So you wanna make other people fall asleep?

What’s it all about?
Our video clip features the heroic hobby of Harvey Brant, a railway signalman from Bristol, who got so bored with his workmates’ trainspotting, he decided to go one further and reveal to a horrified and alarmed world, via his Pylon of the Month website (see Links), his addiction to the unspeakably boring hobby of Pylon Spotting.

Set up your own website
Making jam, grouting a bath or…. spotting pylons can be immensely stimulating and satisfying. And there’s space on the web for just about anything.

So uncool it’s cool
At least Pylon Spotting is a clean and healthy thing to do in the country. Normal’s boring. Abnormal’s a bit cool we think. Except if it’s violent.

Hedge makeover
Topiary is the art of clipping hedges into artistic shapes like dogs or cockerels. It used to be really popular not so very long ago, but seems to have gone out of fashion for some reason, which is a shame as hedges haven’t gone out of fashion and some of them are shockingly ill-kempt and could do with an artistic make-over.

Hedges online
There’s lots of online potential for ‘Hedge of the Month’ type shenanigans.

Collecting
… anything you like. You could share and compare Online. Or keep your collection personal and secret.

Milk bottle tops
Imagine how many milk bottle tops you could collect before you have a complete set, given that each milk bottle top not only has the date it was processed and the date it should be consumed by, but also where it was processed.

Specialist collections
Collecting eggcups commemorating, say, Prince William’s 18th birthday has only a finite range to it, as only a certain amount of different eggcups commemorating Prince William’s 18th birthday will have been produced.

Comprehensive collections
You could, of course, expand your eggcup collection to take in the whole of the Royal Family – the Queen’s Jubilee, Charles & Di’s Wedding, The Queen Mother’s 100th , the de-commissioning of the Royal Yacht, etc – but even then it might not be enough to last you a lifetime.

Go mainstream
We suggest just collecting eggcups full stop. Or eggcups of a particular colour. Or eggcups manufactured in a certain country. Something like that.

Cowbells!
There’s something a lot of people don’t collect, probably. And…

Nails
Metal ones, not fingernails – that would be a bit macabre. Although, having said that, you could collect the nail clippings of the rich and famous, maybe. There’s a thought. D’you think Madonna’s would come with or without varnish? That’d make a fantastic website, and a really good way of having fun with guests if you ever got them.

Go on, do your thing
You could put a tube of toothpaste in the bathroom from, say, Abu Dhabi, and they’d go ‘oh, that’s an interesting tube of toothpaste’, and you’d go ‘yes, isn’t it?’ And then, during the night, you could sneak into the bathroom and replace the tube of toothpaste from Abu Dhabi with one from, say, Brazil! Their face the next morning would be a treat to behold!

Ink cartridges are a possibility – both pen and printer, or either one or the other, of course. The little pre-packed jam cartons you get at service stations and hotels. Hotel shampoo sachets. Guitar strings. Vacuum cleaner bags – they’ll be collector’s items soon thanks to Mr Dyson. Knitting patterns. Garden Gnomes. Salt ‘n’ Pepper Pots. Indigestion tablets. Plastic Spanish Bulls. Gravy Boats. Ceramic Frogs. Milk Stamps. Golf Balls. Claw Hammers. Those quality limited edition plates with cute animal scenes painted onto them that you see advertised in Sunday newspapers. Sandcastle flags. Gobstoppers (unused). Tea Cosies. Hot Water Bottles. Mineral Water Bottles. Medicine Bottles. Bottles….

Did we succeed in making you fall asleep? Zzzzz….