Saw a kingfisher in the park, by the canal.

Why has the BBC4 #totp song listing got the title the wrong way round?

For the tea-lover who has everything... #tea

Ooh it's just like Christmas 1982 again - spending Boxing Day playing with the exciting new Sinclair Spectrum I got for Christmas. Only this time it's a TheSpectrum modern-day clone, it was a present I bought myself, and most important of all I don't […] [Original post on social.chatty.monster]

We are doing The Cheese.

And as another Christmas dinner is completed and the table gets cleared, please join in me in giving a little word of thanks to the inventor of the dishwasher.

The roasties are in the oven. There's no turning back now.

With twelve days of thanks to @DJDarren and the #theplaylist listeners for reminding me about this, I would like to wish everyone a very enjoyable and delightful advent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2QsGFPG0g

We are having a pescatarian christmas dinner and the centrepiece will be a salmon roasted and decorated with pomegranate seeds. So step 1 in preparation is to break open the pomegranate to get at the seeds and yes in case you're wondering the kitchen does now look like a particularly gruesome […]

Woohoo, brilliant, I wake up on Christmas morning to find that Father Lotterymas has left me the most wonderful present in my stocking. This is it, everyone I know is getting a gazillion pounds, I can fix homelessness and world hunger and everything […] [Original post on social.chatty.monster]

I am from a big family and when we were young we always had family over on Christmas Day. This being the 1970s & 1980s, it meant my mum spent hours and hours and hours in the kitchen both on Christmas morning and most of Christmas Eve too. So the one thing she wasn't going to do was cook an […]

Breaking news from the department of stating the bloody obvious.

Because I am not driving into work this morning I have not remembered to Late-Kate this week's #theplaylist as I usually put it on in the car on a Tuesday morning. Let's fix that now.

Absolutely top-notch comic-ry from #xkcd today.

[The War Between Land & Sea, Ep.5] EPISODE 5 SPOILERS BELOW If you really wanted to make everyone hate you, stealing and eating all the doggos seems a very good way to go about it.

One last, long road for Chris Rea to drive down. Hope he makes it in time. RIP. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0q5g3v02qjt #chrisrea #ripchrisrea

The powers that be have turned on Github Copilot for our account at work. It's worth every penny. #ai #llm #copilot #github

This is a selfie of my brother, his wife and me in a Christmas bauble. (taken yesterday at National Trust's, Greys Court). Mastodon: take a selfie in a bauble. Is there a hashtag for this?

I do not need more Cliff so will be dropping off prematurely. I've no idea when we next get more of this madness ... 2026 probably. So have a great Christmas & New Year poppers. #TOTP

Oh yeah, I forgot about Quo Bunny. #TOTP

Soupdragons bloke quite clearly did not want to be in the studio, and very very much did not want to be interviewed. #TOTP

Tune! #TOTP

Sinéad 💔 #TOTP

So they'll play "I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker" but banned Ebeneezer Goode.? #TOTP

Me & Mrs LT just did a perfect lip sync to "I will attack .. and you don't want that". We got the power! #TOTP

"Coming up we have Boney M and the Human League" Please tell me they're performing together. I'd pay good money for that. #TOTP

I do have something of a soft spot for sweet little pop songs with razor sharp lyrics. And The Beautiful South are one of the masters of the art. #TOTP

This isn't even a Christmas song! #TOTP

Sing up, Lindy! #TOTP

Kim Appleby's solo career might not have gone very far but her commentary was great on the SAW documentary. #TOTP

Yikes, ear plugs needed! #TOTP

What could Celine Dion's bigbhit of 1998 possibly be?! Probably sank without a trace. #totp

This hive mind is at it again. #TOTP

Which one's Nigel Farage? #totp

We've been a bit lacking in the Top of the Hats contest so far, though, so this was welcome. #TOTP

All Hot Chili Peppers. #TOTP

Big horns section. Obviously. #TOTP

See, there **were** plenty of faster songs earlier in 1998. The bpm tax didn't kick in till the end of the year. #TOTP

Double ~~denim~~ sequins. #TOTP

"Fook's sake, a bit too much charlie, I can't remember the fookin' words. Hang about, what if I just get the audience to fill in for me". #TOTP

Oh god it's like karaoke night down the local. #TOTP

This is marvellous! #TOTP

This is quite a good little montage actually. #TOTP

She yeeted Toto! Nooooooo! #TOTP

Not creepy staging there, not at all. #TOTP

B*witched were so much happier when they were in their double denim. #totp