Jools, Ivor and the dreadful PGTip

Jools' Later on Friday night was pretty much this week's little highlight. Next Friday though, I'm in danger of being spoiled because in addition to Jools there's a profile of Ivor Cutler, a quirky Glasgowegian poet, actor and musician. I imagine the few people who are familiar with his performances have either passed on or are far too old to be bloggers. What a little gem of originality he was though. Have a listen to this short but amusing piece of his wisdom.

Note to self - Friday evening (Saturday morning really) on BBC2 at 00:40. Don't miss it!

The PGTips pyramid tea bag has to be one of the most annoying inventions of the 20th Century. I don't know whether the science behind the invention is also at fault, but what I can say is: when they came up with their supposedly revolutionary idea - a pyramidal tea bag, they forgot to put nice tea inside. Their marketing material suggests that because these tea bags aren't flat, because they "act like a miniature teapot", the tea gets a chance to mingle with the water, inside the bag and then out pops a well mingled brew. Well why is it then that my cheapo brand of Organic Fairtrade tea, in quite flat round bags, tastes trillions of times better than these daft and horrible little things?

I don't really wish bad things on anyone but I do wish, right at the point when Mr PGTip bag inventor was about to kindle his idea, that maybe he tripped over, or someone knocked him and that maybe he sprained his tea-pouring wrist or something. And maybe after that, just to distract him some more, that he had to go work at the North Pole for a while. Perhaps he could have come up with a new type of snowball design. Anything but the PGTip!

Listening to: Cat Stevens, "Sad Lisa"
Feeling: drained