How to avoid this evening's (and tomorrow's) wall-to-wall TV coverage of the referendum...
Many months have passed since Carry On Langport gave readers viewing ideas to pass the time on those cold winter nights. So the feature makes a welcome return on referendum night with some top recommendations for how to avoid the subject altogether.
To kick off, here's a reminder of what went just ever so slightly wrong with Europe back in the 1940s:
(click on the blue links)
and here's a warning from Terry Wogan's grandfather to the Germans about their Eurovision entry just a year earlier in 1939:
...here's a reminder that there was actually life on the continent before we joined the 'Common Market':
...and finally if you think tonight's referendum coverage is painful...spare a thought for poor British TV viewers back in the year when we joined the EU...here's what the BBC put viewers through one night back in 1973:
That's it for now. Put up the blackout curtain, sleep well, don't have nightmares and put your passport under the mattress...who knows what tomorrow will bring.
God Save The Queen.
