If Karen Carney doesn’t win this I’m resigning from everything #Strictly

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Was talking about this piece only last night, a piece I thought about pitching after watching the credits to The Snowman, then wanting to interview everyone involved in bringing Bowie to the project, to find out why it had happened. I found out so much more. Thanks, Unkle Rupert!

23:14 GMT, Southfields; the view from inside the 493 bus, heading home

Nighty night Bluesky x

Back with #Rumpole, who went abroad - “I began to feel an unendurable nostalgia for rain, secretaries rubbing their noses pink with crumpled paper handkerchieves on the platform at Temple Station and the congealed steak & mushroom pie for luncheon in the pub opposite the Old Bailey” #JohnMortimer 📚💙

Went only to get Christmas things in the shop today, but couldn’t resist the palm house; pulled open heavy iron Victorian doors into tropicalia

Monday tea 🌿🍅 - 🙏🏻 to Sir @nigelslater.bsky.social #homecooking

Thought I’d give this a go from Sainsbury’s (brewed by Hall & Woodhouse) expecting it to be either rank or delish; happy to report = the latter #BeerSky

Bar’s open! RIP Martin Parr Yates’s Wine Lodge, Ashton-Under-Lyne, 1983

Just A Hint Of Sunlight. 8°C with rain approaching. Starlings.

Nighty night Bluesky x

Cold Moon over SWLDN

Wot, this again? #ThursdayTea 😋

Griddling summer’s yellow allotment courgettes that I recently revived from their cryogenic state; so far, life signs are good #iwatchtoomuchscifi

Found some #oldphotos - here’s Mrs H at our first Boat Race as denizens of this manor #Mortlake #90s

A suitable sign for the onset of winter. A 'pre-Worboys' direction sign at Chilton Moor, Co. Durham, as seen in Jan 1963, a bitter winter, by Ed Fulton on Flickr. Chilly & atmospheric for a child of the '60s! @showmeasign.online @roads.org.uk @sabre-roads.org.uk flic.kr/p/2mJWwxV

Dreamt I was in a film and had a monologue in which I criticised the existence of monologues in films #meta #dreams

Best version.

A terrific actor: I was so lucky to see him as the first ever Roma in Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' at the NT as a student, and 💙he was dream-cast by Alan Plater in 'Misterioso'...he really could play very good jazz saxophone, btw #RIPJackShepherd

‘New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years/I didn't feel so cold then’ #NowPlaying #Dylan

OK, I cracked! (this has been in my head all week, such a great song) open.spotify.com/track/0uTVCh...

I've just played #Wings doing the Crossroads Theme and have to say it's one of my favourite and best things #Wings ever did (My Mum was a Crossroads addict: in her chair, cosy, fag lit: and whenever it ended VERY DRAMATICALLY (rare) they'd substitute the polite usual end-theme for the #Wings versh)

Post a famous bathroom scene

Ye other night I watched a 1979 #TOTP that began with The Jam doing ‘Eton Rifles’ with an unengaged Weller phoning in the miming and near the end schoolkids singing ‘I’m Only A Poor Little Sparrow (It’s A Shame)’. The best act by miles were Darts doing ‘Daddy Cool/The Girl Can’t Help It’ #NowPlaying

‘Only one thing I did wrong/Stayed in Mississippi a day too long’ Only Bob could imply a whole story we’re NOT being told in 13 simple words #Dylan #NowPlaying

Away travelling for a few days so here are a few snowy photographs from last week. Back in Yorkshire soon. Best wishes James

Right, I'm off up the corner shop for chocs, anyone else want 'owt?

Dug out some old vinyl (from 2016, which was 3 years ago) #DurandJonesAndTheIndications

An Arctic blast, a day of heavy snow, a long journey to the dentist. The round trip is 150 miles across wild mountainous country but oh! the compensations. 📷 A Bombay-gin-clear Loch a' Chroisg catching the early morning light.

Just had our chimney swept: local firm ‘established 1850’ - isn’t that fabulous?

On a day cold enough to be Scandinavian, a trip with Mrs H to @dulwichgallery.bsky.social to see the exhibition of Danish artist #AnnaAncher ‘Painting Light’ 🖼️ ‘The Maid In The Kitchen’ (1883-6) | ‘Sunlight In The Blue Room’ (1891) | ‘Interior With Red Poppies’ (1905) #LondonExhibitions

‘We…had luncheon in the crypt under the Law Courts, a sepulchral hall, where, it seemed, very old plaice and chips come to die’ Enjoying spending time with #Rumpole again: £2.99 from the always excellent Oxfam, Turnham Green #NowReading #JohnMortimer 📚💙

Played 'You're Nicked' by Brit reggae duo Laurel & Hardy on the Spotify, got a pic of Stan and Ollie

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

I should not, given the circumstances, be listening to things as sad & beautiful as the 'Live in Dublin' version of Leonard Cohen's 'Alexandra Leaving' sung entirely by Sharon Robinson, whilst drinking wine, but I am youtu.be/hUJxKUS93xY?...

Soho 1935….and down those mean streets a man must go who is, oof…Leon Geats; what a protagonist. I flipping loved this beautiful, brutal, literate, epic crime novel 💙📚 #DominicNolan

Me and my entirely beautiful Big Sister Jo (known to me throughout my childhood as ‘Joanie’) who went so far, far away from our childhood #Devon to train to be a nurse in Harlow and in adulthood to me was such a soulmate despite our gap in age and who we all said goodbye to this weekend x

Sunset. 3°C and a cold night to come. A Barn Owl swooping.

Properly chilly for the first time this autumn. In a coincidence this morning my mother sent over a photo of Aldeburgh in winter, 1971. This is the year nobody noticed my baby face had been swapped by fairies for features carved into a turnip.

Plane tree? Oh no my love, you’re much more beautiful and special than that #LondonPlane #TreeSky

Feeling world weary? Spend a moment at bathtime with the sparrows.... 🌿🦉

Playing music from 2005, which of course was about 7 years ago

There are gingko trees, and there’s Kew’s gingko #Autumn #TherapyInNature #TreeSky #KewGardens

“In 1963 Powell recorded with his Three Bosses Trio of Michelot & Clarke, with Gillespie, on the album ‘Dizzy Gillespie & The Double Six of Paris’ but subsequently became ill with tuberculosis. After treatment, he was transferred to Bouffémont sanitorium” #BudPowell #JazzSky #NowPlaying

16:13 GMT 11/11/25 @barnescommon.bsky.social

16:12 GMT 11/11/25

Over The Gate. 11°C with sunshine and showers. Redwing have arrived.