Praise indeed

All a bit quiet on the Schafernaker front at present: So I'm grateful to Terratec for uploading this forecast from March 16th, for those suffering televisual Tomasz withdrawl symptoms. Our own ray of sunshine talking about "squeezing out 15"



The Schaf has written a blog this week, lamenting the poor April weather. Although I like the cool temperatures and lack of strong sunshine, I don't like incessant rain. I concede one advantage of warm weather, is Tomasz in rugby shirts.

Finally, I've had the ultimate praise. One of my heroes, the television critic Ian Hyland (he of talking-heads/Top 100 shows) has said of my blog: "Splendid work". There can be no higher praise (well except of The Schaf himself, of course!). I suppose I better mention a link to Ian Hyland's page, hadn't I?

Do widzenia

Spirits and the spirited

The Schaf was back adorning our screens today, albeit with a bleak outlook for the weather-- more hibernal conditions on the way. However "Shufflepants" gave a wonderfully spirited performance, which lightened any grim prognoses {i}

Spirited is the word: Halfway through Tomasz's missive, there was a clattering noise in the background; perhaps Tomasz was being plagued by spirits, and suffering poltergeist activity? It wasn't Simon McCoy this afternoon, so we can't pin that on him... perhaps it was some (still) outraged Scot protesting at Tomasz's mention of cold weather there {ii}



I was half expecting Tomasz to make a comment, but he wasn't phased by the poltergeist activity and didn't have the willies put him this time. Although he is worried about cycling in these hibernal conditions may do to him, see his latest blog post. You know you want to.

Ta muchly t'Terratec f'video, tha knaws

{i} He curiously didn't mention frost in Vale of York or snow on the Llyn Peninsula, perhaps he has a new place of choice: Perhaps he'll talk of chilling around The Mendips instead or something.

{ii} Update on the noise, quoth Tomasz on Twitter: "Been asked a lot about the noise on the BBC1 lunch weather: I think keyboard+mouse fell off Kate's news desk...what a bang it was LOL."