The first ever international cricket match was between the USA and Canada.

What is Robert Shaw's accent meant to be? #Jaws

If you start watching the director's cut of Napoleon tomorrow morning, it will finish on 31 December 2026, or at least it'll feel like that.

"Rampage"? #TheArchers

Yeah but Ruari *was* a mistake. #TheArchers

Is he going to drive a tractor off the roof? #TheArchers

Sorry, George, I inexplicably want to shag Brad. #TheArchers

George is going to eat all the marmalade, isn't he? #TheArchers

Paula Radcliffe held the women's marathon world record for 16 years until 2019 and she just got an OBE. Could someone please explain the honours system?

Amol's going to do his schtick about St Hilda's being a fraction of a second too slow on the starters etc etc isn't he? #UniversityChallenge

"A familiar face on daytime TV of course." For people who watch daytime TV, maybe. #mastermind

"Is it all right if I stay here tonight?" WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? #TheArchers

Trod on Luther Vandross's foot.

Face it George, you're not as good as Brad. #TheArchers

Every time I watch #Casablanca I notice something I missed or forgot last time. Now it's that even chubby fussbucket Carl is a hero, risking his own safety to help Laszlo. God, I love this movie.

Following on from the excellent @whenisbirths.bsky.social's thoughts on BB and similar matters, mine:

TS Eliot crashes the pips #bbcradio4

Movies of the early 80s seem to have spawned a particular breed of pretty boy actor whose careers burned out while their female co-stars are still remembered. Christopher Atkins. Miles O'Keeffe. Harry Hamlin. Willie Aames. All still alive. Potential reality show?

Please stop saying "Twixmas" or I may need to burn down your entire town.

Ffs... Wordle 1,652 X/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh dear. I hope George doesn't have a full-on incel fuckwit meltdown event when he finds out Brad and Amber have been having better sex than he could ever imagine. #TheArchers #NewYearFun

One more time. People who are complaining about a half-Japanese actor playing Mozart in 2025 didn't seem that disconcerted by a half-Syrian actor playing Salieri in 1984. #Amadeus

Pigs in blankets. I don't remember them at all when I was a kid (70s/80s), certainly not as a Christmas staple. Does anyone? Or is this more faux nostalgia?

And now Facebook thinks I might be interested in incontinence swimwear.

This is extraordinary.

Three ghosts appear to George and persuade him not to be such a tosser. OK, maybe not. #TheArchers

When the boys on bikes start flying, do they actually need to keep pedalling? Will they fall out of the sky if they don't? #ET

Surely ET is an Easter film, not Christmas?

Just another week to go in this squalid, misbegotten year. So, the big question - who's going to die?

A bit startled that Diana Henry can't pronounce "guacamole". #BBCRadio4

Someone on Radio 4 just said "excetera" and Christmas is cancelled.

This year on Bluesky I wrote 909 posts and 283 replies. I received 2,798 likes, whereas 197 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "totp" and 🟩! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Wallace and the chef from Crossroads. #DoctorWho

Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie #totp

Christ, 1992 was a sack of shit, wasn't it? #totp

Joy is the colleague about whom everybody speaks highly but nobody wants to sit next to at the office party. #TheArchers

Betty Hutton, not Doris Day. #OnlyConnect

Chesney Hawkes's specialist subject is one album. OK, it's a double (and also one of the greatest albums ever made), but, really? #mastermind

Kite Bush! That's funny because it sounds a bit like... actually it doesn't. #totp

All due respect to Chris Rea, and sympathy to his loved ones, but lead story? Really?

Anyone would think he has stuff he doesn't want us to think about.

Another myth bites the dust.

Um, OK.

The only feasible answers are "Eeyore" and "I don't understand the question".

Five (now dead) actors I've seen on stage. Pass it on. Alec Guinness Maggie Smith Michael Gambon Diana Rigg Anthony Sher

Hospital waiting room. Level 42. Has it come to this?

First day of the holiday. As I get dressed, I reach for my lanyard. 😕

So it is Splash after all. #TheWarBetween

Oh good. Slow, breathy version of rock classic. 😕 #TheWarBetween