Time to look back at 2025 one more time. My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now. Please watch, like and circulate. Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise. youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

Immortalised by L. S. Lowry, the queue outside HMV the day Genesis Of The Daleks / Slipback was released on cassette.

My mum was listening to Radio 4's Death On The Nile. Donald Sinden was in the cast. I said how much I like his voice and did an impression of him saying "potatoes". A second later, Sinden says "potatoes" in the radio play. My submission for A Ghost Story For Christmas.

JW The Avengers 4.1 "The Town Of No Return". First time seeing this episode, although the plot seemed very familiar (Steed & Peel go to mostly deserted village, wander about, punch baddies, merrily breeze off). Anyway, good stuff, although Ripping Yarns did it better.

Brand new on Dirty Feed: I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/01/ever...

New Year amnesty, I’ve unblocked some accounts of people who pissed me off. Serves me right if they immediately block me back in return. If they’ve even noticed. Actually, keep schtum, maybe I can bluff this out, like George Costanza returning to work after quitting.

🎶 And so this is eight hours and fifty-six minutes into 2026 and what have you done? 🎶

Busy day, forgetting auld acquaintance and never bringing them to mind.

… except for season four, which is actively harmful.

‘Lady Don’t Fall Backwards’

This new strict diet for 2026 has been a fucking breeze, so far.

“Here’s a pretty kettle of fish!” “So it is, damn silly place to leave it.”

Sounds like they’re strafing Southend. Good.

And as is tradition (since my teens), I’m listening to The Goon Show “Drums Along The Mersey”.

Happy New Year! And a happy next new year too! 🥳🎊🎉

🎶And in the end the piss you take is equal to the piss you make🎶

Oh, just remembered. I was going to walk the coastline of Britain in 2025. Well, still time. S'cuse me.

Decided to see out the year with 'The Best Of Friends' (Channel 4, 1991). A charming, thoughtful, amusing, sublimely performed & beautifully shot play. If my calculations are right (I have not calculated), it will strike midnight just as Patrick McGoohan as George Bernard Shaw cheerfully announces

Staff who operate my account.

Sorted my profile page header, which is a tribute to Philip Mackie. Tried including something from The Organization, but it didn't work out.

World's Strongest Man (aka Simon's browser history) on 5.

The last #TOTP shit-post-along of 2025. Honour to serve with you.

Do you have any idea just how many countdowns there have been since this song? Total bullshit. #TOTP

Oh, hey, it's that Nazi anthem. #TOTP

S'cuse me, have to shuffle feebly to this banger. BRB. #TOTP

The Fraser Hayes Four have come a long way. #TOTP

Christ, dads were desperate back in the day. #TOTP

Sure, Dr Who, but then it becomes a very depressing song about being alone forever. #TOTP

Phil Mitchell hits the karaoke bar. #TOTP

Skystriker! Voga! #TOTP

Busted. For those who thought Hanson were a little too metal. #TOTP

The Pertweefication of Rod continues apace. #TOTP

Denim Avengers assemble! #TOTP

I'm an Essex boy, born in the 80s, it's technically still illegal for me to knock the Quo. #TOTP

Sept 2001: I'm the worst September. Sept 2002: Hold my beer. #TOTP

Take the wig off, you won't feel the benefit. #TOTP

"DATTAAWAWAARALALADARRARRA!" #TOTP

The worst thing to happen in September 2001. #TOTP

I'd like to use my "CHOOON" card now, please. #TOTP

So much effort to be so very unimpressive. #TOTP

Very weird having memories of being in clubs with this playing, still listed as "recent" in my head. #TOTP

Waterproofs on, it's Kylie. #TOTP

Lionel Richie All Night Long. #WriteAHorrorStoryInUnderSixWords #TOTP

Does he have too many teeth or one huge tooth carved to look like a full set? #TOTP

"Miss Bouncy?" "It's pronounced Beyoncé!" #TOTP

Their names are Ninety, One-Eighty and Three-Sixty. #TOTP

Why fireworks so early? Are they celebrating Fiji's new year?

"I'd give it ten minutes, if I were you."