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list by Ben Last week, I went to Austria. Whilst travelling the Salzkammergut, I came across a number of things that surprised, confused and bemused me. There are so many strange things in Austria, but I have narrowed them down to ten. So here are the top ten things that fascinated me in Austria. 1.…

by Ben Today I went to town. I know, shocking isn’t it. But on the way to town – I rode the number 7 bus if you’re interested – I saw on Twitter that Eliza Doolittle (a singer) was going to be ‘busking’ in Birmingham City Centre at 2pm today. “Ooh.” I thought. I did,…

by Ben Earlier today, we were clearing out our loft… or attic. Technically it’s an attic, but we’ve always referred to it as ‘the loft’ so I’m going to continue with that. Anyway, I found a few things that were quite nostalgic that I thought I might share with you. 1. Action Men When I…

Compiled by Ben Arguably the best thing about children’s television is the splendid array of theme tunes. Who can forget the craziness of the ZZZap! theme, the rock guitar based Art Attack, or indeed Mike Batt’s beautiful orchestral score that opened each episode of The Wombles? Some of television’s greatest music lies within children’s television,…

A while ago, Ben wrote a book. His first. It was a book of alliterative haiku poems. Mike wrote the blurb. Here’s a quick preview: www.amazon.co.uk/Haiku-Alphabet-Ben-Coleman/dp/1291631518/ We also mentioned we are looking at producing an online sketch show. Now, as you can see, we have no adverts on this site, so we don’t make any…

As part of the Cooking For Blokes series, we’ve filmed a Pancake Day special, showing you a quick and easy way to make pancakes. As you can see, it kind of went wrong at the flipping stage, but we carried on with it, we thought it was still just as funny. We wouldn’t recommend having…

Our debut album, Even More of Everything is available to buy from benandmike.bandcamp.com. The album consists of 18 Spoken Word Instrumentals written and recorded by us. Here’s a preview of one of the tracks:

thoughts by Ben I have come to realise that the main thing we do on this site is moan about things. Which is all well and good, we like a good rant, but it’s sometimes good to talk about good things. So, one of the one things we moan about the most is television adverts…

Article by Mike Sometime last month I wrote an article about wrestlers who tried other careers, including acting, music, and even advertising. Well I’m going to be looking at a few more professional wrestlers who gave other things a go, and failed miserably, and some who succeeded, starting with: COMEDY I may or may not…

Thoughts by Ben Lately i’ve started re-watching the Harry Potter films in order, and I’ve noticed several things that don’t seem to make much sense. Things that later to prove to be fortunate guesses. So i’ve decided to outline them for each story and you can make up your own mind. [vision_divider style=”hr-dotted”] Philosopher’s Stone…