The thing I most miss about my childhood is the voiceover informing me that one of the actors in the programme I just watched is appearing in When Did You Last See Your Trousers? in a provincial theatre

Paint the fence! Run the raffle Cut the orange- it’s half time!

Friday

Got this off the Tesco charity bookcase. Is it any good?

Coming to Talking Pictures TV soon. I am so excited! www.oldtimereview.co.uk/who-do-you-d...

“Ooh that Maine Coon next door’s no better than she should be”

Always a pleasure to see Gary Russell's Dick in CEX

Worst Kim Woodburn tribute act ever

His biggest seller was a house number plaque with an owl on it to which he affixed the numbers while people waited. He sent one to his fave Corrie characters, Mavis & Derek, but they wrote to say it arrived broken, with a signed photo that was pinned up in our hall for years

Anyway if you want to know more there’s a film all about it

Up until my mum died when I was 10 my dad was a milkman & I went with him on his round on Saturday mornings (up at 3am, break at about 8 for a Milky Lunch bar & the latest Beano for me, page 3 for my dad). The tips I got from elderly customers paid for my Dr Who video collection.

My dad used to make and sell garden ornaments at car boot sales, to which I would diligently accompany him each Sunday and vigorously browse with the £2 he gave me. The origin of the love of old junk from the 60s & 70s that dominates my life to this day.

My dad wasn’t Robert Redford in case anyone wonders

Watching some of the old Dr Whos I used to make him sit through on VHS when I was little. I’ve got The Daleks on - he used to absolutely piss himself at the one that gets dizzy after taking radiation drugs.

My dad died this afternoon. He was the loveliest man I’ve ever known.

"‘Queen Bee’ (1978) features a memorably eccentric gay witness who’s changed his name by deed poll to… Deed Poll. (‘I am an effeminate homosexual’ he dramatically announces, ‘My life is one round of wine, men and song.’)" From @hellothisisivan.bsky.social👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/06/l...

Folk horror comes to Crown Court! This case from 1974 is inspired by the Lower Quinton ‘witchcraft murder’ of 1945 & written by David Pinner, whose novel Ritual inspired The Wicker Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3r...

WELL

“Ooh that Maine Coon next door’s no better than she should be”

WELL

He looks quite frowney if you ask me

Sad to learn it’s actually her middle name and not, as I’d always hoped, an Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson situation arising from when she once bought some gates

Jesus Christ what a horrible world

I know it’s old fashioned, I know I’m massively behind the times, but I’m just not a big fan of people being murdered.

Before yesterday I had neither heard of Charlie Kirk nor been aware of how many British people were seemingly experts on his life and work

He looks quite frowney if you ask me

I came across these books in a charity shop today. Do I have them already? Of course. Should I have left them for someone else? Probably. Reader, I bought them.

"What was a cause is now a crusade. You’re not content to say a woman must be liberated, you have another message. Your message for woman is you must be liberated but you must be lesbian to be liberated" @hellothisisivan.bsky.social on ground-breaking TV.👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/06/l...

Do you want more weird horrory Crown Court? This is the INCREDIBLE one inspired by the Highgate Vampire case, featuring black magic paraphernalia galore and an exorcism in the courtroom! m.youtube.com/watch?v=dozh...

Fans of the BBC’s 70s Ghost Stories for Xmas may enjoy this Swedish/Irish Le Fanu adaptation with a similar feel & quite a cast: Per Oscarsson, Patrick Magee, Curt Jurgens, Ray McAnally, Brendan Price, Marilu Tolo www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqx...

She was an absolute volcano, wasn’t she?

Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Three Billy Goats Gruff Artist: Robert Lumley (1968)

This is a highly tempting job to me purely for how un-21st century it sounds

Fans of the BBC’s 70s Ghost Stories for Xmas may enjoy this Swedish/Irish Le Fanu adaptation with a similar feel & quite a cast: Per Oscarsson, Patrick Magee, Curt Jurgens, Ray McAnally, Brendan Price, Marilu Tolo www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqx...

Do you want more weird horrory Crown Court? This is the INCREDIBLE one inspired by the Highgate Vampire case, featuring black magic paraphernalia galore and an exorcism in the courtroom! m.youtube.com/watch?v=dozh...

Just realised I need to watch everything on the BFI Player before my partner gets his new job next month & loses his free subscription to it

Brighton charity shops, catering to all your Hayley Cropper/Don’t Look Now cosplay needs

LOOK WHAT I’VE FOUND A COPY OF

"There’s so much of that dirt and that sort of thing these days, isn’t there? It’s everywhere. You turn on the radio or the television and it’s thrust at you" @hellothisisivan.bsky.social on how daytime drama CROWN COURT repressnted the gays in 1970s Britain:👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/06/l...

Latest thing written by me. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to bring an unknown milestone of homosexuality on TV into the light

Coming tomorrow on Lion & Unicorn, the latest Last Night on YouTube by @hellothisisivan.bsky.social: an important contribution to the history of the depiction of gay people on British telly. thelionandunicorn.com

Folk horror comes to Crown Court! This case from 1974 is inspired by the Lower Quinton ‘witchcraft murder’ of 1945 & written by David Pinner, whose novel Ritual inspired The Wicker Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3r...

My respect for Badenoch would have gone up quite a bit if her response to Dorries defecting had been ‘And I was just about to recognise her many years of service to party and country by making her a Tory life peer in the forthcoming honours list.’

Listening to a history audio book in which the narrator refers to “the beer hall pooch”

“Mah name is Mahchael Caine. Naht a lahta people knah that”

Britannia calling to remind me of my solemn duty to cheer myself and the nation up

OK but I hardly think you can blame Terry-Thomas

The weirdest thing about this is that he’s gay. He didn’t even do it as an excuse to see tits!

Disapproving/approving

A BIRD HAS BEEN HEARD