Seeing as we’re all agreed that Valentine’s Day is pointless, I thought I’d make a card for all those enamoured with the BBC quiz show, POINTLESS.
To make your own Pointless card:
1) Print out the image below
2) Cut it out and stick it on a folded sheet of card.
3) Write a pointless message inside.
Psst: I’m taking my mum to see Pointless filmed live on Thursday. She loves it even more than I do (even more than Deal Or No Deal I reckon, if you really pushed her on the point).
I want to enter this Radio Times competition to win a Sarah Lund jumper, for which you have to send in a photo of yourself looking as Sarah Lund as possible.
Sadly, without a Lund-style jumper to wear for the pic I fear my chances are slight. It seems very unfair to me, that those who already own a nice snowflakey jumper have the best chance of winning another.
For now, then, I am making do with this.
And practising my best Lennart Brix facial expressions in preparation for the ‘Win Brix’s Scarf Competition’.
Image source
So I’m pressing this a lot today: make-everything-ok.com
I have also made a selection of magic wands for us, just in case any of you know how to cast ANTI-COMPLETE-MORON spells.
Okay, so they aren't *all* magic wands.
Stay safe, everyone.
Let’s get one thing clear: I hate pigeons. Not only do they score a big fat zero on the More Charm Please charm-om-eter but they make me feel sick with fear. So, it was a brave move for me to type ‘pigeon’ into Google Images and draw this one, however, I felt compelled to do so having received this arresting work from my Scottish poet friend, Sarah. Over to you, Sra…
“To celebrate this blog I have writ ye a terrifying pome
entitled ‘How to become a pigeon‘.”
Sarah Stewart is one sickeningly talented lady. For starters, check out her wee poem written on the back of Tunnocks teacake wrapper, as featured on the WrappersRhymes blog (which incidentally scores MUCH higher on the MCP charm-mo-meter than pigeons).
In other news, today I also received this photo of a tampered sign, via a friend of a friend. It was taken in Stonehaven, Scotland, which coincidentally is where my poet friend Sarah grew up on teacakes. Many thanks to Francis Pedan for the picture. He and his girfriend had a competition to see who could find the best sign and I’m presuming he won with this one. 
In case you haven’t seen it, this is Juzcar in Spain, which has been painted blue for a film about smurfs.
Image: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty
Ignoring grumbles about corporate motivation, I love this idea of painting an entire village in just one colour so tonight I made a couple of quick experiments. Here is Manhattan with four coats of Dulux.*
*other paint brands would work just as well
And here is London entirely covered in some leftover wrapping paper I had hanging around.
In reality I guess it could be a bit awkward neatly covering the dome of St Paul’s in wrapping paper, but people really can do anything these days.
Okay so it’s been years not months since this place closed but the fact I can no longer go here to watch the snooker on a mini telly and eat over-salted bangers and smash still causes me physical pain. I made this drawing from a photograph, as a gift for my loyal café companion, Deborah. Many a scheme was hatched over a treacle sponge here.
New Piccadilly Café, Denham Street - now closed.
See more of this “cathedral amongst caffs” and other gems at the wonderful Classic Cafes site.
Stuck in traffic on the motorway last weekend I saw not one but two of these cheerfully assertive lorries whizz by! I wasn’t quick off the mark enough to get a snap but here is a picture of a toy version you can get (yep – already on the Christmas list). You can marvel at the real things at www.eatmorechips.co.uk
Since these latest sightings, I’ve been wondering what other useful reminders I’d like to see written on the side of a lorry (not that I need reminding to eat more chips). Here’s a few I came up with:
Let me know what you’d like to be reminded to do more of by a passing lorry and I’ll add to those above. I’d love to create a whole fleet of these chaps!
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