Fantastic, entertaining and astute roundup of her year in restaurants from @theguardian.com critic @gracedent.bsky.social, with a generous (deserved!) mention for my beloved client Sète in Margate 🙌🏻 www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

Birmingham's "..excellent fine-dining, post-punk industrial wine cave Albatross Death Cult.." gets a shout out from @gracedent.bsky.social in The Granuaid www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

If the Hokey Cokey was, essentially, what it was all about, then I'd be fine with that. It's enough. #totp

All Hallmark Christmas movies could be improved TENFOLD by a scene where Bill Murray is viciously attacked by a fairy holding a toaster.

What game is everyone taking in on the last day? I’m taking Perfection.

Why do I think of this every Sunday night? It was the hallmark of being up far far too late.

Absolutely delighted with this chat I had with @gracedent.bsky.social about Bagpuss. It took us both back to early childhood and I had no idea it was going to get so deep and profound. A truly great show and a great person to talk about it with. timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

hello, 911? yes, there are a bunch of people here and they are absolutely DEMANDING some figgy pudding

Living Joy needs more credit. Keep on Moving AND I'm a Dreamer. #totp

I loved The Fugees. I did this. This was me. I was the fan. #totp

Return of the Mack is a banger. Don't embarrass yourself by arguing #totp

Genuinely laughed out loud on the Northern Line at this paragraph

Ask yourself, would your life be better, or worse, with a trifle butler? That's a butler who erects trifles, of course. This week's restaurant is The Georgian at Harrods. www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

I was searching Sounds for some radio comedy and happened upon Arthur Lowe reading The Diary of a Nobody. Hard to imagine a better match of actor and text; he's so funny and expressive (and will make you nostalgic for his Mr Men narrations if you ever got to hear those) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Bagpuss. Why I love this fat furry cat puss. On The Golden Age Of Children’s TV’, pod me and @outonbluesix.bsky.social ponder melancholy, the chocolate biscuit mill and Yaffle. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

Official start of my annual ‘Whole of The Moon’ by The Waterboys is a Christmas song, campaign 🎄🎄🎄

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

I endorse this

Comfort Eating Pod- Me and Diane talk about the ‘single and feral’ stage ❤️

I love Old Fools. A podcast for Old Fools.

Astonishing to remember that the Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion from 1987 is still a gigantic mystery. Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying and I would love to know who it was, how they did it and how they got away with it. And why. timworthington.org/2021/12/25/l...

ABSOLUTELY. What We Were Watching at Christmas returns this year. Xx🎄🎄🎄🎄

A festive chat with @gracedent.bsky.social about the Have A Cracking Christmas At Woolworths ad, Chas'n'Dave's Christmas Knees-Up, the Chorlton And The Wheelies Christmas Special and more - including what happened to the Test Card one Christmas Day... timworthington.org/2021/12/25/l...

It Follows - never again

Great article by @gracedent.bsky.social about the gift of sobriety at Christmas. It’s great that more public figures are talking about their positive sober stories. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #sobriety #sober #recovery #soberlife #addiction #soberliving #soberaf #alcoholfree

This is for everyone who can’t ‘begin’ their chocolate advent on Day 1. ‘Cos they ate Day 1 back on the 27th. I see you. You are my people🎄🎄(I ate day 2 too little baby Jesus forgive me)

Awed the crowd at Hay Winter Festival with my heady blend of Vienetta, Michelin Star, Dementia, Comprehensive School dinner analysis. HUNGRY and COMFORT EATING are available now if you like laughing and eating. 🥣❤️❤️❤️

100 per cent still feeling this. ❤️❤️

If you’re in Hay On Wye today - Saturday - I’m appearing at 11.30am the book festival talking about comfort food. I’m in conversation with Oliver Bullough who is *checks notes* an eminent speaker on Russian Geopolitics. Strange. But as Sting said ‘The Russians love their Potato Waffles too’

Someone described Bluesky to me last night as ‘Where all the nerds are’. And I’m totally ok with that.

I wrote this today about Christmas food being full of ghosts. Is it ok with Aunt Beat (dead, 1991) to not buy Colmans Bread Sauce? Will my dead father want this Dairy Milk? Is it ok to give myself a break? OF COURSE NOT. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The only place in the house these two specifically cannot sit. And have been told so. Many times. Many.

From hence, I won’t eat any trifle which isn’t made table side by my own trifle butler. The Georgian - Knightsbridge.

Day 5

NEW EPISODE - David Gray and me on fish finger stone henge, dishwasher stacking anxiety and the secret of a good Breville toastie. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

4/20

I remain obsessed by how much this publicity photo from Spaced looks like every British Xennial's First Houseshare Photo. The poses! The sofa! THE LITTLE BAMBOO TABLE FOR THE LANDLINE WITH SPACE BENEATH FOR THE YELLOW PAGES.

Podcast I like: low fi nerdy pods recorded in bedrooms where friends chat, but without too much pointless laughing that one can become parasocially over invested in. Ideas?

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20

I loved the milk chocolate miniatures and had a red mini vending machine as a kid that you put 10 chocs in then put 2p in the slot to get one out. Very convoluted way to get to eat them but I loved it!

Sarah at the brilliant @childhood_krap posted this and I can’t quite stop staring. This glorious Roses map. It is the cosy, slightly rubbish joy of an 80s Christmas distilled.

It began with EP 1 A food chat with the beloved Russell T Davies - Dr. Who, It’s A Sin etc- about Woolworths porkpie with egg…. our grief, being a carer, Rugby Club Buffets… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/comfort-eating-with-grace-dent/id1571446706?i=1000525534334

Day 2 @memorialdevice.bsky.social

Are any noodles worth a 90 minute wait on a draughty Soho street? Possibly. Noodle Inn scenes. www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20

To anyone who thinks that BlueSky is an echo chamber, post something mildly derogatory about New Order or the first Stone Roses album and see how you get on 👍

Normalise ‘mash with things to go on mash’ parties

I have a primitive urge to possess this pudding 🎄

@gracedent.bsky.social Almost forgot - Happy Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident Day!