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I think I may have mentioned Brief Lives by Alan Watkins before.

There’s an hilarious passage on Auberon Waugh that I must share with you.

“He did his national service as a subaltern in the Royal Horse Guards and was sent to Cyprus. One day he noticed and impediment in the elevation of the Browning machine gun in his armoured car, and resolved to investigate it. He moved to the front of the gun, seized it and wiggled it up and down, whereupon it started to fire bullets into him. He survived, but lost a lung, his spleen, several ribs and a finger. As he was lying on the ground, waiting for the ambulance, he said to his platoon sergeant, a parachutist from Bristol called Chudleigh: ‘kiss me, Chudleigh.’ Chudleigh, however, did not spot the reference, and afterwards treated Waugh with suspicion and reserve…..It was believed by some that he had been fired on by his own troops – similar stories were told about his father – and also that he had lost a testicle, but both these tails were convincingly denied by Waugh”

I’m still laughing, days after reading that passage.

Farewell my constant friend in childhood. You remain my generation’s genius. Amidst all the Ben 10 mania, my son is still devoted to your work. Watching Ivor the Engine with him will be a memory I will treasure. Thank you.

Like I said only a fortnight ago, they’ll all be wanting a piece of Igglepiggle action.

A week away from an internet connection. I was a bit twitchy for the first couple of days but soon got things under control. Whilst away, the nice people at the New Statesman were kind enough to publish my homage to Igglepiggle.

Dizzy and Watson with the genesis of a mass movement. Iggle Piggle – the unifying candidate.

In the last week, over 2000 people have found this site using the search phrase “iggle piggle”. The BBC have got a monster hit on their hands. Buy shares in Makka Pakka quick.

I’ve recently updated my stats package to allow the tracking of phrases typed into Google that find this site. Very slow off the mark I know. There are some hilarious phrases in there that I’m going to compile at a later date, but I’m getting innundated for people looking for:

Iggle Piggle
Makka Pakka
Upsy Daisy
Tombliboos
The Pontipines
Haahoo
Tittifers

More politics are required on this site I feel.

My son has become addicted to “In the night garden“, a psychedelic kids programme on CBeebies. This is one of the weirdest, mesmerising pieces of kids TV since the Teletubbies.99% of blog readers will not have seen the programme. Those that have though – don’t you think that every busy household should have their own Makka Pakka? I think I’m going to run a book on who will be the first MP to mention Iggle Piggle in the House of Commons. It’s usually Steve Pound with these things but Ed Vaizey might get in their first.

At last we’re on the move to a new server. James, who is kindly helping me, is aiming for Wednesday for the actual move. If things get a bit strange over the next day or two, we should be back to normal by the end of the week. I’m hoping to be the first MP to get an RSS feed to ‘they work for you’. Then I’ll update links (apologies to the people who have mentioned this). Then I want to jiggle with the comments box and sort out some meaningful categories. There’s some clever stuff I want to work on over the summer too, but I’ll tell you about that when the time comes.