And I don't care what your values of Sleb are (I accept that Atters and The Great Gambo were pushing it a bit), but there's no way you can argue about today's sleb spot. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you ( Read more... )

Can't believe that no-one on our friends list has posted a link to "I Fought The Law" and said "This is for you, Theresa!!"

Also can't be bothered to do it myself.  What's the point?  No-one's listening.

Watching the Last Night of the Proms, I found myself thinking, "How many other people hear the last quatrain of Jerusalem as 'I shall not flinch from my great plan, no matter how insane it seems, 'til we have built Jerusalem, and made it look like Milton Keynes'?". Is it just me? Am I one of the few who remembers that classic Spitting Image episode ( Read more... )

And, hot on the heels of Her post about Small's indoctrination, I can report on spotting some actual famous* people! It's been so long, it's like London has gone totally civilian ( Read more... )

Tiny is now 12. Go Tiny! He has celebrated this by spontaneously deciding that he is OK with long form narrative fiction (as opposed to Haynes manuals, WWII plane spotters guides and popular science books with cartoons in ( Read more... )

And we've got a cracker of a celeb spot to end the year on, made even better because we (all four of us, and a set of parents and a brother-in-law) were all talking about our celeb-spotting exploits (in the Pilot Inn in Dungeness, they do excellent fish and chips). Apparently, Ro*y M*Grath (asterisks added to obscure his name, as I'm about to be ( Read more... )

For those in the UK who watched the first episode of Strange and Norrell and made the deeply wrong decision not to continue with it, you have 29 hours to repent and start catching up in time for the last episode on Sunday, before Episode 2 falls off iPlayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05x1hzy/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-2-how-is-lady- ( Read more... )

I was at RAF Hendon on Saturday, with Tiny, and I saw, ooh, you know, her, she reads the news, ooh, what's her name ( Read more... )

Bobbins to Rafe Fines; I thought I'd bagged a proper superstar today. Granted, I did think "What the blinking flip is Moby doing on the Northern Line on a Wednesday evening?", but mostly I was thinking "Bloody hell! Moby ( Read more... )

The past few months have seen an unusually barren patch for my sleb spotting, but today, finally, a proper one - Ralph Fiennes, walking over London Bridge ( Read more... )