"A bit of tech that, for a change, is actually designed to make the world a brighter place" Theatre review: Paddington partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/12/thea...

Not that the Orange Tree has a certain demographic, but the loos now stock a supply of incontinence disposal bags.

Got knocked over by a bus this morning if anyone was wondering how my day's going.

"A child's mind in a grown adult's body could potentially be very dangerous" Theatre review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/12/thea...

"I guess peaks and troughs are appropriate enough in a show about a roller coaster" Theatre review: Ride The Cyclone partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

"Have you had time to check out what the other knitters are doing?" "No, I'm knitting the world's most complicated cardie in ten hours with baguettes for needles, I haven't even had time for a piss break in weeks." #GameOfWool

Bake-Off doesn't have a lot to learn from #GameOfWool but the bakers responding to every Noel Fielding "oopsy floopsy doopsy I'm a little teapot you've got half an hour left" with angry silence would be hilarious.

Bless Tom for still thinking you could possibly add any sense of jeopardy to this show. "Did you know Simon is also making an egg?" "Yes." #GameOfWool

They should do a montage of every time a knitter says "this isn't really my thing," they could get an entire extra episode out of it #GameOfWool

"I've brought some props along for the knitters, because that always makes them look at me with utter hatred and I haven't taken the hint yet" #GameOfWool

"Like his last foray into Miller this is van Hove exposing the classical tragedy underneath" Theatre review: All My Sons partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

My barber has started accepting card payments, which raises some questions on what I've always assumed about their, ahem, business model.

"A kind of brittle edge to the naturalistic, halting dialogue" Theatre review: End partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

"He's used up every crochet stitch he knows," almost as if he was under the impression he'd joined a knitting competition #GameOfWool

This challenge is judged blind, the fact that the teams are sitting on opposite sides of the couch next to their knits isn't a clue of any kind #GameOfWool

"Is anyone worried about time?" asks man whose entire script is "this normally takes 7 days to knit but we're giving you 5 hours, and instead of knitting needles we're giving you a potato" #GameOfWool

Again, judging the group challenge blind makes no sense. What are the judges going to do, give preferential comments to one of the contestants? They openly despise them all anyway. #GameOfWool

"It's a lot of... fun" says one of the judges, with the air of a woman trying out a word she's never used before and finds slightly distasteful #GameOfWool

One of the interchangeable judges every week: "Can I have a look at this to see how you could improve it? ...OK, what you need to do is make is less shit in some way" *shrug* #GameOfWool

*Internet collapses under the weight of people pointing out a kid is actually a baby goat* #GameOfWool

"They're certainly getting their cardio" Theatre review: The Hunger Games partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

Only Peroni (Dum dum dum dum de-do wah) Know the way I feel tonight

The best thing about watching international TV shows is finding out about global culture. For example if I hadn't watched Bloodhounds I wouldn't know about this real Korean burger chain.

"Why yes, I am renaming this play so that Google doesn't send an AI bot to delete my blog" Theatre review: Prawn Play partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

"If you asked me to knit a deckchair I wouldn't have known where to start." Well, clearly, because they did and you got kicked out for it #GameOfWool

They keep using the word "glamour" in the same sentence as "knitted swimwear," which is a bit like using "spicy" in a sentence with "clotted cream" #GameOfWool

"Granny circles" is an interesting way of saying "we're going to stick a load of coasters all over it" #GameOfWool

"The play's rough edges are made up for in humour, warmth, realism and a sense of redemption" Theatre review: After Sunday partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

Frankenstein (2025) really gets the essence of Mary Shelley. Namely, "the walking dead, but make it fuckable."

"Men angry that a woman won't sleep with them, who'll accuse her of sleeping with the devil instead" Theatre review: Coven partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

"Protect Marcello Cruz At All Costs" Theatre review: The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

"Getting their big romantic moment while taking the bins out" Theatre review: Here & Now partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

Judging the group challenge blind makes no sense whatsoever, the judges clearly need to know who did what unless they're kicking out the entire group #GameOfWool

Holger's design clearly getting the '80s jumper theme right because I immediately pictured it on Wincey Willis #GameOfWool

The undisguised terror on Tom Daley's face every time he's contractually obligated to talk to Holger #GameOfWool

"I like crochet but I don't like knitting," says woman who's deliberately entered an extreme knitting competition #GameOfWool

"Old fashioned, stately and static" Theatre review: Othello (Theatre Royal Haymarket) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

"Like a cartoon wolf with his eyes popping out" Theatre review: The Producers partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

New drag name: Madeleine Towers #gbbo

'In fairness when the peril is "who gets to be in charge of killing people with a hammer?" there's probably only so much character development we can care about.' Theatre review: Macbeth (RSC / The Other Place) partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...

OK the Bake Off contestants could definitely learn something from the knitters' DON'T TALK TO ME TOM DALEY I'M KNITTING attitude #GameOfWool

"Everyone seems to be knitting emotional support chickens" is definitely a [citation needed] moment #GameOfWool

Can't believe they didn't call it The Great British Cast Off #GameOfWool

"The way the AIDS pandemic made people feel legitimised in their homophobia and happy to start saying the quiet parts out loud again" Theatre review: The Line of Beauty partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/10/thea...

I don't actually want to be immersed in molten lava, but thanks.

'We can use the word "hysterical" to mean two very different things' Theatre review: The Unbelievers partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/10/thea...

Ralph Davis has decided what to do about his hairline and I am very much here for it.

"The wild truth behind an early movie star" Theatre review: Hedda partially-obstructed-view.blogspot.com/2025/10/thea...

Is there any more reassuring sign of competence than the announcement "this train has been delayed due to an earlier delay"?

NYT Connections just flat-out trolling now.