on instant coffee and tippex, slowly going mad, but you'll show them! You'll show them! They won't break you with their engineering work and their Spring Timetable alterations! You shall win! When you win, award yourself a prize of some instant coffee and tippex.

Good luck! And good night.

Text map of Britain

In the spirit of St George's Day, we asked you to send in why you thought your town was the most English. Here are the results:

Cartoon fun

Will from wrongboy.com sent us this little image based on the story about pregnant ladies:



We liked it so much we asked him to draw something to illustrate an idea we received from Catie Wilkins, about the designer McDonalds uniforms:



Thanks to both!

More tea?

Teaboy Wil Hodgson has been allowed to put the urn down and answer some more of your questions.

Marc Whiteley asked:
"Why does Lapsang Souchong taste so horrible?"
Wil: I don't know what kind of fancy schmancy beverages you think I cart around matey. I've never heard of this bizarrely named thing that I presume to be tea of some sort but I'm sure that my budget wouldn't cover it.

Simon Mayhew-Archer asked:
"Did Ian Botham invent St George's Day?"

Wil: No it was in fact invented by his 'Question Of Sport' co-bore Bill Beaumont.

Madeline Brettingham asked:
"I hear you once served Jeremy Clarkson herbal tea. What happened?"

Wil: Boy racers don't scare me. Clarkson's all right wing automobile fixated bluster and no trousers. I wish there was some way of surgically making him French.

Nicholas Searle asked:
"What is your favourite sport and why?"

Wil: It would be a tie between boxing and darts as these are the only two sports that don't make me physically sick.

Keep your eyes peeled for Wil's video response to your questions - appearing here soon.

IS YOUR TOWN THE MOST ENGLISH?

C'mon we NEED to know why St George would be most proud of your town. Let us know why your town is the most 'English'?

Tag Cloud Response to Your Prescott Posts

Okay, taking your comments to my post about John Prescott into account, here's a graphical representation of the words most commonly used:



Well done everyone involved.

Video response (part 2)

Wil answers a few more questions, including ones about making cups of tea for BBC personalities, and the thorny subject of McDonalds uniforms.