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A flibbertigibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!. Films, telly, bits of radio are my thing. Oh and London’s pubs, I’m often seen in the pub.
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@stevenroyburns.bsky.social Good to see an Arsenal old boy helping out.

🤔 youtu.be/KUPSTQSGb50?...

New Deserter Pubcast - it's an emergency! Con has retired from the Blythe. (Includes a chat with the new guy, Austin Whelan.)

Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.

Look what they did to my boy.

Popped into The Blythe under its new regime. Racing on the telly, Guinness being poured, Taytos being munched. Seems in sound hands.

The Fellowship Inn, Bellingham. Wow. An impressive as hell community pub. Few casks on, not too spendy on the lager either. Could relax in here all day. Screens for the football. Amazed and pleased. Henry Cooper used train here as well.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus open.spotify.com/track/2w4vN7...

Just pulled this book out to look for some ideas for a day trip and reminded that it’s great. Maybe a couple of years out of date but the big hitter London pubs are in it as well some other, more out of the way numbers. Words in there by Bob Stanley amongst others.

Cracking short film www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

A statement from the palace said that ‘friends fear he’s awoken thinking about a Nagoya Grampus Eight Wenger-era shirt’.

Go on Maurice.

The Brutalist. Some parts of it were like a Public Service Broadcasting gig. And I’ve been to a Public Service Broadcasting gig. Adding it to the list of films I’m very unlikely to watch again. See also - Tar.

Amazing radio, part 2 of the play Inside, is horrifyingly intimate. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just rewatched Mississippi Burning and my word does Hackman outshine everyone in that film. And it has a tiptop cast: Rooker, Dourif, R Lee Ermey, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Kevin Dunn. What a loss. Man could say so much with just a wink or a sly poke in Brad Dourif’s stomach.

Died AFTER being found dead! Double shocker for The Hack.

Farewell to Con at the Blythe. After 37 years at the helm of the greatest pub, he’s fully earned a good sit down.

One for Nona F Mecklenberg open.spotify.com/track/1eVZzS...

❤️ this is wonderful youtu.be/hTIkSgNC4ww?...

“A statement from his publisher said that Hill had died at home with his wife at his side. A cause of death was not given.” Oswald, you bastard! www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s so nice out there today I think I might open big window.

Not really one for Dutch football but if I had to get a club over there, I’m supporting this crack outfit en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SC_Tels...

I'm slightly convinced that Toni Colette is training herself for a Mary Berry biopic.

Piss poor from the Uncanny lads. There was a potential Robbins/Worsley crossover event in episode 4 that could have broken open the fabric of spacetime.

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

Remake of The Birds set in East Dulwich looks shit.

One for Rick. open.spotify.com/track/1hRxKT...

Yes please www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

The custard cream doesn’t seem to have had any evolution… until today.

A misread producer credit on the BAFTAs means I now know the Guggenheim family fortune and Channing Tatum are the reason I hear so much about ball shaving, podcast botherers Manscaped.

Couple of old Frank Millers I’ve been meaning to read for a long old time. Martha Washington along with Watchmen were covers that weirdly terrified me as a kid in Megacity Comics, Camden.

Hahaha. Lime Scooter left in a parking spot where I live and someone has given it little love tap with their motor. Like an old fashioned footballer letting a fancy Dan midfielder know he’s there by giving him a reducer. Scooter even let out a squeal as it went down. Home support (me): WHEYYYYYYY!

The Devonshire, Balham. Very nice pub. Wonderfully long bar and etched glasswork. Bit heavy on the pint price, worth a look in for a half a bitter though.

Not sure why but Screwfix doing a brand take over at Balham tube really cheered me up. In an area where you’re increasingly likely to run into people called Binky or Miles there is a reassuring quality to knowing where I can pick up a ratchet set in a pinch.

Potentially catastrophic news reaches us about South London’s finest... The BHT tenancy is on the market. www.stonegatepubpartners.co.uk/find-a-pub/b...