Jeremy Beadle

Generally i wax lyrical about The Sun and its magic words, but the above announcing the sad loss of Sir Beadle is just lazy!

He deserves much much better than this!

And whilst on the subject of Jeremy, i want to personally thank him, for it is my belief that without him, Jeremy Beadle, we would not have Harry Hills TV Burp - One of the best TV experiences ever made.

So thank you Jeremy Beadle, and sorry about the slack words on the front of The Sun, you were worth more.

Weight a minute!

Banuary is coming to a close, and who knows what will happen when it ends. A friend suggested that Febauchery could ensue. I will indeed let you know.

Anyway, the weight is still dropping off and i had a thought.

Weight Watchers should sponser lifts so that they let you know your weight when you get in them. It could come up on the little LED display.

Then, if you are on a diet you can keep an easy track of how you are doing day to day.

And here is another bit to my plan. If you are serious about losing weight you put on your bluetooth, so when you get in the lift the lift knows who you are. Then, it can keep track of whether you are indeed losing weight. If you have put weight on from one day to the next the lift doesn't work and you have to take the stairs thus making you lose weight.

Speaking of hilarious weight loss...

...one of the highlights of my year so far.

Nothing more to see, move on.

Invent ting.

Over dinner last night the lady and I were chatting, and all of a sudden, straight out of the blue, the question came, 'when was electricity invented?' I had no real idea of the actual date it was first demonstrated, so I used the internet to surf to a website and find out. It was 1878.

Then, without let up, another question smacked me in the gob! 'When was plastic invented?' Again, no real idea, so as before, I used the internet, and found out. It was 1907 when Bakelite was first used.

I wanted more. I couldn't stop learning. The phone. 1876. Do you know why it was called the phone? It was because the inventer, Alexander Graham Bell was a Cockney, from Bow, and he had a dog that used to sit in his lab and watch him invent. Anyway, during a magical day in 1876, big Al made it all work, then exclaimed 'it shall be known as the dog n' bone' His then wife changed it to 'phone', as it rhymed with his suggestion of dog n'bone. Interesting hey?

My learning was not complete. The TV. That was first shown in 1926. Good old Peter Panasonic.

I can't tell you how good I felt after finding all this out, so that is why you are reading this as I wanted you to feel good too. I hope it worked.

Stay tuned, more interesting historical facts to come.

Learn or burn.

Legoogle

Lego bricks are 50!

And to celebrate Google have the best homepage image ever!

And whilst on the subject, how can the Lego brick only be 50?

Surely they used Lego guns in the 1st World War!

'Medic, Medic, Private Arbuthnot has just been hit by a one'er!'

And just so you know, there are 2,400 different Lego brick shapes!

Throw some in celebration, shapes, not Lego.

Walls and spaces.

I went to The Design Museum this weekend to see an exhibiton by Jean Prouvé.

He was this amazing French chap who was a bit of an architect, designer, engineer. A damn fine chap who made an awful lot of things possible due to his need to experiment with new materials and building techniques. He was basically the Godfather of an awful lot of modern design and architecture.

Anyway, whilst there i was checking some architectural journals out and stumbled across some most beautiful buildings which i wanted to share with you.

Firstly The Arango Residence in Acapilco, Mexico. This most beautiful building was designed by John Lautner. It looks like the sort of thing that would have been turning up on Yes album covers.

Next was the works of Tadao Ando.

He created The Church of Light.

A church made of concrete i hear you shout. You wouldn't would you? He would! And how nice it is. Imagine dropping a few prayers on a wonderful winter morning, light bellowing in from all angles.

Then we have Alvar Aalto, who, like Jean Prouvé dipped into many creative pies. Again, most of his work was particularly functional

Unstudio is a Dutch firm who do some most incredible things. They created this most amazing building in New York. The interior and exterior shapes are incredible.

Anyway, that really was just a bit of a dump, and a very nice dump!

That's it, i'm done.

Richard, can you come to the diary room please.

Day 23 into Banuary and I can safely say that I have noticed a difference.

I awoke on Monday morning feeling really bright and alert. I felt far more awake than you should after a weekend. I have heard that it takes 3 weeks for alcohol to be totally removed from your system, and that just happens to coincide with my feeling good.

I was so amazed on how I felt that I was, for a split second, prepared to make Banuary a 60 day month. It might still happen.

I can well recommend the Banuary feeling to anyone, it's rather good. Even my brain feels tipity top.

Mr T Total's wagon has safety bars and harnesses, there is no way he could possibly fall off.

And, in the grand scheme of it all, it is lager that has made me feel this way.

Stella is my nurse mopping my brow.

Shirtmakers

I seem to be rather interested in finding words at the moment.

So, on that theme i found this at the weekend.

I wonder if you, the ordinary members of the public, could find more hilarious word plays in places you wouldn't expect them.

Have a look around you, they are closer than you think.