“It's the Devil. The horned Devil. Don't look at it!”

Film is Fabulous! is pleased to confirm that tickets for the special screening of “The Daleks’ Master Plan” episodes will go on general sale at HOME Manchester today at midday. homemcr.org/whats-on/rec...

Gruntleigh 2. Completed that. Very enjoyable. Nice work @hwam.bsky.social

Wondering today whether “exit, pursued by a bear (!!!)” would have seemed just as huge and thrilling to 16th C audiences as an end-of-season cliffhanger does to modern audiences…? 🤔

Incredibly satisfying to find a window which meant I could add 1000 words to the first draft of the new work after a session of gardening and before making our lunch 🙂

Well, the reviews are in. Thank you so much for this @davidbrunt.bsky.social… (The Nanas are in the Ograviss Mail Vortex Portal 🙂)

Welcome to… GRUNTLEIGHVERSE 😂

Tomorrow on... VISION ON SOUND STEVE HATCHER on OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH (part one) Sunday April 19th 2026, 7:00pm (UK time) @FabRadioInt Channel 1 fabradiointernational.com Podcast version also available after 7:00pm via podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/visiononsound VoS Show 283 - Yr 6, Ep 29

Walk of the Week (160426): LYME PARK from DISLEY

So, after working fine forever, the desktop computer suddenly decides it needs a PIN code to access Messenger messages, or a one-time code. This I am sent, and I type it in, but it then falls into a loop of not actually verifying the code -

I’ve had a nicely productive pair of days on the first draft of GtO book three (which is nice). It’s definitely passed the halfway point at least in terms of its word count, and it’s certainly far more advanced than book two was at this time last year when it fell into its ten month hiatus.

Quite correctly we refer to “the great, and the good” which, to my mind, means that they are mutually exclusive.

My Beloved’s current auto response to gourmet cat food ads on TV has become… “…but they lick their own bottoms!”

Very much enjoying THE DEVIL’S HOUR on ITVX - although I really wish they weren’t all so worried about their energy bills and that they’d put the flipping lights on… 😂

I don’t often need to say this, but for the next two VoS shows it will probably be better to listen “live” via FAB RADIO rather than the podcast versions, as the OFITN editions rely rather heavily on the music, and the tunes have (quite rightly) fallen foul of the online copyright restrictions.

I suspect that this Penguin biscuit joke might not seem as funny nowadays as it once did… 🤔 Q: Why was the penguin popular? A: Cos he was an ICE guy.

From A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING 2.0 (Bill Bryson, 2025) p450

One of those Sundays where six years of writing books few people want to read, drawing artwork few people want to look at, and making radio shows few people want to listen to, all seems like a huge waste of time, and I begin to wonder whether continuing to flog these dead horses is really worth it 😕

Ah… THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE… Leslie Nielsen not cracking up at the “heavy bottom displacement” line must have been such good practice for his later career… 🙂

Welcome to... GRUNTLEIGHVERSE!!!

Welcome to… GRUNTLEIGHVERSE 😂

I shall read it once I open the book and start reading it!

Exciting times… Some copies of the latest GtO adventure SOME COMPLICATIONS IN A CASTLE are starting to arrive at the homes of actual purchasers…! So now I will have to shift into that joyful/terrified mode as I start to find out what they think of it 😱

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Odd that the algorithms that often seem to be able to know what I want before I do seem unable to work out that I’m never going to sign up for a TV sports package…

Good morning Mister Phelps… The leader of a once major western power appears to have gone rogue and is making serious threats that endanger us all. Your mission, should you decide to accept it…

There is so much lost subtlety and beauty in found television that recons, telesnaps, and animation can’t hope to match despite all the effort put into them. I could quite happily watch another 90-odd previously missing episodes, if only the universe could oblige 🙂

“Nyder tell me Davros furious that Plaster Man still got seven missing and me better sort it out pronto!”

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There’s a brand new addition to the Ogron collection 😂 Available now via the Lulu bookstore: www.lulu.com/shop/martin-...

Hang on a sec… 😲

Walk of the Week (020426): CHEE DALE

Anyway, I’m hoping that all those lovely people who took a punt on the latest GRUNTLEIGH book might start receiving them after today, and when they do turn up, I hope they’ll eventually perhaps share their reactions with me. Feedback can be fun 😱

Laurie Webb, aka Mr Ollis from Doctor Who’s The Three Doctors, was one of my favourite Who people. He also delivered one of its best lines (“You’d never believe me woman: supper ready?”). Laurie died, peacefully, on Sunday, just five weeks short of his 102nd birthday. What a life: he was adorable.

The GRUNTLEIGH book selection… (So far…!) 🙂🙂🙂

Anyway, today 2000+ words were added to the 1st draft of GtO book 3. Unremarkable in itself perhaps, but for me at least it’s better than this time last year when I abandoned book 2 at about the same point and then didn’t make any further progress with it for the rest of the year.

Why is it that the one time you actually need the one thing in the house that you absolutely definitely always know where it is - it has mysteriously disappeared…? 😱

Watched ENCOUNTER AT FARPOINT yesterday 😱 Never mind… Some things are perhaps left in the memory

Starting Now on... VISION ON SOUND WARREN CUMMINGS on TV spin-offs Sunday March 29th 2026, 7:00pm (UK time) @FabRadioInt Channel 1 fabradiointernational.com Podcast version also available after 7:00pm via podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/visiononsound VoS Show 280 - Yr 6, Ep 26

Found an old joke in my photo file 🙂

There’s a brand new addition to the Ogron collection 😂 Available now via the Lulu bookstore: www.lulu.com/shop/martin-...

Is it wise to interrupt an Ogron when he’s reading…? GRUNTLEIGH THE OGRON AND SOME COMPLICATIONS IN A CASTLE The Second Exciting Gruntleigh Adventure! Available now via the Lulu bookstore: www.lulu.com/shop/martin-...

GRUNTLEIGH THE OGRON AND SOME COMPLICATIONS IN A CASTLE The Second Exciting Gruntleigh Adventure! Available now via the Lulu bookstore: www.lulu.com/shop/martin-...

It’s always a joy to be able to share some more of my nonsenses with you 🙂