Not a lot has happened this week – it's been busy at work, and it's starting to get very dark in the evenings. It has, however, been unseasonally, even record-breakingly warm in the highlands. It was a gorgeous walk home from work today, along the river and up the hill past the castle and the Harlequin bar, folk sitting outside in the beer garden as if it was a summer's afternoon. Back over the river there was a gorgeous sunset over Craig Dunain, but by the time I'd got home and come out again with my camera, I'd missed the best of it, unfortunately.
So, in the absence of any other news, maybe I'll tell you about the Celebrity Breeding Programme I first mentioned in my Friday 14 October blog. Devised by my friend Justin and myself, this is all about bringing together celebrities with similar notable features, breeding them, and producing lots of wee kids with a strong genetic prevalence of those characteristics.
So first, we'd breed singer, songwriter and all-round receding hairline David Gray (noted for shaking his head around wildly while performing) with marathon drop-out Paula Radcliffe (who does the same while running). They'd inevitably produce lots of shaky-head kids who'd do their best Churchill the dog impressions whatever they were doing.
Secondly, Racing driver David Coulthard and sultry pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor would be cross-bred to produce lots of alarmingly square-headed children. And finally, lots of offspring with unnecessarily loud laughs and over-charismatic personalities could be bred by genetically combining legendary Record Breakers presenter Kris Akabussi with TV chef Rusty Lee.
The fun would really start in the third generation when you tried to get lots of kids who, for example, can't stop shaking their impossibly square heads all the time…
Any other suggestions are most welcome – drop a line on celebritybreedingprogramme@simonvarwell.co.uk.
Over the weekend, I'll tell you about Ceefax Page 777.
