@christhebarker.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social Pride of place. In the kitchen, above the broken barometer, next to the bin. #showusyourcalendar

Our 17-year-old had friends over for a NYE sleepover, and they watched Galaxy Quest, Hard Boiled and a stage production of Les Mis. So I'd say the kids are alright.

Correct: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fpW...

Perhaps it really was just a random Alsatian 🤷🏻‍♀️ But the wolf was shot dead at Ickleford a couple of days later. Four years on, my dad joined the local paper as a junior reporter and made a career writing these sorts of stories. He still likes to tell this one after half a century 😆

For two straight years our office was next door to Jimmy Nail's production company. Only saw him once in the far distance. After he moved out Lynda La Plante's production company moved in. Never saw her.

I'm solving murders, mostly by going "My dear friend, how can you not see what is obvious?" about 30 times.

A greasy spoon called Beans Me Up, Scotty

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Well @quantick.bsky.social this has gone over spectacularly well with the film student.

Inside you there are two wolves… (Aka my kids really know what to get me for Christmas)

BBC are showing A Question of Attribution on Saturday - it’s amazing ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Even though I have been settled in .. for many years, I happily remember my childhood in Werbolhty.

The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.

Back from the cinema, glass of red, into the 20’s of December - must be time for @andrewmale.bsky.social’s Have Yourself a Desolate Little Christmas playlist. I made an Apple Music version music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

Please go to your assigned viewing stations at once. This is not a drill. Do not stop to gather personal belongings, except for popcorn and a toothpick.

Oh, I am among my people.

Interesting headline figures from Ofcom's latest report - fewer UK adults using X than Wikipedia (or Tesco online, for that matter.) Fulll report www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Slightly delayed, but the footage from Pompeii just downloaded.

Is this the first "shots fired" response in history? @ianleslie.bsky.social

Is this about the football, or possible post-independence trading blocks?

My copy is actually a gift for someone else. I will hate to give it away, but will love seeing them open it. Still time to buy another for me, I guess.

This, in particular, is the saddest space anyone has ever played pinball in:

Nah pop no style, I strictly roots Nah pop no style, I strictly roots See me 'pon de road, I 'earin' you call out to me True you see me in m'pants and ting See me in me 'alter back Sey me gi' you 'eart attack Gimme little bass, make m'wine up m'waist Uptown top ranking

How rabbit holes work: I saw this comment, thought "ooh, interesting," looked it up at our local library (I'm community-minded and cheap!). Didn't find it, but did find this, and I now I'm reading a book where poet Emily Dickinson solves murders www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton 1932

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

It is a masterpiece, and yet almost impossible to find on any service without having to pay again. This scene is perfect: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oflb...

NME's albums of the year from 1991. What an outstanding collection this is. And also Morrissey. timworthington.org/2021/12/25/l...

On the TV commentary, you can hear someone in the background yelling "shoot!" about three seconds before he does. I turned to my wife and said "'Shoot'? That's daft." Which is just one of the many reasons I am neither a commentator, nor an accomplished sportsman. Great stuff. Well done Scotland!

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Start your week right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwz...

Well, BBC News has quite a decision to make this morning.

And here we are!

In our patch we have more secondary places than there are currently year five pupils. So in a couple of years we get the sequel to this story. (And we aren't building enough new homes to make up the difference by then. Yes, people do move, but not that much.)

This is a great story about a remarkable club. It's touched on here, but worth saying how keen the club are on supporting the local community. We did a community health event there recently and the club went out of their way to help us. Great people and a good day out if you want to see some footie!

What a great idea. Other sports bodies should get into this too: the Lawn Tennis Association should award a literature prize; World Rugby can do economics and the FIA should have an annual physics trophy. The UCI, sadly, has the experience to award chemistry prizes.

New on BRFCS: 150 Words On 150 Years Happy birthday old friend https://www.brfcs.com/articles/150-words-on-150-years

I can only really understand what this would have done to the bits of London I know well because I've lived or worked there, but.. bloody hell. It would have ruined everything.

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

This is like finding out that two of your teachers know each other outside of school.

Crown Court is the sort of thing we miss now, not just for the show itself, but the opportunities it provided. Cheap to produce (one set!), but it's a great training ground for actors, writers, directors etc. We're missing this sort of pipeline. Plus it was genuinely dramatic and unpredictable!

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

This is brilliant news. Kevin is a fantastic teacher of internal comms and PR, based on long experience and a very open mind.

Make all the jokes you want about strings and how the mouths move, but this is an all-time opening sequence. We lost something when we stopped making credits sequences designed to make viewers jump up and down on the sofa. And that music...

This is a delightful diversion - it turns out that one of my regular walks used to be an enclave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countie...

A simple error. I turned to another task while doing laundry, and he has occupied my t-shirt drawer. #proofofcat

If it's got a clever lyric and rhyme, it's Stephen Sondheim.