This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

What I’m bringing to the #DoctorWho Disco. What are you bringing? youtu.be/HsYks59Twsg?...

To Ross on Wye for a daytrip, where I visited Noele Gordon and her mum and took them some flowers. #vintagetv #classictv #Crossroads

@profanity.accountant How sweary am I?

#BBC #Ghostwatch is still amazing. And the spiritualist fella is poor Mr Ransome from Spearhead from Space.

The complete Eurotrash for fifty quid?! Christmas present to myself!

Shock in tonight’s #Crossroads. Miserable old sod Arthur Brownlow got drunk at the bowling club do and got run over by Sarah Greene’s mum. #vintagetv #classictv @crossroadsmotel.bsky.social

This made me laugh out loud and makes me hopeful that Ai maybe won’t kill is all after all

#AgathaChristie on her favourite films of 1951!

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

How the Daily Mail has responded to a Budget that will slightly raise wages for young people, vs how they responded to a Budget that almost crashed the entire economy

#Ladykillers on #RewindTV Came for Robert Stephens, stayed for Barbara Kellerman. It’s really quite extreme in its own way, and Stephens goes full Tom Baker.

A really touching and surprisingly intimate exhibition devoted to the wonderful #FenellaFielding is underway in Earls Court. Well worth it, with some absolute treats on show. “At least six times too magnificent for any man’s imagination”

Someone sitting just across from me on a train. I want to say “please blow your nose and stop sniffing, and please switch your phone haptics off”

This George Michael video is pretty saucy, and I wonder what they’ve pixelated out. #totp

Action packed #Crossroads tonight. Kath and Arthur sort the laundry while she stuffs a cushion. On the dining table, obvs. #vintagetv #classictv

Some right old tat on today’s chazza mooch. Didn’t buy anything.

Meanwhile, at #Crossroads Motel… @crossroadsmotel.bsky.social #vintagetv #classictb

Wetter than an otter’s pocket

@george-station-cat.bsky.social I’m at Stourbridge Junction! Where are you?

I opened my bedroom curtains and the room actually got darker. How I hate November. I now have a 20min walk to work in the pouring rain.

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

@floellabenjamin.bsky.social Your country needs you!

YES

@bbc6music.bsky.social is so good today that I have hoovered the whole house, cleaned the bathroom and ironed two weeks of shirts. I’ve made up a massive playlist of music too. Perfect.

Absolutely lovely and warm and romantic. Stopped me in my tracks, doing the hoovering on a gloomy morning

This is amazing! Drop everything and watch this! #DoctorWho #ChildrenInNeed

This is amazing

The difference between WH Smith and TG Jones: #DoctorWhoMagazine special editions never used to be available soon after publication, sometimes at all. But I bought the new #TerryNation one on publication day! #DWM #DoctorWho #vintagetv #classictv #Daleks #Blakes7

Only 99 days until January is over.

October 82 at my fave motel: Glenda has walked out, Reg is back, Paul has his fingers in many pies, David is getting himself caught between two women, Arthur is a tower of strength. I bluddy luv it. @crossroadsmotel.bsky.social #vintagetv #classictv #Crossroads

As is tradition.

The Woman in Black always has a special place on my heart

I still love pointing this out every so often.

I note that it’s International Stress Awareness Week. Hollow fucking laughter.

I’ve just seen #BackToTheFuture at the cinema. Forgotten how good it is! It used to be on telly all the time and I loved it, and it’s still great fun. The camper can full of Libyan terrorists helps distract from the constant product placement.

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Sunday morning with @kathyburke.bsky.social

This sounds like the best thing ever

“C’est la vie” by B*witched is a right load of rubbish isn’t it? #totp

Hotel breakfast, and I find this available alongside the “waffle station”. A prime example of why this country is going to the dogs, if you ask me. I bet they call them “sprinkles” instead of hundreds and thousands, too.

To all those people who have gone out dressed in an orange jumpsuit thing for Halloween, pretending to be an American criminal, I’d like to say how boring and unimaginative you are.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers". This is Enigmarelle. Look her up, but please don’t have nightmares.

There’s a beautiful new book about the beautiful Fenella Fielding and if you order it via her website it comes with an original 1970s vintage signed cheque from the great lady herself. I’m thrilled. #camp #CarryOn #FenellaFielding

@bbc6music.bsky.social “slow Sunday”. Perfect.

I believe this was the point where modern Britain jumped the shark.

My immediate plans

That’s no ballroom…