In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.

Current favourite thing: on House of Games this week, Richard’s reading the questions off a card instead of showing them on a screen so the other contestants don’t have an advantage over Josh. Plus we’ve got musical Answer Smash again. Everyone’s still having a lovely time.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

8 years since I spent 3 hours queuing up to get a disappointing autobiography signed 😄 (I do actually have a photo of me & Bruce somewhere, but no idea what I’ve done with it) Never seen such a massive queue for a signing before & it was still humongous when I was done. Book’s still crap tho 🤣

I *think* I might have been crocheting too much recently 😬

NGL, really loving this pattern & colour combo.

HAVE YOU BEEN GOING THROUGH MY WASHING AGAIN

Happy first birthday to the jolly splendid @impq.bsky.social. Hope you’re celebrating tonight with a whiskey, a dance, a disco and/or a hop. Please continue to fill our earholes with stupid game show rip-offs, dodgy jingles and other waffly bollocks.

Why am I getting car insurance renewal reminder emails from Confused.com for a car that we haven’t owned in 2 ½ years & isn’t saved in our cars list on our profile? Fuck off already, I thought for a moment there we had even more to shell out for this month 😠

Farewell to what little credibility I had in the first place, but this was bloody fantastic. 💃🪩🕺 youtu.be/ot4KFoWmlYc?...

Just got in from a very cold, sleety walk & our house is toasty warm & still smells of the nice soup I made for lunch. Today isn’t all bad.

Met a bloody big tree today.

Well, if I’ve achieved nothing else this weekend, I have seen Dead Poets Society for the first time.

Show me some random vintage comedy LPs & you’d better believe I’m gonna buy them.

Right, Girlbands Forever was a fascinating watch, but how do you have a history of British girl bands & not even mention Girls Aloud? I know they didn’t interview any of the Spice Girls, but they did at least have them as part of the story. Baffling.

LOVE this. 🤘

I sell a lot of old copies of Empire on eBay, but hadn’t had any interest in ages, which was unusual. Turns out when eBay switched over to their ‘Simple Delivery’, they classed them all as parcels rather than large letters, so the postage was way more than it should have been.

Just spent the entire day going through our filing cabinet & binning everything we don’t need. Have also scanned loads of bits for reference, rather than keeping hard copies. Pared it down to the essentials for tax purposes. So satisfying. (Tho I think our recycle bin might be a bit too heavy now)

-Fry an onion & a couple of cloves of garlic -Add 100g dried red lentils -Add a tin of chopped toms -Add 500ml stock (any will do) -Simmer for 15-20 mins You can use this as a basis for spag bol, chilli, shepherd’s pie, whatever. Just add different herbs/spices/beans of your choice.

This month’s Finnish idiom

Evening stroll at Walcott 🌊

Made these delicious Halloween* cookies yesterday. *scary because of how many calories are in them 👻

Getting a nice live comedy schedule together for next year

Caught sight of a @nedboulting.bsky.social in the wild tonight.

We’ve got 2 (2!!!) evening events that require us to leave the house this week. What the hell is going on? Who are we?

Really enjoyed the Depeche Mode film tonight. Apart from the 2 boomer biddies who forked out nearly 20 quid each to sit & natter through most of the bloody film for some reason. 😡

😢 Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies aged 93 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ah, Sean. ❤️ youtu.be/oGa-TEWXpJE?...

New art chez Jones. ‘The Happiness Angels’ by John A Pedder.

BRB, just hanging out with the most underrated Beatles album xx

CORRECT! 😉

*runs around licking everybody*

Oh my poor lungs. Can we all go back to wearing masks again? I didn’t have a cold for 3 ½ years thanks to lockdown & masking (and people actually washing their fucking hands for a change - that all went out the window, didn’t it?). It was great.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Who needs functioning lungs or to be dressed & out of bed when you’ve had a Morrisons delivery with doughnuts?

Oh good. My covid’s reached the lungs-screaming-and-wheezing-plus-no-sense-of-smell-or-taste stage. 👍

Well what I thought was a cold is definitely not a cold. Either flu or Covid, waiting on some tests arriving to find out which. I ache SO bad. Freezing cold one second, overheating the next. This is nasty.

What a smashing tree. 🍁 🍂

I actually had a pretty good day yesterday, so naturally today has been utter dogshit. Wish my body would make its fucking mind up.

Things you forgot you pre-ordered… 😄

Obligatory shot of action-photographer @frazerdjones.bsky.social 📷

Apparently we had Norfolk to ourselves today.

Day 1 of this bullshit. www.gosober.org.uk/teams/iron-m...

Wait, Ash died?!? 😢

Addresses in the USA are either "20352 Main Street, Bullhorn PA" or "Cheesecorp Head Office, 1 Cheese Plaza"

Addresses in England are like "Cruikshank's Vinegar Baths, 23-27 Whooping Cough Lane, Quessex"

Here we fucking gooooo!

Comeoncomeoncomeoncomeon

This brilliant video by singer Chris Cron deserves its own applause (he’s on Instagram), but it also reminds us how astonishingly good Queen were as songwriters and musicians. The melody, harmony, and lyrical flair are all elite — and this isn’t even one of their Top 5 most downloaded songs!

I think it’s fair to say that the flu jab has well & truly walloped me this year 🫩