We were in the German press this week! Hooray! Der Spiegel gave our Bagger 288 song a mention, which is lovely! Here's the article:

Der Spiegel on "Bagger 288"

Babel Fish gave me a really useful translation as always- here it is:

The British Komiker Joel Veitch zusammengeschnipselt from one of the Garzweiler documentations a video (caution, loud!), completely different history tells: The heads of state of the world build themselves up with a secret meeting, because the earth " unprotectedly approximately; Godzillas" and " bad robots from the Zukunft" is. All are helpless, there play trumps the Germans with the idea, " Excavator 288" to design, a Stahlkoloss with enormous, blood covered blade sheets, which will repel all the new threats (said like Godzillas, giant robot etc.).

Hoorays!

On Friday me and Jacqui went down to the FOX News studio in London to do a rendition of the Cow Song! It was wonderful! I played the ukulele. They were so very very lovely to us! We had a thoroughly wonderful time! Hoorays! Here it is!

Hellooooooooo! And welcome to the 85th EVER update from rathergood!

Wow, we have got a TOTALLY AWESOME load of stuff for you this week. OH MY GOD it is SO GOOD!

First of all, we have developed the most incredibly brilliant piece of technology in the history of mankind around these Scots what we have got! We have developed JocksApp!

http://rathergood.com/jocksapp

JocksApp is an application which allows you to BUILD YOUR OWN SCOTSMAN and send him with a message of joy to your friends and family!

But wait! It doesn't stop there! Because here is Angus and Fingus and Fungus – a wonderful song which describes the lives of some of the great clans of the Scottish Highlands:

http://www.rathergood.com/angus

It's as much social commentary as entertainment to be honest. Think of it as anthropology, in musical form.

UN.......FREAKING.....BELIEVABLE!

BUT WAIT! THERE'S EVEN MORE!

I have knocked up another old school misheard lyric – this time revealing that Abba were really singing about their infestation of martial arts experts!

http://www.rathergood.com/abba

BUT WAIT! THERE'S EVEN MORE!

As you know I am gradually putting up some of our commissioned work as portfolio pieces – and this week I have put the Cow Song which we did for kids TV show Jim Jam and Sunny:

http://www.rathergood.com/cow

Mooray! Hello Cow! Moo moo moo moo!

Recently FOX News have been going a bit bonkers over it and I'm currently booked with Jacqui to do a quick interview about it today at 1050 Eastern Time – so if you are in the States and available at that time do you think you could record it for me? I would LOVE to see it! (this is around 3.50 pm in the UK). You herd me right (get it? You herd me? HAHA I AM SO VERY FUNNY) – FOX News 10.50am Eastern time TODAY! FRIDAY!

Also, we've got slogan tshirts up in the shop! They are totally brilliant!

http://bit.ly/pI1ub

Lots of people have told me they are going to get the leopard one, but I personally am absolutely DYING for someone to send me a photo of themselves in public with the demon shirt on. Now THAT is a serious tshirt. YEAH BWOY! OH YEAH!

We've got Scotsman tshirts as well! They are WONDERFUL!

http://bit.ly/I61Cx

In other news I whacked a couple more family photos up on flickr if you like that kind of thing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelveitch/

I also explained the attractions of Brownsea Island in the blog

http://www.rathergood.com/873_Brownsea_Island

You know what else has been brought to my attention? That someone has put in my entry on Wikipedia that I am the son of Christopher Biggins. That's not even slightly true! Very funny, but untrue nonetheless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Veitch

Right! I think that's about it! Except to tell you that I love you! I love you so much! I love you so HARD! I would do anything for you! I'd burn off my skin for you and wrap myself in clingfilm to keep the bits in and then come and lie down outside your house all de-skinned and clingfilmed and wait for you to come out and find me collapsed there outside your door just to show you how HARD I love you! I'd totally do that!

I've run out of clingfilm though so I can;t do it right now. I'd TOTALLY do it for you if I had some clingfilm though.

Mwah Mwah Superhugs I love you oh god I love you

Your sincerely

Joel Veitch MA

I recently went to Brownsea Island off the Dorset coast with my family. It's a brilliant day out. We actually ended up there at Zak's command – we wanted to go on a boat trip, and the boat stopped there on its way round. Zak said he wanted to go and see the island, so off we got.

What a treat we had! Brownsea Island is a National Trust island of woodland, wetland and heath, with red squirrels and deer and birds and all that malarkey.

We got off at a castle, and went on to walk through woods and eventually down to a windswept and rugged beach where we explored and did things with stones and driftwood. Marvellous! On the way back, we stopped for tea in the garden of a tea shop inhabited by a peacock, which Bliss chased around and shouted at. She sure showed that peacock who was boss!

Brownsea Island is famous as the place where the scouting movement started in 1907, when Lord Baden-Powell took the very first group of scouts on the very first scout camp. To this day there is a Scout Stone hidden away in the woodland of Brownsea, and on the first of November every year a gigantic wicker Baden-Powell, 666 feet high, is erected at the site straddling the sacred stone with his cloven hooves. Throughout the year corpses of dead scouts are shipped in from all over the world and piled up inside the titanic Baden-Powell, hundreds upon hundreds of them. As the 31st of October looms in the calendar, if the Baden-Powell is still not full of scout corpses there is a great cull, so that by the night of Halloween it is full of scouts, right up to the tips of the great goat horns on his gigantic brow.

On the night of October 31st, thousands upon thousands of Scouts are gathered around the sacred scouting stone and the resplendent goaty Baden-Powell with its filling of accumulated scout bodies. At the exact stroke of midnight, it set to the torch, burning with a huge flame as the scouts work themselves into a frenzy of dancing and screaming.

The next morning construction begins on the new Baden-Powell.

Brownsea Island has been occupied since the Iron Age, and was home to the BBC's Autumnwatch in 2008. It was even described by Bill Oddie as “the best place for seeing wildlife in Dorset”

All in all, a highly recommended family day out!

Hellooooooooooo! And welcome to the 84th EVER update from rathergood!

We are kicking it OLDSKOOL right now- with a misheard lyric gag showing a Take That classic hit as we believe it should be!

http://www.rathergood.com/take_that

In other news I whacked up Stephen Hawkwind on the site. I actually made it ages ago for Rathergood Videos, but it hasn't been viewable anywhere for years and it's the single most requested thing I've done so I've whacked it up on rathergood as a portfolio piece innit. I'll be popping more work stuff up over the next few weeks:

http://www.rathergood.com/hawkwind

Also, I did my spot on Sky News again this week, talking about some internets and things. Have a butcher's!

http://bit.ly/Qe8zN

I've also whacked some family snaps up on flickr if you're interested in that:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelveitch/

I guess that's about it for this week, except to tell you that I love you! I love you SO VERY HARD! I'd do anything for you! Really literally anything! My love for you is only constrained by my body's physical capacity to contain it! I would increase my volume so as to get more love for you in! I'd expand enormously! I'd gorge on meats and cakes JUST FOR YOU until I was a love-filled massively obese immobile mound of blubber! Inflated like a balloon with my enormous love for you! I would be able to fit in SO MUCH LOVE as I grew fatter and fatter until I was entombed in a room stuck fast in my own vomit and excreta, a stinking putrefying blubbery mountain of LOVE!

ALL FOR YOU! YOU LUCKY LUCKY THING!

I'll get started on that project at lunch time.

Anyway, in the meantime MWAH MWAH big sloppy kisses and superhugs!

Yours sincerely

Joel Andrew Veitch MA