Friday is double-up day! #OnlyConnect Grids 100 and 101. You'll have to wait too for the solutions. Here's grid 100 to celebrate 100 consecutive days of grids.

Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here is grid No.99.

Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here is grid No.98.

Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here is grid No.97.

As Friday's grid will be GRID 100, I will be doing something slightly different. Tune in Friday to find out what I have got planned! #OnlyConnect No.100

I have absolutely adored Junior Bake Off. I rarely watch Bake Off. @channel4.bsky.social / @channel4tv.bsky.social are missing so many tricks with the adult version. "Nice to see um, it's Rav and Liam."

We've got to that stage in life when we are comparing funeral / cremation service ads on TV. List of shame? 1. Co-op (Respecting the choices of the deceased) 2. Pure Cremation (Man in bath) 3. Simplicity Cremations (Those folk singers. What are they doing?) If you have your favourite, let us know.

Looking forward to my trip to the Festival Hall later to introduce the TS Eliot Prize readings. I’d better polish up my gags and aphorisms!

#DetectivesInOtherSeries Ralf Little Sergeant Pickford - A Pocket Full of Rye and Neville Parker - Death in Paradise

Go see!

Recently, I've got very emotional over Beyond Paradise and now Father brown. If only I could be a real boy, one day.

Please buy my new Lent book Gravity Defied … buy lots of copies for your Lent courses … you will have a great time watching #Wicked and spending time studying it. Do consider using my friends at Church House Books as your supplier: chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978191...

Agatha's Christmas concludes tonight. Currently watching Nemesis & will finish with Kenny B's Murder on The Orient Express. 5 Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 1 Branagh Poirot, 4 Suchet Poirots, 7 ITV Maples, 4 other Christie stories & 2 Christie radio plays. #AgathasChristmas

Cadfael: The Sanctuary Sparrow. Before they were famous. Natascha McElhone, Hugh Bonneville, Toby Jones and Steven Macintosh.

Tonight @neilmullarkey.com retires from the Comedy Store Players. I want to wish him all the best with all his other endeavours but mostly say thank you for all of the laughs over so many years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUFb7rp6Hc

Agatha's Christmas: Still can't find Kenny B's Moustache? Currently at 5 John Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 6 ITV Maples, 4 other Christie stories, 4 Suchet Poirots and 1 other Christie radio play. #AgathasChristmas

Agatha's Christmas: Where is Kenny B's Moustache? Currently at 3 John Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 5 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 other Christie radio play. #AgathasChristmas

#DetectivesInOtherSeries Sally Lindsay (Jean White in Madame Blanch Mysteries) is tonight in Midsomer.

Just been watching a fascinating documentary on the BBC about the fall of American civilization.

Agatha's Christmas: I'm currently at 2 John Moffatt Poirots, 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 3 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 other Christie radio play. Still holding out for Kenny B's moustache. #AgathasChristmas

Agatha's Christmas: I'm currently at 2 Ustinov Poirots, 1 Finney Poirot, 2 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 Christie radio play. But where is Kenny B and that moustache? #AgathasChristmas

Polite request. Can all those middle-aged men who keep banging on my door with a handful of queue cards please stop? Kiera Knightley lives next door and, if I'm honest, your pathetic cries for attention lack originality and beware she sends her elderly grandmother to answer the door. Happy new year!

Agatha's Christmas: I'm currently at 1 Ustinov Poirot, 1 Finney Poirot, 2 ITV Maples, 3 other Christie stories, 3 Suchet Poirots and 1 Christie radio play. #AgathasChristmas

Alexander Armstrong, Abigail Cruttenden, Julian Fellowes and Adam James. Before they were household names, they appeared in one episode of Sharpe.

#DetectivesInOtherSeries David Burke (Dr Watson) in practically every other detective series since. (Twice in Midsomer, Poirot, Inspector Lynley & Dalziel and Pascoe)

Just checked the listings. BBC2 4 all. 15:10 25th Dec Evil Under The Sun 15:25 28th Dec Murder on the Orient Express 15:45 29th Dec Death on the Nile Agatha's Christmas. I'm currently at 1 Maple, 3 other Christie stories, 2 Suchet Poirots and 1 Christie radio play. Ustinov and Finney in waiting.

Agatha's Christmas. I'm currently at 1 Maple, 3 other Christie stories and just starting a Suchet Poirot. Not a sight of Ustinov or Finney yet.

I can tell that we are in the season of joy as I mostly spent yesterday vacuuming out a blocked dishwasher. (It was a wet/dry vacuum for those who are concerned about my behaviour).

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The bananas on the beach story is an absolute beauty.

Sunday 14 December with Rufus Hound @thecomedystore.co.uk

Anyone else watching Flash Gordon on ITV4? Gordon's alive!

I think that I am a well-adjusted adult because.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY&list=PL39Mln029cB1MKI2GH_MtA67eqzPBIJQ4

#DetectivesInOtherSeries Julia McKenzie (Miss Maple) in radio version of Dead Man's Folly playing Ariadne Oliver.

I feel that I'm of an age when I am getting back into snooker. Wow!!

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I shall be flipping a coin so many times tonight in memory of Tom Stoppard. Thank you for showing me theatre that I could love and aspire to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwLEVQGbrM

The light, the weather and the mood have told me it is that time of year when I curl up on the sofa and watch Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express and Evil Under the Sun. (Remember there are things in these pictures that shouldn't be here).

Fabulous to catch-up on Wycliffe with the late Jack Shepherd. What a star he was with his mastery of understatement. I've also noticed the huge amount of acting going on behind the main actors. A masterclass by a team of extras who never stop working. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e9kj8n9kko

Five shows to go #comedystoreplayers #comedy #careersadvice

#DetectivesInOtherSeries Just spotted Barry Van Dyke (Steve Sloan) in Murder She Wrote. There is a catalogue of these. Let me know yours!

Mam put on her best frock to say her final au revoir. Her first and last email read, "It was mostly terrible but thank you to everyone who made the bits in between bearable." She slipped away in the night. She's not dead. She's been seen on the streets of Skegness. #NewAlanBennetts

An announcement. Some of you already know this. Since 30th October 2024, I've been writing some brand #NewAlanBennetts. My routine has been to wake up at silly o'clock & write the first thing that comes into my head. I will be bringing this to an end. However, I will be bringing you something new.

Eric cut the grass for the final time this year. It was traditional for him to have his last haircut of the year too but why bother about a single strand of fluff? #NewAlanBennetts

Such sad news about Prunella Scales. She played the Queen in A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett. She was famous for playing Sybil but she was a Queen amongst mortals on screen and stage. Do check out this understated performance with husband Timothy West. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l39m

"It's the flies that are the problem!" shouted Maude examining the rotting autumn fruit. "Yes, I know," added Joan."If only Eric could get trousers that fitted him around his nether regions." #NewAlanBennetts

Before selling them, Eric has been farting into Maude's best tea cups. He's called his actions 'Trump/China trade talks'. #NewAlanBennetts