I’m watching Friday’s #TOTP and I don’t think John Miles loves music as much as he claims. What music do you love, John? Oh, music of the future and music of the past. But any specific music? Just, you know, from the future and the past.

The very frank letter from my consultant (my forthcoming surgery is “unlikely to be curative but hopefully life-prolonging”) and the draft copy of my new will arrived on the same day, so that’s an interesting bunch of reading and admin for today. (By the way I’m fine…)

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

Honour amongst Traitors at least, which I guess is a pleasing result in some ways. #TheTraitors

Stabbed in the back by his castle Mother. Poor Faraaz. #TheTraitors

I do like the idea that a lot of people would do their nut in if Faraaz wins and takes his family on Hajj. #TheTraitors

Has “Jack” (obviously one of the other lads in disguise) come under any heat at all? #TheTraitors

Jade you were literally standing there and clocked it when Rachel made her slip-up. #TheTraitors

You’re always hot, Jade, tbh. #TheTraitors

This would be a hard NOPE from me. #TheTraitors

To be honest, since Jack’s whole look consists of various things you’d do for a disguise (heavy fringe, glasses, earrings etc) that could be any one of the other interchangeable blokes. In fact maybe Jack doesn’t exist? #TheTraitors

They still can’t get past the idea that if someone’s nice to them, they must be a Faithful. They’re idiots. #TheTraitors

Oh! Rachel… whoops. #TheTraitors

Noooo! Stick to your guns, Faraazatha. #TheTraitors

How is Jack still there? Is it just because no one knows his name or really noticed him? #TheTraitors

I’m currently reading Timothy Egan’s Fever in the Heartland, an excellent and very readable book that is even more terrifying now than it was when it was published just a couple of years ago. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/a...

Huh. 😀

Whatever happens with the Chests of Chance, Stephen looked notably unconvincing and weaselly voting for James. So will he be suspected for changing directly so obviously at the Round Table? #TheTraitors

They’re all trying to read something into James interrupting so much at the Round Table and going heavy on Matty and really it’s just an ADHD person at a meeting. #TheTraitors

More of the challenges should have an inbuilt Traitor-sabotage subplot. (Btw I’m watching about 40 minutes in delay). #TheTraitors

Bloody hell, I had a friend round and then I had tea later than usual, and I didn’t realise it was already 20 past Traitors time.

A genuinely lovely report on Plymouth’s Beryl Cook exhibition by H from Steps on tonight’s One Show. #geddonplymouth www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Isn’t it lovely that it’s still light at gone 4.30? I know winter in the UK can be a bitch, but there’s still pleasure to be found in those steadily lengthening evenings.

Probably the most niche and petty post ever, but it would be nice if Bargain Hunt contestants were encouraged to stress the appropriate word in the Challenge reveal. Eg: a CARVED item, not a carved ITEM. An item with a NAUTICAL connection, not an item with a nautical CONNECTION.

Went to Perranporth on the way home because the beach makes everything okay.

When you think you’ve spotted a crow on a branch in a stream.

Preparing to go to sleep in a hotel room always means creating a pile of extraneous cushions and throws.

Faraazatha Christie. #TheTraitors

I wouldn’t have been surprised if Matty had declared himself a Traitor at that point, he’s spent that long dreaming about becoming one. #TheTraitors

I mean it’s crazy. Stephen has heat on him, then a couple mention Rachel, but instead the Faithful just tear each other apart. Is Rachel casting some kind of spell? #TheTraitors

Hang on a minute, two or three of them earlier were naming Rachel and Stephen. But at the Round Table it’s all James and Jade and Matthew. #TheTraitors

Why does Roxy think she’s being “kept in” rather than she just happens not to have been murdered yet? #TheTraitors

Lasagne! Someone tell Nick Mohammed. #TheTraitors

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

Also why has every single health person has - when taking a profile - has asked, “So you’re retired, are you?” No I’m not fucking retired. I’m 61. I don’t get my state pension till 67, ffs.

Given I haven’t driven a “long” journey since I got ill, those were not absolutely the best conditions to drive in. Anyway, I went for the P&R and I’m now at the hospital with my second breakfast a comfortable hour and 15 minutes ahead of my appointment. Phew.

Currently getting anxious about whether to try to find a space at unfamiliar hospital car park (Treliske) for tomorrow’s pre-op meetings or go straight to the much cheaper Park & Ride on the way in. This is a way of transferring my anxiety about the appointment itself.

I have now booked the MOT and also chased up the claim on my critical illness cover to discover it was somehow lost in the system. I have now set up a call with the claims assessor next week and will take the rest of the day off, and remain convinced I shouldn’t have to do these things.

These 8+ wars he says he’s stopped - I assume he’s including the War on Christmas and the War on Protein to bump up the numbers?

As it's the incomparable Cary Grant's birthday today, this is wonderful article by Graham McCann about Grant's love of panto and British comedians... Yes that is Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies with Cary... www.comedy.co.uk/features/com...

I’ve had enough of World Events and also cancer bobbins for today. Watching the European Ice Dance on BBC iPlayer. I highly recommend it for those that likes this kind of thing (as I do).

I’m being ever so matter-of-fact and full of sangfroid with this cancer bollocks, but this manages to be one of the most calmly terrifying documents I’ve ever read. Also, isn’t “debulking” just the most unpleasant word ever.

Roxy is such a self-righteous arse. They should banish her just because. #TheTraitors

Matt’s little dreamy face imagining he’s about to be recruited. #TheTraitors

Oh my god, I haven’t been watching the new series of The Night Manager because I assumed Hugh Laurie wasn’t in it. But I’ve just seen that trailer and there he is with a sexy sexy beard and I don’t care about the plot, I’ll just ffwd through it for Hugh.

Bloody hell.

I’ve had a good scan result so next week’s chemo is cancelled and instead I have a pre-op health check. Surgery early next month, I hope. Nice to get positive news. Being me, I don’t really celebrate but then I don’t get really down when bad things happen either.

I don’t understand Matthew’s trouser length. Maybe it’s because he only got parachuted into the game late last week and he had to borrow someone else’s. #TheTraitors