• ‘SPAM’ — Monty Python’s favorite mystery meat turns 85!

    ‘SPAM’ — Monty Python’s favorite mystery meat turns 85!

    On July 5, 1937, the American culinary landscape as we know it would change forever, courtesy of Austin, Minnesota. Eighty-five years ago yesterday, America ushered in the arrival of the canned luncheon meat known as SPAM. Post Great Depression, SPAM became an instant success for its versatility as it could be opened with an accompanying […]

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  • Happy International Towel Day 2022 — Don’t Panic!

    Happy International Towel Day 2022 — Don’t Panic!

    “A towel, [The Guide] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Not only does it have great practical value, a towel has immense psychological value” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Today, H2G2 fans are marking the 21sts anniversary since the all-too-early passing of creator/writer, Douglas […]

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  • Batman teaches road safety to London school kids

    Batman teaches road safety to London school kids

    A perfect example of just how awesome the internet can be shows itself in this thought-to-be-lost video of Adam West’s Batman teaching road safety to London school children. In this May 1967 advert, the Caped Crusader is shown teaching the Green Cross Code to youngsters on London’s streets.

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  • For only £1.25 million, Fern Cottage, Doc Martin’s home and GP surgery can be yours!

    For only £1.25 million, Fern Cottage, Doc Martin’s home and GP surgery can be yours!

    Fern Cottage, the iconic cottage featured Doc Martin as Dr. Martin Ellingham’s home and GP surgery has gone on the market for a cool £1.25 million. The cottage has been featured in the show for 18 years and is considered a classic fisherman’s stone cottage with two bedrooms, a slate terrace and a tiered garden and impressive sea views from its elevated position overlooking Port Isaac’s historic fishing village and harbor.

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  • The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust wants you…to count penguins (among other things)!

    The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust wants you…to count penguins (among other things)!

    The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is searching for people to spend five months in Antarctica, to run the world’s most remote post office in Port Lockroy and, yes….count penguins. That’s the good news. The bad news, unfortunately, is ‘successful’ applicants will be without running water for that length of time. The seasonal postmasters will be […]

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  • HP Sauce’s ‘sympathetic refurbishing’ of Big Ben in 2019

    HP Sauce’s ‘sympathetic refurbishing’ of Big Ben in 2019

    A veritable staple in most every home in the UK, I will admit my only experience that allows me to talk about HP Sauce is having attended a number of BBC Showcase meetings over the years in both Brighton and Liverpool whereby the answer to everything that dealt with food seemed to be “…just add […]

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  • Happy National Pi(e) Day, America!

    Happy National Pi(e) Day, America!

    The first pies appeared around 9500 BC in the Egyptian Neolithic period or New Stone Age. Whether you bake or cook or venture out, National Pie Day is, ultimately, about the enjoyment of eating pie. One can never have enough pie be it American or British so, no matter where you are and whether you are a […]

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