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I could have done without a trains, planes and automobiles style dash out to Heathrow today, but apparently the Elizabeth Line had other ideas. The TFL employee who told me I “can try other routes” is lucky I didn’t slap him for the audacity.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

True story this. Went to the funeral yesterday for a guy who played the dame every year in the local panto. The vicar stood in front of the coffin and asked where he was and we all shouted 'he's behind you.' A lovely moment.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

I enjoyed Black Bag - certainly I’ve had less enjoyable midweek diversions - but I think Slow Horses has destroyed my ability to believe spy stories where the characters are well dressed. And for oh how I hate films shot on digital. Pay for a lighting designer please and thank you.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One of my longest standing beliefs about social media, is that the people who made up my twitter feed were an infallible political barometer. Whatever they were united around a political belief, the opposite was what the public wanted. I have a suspicion this also true here on Bluesky.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

submitted 18 days ago • 163 comments

Reading this while on the bus may have been an error…

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I know everyone complains about Evri. I know it’s a tired topic - but I think we’ve all been underestimating them. They collected my parcel in the future.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

When I have a cold I sound less ‘Irish.’ At least, so I’ve been told this week. I have no idea why this would be the case (and it also raises the spectre that my co-workers think my accent is something I’m putting on).

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Facebook marketplace can be a dark, dark place. A place where people sell ‘used’ life-size Ewok models. …I don’t think I want to know what uses there can be for a life-size Ewok model.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I have mounted a door - less than perfectly, but somewhat successfully. (I will say that whoever it was who installed the hinges back in the day, put them in a real stupid place. But I make do).

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Watching Tombstone for the first time and…you know how people talk about iPhone Face? Powers Boothe is the opposite. He never looked quite right in modern-dress, but give him 19th century clothes and he fits them so perfectly he makes everyone look like they’re wearing costumes

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I am trying to buy an armchair from a lady, who says she wants to sell the chair. She just won’g share any contact details with me, (so I can arrange a courier), because she thinks I might be scamming her. I am a communications professional and I cannot figure this out. Let me give you my money!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I note that virtually all of the cats in this thread were painted post-1800. Cats seem to have eluded visual artists for a long time (cats and babies).

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight I would like to say a very sincere, very deeply felt damn and blast to the person who decided to put so many blind corners on the (poorly lit) Thames cycle path. May you reap your well-deserved rewards.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I foolishly imagined that going for a cycle in East London would be a pleasant way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I have rarely been more wrong. A rats nest of closed cycle lanes, roads in serious need of resurfacing, and the glorious opportunity to watch the Elizabeth Line go by.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Further thoughts upon seeing Retrograde: That was one beautiful mid-century office. I covet the pink chairs. This made me want to see Stanley Townsend play Roy Cohn (hint hint casting directors).

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Is there not an editorial duty of care or something, to prevent people from making such a public display of their idiocy.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The magical feeling of realising the play I’m seeing is only 90 minutes long is hard to beat.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment