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I like films, the odder the better. Interesting music and literature. I occasionally take pinhole photographs.
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Fuck the haters. Trans women are women. Trans men are men.

70's kids TV. Weirdo McWhirter twins introduce a cavalcade of kids Tv legends led by Peter Purves bursting through a wall. Celebs swinging on stars, Bernard Cribbins as a pig, John Noakes as a starfish. It's all here!

Tonight’s viewing, the only film to have been made in Esperanto!

Tonight’s viewing

My friend John Scanlan’s latest book, it’s always nice to mentioned in the acknowledgments!

This has to be against the Hippocratic Oath You have children who need help, you know what the best treatment recommended internationally is, they're already taking it, and you're legally required not to help them at all Really disgusting www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/w...

Time for a German beer

The real Christopher Robin poses with Winnie-the-Pooh; another influence on our latest play, 'Patchwuff'. How does one cope when one's childhood is inextricably linked with the childhoods of millions of others? Fine out more at www.mulgraveaudio.co.uk/patchwuff

Currently listening to this, 20th Century Radicals from BBC Radio 3, worth a listen

Today is World Hamster Day so please enjoy this clip of a worldly hamster going on a great adventure * and if you want more videos like it, check out the Homura Ham YouTube

“It is 1949. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.” “It is 1967. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.” “It is 2025. The Labour government is nationalising the steel industry due to market failure.”

Absolute Travesty.

When Trump said he'd stop people entering the country, I'm not sure this is what he had in mind...

Time to rewatch ‘The Nomi Song’

Tickets for my Dublin gig are now available. Find tickets and links to all my Autumn gigs at warringtonruncorn.com/live

He was OUR Lee Van Cleef.

Just saying. #Scarfolk, 2013.

My talented wife @jeaniefinlay.com has turned my 'Adrian Chills' stories (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles) into actual columns!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Folk legend Sandra Kerr – who composed and sang the songs for Oliver Postgate's 'Bagpuss' – performs the theme from our latest audio drama, 'Patchwuff'. The play stars Valerie Singleton and is available to preview and pre-order now!

Multi-cassette players, for a continuous playing pleasure. Panasonic RS-296US Philips N2408 Denon Cassematic 12 (TRC-798ED) www.1001hifi.info/2013/07/phil... www.cassetterecorder-museum.com/gallery/inde...

“Contemporary sources show Baker’s well-documented postwar anti-racism campaign was already under way in the early 1940s.” A fascinating and inspirational read about Josephine Baker, the second world war and the US civil rights movement. @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

My bins have been collected! It's a miracle!

Ghost sign, Park Drive cigarettes advert

It’s Lebanese wine time

Spellbound, 1945 Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (dream sequence designed by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and directed by production designer William Cameron Menzies)

Sunday morning listening, Steve Reich ‘Tehillim’

I’m an atheist because I feel no reason to rest my insecurities on an archaic notion of a superior being. Good night.

Tonight’s film

Stolen from FB...

COVID-19 jab number 10 done! If you’re invited to get a Spring Booster please do come forward and get it. COVID still isn’t over, and it’s important to protect yourself and other vulnerable people - old and young.

Nice day. Shud I set up the home cinema for a pleasant outdoor viewing?

Another one! This is St. Pierre et Miquelon. Population: 5819. It now has one of the world’s highest tariffs - 99%. The US imported only $3.5M of its shellfish last yr. BUT the island imports ZERO from the US. So, the idiotic White House formula (imports v exports) couldn’t cope. It spat out 99%.