Learn A Language with the Socks

Brand new from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Learn A Language with, er, with them. Click and enjoy.

Today's daftest Sock-related email

Being the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and having an email address to that effect, we'll occasionally get email that's not really tailored to our needs. Here's today's...

socks, pantyhose, tights,slipper /zhejiang figure knitting industry factory

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

We are a socks factory locate in zhuji, China, who has more than 15 years experience of producing and exporting different kinds of SOCK.

 

Our main products:

men socks, women socks, kids socks, toe socks, business sock, sport sock, horse riding socks, army socks, wool sock, bamboo sock, coolmax sock, anti-slip socks,  yoga socks, slipper,etc.

 

Our socks machine:

84N,96N, 108N,120N,132N,144N,168N,200N.

 

Our main market:

Germany, USA, UK, Sweden, Danmark, Japan, Russia, Canada, Australia, New zealand, Chile and so on.

 

Our service:

1. Do sock according to your original sample or your design.

2. Give you our best price with good quality.

3. Sample time: 3-7 days.

4. Delivery time: 30-40 days after receiving 30% deposit.

5. Terms of Payment: L/C at sight, T/T.

6. Port of Shipment:  Shanghai or Ningbo port.

 

Hope to receive your specific inquiry and cooperate with you!

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Best regards

 

Cathy

 

---

Zhejiang Figure Knitting Industry Factory

Tel:  86-575-87730636   

 

Looks Like We Got Us A Badass Over Here - comics by kids

I've been mighty busy this past couple of weeks teaching kids how to write & draw comics, in schools in Ireland, North & South. Every one of my Comic Art Masterclasses gets a group of pupils, up to 30 at a time, producing a comic containing a strip be every single one of them, and a caricature by me. And a front cover, of course, with a title they come up with, after everybody has written a title on a piece of paper and we've voted to find the best. Don't blame me, this is what they've come up with this week (click to enlarge)...



These comics come from pupils in Dungarvan, Enniscorthy, Crumlin Dublin, Waterford, Ide (in Devon, that one's not from the Irish trip, how'd it get in there?), and Belfast. Here are some of the suggestions that they came up with from which we chose these final comic titles. And the celebrities they suggested when asked to come up with one for the "Steps On A Worm" demonstration were Psy, Eminem, Bob Marley, Daniel Craig, Paddy Doherty, Simon Cowell, Billy Joel and, offbeat suggestion of the week, Duke Special (a musician who's one of the pupil's Dads).

If you want to see more of this nonsense....

Keep Calm & OMG Panda! - comics by kids June 2012
Kid Afro Spaghetti - comics by kids June 2012
Phil Mitchell Meets Patrick - comics by kids May 2012
Fartimouse Owl - comics by kids May 2012
I ❤ Gingers - comics by kids May 2012

If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Fabulous Crabulous - comics by kids

I've been mighty busy this past couple of weeks teaching kids how to write & draw comics, in schools in Ireland, North & South. Every one of my Comic Art Masterclasses gets a group of pupils, up to 30 at a time, producing a comic containing a strip be every single one of them, and a caricature by me. And a front cover, of course, with a title they come up with, after everybody has written a title on a piece of paper and we've voted to find the best. Don't blame me, this is what they've come up with this week (click to enlarge)...



These comics come from pupils in Belfast, County Kildare, Wexford, Finglas Dublin, Dungarvan, & Enniscorthy, and included the most delightful thing of the season when two of the pupils at Aquinas Grammar in Belfast who had come up with "Fabulous Crabulous" came back after break to show me, and the rest of the group, a Fabulous Crabulous dance they'd devised. These were Year 9s (the equivalent of Yr 8 in England, 2nd Yrs in Ireland & Scotland), an age at which that kind of freedom of expression nearly never happens. So if your kids are lucky enough to be at that particular school, where it would seem the Tall Poppy Syndrome has been avoided, count your blessings. The following day I was teaching at a secondary school in Dublin where such behaviour would have got your head flushed down the toilet at the very least (Two Inch Killer is a much more typical title for 2nd Years to suggest). Here are some of the suggestions that they came up with from which we chose these final comic titles.

The celebrities they came up with in the "Treads On A Worm" demonstration were Keith Lemon, The Stig, Eminem, Chris Camara, Bertie Ahearne, Michael Jackson, 50 Cent, and my favourite of the week Albert Einstein.

For more examples of comics by Masterclass pupils, check this lot out:
Looks Like We Got Us A Badass Over Here - comics by kids in Ireland, Nov 2012
Granny's Back - comics by kids Oct 2012
The Hairy Bottom - comics by kids July 2012
There Are Idiots - comics by kids in Hanwell, July 2012
Help I'm A Superhero Get Me Out Of Here! - comics by kids April 2012
Dr Ghenki's Super-Ethical Happy Fun Time - comics by kids April 2012
Bilal's Mole - comics by kids March 2012
Who Stole Batman's Potty? - first comics by kids of 2012

If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Out of the mouths of babes, the kids ideas...

As part of my Comic Art Masterclasses, I get every pupil in the class to come up with a title for the group comic which they'll take home at the end. Up to 30 ideas are handed in on bits of paper, and we vote on them until a winner is chosen.  You'll have seen some of the finished comics, bearing the winning titles, but as for the other suggestions they always wind up in the bin. This week, in Ireland, I've been hanging onto them. Here, for your edification, are the suggestions you get if you ask a collection of various First Years to name a comic book...

Hipys
Evil geniuses
Loser Hero Squad
The stupid molon
Galaxy Go Boom!
Did it Hurt?
Fuzzel Weasels
Dopey moron
Sir Pistol Smack & his Splendid Adventure
Bob the Destroyer of Nuke Town
The Xtra
The Hippie Who Got Drunk  (winner)

Cookie Monster
People Rule
Gangster Hampster
Fart Man
Home Sick
gboy
Sandwich Man
1B's Comics
The Legdens Return
Great Magnificent Comic
Gangster Hamster
Austin Powers
Dooms Day Times Day
Cereal Boxes
The First Year Frenzy
Sick Brain (winner)

Pippy Reads
Homer Simpsons Day At The Bar
Messy Madness
Barney The Killer Dinosaur
Boom
The Hardy Biscuit
Hiberian Insurance Pretty Good
Go Away
Trollololo (winner)

We Can Draw
Bark
Tiny Titans
Death
I'm A Weirdo, Don't Be A Faadoodle
Die Die Die
I Can't Draw
The Boys Are Back In Town
Woof Woof
Don't Be Two Faced!
Fizze Brains
The Adventures of Explosive
Tittans
The Mighty Farmers (winner)

Fantastico Fisasco
Canadian Panda
Yoky
Freaky Sock
First Year Fail
The Flailing of the First Years
Duck Man
Super Girl
Fustasco!
Yeah!
First year Fantasy
Fisasco
Bing Bomb
Toasty First Year
Phisasto
Cheese Gone Wild
First Year Funaza (winner)

The Flying Cow
Mades
Wexs Com
Super Story
The Simpsons
Snap It
Messi
Bad Men
Wexford Drying!
Bonic Man
Family Guy
Marvel
Loopy Loo
Splash Boom
The Boys
The Loopies
Boss Angry
Poo
Gidiggi Giddigi Gu (winner)

ET Returns
Gangdem Style
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Mental Mix of Madness
Assassins Deed
Homer's Duff Attack
Land of the Dead
Marge Kill Attack
Zombie Attack
Killer Aliens
The Zombie Killers
Susidle Bunnie Rabbits
To Be Or Not To Be
Superboy
Egghead and Wonder Woman Unite
Oh Bubby Yaghh X2 (winner)

I Will Kill You Because You Killed My Man
Puberty Paul
Pop
Mass Murder Magazine
Death By Itchy Nose
The Assassins Best
Awesome Sauce Superheroes
Crazy Animations
What's App!!!
Toes
WTF
Jimmy Goes Bad
I'm Having What She's Having
Jimmy Goes Mad
The Crazy Wazys
Looks Like We Got Us A Badass Over Here (winner)

2C Comic
EVC
Smiley Spongebob
Casablanca
Pig
?
The
Crazy Bob
Horse
Chiza
Strong Bob Hairy Legs
Egg Heads
Wdt vs Bots
Ducks Gone Bonkers (winner)

 I'm not sure how edifying these are. Still there are some, for posterity.



If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Schools, Exeter to Enniscorthy

Here is a sweet wee piece in the Exeter Express & Echo about my recent Comic Art Masterclasses in Rockbeare in Devon.



And the classes have continued in earnest since then, with travels far and wide. Over the last fortnight I've taught comic art at James Joyce & Michael O'Leary's school Clongowes Wood, at schools in Dublin, Belfast, then Dublin again, and this coming week sees me entertaining the pupils of Wexford, Enniscorthy, Waterford and Dungarvan.

It is always fascinating to see the differences and the similarities between the schools and the pupils I visit. For example last week I had the most delightful group of kids at what turned out to be a Grammar School, who came up with the most imaginative titles for their comics, and included a couple of kids (from year 8 this is) who even devised a little dance which they performed for me and the class based on the title of the comic they'd come up with (Fabulous Crabulous is its name, you'll see it in the blog next week). The very next day I taught at a school of boys for whom such fancy tweeness would have been unimaginable, reminding me what a luxury it is for a lot of kids to be allowed to grow up without being 'hardened' by their surroundings. Whereas the Grammar School year 8s (actually called year 9 in their system) were coming up with witty, ironic, occasionally gothic and overwhelmingly endearing titles, the college kids (also year 8s, known as Second Year) came up with titles overflowing with sexual innuendo and drugs references, the most acceptable being the winner Two Inch Killer (I know. When you see it, you'll see I managed to steer the cover away from the image they clearly had in mind).

Four days and 8 classes await me this week, I cannot wait to see what they dream up. Stay tuned.

Granny's Back - comics by kids Oct 2012
The Hairy Bottom - comics by kids July 2012
There Are Idiots - comics by kids in Hanwell, July 2012
Keep Calm & OMG Panda! - comics by kids June 2012
Kid Afro Spaghetti - comics by kids June 2012
Phil Mitchell Meets Patrick - comics by kids May 2012
Fartimouse Owl - comics by kids May 2012
I ❤ Gingers - comics by kids May 2012
Help I'm A Superhero Get Me Out Of Here! - comics by kids April 2012
Dr Ghenki's Super-Ethical Happy Fun Time - comics by kids April 2012
Bilal's Mole - comics by kids March 2012
Who Stole Batman's Potty? - first comics by kids of 2012



If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Socks in Glasgow March 2013 - on sale now

There's no time like the present to start planning your 2013 comedy calendar, so here's some news for starters. The Scottish Falsetto Socks play the Glasgow Comedy Festival for not one, not two but three nights in March 2013, with their brand new show Socks in Space.

The Friday night should be fun, we're up against Scotland vs Wales. So all non-football loving comedy fans in Glasgow that night, we're the show you're looking for. Shows are on super-early advance sale, so book now, you know it makes sense.

New animated ad for the 2013 Socks calendar

Brand new from the Socks, an animated ad for their 2013 Socks calendar. Do feel free to bandy this about:



This popping up everywhere, coupled with the magical musical Late Night Double Feature Socky Horror video, which you have all watched now, haven't you? should mean that no-one but no-one will forget to order their Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre 2013 Calendar in time for Christmas. Check it out for free, and order quick will stocks last*.



*NB: It's print-on-demand, so technically stocks are infinite, inevitable heath-death of the universe notwithstanding.

The Psychopath Test & Conspiracy Season

I've just greatly enjoyed reading Jon Ronson's book The Psychopath Test (a birthday present, I read it from start to finish on Friday while flying to Ireland and back to teach comics at the school whose old boys include Michael 'Ryanair' O'Leary, Paul 'U2' McGuinness, Nick 'Apprentice' Hewer and James 'James Joyce' Joyce). It is, as the subtitle says, a Journey Through The Madness Industry, and I challenge anyone to come away from it without thinking they've got half a dozen of the mental conditions he looks at. I certainly seemed to be scoring disturbingly high on the Psychopath Test itself (though, reassuringly, it is suggested in the book that if you're worried you might be psychopath then that's an indication that you're not).

One of the areas looked at is Conspiracy Theories (in the book it's people who think terrorist incidents like 9/11 and 7/7 were faked by the government), which is a subject that's been very much on my mind in recent weeks in the wake of the Jimmy Savile child abuse stories which continue to unfold.

It's often said that the internet is full of nutters with ridiculous theories, and I'm delighted to say I mostly manage to avoid them, the worst of my encounters with those of a Trollish disposition being folk holding contentious opinions about Doctor Who, which I'm more than happy to take with a pinch of salt. But when you start Googling the theories about what is going on behind the scenes in the child-abuse stories you read some stuff which is either terrifying or mental. It may be malicious nonsense, it may be mischevious fantasising, or most worryingly some of it may hold a grain of truth. I confess, after a fortnight of reading these articles floating in the ether, I am none the wiser. Here are some of the ones that have stuck in my craw.

Jimmy Savile was part of a Paedophile ring which included leading Tory politicians of the Thatcher Government.  This was first reported in a magazine called Scallywag in 1997, which made it clear that one of the accused was "A man who bears the same surname as a prominent Conservative supporter" which it is suggested referred to the (now) late Jimmie McApline, hence the mistaken naming of (now) still alive Lord McAlpine, and the resignation of the (former) Director General George McAlpine.

Many people have published lists of the names of people involved, this being one of the most retweeted, including the incorrect McAlpine, alongside a late Morrison, and highly contentious L, L and P.

This is all, apparently, connected to the Haut La Garenne Childrens Home in Jersey (where, I learn, Bergerac was filmed), and to the massacre of 16 children in 1996 in Dunblane. The enquiry into the Dunblane was, according to the News Of The World, covered up by the Masons.

Then you get deeper into Conspiracy Theorist territory and you find this guy, who is not afraid to / as misguided as to (delete where applicable) list the most unbelievable names. If the names on this list are actually guilty of any of the things they are accused of, then never before has the phrase "everything you know is wrong" been more spot on. Gordon Brown? Gerald Kaufman? Leon Brittan? Tony Blair? Michael Portillo? Ted Heath? This I find beyond belief. Although we can't expect Labour politicians to be exempt, as this website devoted entirely to convicted Labour party paedophiles has dedicated itself to pointing out.

Which begs the question, if all those Labour paedos are in prison, why aren't all the alleged Tory paedos there too? A chilling answer is suggested by this article detailing the deaths of 12 former residents who died in suspicious circumstances (The same list and details are to be found on other sites with better spelling, grammar and layout).

All of which leaves one feeling disoriented and a little pessimistic. After all, just when it looked like the Bryn Estyn story was going to be blown wide open last week when a former abused resident "named and shamed" on Newsnight, we then get the man who's (wrongly) named immediately denying the accusation, the accuser being pilloried and demanded to apologise (he was even dismissed on the BBC this morning as a "weirdo" by that highly regarded looker David Mellor), and heads roll at the top of the BBC. We remain no closer to the truth being revealed. In fact we're further away from it. A worst case scenario would be that every person named on any of the lists above suddenly comes out and claims they weren't involved but, instead, it was someone with the same surname who's now, conveniently, dead.

If you read stories in the coming weeks about dead paedophiles Alan Portillo, Lionel Britten, and Jeremy Kaufman, remember where you heard it first.

For the record, and to leave on a cheerier note. Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test is a cracking read, and I commend it to the house.

My Twitter diary

This blog is supposed to be a diary, as well as a place where I post news and alerts. But I regularly fail to keep any kind of note of what I've been doing and when. So, purely for my own benefit, here's a collection of some of the only notes I make of what's been going on in my life, my Tweets. Here's the inanity that has been the last month or so...

23 Oct Oh god, must not laugh. Must. Not. Laugh. Taiwanese News does Jimmy Savile. In animation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUwmzv9hzo … (Is that a hairy cornflake?) 

No! Not K-9 too!!!!!!!!  #Savile #Entwistle

10 Nov Entwistle's resigned? Where are they going to find another bass player at this time of night?

10 Nov Have just been furiously redacting our recent Tweets while listening to Tori Paedo ............ Amos! Amos! While listening to Tory Amos! 

 

9 Nov My earworm is the HMRC phoneline hold music. Someone just paid their tax bill. (Damn catchy tune, Vodafone don't know what they're missing)  

9 Nov Tonight the Scottish Falsetto Socks have a homecoming gig, of sorts, at Kibworth Rugby Club in Harborough http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/89665/The_Scottish_Falsetto_Sock_Puppet_Theatre.html … See you there 

8 Nov And I'm in Dublin airport after a day teaching comics at Nick Hewer's old school, Clongowes #apprentice

7 Nov Have just given up on #5GoToRehab. Quite possibly it was never funny. (Good call, @Channel4, 30th birthday or no 30th birthday) @Gold 

7 Nov Granny's Back - brand new comics by kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses Enjoy. If you want me at your school, I'm here. 

5 Nov Tonight's Google earth discovery. This video was shot here

5 Nov Brand new from Sitcom Trials Bristol, 5 videos from their Halloween show http://sitcomtrials.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/halloween-bristol-5-videos-count-em.html … Yes, all 5 sitcoms, in full. Enjoy. 

5 Nov How Feminism Has Advanced in 40 Years: There are two women on #bbcbreakfast whose titles are "Military Wives" 

3 Nov Just watched Walking Dead ep 3. Now that's what we're talking about! (We had just been talking about high quality TV, as it happens). 

 2 Nov Just listened to the final Danny Baker BBC London show.  Well that was painful. Now unclenching. 

2 Nov Why's every old pop star rerecording their back catalogue? Is it a legal thing? @bbcbreakfast Kylie, Jeff Lynne, Lionel Richie, Def Leppard? 

31 Oct We're watching The Shining. After some Googling we've discovered it wasn't made in widescreen. Who knew? 

30 Oct Simply the most informative article I've read on sexual practices in the BBC since the whole Savile story began,... http://fb.me/1vEw5Cxo7 

26 Oct This makes me laugh. Very much. Pu Pu Hotpot (you can get me it for Christmas) 

26 Oct A cracking Socks gig tonight in Aberystwyth, thanks everyone. You were lovely. #gigreport 

26 Oct Our English teacher was very fond of naked wrestling. Still, we learned the meaning of the word onamatapaedo. 

Sarah McIntyre ‏@jabberworks

Ha ha! American comic artist @LucyKnisley encounters Doctor Who for the first time. IN A BIG WAY. http://lucylou.livejournal.com/602504.html  via @fpinternational 

Blast from the past, Sitcom Trials Edinburgh flyer 2001: #edfringe

24 Oct Cracking review for the Scottish Falsetto Socks and @SitcomTrials in Manchester last weekend. Cheers. 

24 Oct Not another musician re-recording their old material? #bbcbreakfast This is it. Pop music is so dead Jimmy Savile would fancy it. 

23 Oct I searched "Shit Sherlock" and only found "No shit Sherlock". No "Shit Sherlock". So, no-one else is watching Elementary on Sky Living. 

23 Oct Who is the shortest-lived BBC DG ever? Will it be Entwistle, Entwhistle, Enthwistle or Entwisle? Or Greg Dyke? You decide. 

23 Oct That pic of Justin Lee Collins on #bbcbreakfast

(I had to type in the Captcha philosoraptor. I know.) 

23 Oct I'm playing the Bond-hype Drinking Game. Every time Skyfall is plugged as "news" I drink a Martini. Currently hospitalised. #bbcbreakfast 

19 Oct According to @Chortle, Miranda's never done a stand up tour before. This, from exactly 10 years ago  #mirandahart 

18 Oct So weird, cos they used to call him The Fat Black Duke. BREAKING NEWS: David Bowie has pale skin  via @mePadraigReidy 

Socks Scooped by Da-Vinci. No, me neither.

Things you find on the internet. Here's us, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, appearing on the Da-Vinci Institute's Scoop-It page, being linked in some way to @GDNCulturePros. I have not worked out what any of that sentence means or who any of these people are.



And by the way that's not us in 2012 in Edinburgh, it dates way back to 2008 (maybe even 2007, it predates the full tartan set that appeared in August 2008 and the full-time wearing of a kilt which started around the same time) and was filmed at Komedia in Brighton at a show called The Birthday Party, hence our incongruous rendition of They Say It's Yer Birthday.

As for who or what the DaVinci Institute is, I've read the first page of their website and am not really any the wiser. Though their Scoop-It page (another new concept to me, a bit like the paper.li papers that I've created, for no real purpose) does link to some interesting articles. This, for example, is a very wry and satirical Condescending Corporate Brand Facebook Page, a cautionary example to us all.

@GDNCulturePros is The Guardian's Culture Professionals Network, so it's nice to be on their radar. I'm sure that'll benefit us in some way. You know, sometimes this whole social and business networking can leave one feeling a bit out in the cold, even when it looks like you're the star of the party.

Meanwhile back on planet Socks, last night we played a stonking homecoming gig of sorts at Kibworth Rugby Club in Market Harborough. A homecoming because I went to school in Kibworth and Market Harborough, and the Rugby Club was the venue for my school reunion a few years back. I didn't know anyone there, obviously, so it was just a good gig like many others (20 mins on the bill, not a solo show) with the bonus of being able to stay at Mum's, a 15 minute drive away. And yesterday we sorted out, at the 11th hour, our Glasgow Comedy Festival gigs, so we'll be playing three consecutive nights there in March, which is perfect. Next year's spring tour is still shaping up, expect dates to be announced soon.

Until then, might we recommend The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre 2013 Calendar? This unique celebration of the Scottish Falsetto Socks will see you through the year 2013, containing as it does every single day - with none missing - and all public holidays lovingly hand-mentioned, and costs just £10.25. Have a look for free and order now, you know it makes sense.

Granny's Back - new comics by kids

Good Lord, have I really not posted up any comics produced by kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses since way back in July? Well, classes resumed in September and I've done one or two schools a week since then, so do please enjoy this bumper bundle.



Above (click to enlarge) are the covers of comics produced by pupils in schools in Loughborough, Rockbeare in Devon, Sherborne, Milton Keynes, and Sandringham Primary in Newham who've had me in four times this term, gawd bless em. The spot colour is something I've added afterwards to brighten things up. Every kid in every class goes home with a copy of a black & white comic containing strips by everyone else in the class, and all of their individual caricatures, a handful of which you can see above.

Continuing to keep an eye on which celebrities they suggest for my famous "...Steps On A Worm" demonstration, the above classes came up with Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson (four times), Simon Cowell, Rowan Atkinson, David Beckham, Daniel Craig, Jesse J and, my favourite off-beat suggestion of the month, Adam Sandler.

I'm Kev F, the comic writer and artist whose work appears in The Beano, Marvel comics, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf Smegazine, Viz, 2000AD and many points inbetween. If you would like to bring my Comic Art Masterclass to your school or art centre, drop me a line, a Facebook comment, a Twitter, Klingon mind-meld, whatever works. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Savile/Doctor Who/Halloween - remember where you saw it first

Dear Private Eye,
I notice a remarkable resemblance between a cartoon in this week's Eye and our Halloween pumpkin of a week ago. Are they by any chance related?

And on a similar subject, does anyone remember a couple of weeks ago when I raised the spectre of the Jimmy Savile allegations and how they might affect Doctor Who and interfere with its 50th birthday celebrations? I posted the question on Gallifrey Base and it got taken down within 30 minutes. This, also in today's Private Eye...



Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?! Again.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre 2013 Calendar.
This unique celebration of the Scottish Falsetto Socks will see you through the year 2013, containing as it does every single day - with none missing - and all public holidays lovingly hand-mentioned, and costs just £10.25. Have a look for free and order now, you know it makes sense.

November in the Scottish Falsetto Socks' calendar

This is how we celebrate November on the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's 2012 calendar, with possibly my favourite image of the lot, Titanic...



You can still buy the calendar with its 12 unique brand new specially drawn cartoons by Kev F formerly of The Beano. It's good for another 2 months and is a collector's item joy to treasure. Click on the image to see more of the calendar and the link to the shop, or if you can't wait, buy it here.

Or how about looking forward to 2013 with the brand new Socks calendar...



A video with a specially recorded song by the Socks promoting their brand new 2013 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre calendar. 13 brand new images, perfect for Christmas. Order it now.

This unique celebration of the Scottish Falsetto Socks will see you through the year 2013, containing as it does every single day - with none missing - and all public holidays lovingly hand-mentioned, and costs just £10.25. Have a look for free and order now, you know it makes sense.





Tweet

The BBC Weather Map, a rant

Dear BBC, for the last time, would you please change your weather map. Look at the picture. On the left is the BBC Weather Map, on the right is what the British Isles actually look like. For starters, they're green not brown. And secondly they're tall and thin, not fat and wide, and the South of England is not so much more important than the North and Scotland that they have to be blown up to twice the size. The distance from Aberdeen to Harrogate is not the same as the distance from London to Bristol. I know. I've driven it. It's three times as far. So stop insulting the people of the North, the people of Scotland, and anyone who's ever bothered watering their garden and change this picture of a distorted desert to something which looks like Britain. Thankyou.

Tweet