Brew's Thoughts

  Everyone loves a good corporate meme going viral. Just to update with the biggest news story of the week, the following tweet was posted this Tuesday from the official Weetabix twitter account: Many bored 20-somethings managing Twitter accounts from GCHQ to the NHS got on board to reply a topical reaction.  Quite understandably, the main reaction was disgust but I felt this combination deserved a chance. So I rushed off to the shops to see what the big fuss was about.   I didn't particularly want to spend £2.50 on some Weetabix I wasn't too fussed about when there was a perfectly good 80p version. Anyway, I heated the Heinz baked beans on the hob for about 5 minutes and placed the Bix in the bowls. I was subjecting my housemates to this but I only gave them one Bix each since I didn't want to be too cruel. The overall consensus was that it was fine. The concept is more horrifying than the actual flavour itself and the best way to eat it was to just forget about the Weet...

This question came about when re-watching the cult classic 'Chicken Run (2000)' last Sunday evening with my house. The short answer is Yorkshire but I had a feeling watching the film a more exact answer could be found knowing the detail Aardman studios put in to their productions, I decided to give this entirely pointless task of finding a fictional location from a 20 year old animated film a shot. Just to give a bit of context at first in case you haven't watched the film recently. This purely takes place on Mrs Tweedy's farm with the only other location being the 'Chicken paradise sanctuary' in the Epilogue. This other location appears to be a lake a likely short distance away from the farm but I will get to this at the end. The biggest clue to solving this question comes from one particular scene when the plane to escape the chicken coup is being built. As Ginger walks through barking orders to the other chickens to keep moving since time is running out, a si...