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You see that sign there? It says 'apple sauce.' Former BBC radio studio manager, former teacher, Bristolian in exile, loves C20th fiction mainly by female writers, writing, classic TV.
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Mrs Wiki hates Reg Dwight more than nature abhors a vacuum. So I’m bailing from BBC Four. Keep it real for the kids you once were. #totp

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Off-colour white goods joke there. #totp

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Apologies: *this* is Art Garfunkel. #TOTP

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This Klaus Nomi tribute act is rubbish. #TOTP

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Bit of audience bogling there? It’s not even Aswad #totp

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We have Pan’s People at home. #totp

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If you go to the Boston Tea Party in Bristol you can get an underwhelming vegan breakfast for 14 English pounds #TOTP

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Don't have nightmares. #totp

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Me just now: "Do you like Demis Roussos? I like Demis Rousssos. I sound like Michael Caine." #totp

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Who’s the 5th member of Buck’s Fizz? Asking for a friend. #totp

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Sebastian Usher’s younger brother, there. #niche #totp

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Chumbawamba and Amnesia. And well done to you if you got that at home. #totp

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Catatonia’s original lyrics for Mulder & Scully were “Things are getting strange, you act like a rascal. This could be a case for Dalziel & Pascoe.” #totp

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Tesla with a Tesla-themed vanity plate vanity-parked* in the area. Sales seem to have gone UP round here. They’re everywhere. *parked conspicuously where max number of people will see it

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Saved you a click: turn on the TV / BBC iPlayer and watch the acts you like.

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This is handy: find listed buildings near you, via the Historic England website. Until they launch a proper subscription Pevsner app (when?) this'll do. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

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Columbia Phonographs (1957)

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I just re-read chapter 12 (‘Twelfth Chapter’) of A Room with a View and yes, it’s a doozy.

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New episode of Inside No. 9 just dropped on Channel 4.

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What a Greggs steak bake sees when you reheat it

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With all the recent discussion of Sesame Street's intersection with the world of highbrow drama, I might as well dig this out again.

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This episode of The Avengers is on Great! TV at 10pm tonight.

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Now SpaceX have moved from blowing rockets up in the sky to doing it on the launchpad, their trajectory (so to speak) is clear: "Here are the blueprints for the new rocket, sir..." FOOM! "I've just had an idea for a new rock..." FOOM!

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There are books on the shelves of all independent book shops that will never be sold. That is not their purpose. They are there in retirement, saved from the knacker's yard of the recycling plant to live out the rest of their lives as horse and pony would at a sanctuary farm. #writing

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33C in the shade according the micro:bit on my patio.

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Just had some Kellogg’s Special K instead of supermarket own brand.

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Once on a BBC World Service night shift a journalist colleague signed off a phone call to a US general with the words ‘I love you.’ Not in air, but even so…

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Two Chinooks just flew over so assume an assault on Penge is imminent.

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Thought I knew most books about Bristol but only discovered this one recently: a collection of poetry to mark 600 years of Bristol becoming an independent county published - by the Arts and Leisure Committee - in 1973. I hope there were lots of vociferous committee meetings about it.

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