Our community phonebox library was full of Robert Galbraith hardbacks.

So Upton and Peggie were both poorly-behaved..?

Was having a great day with HMS Wife TenToTheTop in the car Breakfast at Macknade Exotic foods and wine purchased Festive tree in the car boot Then, Sophie Sutton, BBCRadioKent.. #Whamageddon

And the UK government has given it one of the most precious things we have: our NHS data. Words are not enough to express the folly of this.

Last I dreamt I met Patrick Troughton walking across the transept of Rochester Cathedral. I spent the rest of the dream shouting myself hoarse for a Director to re-make the 1984 classic The Box of Delights with extended dialogue scenes featuring the venerable actor. @scarredforlife.bsky.social

I’m not sure the NHS orthopaedics can keep up with this level of demand

The Times today

Razzle-Dazzle ‘em #Fosse

Mr Cellophane 🎶 #Chicago

Heh heh Trump criticises Democrat he pardoned over not switching political parties www.bbc.com/news/article...

We've given all the goats 🐐 new bells for Christmas 🎄

Almost like Aunty is on a self-destructive doom-loop of bollix weekend reporting by Grace Dean. Linneker won. You lost. “Can he succeed” my fekkin’ rse. Netflix deal puts Gary Lineker in podcast super league - but can he succeed? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think

This is like pre-French Revolution aristocrats calling for guillotines

Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt

O little town of BetLehem

How marvellous! He can repay his creditors - and HMRC. Jamie's Italian to return six years after collapse www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great-grandfather Luther Howitt appeared in The Ashbourne Telegraph. “he was hit on the head by a cricket ball during a match at Chesterfield. Howitt strolled about for some time after the accident, but feeling queer later, he went to the surgery of Dr Bright..just before he became unconscious”

They’re showing The Christmas Film at Ashford next week!

“Snedding” - the process of removing small side branches from a tree to create a smooth log prior to transporting to a lumber mill. “Twatting” - the practice of ForestryEngland leaving abandoned sneddings and cordwood,obliterating trails and paths, and leaving an impassable moonscape in their wake.

Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism? Odd that.

Cartoon: My gift to you at this risky time of year. Feel free to print and share.

So, the phone ad shows the air-head who has to ask their phone AI whether the flowers - in front of her - will ‘go’ with others and whether cut flowers will last for several days. This is what humanity is reduced to.

Tice and Farage threaten BBC boycott.

So couldn’t this probationer have been dispensed with without all of this “twerking” nonsense. Can you imagine all of these ‘mortified’ coppers unable to deal with the situation.

A high court judge ruled that a woman could be pregnant.. ..but can she join The W.I.?

Murdered by Russians www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

D.C.Fontana Julie Newmar Friday’s Child Filmed on location What’s not to love..

Down the internet rabbit-hole, following the BBC item about A Christmas Carol at The Crucible in Sheffield, I discover that Patrick McGoohan used to go to my school.

Theatre news: Sheffield Scrooge revealed Aisha Khan's adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol will be directed by Elin Schofield with Ian Midlane as Ebenezer Scrooge. www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/sheffie...

Gosh, doesn’t he look like his Great-Great-Grandfather? #GermanyCalling Royals lay out festive greeting at glittering state banquet www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great item on BBCBreakfast by David Sillitoe on a revival of traditional Sheffield Christmas Carols staged at The Crucible Theatre. Marvellous to see the singers and the Loxley band enjoying The Three Merry Lads hostelry - nestled ‘twixt the Redmires and Rivelin resevoirs.

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Elin Schofield This Christmas, Elin Schofield is directing the Crucible festive production: A Christmas Carol, which opens on Saturday 29 November and runs into the new year wp.me/pdXz8Y-7fR #interview #whatson #theatre

Racists, racists, everywhere And not a one can think. #WhatAnotherOne Reform UK probes council leader's online activity www.bbc.com/news/article...

An entirely forseeable event in the given circumstances. Nothing ‘freak’ or ‘unbelievable’. Completely avoidable.

Racist ex-tory-turned-Reform Laura Anne ‘Gammony’ Jones says “No Chinky spies for me” Racist-in-Chief Farage says it is “a pretty minor offence”, unlike his antisemitism at Dulwich, but under his expert tuition he hopes to really raise her game. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m not sure I believe the doctors strike-leaders when they say there is a lack of jobs. There seem to be many vacancies advertised for the NHS here in east kent. Having said that, Wes Streeting does NOT have ‘film-star goodlooks’ unless the film was ‘Babe’

Well, Mr Burton on BBCiPlayer is delightful. Lesley Manville, Toby Jones and a wonderfully sullen Harry Lawtey. And Tony Quayle deserved it! @severnscreen.bsky.social

“We can't trust anything South East Water say” - Tunbridge Wells set for fifth day without supply South East Water still telling porkies to protect profits This time its ‘Bad chemical batch’ - so doubtless there is a slam-dunk civil claim against the manufacturers.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

“It’s darker in look and subject than the earlier films, but – like Craig’s obvious relish with Blanc’s improbable accent – Wake Up Dead Man remains extraordinarily pleasurable, a meal of brain food garnished with wicked wit” Kim Newman reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Worth a catch up. 🎧

David Lammy will respond today to Sir Brian Leveson’s review of the criminal courts. It seems the justice secretary is not going quite as far as originally reported. But he would not be the first to ask for more in order to claim credit for making concessions. rozenberg.substack.com/p/lammys-res...

Epping council loses bid over Home Office intervention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just give him a peerage and put him out to grass. Twelve further prisoners accidentally released, says Lammy www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW EPISODE pod.fo/e/35e0a8

Lammy’s done a Lammy Announces Trial-by-Jury reform then inexplicably starts wibbling about the proportion of male victims of crime who are black. And Justice For All. #DeadRingers

Murderers #TheUnitedStatesOfAmerica

Oh DO fuck off Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ironically, this could have been a moment of renaissance for the One Nation Tories in the Conservative Party, a time for the party to rid itself of the rabid right and move towards the centre. But the Brexiters expelled all the moderates from the party, so there's no one left but the dregs.

James O’Brien discovers that Reform’s Richard Tice and his new recruit, Jonathan Gullis, have history...