18th October is the Feast of St Luke! St Luke’s Little Summer is said to occur around this time - a period of warm, dry weather before Autumn returns! See if this happens! #r4today #TheArchers

Jones the Steam edition of #bbcaq tonight

Foxes back outside my place again tonight. 3 of them this time. Can’t startle them with the flash so unfortunately no clearer image #TheArchers

After tonight it’s plain ‘Andy’ or ‘Andy Boy’ - no more Prince malarkey or Duke of Earl or any of that stuff! Official! #TheArchers #bbcaq

The King to pray with the Pope - let’s say it together…………………….. #wato

Slow news day - main story about football fans. Wheels have dropped off the Chinese Spy story - Badenoch wasted her time with that one (public couldn’t have cared less)! #wato

October 17th is National Mulligan Day (to do with golf apparently not the recently deceased and never previously heard from #TheArchers character)!

Friday 17th October is Wear Something Gaudy Day! (Funeral Directors - Not You!) #r4today

Sam Fender wins Mercury Prize! Full size ceremony this year in Newcastle unlike 2024 when it was held in an abandoned garden shed in Woking with pre recorded performances because the only sponsor they could get was Dave’s Chippy: Cod & Chips £8 special offer Tuesday £10 all other times! #Newsnight

Again - not the greatest picture (don’t want to spook him with the flash) but one of the resident foxes which come to play outside my home every evening (photographed just now)! #TheArchers

YouGov Poll says only 14% of the public are following this Chinese Spy story closely! There’s no votes in this for Badenoch. Suspect Labour are happy to leave her banging on about this because they know it won’t move the electoral dial! #bbcpm #bbcqt

Hootie & the Blowfish! Tamagotchis! The Blue Peter Cat! Just 3 things the people you meet in the street are more likely to be talking about than the Chinese Spy Scandal! There’s zero public interest in this story! #wato

Furious voters demanding an immediate General Election over the Chinese Spy Scandal - then Kemi Badenoch woke up and found there’s zero electoral mileage in this story!! #wato

Mulligan (and O’Hare) on the farm in happier times #TheArchers

BlueSky search and hashtags on the fritz again #TheArchers

David in full on Grapes of Wrath mode - scratching a living off his land (a farm valued at £7 million a few years ago)! #TheArchers

Listens to a couple of episodes of Farming Today and now he can milk a herd of cows! Absurd and then some! #TheArchers

R4 have dumped Brain of Britain (for 2025 anyway) and it looks like Counterpoint and Round Britain Quiz have bitten the dust too (all have same production team - pushed out by the BBC)! No fan on RBQ but this smacks of dumbing down #TheArchers

“But where are they all? I want to tell them about the Chinese Spy!” Kemi Badenoch finding out voters just aren’t interested in hearing about that court case - she needs to move on to something else if she wants to generate any traction in the polls! #bbcpm

The voters couldn’t care less about Chinese spies (even in cases less complicated than the current one)! Badenoch and the Tories need better material if they want to get traction in the polls! #wato

This is Kemi Badenoch’s fox - shot by Keir Starmer at #PMQs when he announced he’d publish the China Spy Case Witness Statement! All she was left with was bluff and bluster and cut a forlorn figure leaving the Commons Chamber with this draped round her neck! #wato

Does Oliver know he’s going to have to get his overseas staff to recite Hamlet to satisfy the right to work going forwards? #TheArchers

“What are you doing here in the Village?” ‘I live here!’ “I’m in shock, I might collapse!” All of that tonight when Fallon encounters George! #TheArchers

Oct 18th is #NoKings Day.

They’ll have some sort of dismal competitive doings to decide who gets the 2nd ticket! Tedious! #TheArchers

Gobbling! #TheArchers

Surely time to start planning the Pantomime - yes, a Pantomime - not a Mystery Play (they’re supposed to do those at Easter) or a Wartime Nostalgia Event or something equally daft! A Pantomime! #TheArchers

As if anyone takes Mike Huckabee seriously - a right wing twonk who lost the Republican Nomination twice, to John McCain and then to Mitt Romney (deemed less electable than Mitt Romney - ponder that!)! Complete buffoon and not only a has been but actually a never was!! #bbcpm

Prince Andrew told Epstein ‘we’ll play some more soon’ day after the Virginia Giuffre picture was published! Make of that what you will! This despite telling the BBC he’d ceased all contact months before! #r4today

Prince Andrew up to his armpits in it again on the front pages of the Sunday papers tomorrow! Doubt there’s even the slimmest chance of a comeback with this going on week in week out! #r4today

Sad news about Diane Keaton #TheArchers

news.sky.com/story/lostpr... of course he was a despicable individual but this is a serious failure on the part of the prison system - other criminals shouldn’t be able to target and ‘take out’ people they don’t like! #bbcpm

Great Mysteries of Our Time! No. 274 - What happened to Mia Wasikowska? Be honest - you haven’t thought about her once since about 2014! #bbcpm

So Trump didn’t win the Nobel Prize and he’s too abrasive for Miss Congeniality (a traditional runners up award). Suppose he’ll have to make do with this! #bbcpm #bbcaq

Kids stopped watching MTV decades ago - this is from 1997! #bbcpm

State of this! ‘Tories need to stop apologising for my mini budget’ - clearly he missed the ‘when Hell freezes over’ bit off the end! #wato

Not Miliband again! First thing he did at his first committee meeting running that International Rescue Charity was demand they raise his salary to half a million quid (a lot of money 15 years ago)! Who does that? Someone with all four trotters in the trough! #wato

So I was right - they gave the Peace Prize to an opponent of the regime in Venezuela in the hope of appeasing Trump! It didn’t work because he still had a hissy fit because he can’t stand not getting his own way! #wato

Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize #wato

Nobel Committee in Oslo blow a huge raspberry at Donald Trump - he doesn’t get Nobel Peace Prize! #wato

Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo reached their decision about who will win the Prize last Monday. Trump considered the least likely winner - the Committee probably wouldn’t want to reward a Climate Change Denier who has masked ICE agents abducting people off the streets #r4today

Stop plugging tv shows on the radio you BBC idiots #wato

Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai #wato

Javi Gracia back at Watford after they sack yet another Manager! He’s the Liz Truss of football management having been Leeds United Head Coach for a fortnight a couple of years ago! Returning to Watford means he’s now managed about 178 clubs (impossible to count them all) during his career! #wato

“Where freeloaders are told where to get off” - does Kemi Badenoch mean the disabled? She does you know! Does she mean you? She does you know! #wato

Waiting for my flu jab with an anti vaxxer in earshot - doesn’t trust science, favours ‘alternative remedies’. Glad when I had my cardiac arrest the doctors used science to save me vs the aromatherapist saying ‘this man is in critical condition - quick someone light a scented candle!’ Yup! #wato

“This is the ‘hat’ Danny was talking about!” Robert Jenrick gives his take on Withnail & I! “So there’s this judge sitting there in a cape like fucking Batman with this really rather far out looking hat” ‘A wig’ “No man, this was more like a long white hat”. #r4today

8th October is World Octopus Day! #r4today

‘If only Hitler had been more Zen’ says Thought for the Day dude #r4today