Wel­come to our site — it’s taken a lot of work to get this far and… hang on, let me just check the site’s still up. Oh I’d bet­ter save this file just in case. Hang on. Right where was I? Oh yes, we’re try­ing to do a lot of work here to help folk who… wait a minute, I think I can hear a hot water tap run­ning I’ll just check it. Ah it’s ok. Right, so we’re a self help group of people with obsess­ive com­puls­ive dis­order (ocd) who want to help each other through the… oh wait a minute… Christ! I’ve left the iron on! No I haven’t! Yes I have!

Ok, if you’ve come to this site via the usual route, you’ll be won­der­ing what the heck is going on.

Basic­ally we were sat watch­ing a trailer for the very funny Cath­er­ine Tate Show and she made a gag about obsess­ives who should log on to http://www.christivelefttheironon.co.uk/noihavent/yesihave

And well, James and I were won­der­ing if the domain had been registered. The com­puter was just there you know…so we had no choice but to check — and it was avail­able! We couldn’t res­ist and, for the princely sum of a fiver, we had a shiny new domain!

Then, erm, what were we going to do with it?! And I real­ised, it shouldn’t be dif­fi­cult to record the entry url — I’d simply redir­ect the domain to this post here that you’re read­ing now, and see what happens.

So — here’s the gig. Sug­gest how many people are sad enough to log on to a domain they’ve heard on the TV. After the show has aired (any­one know when it will be?) I will reveal the web stats to all. There may even be a prize in it — I dunno, a souvenir or some­thing. Maybe it could be like when I listened to Radio Kiev on my short­wave radio as a kid and got excited by their offer of a “selec­tion of Kiev souven­irs” for any­one who repor­ted their sig­nal strength.

No bets are being taken on how many people are sad enough to actu­ally register a domain they’ve heard on the TV — that’s just two. James and Me.

If you’re a really big fan of the lovely Cath­er­ine Tate, just click here to see a big list of DVDs, books and related items from Amazon.co.uk

PS. I wanted to add the links to the offi­cial site and to some products not just because I’m shame­lessly com­mer­cial, but as a way of thank­ing Cath­er­ine Tate for all the traffic I might get. Not that I’m sure there’ll be much traffic, but let’s see.…

PPS. The show returns to our screens on BBC 2 at 9pm on Thursday 26^th Octo­ber! Watch it and wait for the url. Per­haps we could also bet when it’s used in the show? Any takers?

On a more ser­i­ous note, be aware that the real OCD UK web site can be found here by click­ing on this line.

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