It’s a lovely show but brrrrr

Your Taskmaster Series 21 cast: Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani

A new year cartoon for @theguardian.com books

I’m seeing the final Pinocchio at The Globe this afternoon, which I’m excited about because it’s wonderful, but also I’m less excited because it’s outside and it’s fucking freezing Putting on a LOT of layers

Mum and I have been watching The Harry Wild Mysteries. Which are a bit dark in places for my cosy crime, but silly, fun and charming enough that I’m like, time for me to recommend a semi-cosy crime series to you lot while we’re all indoors watching tv (they’ve got at least 3 series on Drama)

We don't hear nearly enough about Shakespeare's other sons, Macneth and The Nerchant of Venice.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Update: HOW DO THESE TASTE OF CUCUMBER

Left here without comment in case it might match your mood today youtu.be/fJNZlo0E5TY?...

[sigh]

there is a true nap and a false nap. the false nap is scheduled. a true nap must be taken when necessary. the false nap is timed. a true nap must be unfettered. the false nap's goal is to return to work. a true nap's goal is to play within the mind

Once Sir Toby Belch started having psychotic meltdowns from his alcoholism and started resembling my dad, my mum and I were like, fuck it, no.

We are going home in the interval of the RSC Twelfth Night. It’s really depressing and sad.

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

I’m at the theatre again tonight but it’s cold and I’m sleepy so I’m slightly nicely dressed but I’m not doing make-up etc (I will brush my hair in a sec, I’ve been napping under a blanket).

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

I did not wear enough clothing to the laundrette but I do enjoy being Little Pink Riding Hood

Grudgingly pulling myself together to go to the laundrette before I run out of underwear or pyjamas like

I took this selfie of my new tee while waiting for the kettle to boil.

Well the kids were well behaved but I am curious as to what some of the seven year olds made of Into The Woods

This fucking cast are so so good

Into The Woods continues to be so close to everything I would want in my heart’s Into The Woods, like, 95% there. It’s WONDERFUL. Interval now, little sneaky stage pic

Despite this and the fact I know the Bridge emails people about content - there are too many small children here

FINALLY

There’s always a bit when I’m doing my make-up when it just looks like I’m cosplaying The Winter Soldier

Happy New Year

My aim for 2025 was 100 books and I fell annoyingly just short

Casual reminder I am pressed up against my living room windows watching the central London fireworks with a panorama of Battersea Power Station

WE MADE IT

Tea for midnight

I meant to read more this month but then I just… didn’t. I also read two different editions of Into The Woods but they wouldn’t let me add them and prove I read it, well, twice, with very small nerdy differences.

I did it for insta but for here I’ll do a combined thread of my two 2025 image posts. Sorry if you follow me there too and are feeling spammed. January Me/Not-Me February Me/Not-Me

I’ve watched a few versions of Assassins now but the summary of the musical is still like, what the fuck

Winter has cast its spell on South London. There's frost upon the pile of fly-tipped sofas this eve.

Me requesting that I get a Charleston for Musicals Week and I dance to a variant of this and the makers of Strictly rescinding my opportunity to be on the show (Worth watching even as a bootleg because Denis O’Hare is ASTONISHING) youtu.be/a5QjBrcjUJE?...

I know you lot would love to see one of my godmother’s dogs vm.tiktok.com/ZNR6nbWWD/

Taken mum to Nando’s for NYE

Also I discussed with mum how both of us are terrible at New Year and our collective anxieties and leveraged it into “these £95 Into The Woods seats just appeared out of nowhere tomorrow night, can I borrow the money from the flat fund and pay it back in instalments?” with great success.

We were allowed to finish early at 1 but I ended up staying til now finishing my tricky cases. But my boss says I can have it as lieu so here I am, off until the 8th!

Spending my work afternoon now in the company of a bootleg from 1990, on a black and white video camera at an angle, of the full original off-Broadway Assassins.

I’ve got storygraph AND goodreads to help me track my reading and nose at what my friends are reading but obvs goodreads’ sole purpose when I log a book is to show me a bunch of negative reviews for it by strangers who have read it wrong so I’m FROTHING with rage

Okay this Midsomer Murders contains murders that are too disturbing for me

Catching up on last night’s NEW Midsomer Murders, I think Winter has slightly grown his hair?

If you think this is sinister when done right, wait until you’ve tried and failed to make one with whatever you have to hand and it’s listing to one side

me when i like a song: 🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂

Amusing myself on my afternoon break with a game I'll call Nobody Fucking Does It Like Jamie Parker, Holy Shit. I'm comparing versions of The Ballad of Booth from Assassins. You only need to listen to like, 30 seconds to get my drift but if you stick with it the n-word is used as a slur later on.

Oh actually I sold Dustin Hoffman an A-Z once. (And told Mick Jagger we didn’t have the book he wanted in stock)

Washed my hands at the ladies’ loo sinks next to Carrie Fisher.

Just wrote a song called “My Lawyer Told Me I Can’t Write Songs With Long Titles Because Fall Out Boy Might Get Mad.”