The brilliant PJ Harvey on Top of the Pops. Was great to see her playing Glastonbury last year. #TOTP

Morning walk. File this one under 'misty'. And, 'hair-raising' 😀

Aside from wonderful fridge magnets, @jodrellbank.bsky.social offers music festivals, art and literature events (I was lucky to attend a brilliant one last year celebrating the work of Alan Garner), science talks and of course, the most magnificent Meccano set, the Lovell telescope. #JodrellBank

Those of you here who know me as more than a harmless red panda obsessive will know of my love for @jodrellbank. No better way to celebrate their 80th anniversary than a special edition #FridgeMagnetFriday with FOUR magnets in planetary alignment with a StarBar. #JodrellBank80

I like crackers. I bloody LOVE cheese. But I often want to tuck into them when I'm tired, a bit drunk and can't be bothered to make them. This is where I genuinely think there's a gap in the market for a mobile cheese and cracker service. Like an ice cream van. But cheese and crackers.

Remembering the late Fred Dibnah, who sadly passed away 21 years ago this day and who, by some miracle, didn't pass away a hell of a lot earlier than that from doing things like this and clearly being absolutely FUCKING. MENTAL.

Beermats for some Enville Ales made at Enville Brewery, based in Stourbridge in the West Midlands. And very nice they are too 😊

You wot mate? #ThrowbackThursday

90 years ago today, Monopoly was launched by Parker Brothers. But I still maintain that THIS.......this has to be the game that caused more fights and arguments in a household than any other. I'm pretty sure this was the first time I ever heard my mum tell dad to "fuck off".

When you've got yourself a tidy pack of half a dozen Roman candles for a fiver from the local newsagent but your neighbour just happens to be a millionaire.

As you can see, Furbie is giving precisely zero fucks about the fireworks.

This looks like one of those "write a short story about this in 6 words or less" photos. "Come no further - you're baaaaaaaaaaaaad"

Good morning. Here's me stood next to a couple of big horses. Can anyone beat that?

A lunchtime woodland walk at Keele......with all of the pretty colours...... In the words of Alan Partridge, "say what you like about England but she has VERY fresh breath......."

Good morning from me and Sammy the Spitfire.

I'm trying this as a bit of a social experiment, so forgive me if this is a bit "out there" but......good morning......

An unwanted, discarded pumpkin makes an ideal footstool for a red panda. 🧡🖤🤍

Don't know the first thing about fishing but my God, I love this programme. #GoneFishing

Now that Halloween is over, please don't forget to take down your decorations and deflate your cat 🐈‍⬛

November, I love you Stark mornings Dark evenings The cold and the wind And even the rain Dry Autumn leaves The bonfire flame I love I'm alive to tell you how much I love you And you're alive to see it I know It's hard to explain But there you go, November I love you all the same

Up the Blues!!! 😀💙 #cufc

That's good value. I think they can sort unwanted children out too for just £20 👍 Could be very handy, post-Halloween.

I told it it's stiff, boring, lacks any real flair or imagination, and should, quite frankly, be embarrassed to call itself a device for mechanically linking the engine and transmission.

As this time of year, I do love a short horror story 🎃🐈‍⬛ I call this one, "Be sure to check your slippers for monsters."

🎶 If you tolerate this… 🎶 #TOTP

I've discovered where all the zombies have gone for their dinner tonight.

Don't worry if you can't spell "Armageddon" it's not the end of the world. #TOTP

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 1. Lonely Water Had to be this. Another PI Film, this one with Donald Pleasence as the spirit ready to "trap the unwary, the showoff, the fool...." Or, any child with thoughts about going swimming for the next 40 years 😱

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 2. Day of the Triffids If it's not bad enough waking up suddenly to find you've gone blind, your lovely neighbour's rhubarb turns MENTAL and wants to eat you. Took me ten years before I could walk back into a garden centre.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 3. Blake's 7 You wade through 2 series waiting for Blake to come back, just so Avon can sell him some cosmetics and then shoot him, the absolute bell-end. Everyone gets massacred. Villa 0 Federation 1 Still not over it 😭

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 4. Watership Down More like "After the Watershed" Down. If Art Garfunkel warbling away wasn't enough to scar you for life, fluffy foaming-at-the-mouth bunnies tearing lumps out of each other surely tipped you over the edge.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 5. Wordy Don't go telling me, "Oh, but he was cute" Rubbish! This preachy little perma-tanned floating sex toy attachment belonged in a haunted house, not our "Programmes for Schools" schedules. Bonkers AND terrifying in equal measure.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 6. Hartley Hare I know some fans of Pipkins had a lot of love for Hartley but personally, this mange-ridden, flea-bitten weirdo made me itchy. Like being made to look at a visual interpretation of a hairshirt.....with mad teeth.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 7. Childhood 70s television .....much of which has since been tarnished by knowing that a significant proportion of your favourite Christmas Annual collection was in fact dedicated to nonces, pervs and criminal sex monsters.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 8. Electricity Not actual electricity, which is smashing stuff but specifically, public information films suggesting that a harmless game of Frisbee would automatically default to death by 50,000 volts up your jacksie.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 9. Noseybonk Anyone with a foot long nose and "bonk" in their name should have been a red flag right from the off. No surprise it featured in a programme called Jigsaw, a name later taken by the psychotic serial killer from the Saw franchise.

Stevie's Childhood Trauma Halloween Countdown 🎃👻🧟🕷 10. When the Wind Blows Raymond Briggs' cheerful sequel to 'Father Christmas' and 'The Snowman'. The warm glow that can only be provided by a nuclear holocaust, topped off with having to watch Gran and Grandad slowly die of radiation sickness.

Who doesn't love a spooky pie? Steak & Impale Chicken & Mushdoom Actual Shepherd's (in a) pie Seriously.....come on. Ashes to ashes.....dust to crust.....

Don't Panic! #FridgeMagnetFriday stops for nothing, not even Halloween 🎃 No better way to celebrate Halloween AND Friday than a Crunchie shown to scale against a fridge magnet with the inscription above Shakespeare's grave in Stratford-upon-Avon on it. And you can win 89p!

At Halloween Ghostly figures Float along our streets All in white And worshipped for Their range of glossy sheets #Halloween #Halloween2025 👻🎃👻🎃👻

Never mind ghosts....... .....cats are a billion times more terrifying 👻🐈‍⬛😱

Good morning. Felt undead. Might delete later.

A timely reminder on the eve of #Halloween 🎃

At this time of year, it's more important than ever to take precautions. Some of these ghosts won't half give you the willies.

Lovely afternoon at Arighi Bianchi with two of my favourite tweet-pals, Kerry and Shauna. Great company, good food, wine, gin and cake - the perfect way to spend a day 😊

The bell-ringer in the tower on St. Mark’s Square, Venice was offered money by a scientist in exchange for his skeleton. He accepted but his excesses soon led to his early death. At Halloween, he haunts the Square, begging passers-by for money to buy his skeleton back. #FolkloreThursday

I firmly believe that if you're going to go out with a witch, you should know everything there is to know about them: warts and all.

The original good witch, Elizabeth Montgomery 💚 #ThrowbackThursday #Halloween

I am most definitely all in favour of watching and listening to a Porcupine munching on mini Pumpkins 😊🎃🎃🎃

The Witches of Michael Bentine's Potty Time 🖤🎃 #Halloween #Halloween2025