Make sure they don't touch any cacti www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I Want You (She's So Heavy) Could happily have it go on another 5 minutes

Lots of Mysteron activity at the snooker this year. Stay safe, all.

Get the fucking hell in

Off on a 7-mile round walk to find an air shaft above a disused railway tunnel. This is what days off are made for.

Lots of Mysteron activity at the snooker this year. Stay safe, all.

Finally got round to reading this, and it's as excellent as everyone said. Very sweet that seemingly everyone in 1953 Britain with the surname Quatermass was moved to write to Nigel Kneale in excitement.

Wasn't raining when I started the walk. Started raining on the walk. Stopped raining when I got home.

Ah yes, the bit in Quatermass and the Pit with Farmer Sladden and the open fields

Only 15 minutes of build-up before Macclesfield v Palace - they're only going to be able to fit in two, possibly three, spoken word poems about the magic of the cup in that time

What's your #ChildhoodCinema ? The old Hereford Odeon, which had one screen. Hereford wasn't blessed with a multi-screen cinema until 2014.

Smiley's People is being repeated on BBC4 from Weds 21 January 🕵️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Harry Price Ghost Hunter Offers Light Paranormal Fun 1920s London

A book filled with horrors. Two trains colliding in a tunnel, one of the engines mounting a carriage, its trapped passengers burning to death "most horribly" beneath hot coals and jets of steam, being particularly nightmarish.

Finding it particularly hard to let go of Christmas this time round. Mournfully seeing it out with St Joseph's Carol. youtu.be/UKhmyg-6GOE?...

The Penda's Fen hill in the snow this morning

Snow dusting level: Morrisons Victoria sponge (deli counter)

Nothing says Christmas is over quite like the TV schedules going back to normal

Nice to see Wayne Rooney's keeping busy in retirement

Thinking of starting a support group for people who can't get their partners into archive telly

Tonight at 8pm on Radio 4. Robert Graves and I Claudius, L Years On. "A portrait of Robert Graves, 50 years on from the TV adaptation of I, Claudius." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sexy books only for 2026

"In a style as neat as a croquet lawn, he penetrates to the heart of Hell and beyond."

*Me in my cell, unfurling a note from the Warder with shaking hands*

FireWOKES more like!!!!!!!!!!!!

Started 2025 photographing my parents' smelling salts, and by God that's how I'm going to end it

Pictures I don't remember taking in 2025

Best new-to-me song of 2025, I hear you cry? It's easily 1971's I Am the Pixi by Matthew Bones. An irresistibly catchy song about being a pixie, which starts off, for some reason, with Bones imitating Paul McCartney, Elvis, Bob Dylan and John Lennon. Pure joy. youtu.be/f0vq02xSt7k?...

The Cheddar of Abbot Thomas

Well, like my Grandad used to say, "[generic, well-known phrase]"

Wikipedia when you quickly look up the capital of Slovenia

Really getting the sense that I might have to eat some kind of vegetable at some point soon

Imagine *not* getting books like this for Christmas, like what the hell would even be the point of Christmas?

Brother nicked my coat to go out bellringing all day

Hopefully I don't have the room in the tower

5-year-old nephew has some Incredible Hulk boxing gloves

Merry Christmas all x

Well, I hope my brother likes this book more than its previous owner

Idea for mawkish John Lewis Christmas advert based on "Whistle and I'll Come to You". A terrified Parkins is chased along the beach by the spectre, who, when it finally catches up with him, turns out was just trying to give him a Christmas present all along (childhood toy he threw away???)

Jesus H Christ stands for Jesus Happy Christmas

It's a struggle getting my brother into TV progs he's not seen before, with him often wandering off halfway through. Christmas 2020, Covid sick, I stuck on the first two episodes of Quatermass and the Pit, and as I was putting the disc away heard a sheepish, "Tell me when you watch more of that."

There's an evening of ghost stories on BBC Four on Monday 22nd December from 10pm. Woman of Stone, Lot No. 249, Count Magnus and The Mezzotint, followed by the 1968 Whistle and I'll Come to You

Stop trying to make The Snowman and the Snowdog the 'main' one

Disney coming out of a meeting with RTD about a Doctor Who spin-off

Mumming in the mist

Halloumi in blankets for the vegetarians

"Mouth ulcer? Remember your last one..."

More Christmas ghost story fun on Radio 4🎄👻

More Christmas ghost story fun on Radio 4🎄👻

Thea keeps finding my Daleks and putting them in bizarre places