Me (getting ready to go out) I’ll stick on a favourite film! ‘White Christmas’ Sky

OUT OF OFFICE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: I am away from my desk until the whole ghastly business is over. If your call is urgent, please be consoled by knowing that it will soon be irrelevant.

Black eye Friday, starting as nature intended with chicken Kiev and a large vodka for lunch.

During the chase a man in the cinema told Paddington to "run, you cunt"

One of those promos the BBC used to be so good at making. A raft of comedy talent on display here

PSA: How to pleasure a woman

The 'betrayal of Brexit' response to rejoining Erasmus is obviously predictable, and stupid (Brexit = leaving EU). But what's more striking is how *dated* it seems, like someone still waving a 'Thatcher out' placard.

Works party: Colleague: ‘Long Island? I’ve got into trouble with those!?’ Me:

Give this man a knighthood immediately

I’m sure they’re perfectly nice men, but honestly Sky *another* new Rob and Romesh vs?

Settling down for Sky documentary ’The Salt Path Scandal’

The early Xmas pressies keep coming from @smershpod Another Belter!

The sabbath. Start the day the Sidney James way. Good day to you! youtu.be/_h_MnjaU0QU?...

Twice a Bond girl, fought dinos with Raquel in 1 million years BC, a hammer icon… the magnificent Martine Beswicke.

God bless him! Happy birthday Dick, and thank you. youtu.be/YfdRr7MWax4?...

There are too many issues with TFA to list, but the (packed) audience reaction to the return of the Falcon was *incredible* in the provincial Northern Irish cinema where I saw it. youtu.be/2r70SDJjwEg

In just a few hours Dick Van Dyke will be 100 years old. Dick Van Dyke! 100! Here he is chatting with Sid James (filming Carry On Up The Khyber) on the Chitty Bang Bang backlot.

Just spotted that BBC2 are showing Get Carter tonight at 11pm, so if you're a fan of seeing Alf Roberts get chucked off a car park you're in luck.

Haven’t lifted my head all day in the office. Walk out to the news about Stanley Baxter. Genuinely gutted. What a talent.

Lovely piece on Breakfast, celebrating 60 years since Jackanory was first broadcast. If the BBC had any sense, they’d put them all on iPlayer.

In accepting an invitation, I’ve just worked out that I haven’t been out on NYE in 25 years 😳

Tonight

January 1979, and the Iranian Revolution is in full swing. Buses magazine cover the hard facts on the ground.

Tuesday

Sigh…. Oh Derren ❤️

NORMALISE PIGS IN BLANKETS BEING A YEAR-ROUND THING.

Terrific series on Sky Docs - The Movies: The Golden Age. Highly recommended.

I *love* this film - so thrilled it’s got the SmershPod treatment.

This is really quite sweet & Kiefer is a bloody good sport.

Toodling about, getting ready, with this gloriously melodramatic, OTT confection on in the background

Xmas do (Mk1) tonight. Think I’ll go for a fortifying fry-up.

Make way for Harold Llloyd's Christmas Tree, ya-da ya-da ya-da ya-da-da-da. You'd need more than a pair of glasses and a smile to take in all of that one.

The lettuce has *actually* lost her mind. This is batshit. Love that she hung her maga hat up on a nail on the way into her £2.75 set

"Meant for children but this will get a much wider audience". Marjorie Norris reviews the first two episodes of Doctor Who. The Stage and Television Today (5th December 1963)

My day in summary: Big work ✅ Came home & continued big work whist making stew.✅ Little work✅ Came home and made hot chocolate for new flatmate.✅ Thrilling, isn’t it.

Me when I’ve unloaded the dishwasher yet again.

Comfort blanket

Nothing inexplicable about it. She was, and remains, one of this earth’s most divine creations. A true Goddess. Domestic and otherwise.

1st Irish stew of the season on the hob. Late this year.

The on-hold music for Waitrose’s customer helpline is just a swan reading share prices to some brioche.

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

That’s the decs up*

Morning

Got to include this as I saw it as a kid and it got me into Cropper and Dunn (still smoking that pipe) and then Stax Records and on and on it goes. Everything is a gateway: youtu.be/EHV0zs0kVGg?...

DISMAL. Network TV is dead.

Tonight

Jack. Game over

The Prisoner - Hammer Into Anvil by Roger Woddis (1st December 1967). Patrick Cargill guests as the new Number Two.