Showing posts with label Humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humour. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Friday, 1 January 2010
Monday, 7 December 2009
Messiah @ St Paul's Cathedral
Chilliqueen
Lee Everett, then wife of DJ and Comedian Kenny, visited the USA in 1979. During this trip Lee came across a tastebud revelation, a chilli pepper jelly, and was instantly hooked. On her return to the UK, Lee began developing her own unique version of a Chilli Pepper Jelly.
Although an accomplished cook, perfection was not easy to achieve, but once there, Chilli Jelly was born. The product was a huge hit with family and friends, with demand being so big that it quickly developed into a cottage industry, with Chilli Jelly being sold locally to a variety of fine food outlets. Hand-cooked batch runs went from 10 or 20 jars up to 1,000 jars in the final batch run. So it was no wonder that Kenny Everett, with his zany sense of humour, nicknamed her 'Chilliqueen'. The name has stuck and appeared on the jars as the brand ever since. Suggestions and recipes are on their website here.
Kenny Everett, my all-time favourite DJ - a truly inspired genius, who was placed on this planet to entertain:
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Grannie and her radio...
Just when you have lost faith in human kindness...
Someone who teaches at an Elementary in Thorsby forwarded the following letter. The letter was sent to the principal's office after the school had sponsored a luncheon for the elderly. An elderly lady received a new radio at the lunch as a prize and was writing to say thank you. This story is a credit to all humankind.
Dear Thorsby School:
God bless you for the beautiful radio I won at your recent senior citizens luncheon. I am 84 years old and live at the Sunnybrook Assisted Home for the Aged. My family have all passed away and I am alone so thank you for your kindness to a forgotten old lady. My roommate is 95 and has always had her own radio, but she would never let me listen to hers, even when she was napping. The other day her radio fell off the nightstand and broke into a lot of pieces. It was awful and she was in tears. She asked if she could listen to mine but I told her to fuck off.
Thank you for that opportunity.
Sincerely,
Edna
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Sunday, 30 August 2009
51 Japanese Characters
51 Japanese Characters
Great site interactivity, clever imagery. Love it.
(left) Jukensai - He would like to be accepted to the best university in Japan. He knows that the exam will be extremely difficuly, but he is sure that if he works hard enough, he will succeed. He studies every day and night - he gives his best and he will not give up. He wants his parents to be proud of him. 'Hisshou' ('you certainly will and have to win') is his slogan.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Dear Fatty
Books recently read (titles have direct links to Amazon.co.uk):
• Graham Greene - The Quiet American - a carefully crafted, vintage classic, circular novel that starts with the dénouement and works back round to it:
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s' colonial Indo-China comes a young, idealistic, quiet American (Pyle) sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Thomas Fowler (the narrator), a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?
• Stuart Maconie - Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England - a time capsule of England as it is now; in its quirky, offbeat way, a celebration of this country's extraordinary capacity to accommodate change while remaining essentially the same. Also a few good titters along the way. "The English Bill Bryson"? He writes well, for a Northerner.
A celebration of the workaday pleasures of living in Britain and the characters along the way, from trainspotters to tea-room ladies and hoodies to binge-drinkers. Stuart Maconie is perhaps best known as a radio presenter, co-hosting the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 every Mon-Thu evening.
• Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser - Beef (How Milk, Meat and Muscle Shaped the World) -
Not exactly a riveting read (it's patchy and somewhat random in content), but well-research and the more interesting for it, nonetheless. More for food historians than meat-eaters.
Cattle have always been central to our human existence, not only as a source of food and labour but also as an inspiration for art, warfare and religion. This panoramic view of the cow's rich history covers breeding to braising, hunting to worshipping, from ancient Mediterranean bullfighting rings to the rugged pastures of 18th-century England. Seasoned with anecdotes and recipes from around the world, it's also an indictment of the perilous state of beef production in Europe and the US - a situation possibly closer to a health and economic emergency than most might believe.
• Dawn French - Dear Fatty - a lovely autobiography, written in the style of individual letters to people who have meant most to actress and comedienne Dawn French across her 50-odd years.
She's a national treasure, of course, and naturally funny, which comes out clearly in her writing. But there's more than the odd stream of emotion for the loss of her father (who committed suicide) and the love of her life, comedian Lenny Henry. There's little real detail of her showbiz life (Comedy Club - Fabulous Five, Vicar of Dibley et al), but it raises a few laughs along the way.
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Tim Minchin - 'e's a funny geezer
Tim Minchin, from Perth, Australia, is a funny geezer. Wiity, smart, piano-playing, ginger, irreverent, articulate. Not mainstream yet, but worthing checking out on Channel 4 (UK).
View partial source: Tim Minchin.com, Tim Minchin YouTube channel
Monday, 15 June 2009
Size-zero fashion models
I think it is very nice for ladies
to be lithe and lissome,
But not so much that you cut yourself
if you happen to embrace or kissome.
by Ogden Nash
... for many designers the ideal model is a hanger that happens to have a face ...
View partial source: The Times Letters page today
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Caterpillars for eyebrows...
View partial source: Thanks, Fif, for the heads up.
And there's more...
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