IP TV is the future(!) Turned up to a local sports club at half time. They're watching the match on a TV via aerial. They have a projector and big screen set up, a phone & some sort of Tivo thing plugged into it. Apparently a member set it up for them & it worked until 3 minutes after he left. 1/7

Watching an old episode of Sorry! on UKTV and noticed this estate agents board. Then realised I'd seen it before.. ouside the Bryces house in the last episode of Ever Decreasing Circles. Marshall Renwick estate agents, some sort of in joke between comedy writers? One for @dirtyfeed.org ?

Watching the Builders episode of Fawlty Towers in TV and something I've never noticed before... the guests are going to have their dinner at a hotel called The Gleneagles while the building work takes place. That's the name of the real life hotel that inspired Cleese and Booth to write the series

Stumbled across this crime scene..... being investigated by Special Branch

RIP Princess Monaco of Kent @garydelaney.bsky.social youtu.be/3ny-ZR8QusE

The Birmingham Science Museum, Thanktank, is really good, it even has an exhibit of VLC on Windows

Three feeds before yesterday's Euros match. See if you can work out which cameraman is British?

Long queue at cafe, the only menu is behind the counter & detail is vague. But you have to give your table no. to order. So we choose what we want at the till, then rest of family has to go and find a table then get the table number to me so I can pay.... which is why they've a long queue

You have to wonder what the thought process behind this sculpture was.

My child's teacher, always casting nasturtiums...

Been looking after my sister in law's shop for a couple of days. I agreed on the proviso that I was allowed to do her social media today....

The Welsh word for Caution is quite appropriate for use above a toilet (if you're a man of course)

Suffragette match today at Blists Hill in Ironbridge

World Book Day next week and struggling to find something for the kids to wear? Let me help...

Happy Shropshire Day

"we did not start it" "yes you did, you let them invade Crimea"

I don't normally watch Channel 4 in the mornings so only just thought to ponder... just why was it so important that 'Cheers is filmed in front of a live studio audience'?

@podcastaddict.bsky.social I've got an issue with the latest version of Podcast Addict.... when I'm using it on Android Auto the playlist shoots back up to the top whenever I scroll down. Any ideas?

Mentioned to my son about how some parts of the world have a different calendar and so it's not 2025 and this is what Google's AI says...

You can invade Greenland if you want, but you've got to go through Ontario or the Northwest Territory first and then there's lots of horses in Greenland, presumably they're very good at ice-skating?

It's only when you try and build something that's not lego, you realise how good Lego's instructions are....

Was forced to get a new phone, (old one OK except for a non working camera) & amazed how easy it is to transfer everything. But I do miss the days of getting a new phone and there was new stuff to discover... and having all my crap in the new phone just helps me put off sorting it out

Recorded The Mask Singer for the kids last night. They're watching it now and then I will TAKE IT OFF! TAKE IT OFF! the PVR

I know it's a quiet time of year, but even by Reach's low standards the is a desperate article. The medieval tunnels under Birmingham that nobody gets to see as they never existed www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalg...

Bao-hemian Rhapsody

Great views!

@jackbern.bsky.social got your book from my wife with this matching bookmark

When broadcast engineers put up Christmas decorations....

I'm quite a late comer to Strictly... but it's great isn't it? Proper quality family light entertainment, beaming a million colours live into everyone's living room every Saturday night. The production values and work that goes into every episode just astounds me

This is hands down the most extraordinary five minutes of television journalism you'll see this year. I cried. You probably will, too. ‘Are you serious?’: He spent months in a Syrian prison. CNN’s camera caught the moment he’s freed www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/w...

@mariajeperez.bsky.social if you like YouTube videos like those training ones, I've been collecting a playlist of similar Behind the Scenes videos: youtube.com/playlist?lis... There goes your weekend....

When did Christingles become a thing? They're just a way to bribe kids into church with sweets and keep the Dolly Mixture manufacturers in work. If the cocktail sticks don't draw blood* they set fire to the hair of the person in front of you. *I have the scars

Idea for programme about the geography of Syria, working title.... Homs under the Hama

Between 1990-94, Bashar Al Assad was an ophthalmologist at The Western Eye Hospital in London. His colleagues recalled him as humble and whom nurses thought exemplary in reassuring anxious patients So he's got something to fall back on.....

Nothing says Christmas like Elvis Bao Buns

Only of the engineering spares drawers at work...

The most British sign ever. 'Hello its an emergency, I need a pot of tea and a piece of Lemon Drizzle'

Why can't AI do moles? I have been playing with an AI image generator the last few days (I'm a bit late to the AI party) and it just doesn't know what a mole looks like.....

Email from Argos saying they're refunding my order of some jeans which weren't collected... my wife is wearing them today! The other week they gave me a £60 as an item I'd bought was cancelled as it was 'stuck' in their warehouse and had now gone up in price. No wonder retail is struggling

Elections, it's like Transfer Deadline Day for geeks.... I'm all set up for the night:

Interesting choice of viewing on the BBC tonight. On BBC1 an explicit gay sex scene On BBC4 a 1974 episode of Call My Bluff defining the word 'Cumming'

All the memes of Trump this week and no-one seems to have done this yet.......

We have a smart lamp called 'Roundabout' as it's behind a chair that used to go round. Our Alexa for some reason can't cope with this name. This morning instead of turning it on when I asked, Alexa phoned my mobile and 5 mins later I got a voicemail of me repeatedly shouting 'TURN ON ROUNDABOUT!!'

Problem with Bluesky is that the user names have @bsky in them and so I immediately think they work at BSkyB....

My first post here, let's start with some lovely views of Shropshire