“I haven’t written anything, because I’m not really good at that type of thing. But I did a drawing.”

In one of the oddest news stories we’ve seen for a while, a Dublin-based artist has taken to drawing a Father Ted related picture every day in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record.

Shota Kotake began his work in May, when the show, written by Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd) and Arthur Matthews (Big Train), celebrated its 20th anniversary, and plans to do so every day until, and we quote: “I get fed up”. Er… up with this sort of thing?

Currently on Day 75, you can see the whole collection so far over yonder.

We’re wondering which group of diehard fans is likely to try and match this challenge: Noel’s Field-mice, or Alan’s Partridges? Over to you…