bobbyllew1

It's obviously come back to me a great deal recently with the sad passing of Rik. It was enormous fun, they were brilliant to work with, Rik was simply the master at big, brutal and hysterically funny physical gags and I did punch him during rehearsals. I didn't mean to, he asked me to get closer when I was whacking him about the head, unfortunately I got a bit too close. Sad loss

It's all going very well, I've managed to get my lamb korma in the slow cooker before I sat down, dogs walked, kitchen clean, chickens shut away and it's not raining. All in all, not bad. Hope you are okay too :-)

Hate to pick favourites but the flight special we did in 2002 stays in the mind. 3 teams built 3 working airplanes in 2 days, and they all (just about) flew. Most commendable failure has to be the car trebuchet which collapsed very dramatically just before it did anything

I was kind of thrown in the deep end on the Red Dwarf pilot, it was back in 1992 so some of the events are a bit hazy now. I had no way of judging if it would succeed or fail, on the night of the 1st recording it felt pretty good, the audience loved it, but then it was mostly an audience of TV professionals and the producers. The whole thing was a very bizarre experience for a gormless Brit

I'll answer the 2nd one first. No, I couldn't even remember them on the night. Wait, one has come back to me! 'No officer in the Space Corps with false teeth can perform oral sex in zero gravity.' 1st question. There is no question the entire (present) UK could generate all the electricity we need from wind. It would obviously require considerable investment but we are blessed with 40% of Europe's wind, we have huge coastal areas and the technology is improving all the time. On the other hand, with the current attitudes and pressure from existing power suppliers it's going to be a long slow increase.