I can’t pretend that many people will be interested in a couple of New Recordings from Shudder To Think, but I certainly am, and they’ve just arrived shuddertothink.bandcamp.com/album/shudde...

The studio audience watching BA Robertson performing “Knocked It Off” have never looked so completely disenchanted with popular music #totp

That reminds me, I need to buy some kitchen foil #totp

Absolute peak enshittification, here. Unbelievable. "We've decided to hide the standard functionality of our previous product – you know, the thing you depend on – and put it in a drop-down menu that you're unlikely to find"

Barry painted and papered the downstairs loo. I can recommend Barry highly. (I am aware that by posting this I’m likely to come under fire for having two bathrooms, but what can I say, we paid for them, it seems silly not to use them)

Cocks Cocks Cocks

That was a vintage Bake Off series, I think. Full of charming characters, delightful to watch, a lot of Good Vibes in the tent, Alison Hammond making me laugh out loud at least once every episode, several hundredweight of cake. That’s my review.

Thrilled to receive this box set as a belated birthday present. I opened it and immediately saw a picture of Paul Rutherford with his arse out and a knife between his cheeks and Ivor (3) said “that’s disgusting”, marvellous stuff

There’s a lyric video for a Paw Patrol song where the words are “we’ve got each others backs” but the words on screen say “we’ve got each others bags” which is what a panic-stricken person says to a stranger in an airport car park, and I have to be honest I prefer it

Ah, man. Just heard via @black-peaches.bsky.social that Lô Borges died, responsible for songs like this, from one of my favourite records ever (Clube da Esquina, 1972) ♥️ youtu.be/4b7xEYhOJQ4?...

I see that a) The National Trust is selling "Christmas Curd", and b) my Photoshopping skills are as sharply honed as they ever were

The combination of award name, quote marks and the photos on the right has ended me

Just reading about why there’s a silent “c” in “indict” — it’s moderately interesting but not completely fascinating

Ivor (3) has just shown a fleeting interest in the sculptures of Henry Moore, and both his parents are slightly overcome by this, in fact we’re in danger of spoiling it by arranging a day trip for the family to Henry Moore Gardens - oh hang on he’s just asked for Paw Patrol on the TV, as you were

There was a period of time when I used to nervously whistle “You Made Me Feel Like Dancing” when using a public toilet - just to calm myself down - and now, whenever I hear it, it makes me feel like pissing #totp

This Halloween TOTP from 1982 has lots of audience members in terrifying costumes, including someone who looks exactly like Simon Bates #LOL #totp

As it's Hallowe'en, here's a 15 second video of me playing musical saw in the attic while dressed as a ghost

I'd like to be able to search Bluesky posts, but limited to posts from people I follow, or people who follow me. I don't think you can do that, can you? Can you do that? Don't think so. Maybe I'm wrong. Can you? I'm sure you used to be able to do that on Twitter. Memory hazy.

This may be contentious but I would say that the correct ratio of tuna to sweetcorn in “tuna and sweetcorn” is a 120g can of tuna to HALF A 160g can of sweetcorn. Haven’t measured the mayonnaise. (Don’t tell me if you don’t like tuna or sweetcorn, I remember the whole mushroom incident on here)

I miss “Share If You Agree”. When social media was a marginally happier place

I’m not someone who’ll ignore the instruction “digits joined by a crab must sum to 10”. Come on, let’s do this — oh alright, I’ll do it, never mind

I like to think that 400+ of these have been bought in the past month in order to cut flags down from the top of lampposts — I’ve certainly thought about it, hence looking at it in the first place

I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out

I know absolutely nothing about baseball, but as a devoted cricket fan the idea of a game that grinds on for hours on end with no prospect of either side winning is EXTREMELY APPEALING to me

*Optometrist hands person glasses* - “now, you wear them glasses AND YOU KEEP THEM GLASSES”

Facebook tells me that I posted this comment 10 years ago and it’s still the best “being caught bunking off school” story I’ve heard. Apologies for any minor factual inaccuracies in my retelling

Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t

AT LAST SOME GOOD NEWS

I’ve never heard “Mississippi” by Pussycat before, and now I’m wondering how many number ones of the 1970s I’ve never heard before - it can’t be many, but I’m not sure I can be arsed to find out, so that’s that I guess #totp

Nobody’s favourite song is “Dancing With The Captain” by Paul Nicholas, nobody’s Desert island Disc #totp

I not only had to do a web search to find out who Mike Graham was, I had to do another one for “Mike Graham concrete” to work out why everyone is going on about concrete, but it’s alright, I know everything now, I’m fully informed and can enter the chat

Currently producing a record. I misheard a lyric in the chorus of one of the songs, and when I realised this I sheepishly told the singer what I thought they were singing, and they said “actually that’s better, I’ll sing that instead”, and now wondering about pushing for a 50% writing credit

Mine consist almost entirely of various groups of musicians failing to come up with a rehearsal date that everyone can attend

Discovery / TNT haven’t made this England T20 series free to air, have they? I mean, I can’t imagine they have, but I appear to be able to watch them without having given them any money, and I can’t work out why that is.

I wouldn’t wish to make generalisations about the politics of people who have access to cherry pickers, but a lot of these St George’s / Union flags (which are still appearing on lamp posts in this town) are awfully high up

The coal tit has visited, a rare treat.

Nearly outwitted by some wily legspin but I watched the ball right onto the bat

No one came.

Just reading about the French town of Condom, and how an enterprising mayor opened a Museum Of Contraceptives in 1995 but it shut after a few years - presumably (and I’m still working on this amusing aside) because no one was going in, or something

I remember wondering what a “yaga yaga” was when I was 8, and I still don’t know #totp

I tell you what, Michael Jackson’s got a tough act to follow after The Dooleys and The Headboys - oh, hang on, it appears to be one of the best singles ever #totp

I’m as excited about watching Top Of The Pops 1979 in 2025 as I was about watching Top Of The Pops 1979 in 1979

“Oh, you shouldn’t have”

Just rewatching Friday Night Dinner to try and stem raging anxiety (not realising that it would actually make it worse) but: the bit in the episode where Jim’s invited a LADY to his house for dinner, and Jackie asks him what he’s made her for dinner, and he says “sheep” has made me squeal with joy

Can’t stop thinking about the contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race who made a big deal about being a violin playing drag artiste but got sent home before they’d even got the chance to open their violin case

“That’s one gone!”, says a dad to me as he drops his son at nursery. “One more to go!” he says, pointing at his daughter sitting in the car. “Just need to get rid of the wife, and I’m sorted!“ he laughs, expecting me to laugh too, but to his surprise I smash him about the head with a ceremonial mace

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on! Boss: I have an idea

“That is incredibly jejune” ♥️ youtu.be/btDqtCGIgGY?...

I don’t want a surprise.

I got vaxxed today at Tesco. Tesco! Walked past some broccoli and some crème fraiche and some pork pies and some bread and biscuits and booze and kitchen roll, and into a small room where some dude stuck two needles in my arm in exchange for money and then I bought some ice cream and went home.