Category: United Kingdom

Blog posts with articles relating to stuff about the United Kingdom (UK).

How to Make Angel Delight Properly

Angel Delight is a cornflour based dessert that sets into a sort of mousse, and is a popular brand in the United Kingdom.
It ships in a sachet containing the powder needed to mix it, and is available in a bunch of flavours including:

At some point in the 1990’s they tweaked the formula of Angel Delight to try make it set faster, but the 5-minutes time to set they give on the current packaging is a bit optimistic.

Having seen a couple of the Americans Reacting to British Things style of YouTube channels attempt to mix some up they’ve had sent in the mail, I felt it necessary to write down the proper way to mix the stuff seeing as YouTube frequently deletes my attempts to do so in the comments. Continue reading “How to Make Angel Delight Properly”

Rough Status of British Car Brands

Most of them are now Chinese or German

Aston Martin = at least trades on the London Stock Exchange

Bentley = owned by Volkswagen Group AG after splitting off from Rolls Royce after brief ownership by British Aerospace

Rolls Royce = now owned by BMW

Land Rover + Jaguar = now owned by the Indians after Ford off-loaded them

Lotus = GM sold them to the Malaysian company that made Proton, who recently sold them to the Chinese company that now owns Volvo
Continue reading “Rough Status of British Car Brands”

The brief what you need to know to learn about British comedy / comedians (part 1)

Billy Connolly = Stonefish routine + the incontinence pants routine, among others

Roy “Chubby” Brown = comedian from Middlesbrough, proudly boasts of being Britain’s bluest, Keeps retiring then coming back.

Jasper Carrott (Robert Davis) = comedian from Birmingham, best know for “The Mole” story + also the one about the psychopathic family cat. Also co-starred in a 90’s BBC sitcom called “The Detectives” with Robert Powell. He also used to be a folk singer in the 1970’s, and I think was responsible for helping get Billy Connolly known outside Scotland.

The 2 Ronnies = Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, with sketches including “Four Candles / Fork Handles”, “The Phantom Raspberry Blower” + “When the Worm Turned”. Ronnie Barker was also responsible for a bunch of popular Sitcoms, including “Porridge”, which was set inside a prison.
Then after that Ronnie Barker also did one called “Open All Hours” set in a corner shop in Doncaster, Co-Starring a young actor named David Jason who later went on star in “Only Fools and Horses”, and also did voice acting work on the “Count Duckula” cartoons – and now also stars in a modern continuation called “Still Open All Hours”. Continue reading “The brief what you need to know to learn about British comedy / comedians (part 1)”

Sweet Treats on Amazon UK

Lately I have been searching around on Amazon UK to find sweet treats that are different from the mainstream, but still come from sources not considered “sketchy”.

Here is what I have found to date:

Tempted? Continue reading “Sweet Treats on Amazon UK”

Increase of Older Cars on UK Roads

The Daily Telegraph is reporting an increasing number of older cars in use on UK roads (don’t blame them, there’s hardly any new cars around I’d spend actual money on if I had the money).

About 5.3 million cars are 15 years old or older, according to figures from car marketplace Auto Trader, up from just 1.7m in 2001. The number is on track to rise to 9.3m by 2032.

Two Important Tweets for UK Small Businesses (27th April 2020)

Yesterday I spotted a couple of tweets that UK based small business people may want to have a look at if they didn’t see it at the time……..


The webmaster of AlltheInterweb likes small business, grew up above one, likes trying to create new ones that I hope will take off eventually, and has some useful small business links in the web directory elsewhere on this blog site.