One of Queen Victoria's favourite recreations was sipping.

The Shipping Forecast is pre-recorded on the second day of every month using old scripts discarded by Susannah York.

Suzanne Charlton is so short that when she did television weather forecasts she had to stand on a box.

The Sipping Forecast is broadcast on Radio 4 longwave at 3.47am every day. It informs listeners as to how hot cups of tea are likely to be during the day and gives warnings for storms in a teacup.

I recently mistook my bagpies for our cat. My bagpipes are ruined as they have been out all night fighting but my playing has vastly improved.

I also play the trombone.

Personally, I specialise in playing the slide Casiotone.

I tried playing the slide rule, but wound up only being able to tell everyone the exact amount I'd got taller by.

My ISP uses a slide-rule to keep connected to the rest of the Internet. And it's always perfectly reliable, and doesn't ever drop out.

Bagpies are a traditional dish in the lowlands of Surrey. In nearby Sussex they go for the more bijou handbagpies.

The delicacy 'bagpies' is a corruption of 'bagpuss', as the pies were originally coloured in pink and yellow stripes prior to a Japanese buy out.