We led BBC Verify Live with this this afternoon #JustSaying

Who has the worst Christmas adverts and why is it supermarkets?

Phil Ellis looks rather dishy with hair #Taskmaster

One of my PC's memory modules has failed and I see the price of DDR4 RAM has gone up by more than double. Less than a year ago I bought 64GB for £104. Just one 32GB module is now £140

Well, England beat the All Blacks. If the wind was in the other direction I would’ve heard the roar from Twickenham

Is there nothing that can’t be fixed with a squirt of WD-40?

Two coffees before 7am - that’s my secret Wordle 1,610 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Strands #622 “We can see right through them” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵 Connections Puzzle #888 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

I’m still word-perfect thanks to mainlining the Stuffies when I was 16 #TOTP

This was much more about the dancing than the song, wasn’t it? #TOTP

Proper last 80s dance - makes no sense but didn’t need to #TOTP

Play The Beloved you cowards! #TOTP

Siri, play me the most Welsh song you have No, that’s too Welsh #TOTP

NKOTB - terrible way to start a Wordle #TOTP

I hadn’t realised what an absolute unit Aaron Neville was #TOTP

Eurythmics being absolutely splendid as evs #TOTP

Tell me when the fever ended sounds like the kind of thing the triage nurse asks you on NHS 111 #TOTP

High hopes for 1989 and its ability to make up for the past 85 minutes #TOTP

ABBA are here to save the whole of 1977 #TOTP

Let’s face it - 1977 is really no better than 1998 #TOTP

I never got Kenny Everett. #TOTP

I’ve seen their costumes somewhere before #TOTP

Elvis Costello with his prescient suggestion for a TV show featuring Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell #Totp

Second one for the 6 Music Dads #TOTP

Tom Robinson with 50% of his songs that I know #TOTP

With that energy B*Witched could actually power the whole #TOTP studio

Well it’s no I Am The One In Ten #TOTP

I love it when the youth club gets to send its best act to #TOTP

Was Mase scared of flying or something? #TOTP

Yer uncle bought an Oasis record #totp

Bryan Adams had one good song and he needed Mel B to achieve that accolade #TOTP

Excellent, this means I can roll out my “Billie Piper went to my school” anecdote. Billie Piper went to my school. #TOTP

Starting with an #UnnecessaryCover by Ace of Base of all bands counts as cruel and unusual punishment #TOTP

B*Witched’s choreography is like a fever dream #TOTP

Ash are here to save the episode. #TOTP

Play the one where you want him to spank you with the Woman’s Weekly #TOTP

Been organising the big shop with #TOTP on in the background. Didn’t sound like the worst episode. So far.

I haven't watched the Taskmaster final yet and now know who won the series...

Introduced younger colleague to the Daz Doorstep Challenge which he then had to Google. To his credit he recognised Danny Baker

Enjoyed the latest run of Mark Steel’s in Town (two episodes about Shetland are fun) but the show he did from Kingston where he riffed on holding an F1 race on the one-way system remains my favourite

This carriage is like a plague ship. I shall be bed-ridden by Sunday

Duolingo as nagging parent of child with homework

I genuinely have never seen footage like this before - to the point I thought it was fake: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

I’m enjoying Down Cemetery Road - especially the scene where a psychopath switches on an old Keeping Up Appearances to wind down before brutal violence unfolds

Maybe I’ve become more flinty hearted in my 50s but I’m not excepting to cry at tonight’s #TheRepairShop

Today I learned about PC bleep codes. Every day a school day.

Do cats get seasonal affective disorder?

Watching Taskmaster on Sunday evening does go some way to escape the “I haven’t done my homework for Monday” feeling

Moccasin slippers

Girlbands Forever is excellent TV but I do find myself admiring all the rooms they do the interviews in (apart from Andy McCluskey’s studio)

Quite pleased with how this is all looking after I finally got round to sorting out my setup in the attic room