Im going to get an early night. Have a good evening. 💜

What's been *your* favourite moment on the Gerry Anderson blog this year? Thunderbirds Deep Dives? TV Century 21 coverage? Space: 1999 investigations? Something else entirely?

Now we know how Jeff Tracy *really* funded International Rescue.

Farm rush hour with our forever animal friends. With bird flu restriction we look back. Can you guess which month? Looking forward to bringing the farmily rush hour back

An example of a dark nebula: the Pipe Nebula. Originally, astronomers believed these were areas with no stars. But dark nebulae actually consist of clouds of interstellar dust so thick it can block out the light from the stars beyond. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1233/ 🔭 📷 ESO

R.I.P Gil Gerard

Thanks to Therese Ball Dahl, we can share this picture from the vault. This is artist Mike Conrad doing a panel on building rayguns from plastic bottles. This was in 2002.

Weather warnings are in force across southern England and Wales for heavy and persistent rain It will be windy too with gales in exposed coastal regions ⚠️

The clouds thinned out for a wee whiley last night. The rut is in progress with the stags roaring in the night.

♠️🌵NEW EPISODE!🌵♠️ We're joined by comedian Al Ronald from @electricheadcomedy.bsky.social to discuss his @bigfinish.bsky.social work in our fifth 12 Krynoid Pods of Christmas series! #DoctorWho soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Starlight at Loch Calder. New moon meant that only the stars provided natural light and the milky way showed at its best. A five shot vertical panorama of the western night sky.

Ron Barge as Buckaneezer Scrooge in Buckaneezer Scrooge (1985). A special edition of Canadian kids TV series The Buck Shot Show. Buckaneezer is talking to an urchin played by a crocodile puppet here. The Escher style brickwork is not explained. You there boy! What day is this? It’s 18th December

#RomanFortThursday Photo of the north gate of Cardiff Roman fort. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #History

I dreamt there was a Polar Bear in the local play park.

"THE DALEKS" ("TV21" issue 100 (dated 17/12/66)). #DoctorWho #DrWho #Daleks #comicbook #comicstrip #scifi #1960s

We have had quite a fun year on the Gerry Anderson Blog. Essays, listicles, retrospectives, and so much more. Thanks to everyone who's given my supersonic ramblings a read this year! gerryanderson.com/blogs/blog/t...

Dyfed-Powys Police and the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit have appealed for information into the "suspicious disappearance" of a white-tailed eagle in Newtown, Powys

On 12 December 2025 At 03:09:36 UTC, astronomers at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) have captured what is believed to be the first video recording of a lunar impact flash in Ireland, and the second recorded from the UK

Not just lemon-shaped, but LIKE AN EVIL LEMON!

Cover to "Weird Tales" (November 1930). #scifiart #Kaiju #fantasyart

So I just registered to enter this competition and lets just say my model making skills are zero. I have no idea why I thought this was a good idea. Eeek.

"Join us in commemorating 60 years of Thunderbirds and the 50th anniversary of Space: 1999! All model builders are welcome to enter our Gerry Anderson-themed competition—bring your Eagles, Thunderbirds, Angel Interceptors, or any favourite creations."

Hello model builders, @gerryanderson.bsky.social is organizing a model-building competition celebrating two milestones in sci-fi history: ✨ 60 years of Thunderbirds ✨ 50 years of Space: 1999

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” This is the posthumous message left by Gil Gerard. The actor who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) has just passed away at the age of 82.

Do you have Spotify? Please stream our rescue animal charity song Best Christmas Ever by Kirsty Clinch. Thank you Kirsty you are a star 😊

DAY 17 - Jingle Zeroids | SH Advent youtu.be/ctvoOyYk8hU?...

STAND BY FOR ACTION! Join us for a deep dive on three very unusual episodes of Stingray! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx5o...

Bradford Council says it is the building owner’s responsibility to investigate why the building, which has trees growing out of upper floor windows, collapsed

Sad to hear Gil Gerard has passed away. He and Erin Gray were responsible for the 8 year-old me missing The Leisure Hive and Meglos during the Season 18 run of Doctor Who - If I was to cheat on my favourite Timelord, I'm glad it was with those two.

@kuyvonbraun.bsky.social One for you 🌠

"After nearly 20 years at the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the surface with its HiRISE camera." This milestone image from the spacecraft shows mesas and dunes within Syrtis Major. 🧪 #Science #Space #Astronomy www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

RIP Gil Gerard: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g... Not too long ago, I rewatched a bunch of his BUCK ROGERS for the first time since I was a kid, and it holds up as a fun show, thanks primarily to Gerard's affable presence.

A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio.

Plum puddings, sugar mice, Christmas stockings filled with nuts and oranges, and sing songs, we love hearing Christmas memories. This selection of sound clips was digitally preserved through Unlocking our Sound Heritage project. #norfolkrecordoffice #soundarchives youtu.be/4cQDWlhOGWM?...

🔭 Until now, observing the inner regions of the Sun’s enigmatic atmosphere – the corona – was close to impossible. 🛰️🛰️☀️ The satellite duo making up @esa.int’s Proba-3 mission fills this observation gap by creating artificial solar eclipses in orbit 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

I have some of these.

Luke Evans as a frequently singing Scrooge in Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) A Netflix animated musical. Another non-canonical dog I think Scrooge owning a dog fundamentally misunderstands his character. As does a fancy gown with gold piping You there boy! What day is this? It’s 17th December

I think another coffee is in order.

One of my favourite things on the Haunted Generation website... a festive selection of the 20,000 photographs left to Andy Heggs by his Dad. Memories of some very 1970s Christmases: Basil Brush, Lego, Space 1999 and the Matchbox Cascade! Amazing pics. hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2022/12/24/t...

RIP Buck Rogers :( bsky.app/profile/toky...

A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Star trails shot from last night - looking east for just under 1.5 hours. The bright trail near the top is Jupiter. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

R.I.P. Gil Gerard, 1943-2025. 🚀

This has happened to me in Tesco's. I have no idea why the person thought I was a staff member.

This made me laugh. 😁

I went with some friends from the Astronomy club I belonged to. Absolutely amazing.

Vale, Gil. #BuckRogers is up there with #BattlestarGalactica, and of course #DoctorWho as the earliest sci-fi on TV I was watching as a young'un, alongside knowing #StarWars and #FlashGordon at the movies. The start of a long love affair with the genre.

Reminds of a friend who was watching Braveheart with someone who said they hadn't realised Mel Gibson was hundreds of years old and that they had cameras back then. They weren't joking either.

man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we