'Sound II' by Anthony Gormley in the crypt at Winchester cathedral today - the water level up to his calves after a long rainy spell

The world is aflame, but luckily the Muppets are back to save us www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The February full moon will arrive on the 1st, and is called the “full snow moon” or “storm moon” in reference to the weather that typically this period. ❄️🌕❄️ These photos I have taken of the snow moon in previous years in Ely, Cambridgeshire. #SnowMoon #FullMoon #StormMoon #TheFens

New Cocteau Twins track just dropped

My current earworm is the line “wot, fisticuffs?” from I’d Do Anything, and it has been for about a week and I’m going insane.

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat among ferns’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

An early significant tv role for Sharon Gless (Sgt Christine Cagney) was in something called Switch playing a character named MAGGIE PHILBIN.

I don't know whether it is the #1 Catherine O'Hara accomplishment but the fact that she invented a manner of speaking that no other person in human history has ever attempted for Schitts Creek and made it seem realistic that her character would talk that way felt like a comedy miracle to me

Oh, Moira 💔

Good news about Luigi.

This sounds beautiful. I met Mackenzie Crook years ago. He was about to make a sitcom pilot, about metal detecting. He didn’t think it was what people were after www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Thinking about becoming one of those people who likes frogs so much that it becomes a serious problem for me and others around me

Female dragonflies will fake their own death to avoid mating with an unwanted male and I for one am impressed by that kind of self care.

My little sister has just bought a house with a POOL. What the fuck am I doing with my life.

Five jobs I’ve had: Museum Assistant Shop Girl Community Artist Teacher Library Worker

Happy 62nd birthday to the inestimably superb Sir Roddy Frame. I didn't send a card, thought we could send letters #NowPlaying

Today I’m going to consolidate my bedding. How many sets do you have per bed? I suspect I have too many.

This is the most main road I have ever lived on. Buses go past my front door. I have mostly lived in cul-de-sacs. Not a metaphor.

Good morning to my colleagues and my enemies.

I have long enjoyed writing to my literary heroes. No more so than as a romantic book-mad 20year-old, pre library employment. Muriel Spark was quick to recommend the library as a source for her further reading faves to save me 'dipping into my dole'. How I treasure this letter #libraries

Today’s acquisition - bowl by Alan Frewin for his own Millhouse Pottery. I love it 💛

The lead characters in Wonder Man are called Trevor and Simon, which pleases me more than is reasonable.

I have managed a little broth.

Women’s trouser style or personal insult? - an occasional series.

Is anyone here emetophobic or can I tell you what’s been going on?

Keith Vaughan painted just twenty still life oil paintings over the course of his career. This work 'Pomegranate, Lemon, Cup,' painted in 1948, consists of a tabletop with a striped tablecloth and angular forms.

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

"Not so very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway..." Ivor the Engine puffed back onto TV in a new series of colour episodes starting #OTD 50 years ago. @radiotimes.bsky.social photographed co-creators Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (Ivor background artwork on wall).

Next Saturday, January 31st, from 11.05am BBC2 is showing a brace of Powell & Pressburger masterpieces - first, the absolutely gorgeous restoration of I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING followed by the incredible A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH... #FilmSky

I ain’t reading all that.

Just heard The Jam on a Sainsbury ad. Used to be a big deal, bands selling out with ads, but that seems to have been washed away, like everything else.

I can’t bear what is happening in Minnesota. I can’t bear it so much, I can’t look at it. Let me know if there’s anything constructive I can do, otherwise I’m going to keep not looking at it, I’m sorry.

Burnham would

Got some of this (left) and it MASSIVELY reminds me of this (right)

Bumbags, the consensus here is these are too big, which is a shame because I like them. OH WELL.

I’m sure you already know this, but Edward Woodward’s second wife, Michele Dotrice, played Betty Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, and her sister, Karen Dotrice, played Jane Banks in Mary Poppins. That is all my showbiz news for now, goodnight.

I just saw a guy on the phone in Tesco. He said 'OK... OK. Thanks for telling me.' He then put back into the fridge two bottles of champagne which he'd been about to buy. I'll be thinking about it for a while probably.

Lots of people talking about the castle designer joke and not enough people telling me where I can get a hamster costume.

🎵 you’ve been closed by / you’ve been shut by / the task manager

I have thoroughly cleaned my kitchen bin. WOE BETIDE anyone who comes to this house and disposes of rice in a slapdash fashion that sees wizened grains entrenched in tiny nooks.

Distract yourself from world events by reading about a frozen former coalpit in Yorkshire.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

OH MY GOD PALK TAKES IT (ages ago and I didn’t see it)

Incidentally, my sisters and (adult) nieces and I once had a dieting WhatsApp group called Withering Weights. It was absolutely useless though because all we did was tell each other how beautiful we were as we are, and not to feel bad about that chocolate cake because we deserve a little treat.

I told my sister my literary goal for 2026 is to read three classics that have eluded me to date: Anna Karenina, Middlemarch, and “another womany one”. She knew what it was right away. Do you?

Sorry I didn't riff on your riff, I was feeling jocular when I posted but despondent seventy seconds later

If you’d like to stop thinking about awful people for a bit, #Winterwatch is back in a few minutes on BBC2. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

London backgrounds from 101 Dalmatians, 1961