Typos notwithstanding (we all make them!) an excellent article!

Just for interest, those of us who have occasion to work in and around the Palace of Westminster most commonly refer to it as St. Stephen's Tower. I'll admit it does get a little annoying when even the "locals" refer to the clock as Big Ben.

The other point is that all those versions of the "39 Steps", Disney's "Basil" and other films that have featured a scene in and around the clock faces, it is impossible to see the clock faces from the room where the clock mechanism lives! There are four fairly thick walls in the way! :-)

This could go viral!

The way the fur has remained around the head reminds me of the Mystics out of "The Dark Crystal"

Excellent article!

"Songs of Distant Earth" by Mike Oldfield is an homage to the Arthur C. Clarke's novel.. does that count?

This almost counts as Chindogu!

Global Warming (and cooling) is a natural phenomena, you just have to look at the histories of this planet over the past 500 years or so.... Ice fairs on the River Thames in the 1600 and 1700's

The UK's winters are starting to get colder and the country is getting wetter. What the problem is at the moment is we (as the human race) seem to have made it more severe and the changes quicker.

It's almost an ornament rotator. It's a veritcal spit turner for roasting fowls.