Sunshine and ice! ☀️❄️

“Of course, we should bring back the death penalty for the ghosts and then send them all back…”

Right, let's catch up with the first #TOTP 1999 repeat that was on last night... Er... 😣

Cocktails and then more cocktails! 🍸 🍹

Not #TOTP ing the start of 1999 (the year, not the Prince hit) this evening due to one more festive gluttony trip but will spend 20 minutes tomorrow watching the “best” of that double bill. Featuring Alisha’s Attic.

Grange Hill 6.2: Two episodes with Jeremy in a row? They really are spoiling us. Loved the "Shall we use cardboard boxes or bags of rubbish to end the trolley stunt? Sod it, why not use both?" moment. Also: New bad girls being bad. One of them's familiar in a Doctor Who context!

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Coming up on Monday. We’ve had space comedy, then war time drama. Now it’s time for something quite different! We’re off to Wentworth Detention Centre!

Sarah Jane Smith began to have doubts that this really was Season 4 of 'The Traitors' #DoctorWho #TheTraitorsUk #TheTraitors

New Year, New format, Blue box, Blue language! 🤣

so lucky to be a part of the @trapone.bsky.social family! from 7:25-29:10, @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social, @keithsay.bsky.social, and i rave about @lisamcmullin.bsky.social's "lionesses in winter"! first time anyone's ever talked about "early-modern maternal outcomes" in a "doctor who" podcast!

Well that's Stranger Things done! A good finale with a lot to cover, done well, tied up nicely, which is a rarity these days *cough* Doctor Who* so I'm pleased. Nice to hear Bowie's Heroes again as a final episode credits soundtrack, weeks after the last time that happened. No fish were harmed.

I think I've finally worked out my top 10 books of the year that we just escaped from. 📚

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There's MORE!

Yes of course I'm swearing at the noisy fireworks humans, quietly, safely indoors.

As a mid-40s gay I don’t want to see any older gay bitching about Stranger Things and Will’s coming out. Yes he was overly emotional and it was awkward. But that’s what coming out is like. It’s what it was like for me and many people I know. I thought it was the perfect scene and I was in tears

In honor of @everyheron.bsky.social and everyone dedicated to a bit on this website, here's a quick heron highlight reel from this year, set to Blind Guardian's "Otherland," because that's what the song is about. 🪶

Picture of the staff who operate my account.

Well I suppose I’d better have the final bath and podcast of 2025. Grange Hill theme, research for something I’m doing in 2026. 🛁🎙️

#BeerContent Liked the look of this alcoholic ginger beer from the local tap room. Nice. Literally gingery with an alcoholic aftertaste. 😵‍💫

This episode of Secret Army is rather undramatic 🤔😉

Going to drink the forbidden IRN BRU

I've probably already mentioned what a great listen this is. But it really is!

Our Christmas episode this year was an interview with the wonderful Paul Shelley, who played Major Bradley in S2 & 3! We chatted about fading memories, how much he enjoyed working with the cast & crew, and one challenge he faced upon his return in S3… secretarmypod.podbean.com/e/christmas-...

I have to thank my podcast community for keeping that part of my brain occupied: @trapone.bsky.social overseen by wonderful @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social , @whorod.bsky.social with his Nostalgia Tours, @grumpy2eb.bsky.social and his Maran Chess Club, @haemovoresrus.bsky.social with Kettle & String...

Well... 2025 was eclectic (1/3)

All hail the Oxhey Conker!

Top 10 TV Watched in 2025? What a challenge! Secret Army (1977-1979) Doctor Who season 13 (1975-76) Blakes 7 series B (1979) Big Boys season 3 (2025) Grange Hill season 4 (1981) Invisible Boys (2025) Poker Face season 2 (2025) Holding On (1997) Alien: Earth season 1 (2025) Pluribus season 1 (2025)

It's been a joy to explore #Blakes7 on Maximum Power with so many amazing contributors & listeners. To GIF is better than to recieve, I've loved building up our gallery, so here's a trip from A-D, with rather fitting music from Jarvis C & Co.

As we wind up another year, here's a look back at our class of 2025. Thanks to all our readers for their continued support and enthusiasm. We have lots of exciting new books lined up for 2026 and hope you'll join us.

Time for a long soak and some Dicks! 🛁 Listened to a lot of great @nathanbottomley.com podcast content over the Christmas holiday. 🎄

Reached that point of the Christmas holiday that involves willingly looking at a file called Terminus Studio Floor Plans.PDF

Hanging out with all my pals.

Time enough for another podcast appearance?✅ Always lovely to spend time with @haemovoresrus.bsky.social

Experience my Doctor Who Christmases of years gone by in my Christmas episode of The Library of Impossible Things.

New episode! Let’s take a trip back to the 1940s for Secret Army. In this week’s episode of “No! It’s Not Doctor Who” @sihart.bsky.social joins me to explore what he loves about this somewhat overlooked classic piece of BBC drama podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

It’s time for the second podcast featuring @sihart.bsky.social of the day! Maximum Ubiquity!

Been annoying a boat hopping heron (again)

No anti-matter incidents on my morning walk.

Motivation for me to walk off some of the Christmas Gluttony and re-live this classic BBC drama that I finally watched this year due to reasons probably mentioned in the podcast.

Forget the Rani, sod Omega, this is the fan service we needed in 2025 #DoctorWho www.facebook.com/reel/2034779...

Sophie Aldred's on Celebrity Mastermind tomorrow. Someone's specialty subject is "The actor Sylvester McCoy". I don't think I'll stop laughing until well into the new year if it isn't her.

Grange Hill 5.16: Ro-Land is in a coma after getting run over on purpose last week (and who can blame him) so my own head canon is that this School Revue episode is due to him being on all the hospital drugs. A great way to say goodbye to the last of the class of 1978, though.

One of the best @trapone.bsky.social episodes ever!

And it's au revoir from us, as we finally get to talk our way through four years of sequins and trauma, with our spiciest takes on the entire run of Blake's 7. All your most urgent questions will be answered in the Whole Damn Show Retrospective. #Blakes7 maximumpowerpodcast.com/65

Watching Stranger Things with its monster chases, manipulators, comas , hellscapes and special effects, and yearning for the good old days of kids drama about school uniform, tuck shops and shoplifting. It’s all Grange Hill’s fault.

Today’s waterfowl walk has been sponsored by signs.