It’s a riddle wrapped in an enigma (“Humphrey, I don’t care for that word”).

Martyn‘s uncovered evidence that the person or persons behind Gidley Watch has been campaigning with the LibDems in Hartlepool. Anders Hanson, on the other hand, quotes a “source in Hartlepool” who rejects this evidence, which puts us back to square one.

If (as reading between the lines on the website suggests), the Gidley Watch writer(s) are LibDem activists, I might well know them. If so and if you’re reading this, e-mail me 😉

Either way, I’m off to Hartlepool next week and will be taking my digital camera just in case La Gidley pays a visit at the same time so I can enter the photo competition being run by Gidley Watch (no sign of any entries so far so I may stand a chance). I doubt I’ll have the nerve to ask an MP to hold up an “I love Gidley Watch” sign for me though.

Update: I have replaced the relatively weak title of this entry with one that I hope is at least marginally wittier

James‘s version:

Never ask the soft-headed readers of a cod-educational Cold War propaganda granny-mag who they think are the “funniest Britons”.

I’m less than enamoured by the list of funniest British comedians produced by Reader’s Digest (who are natural arbiters on this subject).

I’ll let Tommy Cooper alone at the top (although I wouldn’t have ranked him so high), but Peter Kay second? Looks like a typical example of these polls where people just put down the person they laughed at on TV the previous night.

Chubby Brown at 7? Jim Davidson at 13? And yet, given that the likes of Benny Hill and Les Dawson got on, no sign of Frankie Howerd or the Two Ronnies. No Hancock, no Barry Cryer, no Graeme Garden. David Jason isn’t even a comedian.

Cleese is ridiculously low down the list, and there is a painful dearth of alternative comedy, however mainstream it may be now. No to Paul Merton and Harry Hill but yes to Freddie Starr? It’s just not funny.

Given the recent debate here on wind farms, I thought I’d take a tip from doctorvee and add the Alternative Energy Blog to my blogroll.