Anyone talking about things being "canonical" is probably discussing Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes or a series of terrible historical murders and should be approached with caution. #OtherCanonsAreAvailable #NotAllCanons #EtCetera

We're a bit behind everyone else on the guessing game show but I'd suggest being a bumptious arse no one wants to spend any time with is not a winning strategy on a group dynamics based game.

The actual 80s was shorter.

May be tipsy. Possibly unreliable. You're probably fine.

Gracious me. Everything has changed radically. That's nice.

Stranger Things originally ran as 2 6 episode series on BBC 1 in 1983 and 1984. It starred Keith Jayne as Dave, Barry Angel as Spex, Kirsty Miller as McSpook and Erkan Mustafa as Biscuits. The featured original pop songs by B.A. Robertson were released on vinyl and cassette by BBC Records and Tapes.

Get ready to watch episode 4 of The War Between the Land and the Sea. I hope it's all you've promised me.

Day 2 in the seasonal decompression chamber. Slowly attempting to rehabituate ourselves to normal eating and drinking.

Attempted to test spouse's boundaries by playing The The's "I Saw the Light" video on laptop. I lasted a minute. One should NOT arse around on top of the Chrysler Building, thank you. I know he survived but that doesn't stop me feeling sick to the stomach, and wanting to grip the floor and defecate.

DUNE: YOU PRONOUNCE IT LIKE JUNE.

Dumbfounded, Webinar Bookazine twirled prissily, splattering motel frappuccino on his athleisure jeggings.

Stop pausing to emote. Emote while running from the deadly danger!

There's a crucial sweet spot of balance to to be found between how long it takes to get everything clean, tidy and nice in preparation for something and how long the thing in question lasts. This is true for both family members popping around the house briefly and embarking on sexual congress.

Oh. I had somehow missed the racism years, probably due to unwittingly wearing jammy privilege blinkers. This may well be why I stopped hearing about her advocacy for animals.

Stranger Things has gone well Marenghi.

I think it's just possible Doon Mackichan's Cathy in Two Doors Down and Joanna Lumley's Mrs Stone in A Ghost Story for Christmas are the same character.

Extraordinary scholarship. Those stenciled numbers bothered me for an age.

Damn, spelled Herriot incorrectly. Drink may have been taken.

I query James Herriott's son appearing to know about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in 1945, mind. #AllCreaturesStickler

Don't make me write Siegfried/Mrs Hall fiction, Channel 5...

Dignity. Always dignity.

In Dulci Jubilo has just looped around a third time. Am not yet singing the words...

@roygill.bsky.social There you go, Roy. Warning- may have barely detectable, extremely subtle religious subtext.

Rewatching Good Vibrations, Past, Present and Future by the Shangri-Las has just come on. What an extraordinary record it remains. We still need that Shangs jukebox musical, people. We just need a plot that organically kills enough people.

Having an Espresso Martini to see if I'll come alive.

I can't believe the TV version of Cast Away cuts the end credits sequence where Tom Hanks' character goes to a sex worker and pays them to dress as a volleyball.

Just stop, Ian.

Bring me 7 conflicting scientific explanations of the physics of Santa for publication in august media by noon tomorrow. I want them slightly twinkly but not winking so hard they blow the gaff.

There was a 15 to 20 minute run of professors interviewed on Radio 4's Today from about 8 AM this morning. All seemed to be directly addressed and back announced by the presenter as professor except Professor Rachel Kyte, the only woman. Might be her choice, might be unconscious, but it's systemic.

TV shorthand- you never go to central London when Big Ben isn't chiming and you never go to Istanbul between calls to prayer.

Wrapping almost done. Get thee behind me, Sellotape.

#WhoBore Rejoice! Big Finish has secured the Vlinx!

A propos of absoflippingluting nothing. I loathe Sellotape. No reason.

Why does no one do TheWaitressesageddon? It is clearly more annoying.

You probably weren't born but this was an absurdly fine time to be alive.

What the world needs now is more experts on the arch widths and heights across Grim Dyke Hall historically, paying particular attention to their decoration, colouration, cornices and corbels.

#WhoBore I'm watching episode 3 now. I think there's a decent argument for starting here in media res and flashing back for the essentials. #TheWarBetween

I am three episode behind you but I assume your fella is up the duff like a gentleman seahorse. I'm sure I'll find out later.

We're halfway out of the Happy Gauda Prime Day.

I am watching Die Hard and, as usual, working out when I would definitely die if I were the copper in his vest.

Rewatching The Night Manager series 1 (because we remembered NOTHING). Hugh Laurie's transatlantic accent is from Patrick McGoohan island.

At GP's. They are assaulting me with Jeremy Vine and 'Merry Christmas, Darling'.

Watching the Ahmed al-Ahmad footage I was dreading this happening to him as he held up the shooter's gun. Rightly, as it turns out.

If you start following someone around Hallowe'en or Christmas you'll often find there's ten months in the year where their drab non-festive name looks weird, underwhelming and unpersuasive.

Having a happy morning idly reading posts and comments with the word "outwith" in them before starting work. It's a truly glorious word mainly used for telling people you're Scottish or have spent a lot of time drafting fiddly legal things.

I think, on balance, that's enough Wednesday the 17th of December for now.

The BBC would like to thank anyone who tendered for their pre-school Doctor Who animation series proposing the recreation of a lot of 1960s stories in black and white featuring weird dead-eyed CGI manikins with melty features lipsynching to thin off-air audio recordings sporting tight tiny shorts.

It's easy to mock those who hate us for their looks, but that *is* what they do. Mock their actions and beliefs first. We can offer them their makeovers once we've sorted those.

#RunBore Today's top running list banger- Tarzan Boy by Baltimora. Euro-Disco's answer to the heteronormative conservativism of The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit. share.google/kgQTpU5M5rqU...

One of these years I won't gleefully snaffle the double ended glasses screwdriver from a Christmas cracker, pop it on my keyring and then stab myself in the leg with it when the cap comes off in my pocket in February. I expect this will be because I've died of upper thigh septicaemia.