It’s weird to hear people you’ve heard on the Beef and Dairy Network Podcast doing ads for Amex.
The Caffè Nero mango and passion fruit cheesecake’s fruity bits have the consistency of the jelly in Jaffa cakes. Recommended. And they’re playing Billie Holiday and Bad Penny Blues. Good choices.
Does anyone outside the US know what Kool-Aid is? I’ve never seen it, let alone do I get all the references in The Studio.
Today’s badly structured email comes from M&S. It doesn’t get to the most important thing until the third paragraph. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6d2b81fda164da125cebc69dd963de03b1a4c059d93914e5c32ac1554e66e113/615092190e647c68219f556815b52c4f33a56f10419dfaeed9b9525b85e542fe.webp
I attended a talk about imposter syndrome earlier but I felt something something format of a joke.
This weekend was the Swanage Railway Diesel Gala. It has a place in my heart as it was the first time Ollie and I went away together, 15 years ago.
Why am I so ridiculously satisfied that I fixed the flush on my upstairs toilet after 3.5 years of poor performance simply by adjusting the nylon screws on the lid’s buttons? It pays to tinker with your cistern. That’s the moral here.
Today I took a picture of the monolith from
2001, apparently. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6d2b81fda164da125cebc69dd963de03b1a4c059d93914e5c32ac1554e66e113/e6e9407ccf087b985242d738ae4991815840ff2d356d899cfa37b84785ddc5f3.webp
That feeling when the flat your husband used to own comes up for sale with a decent refurbishment and with the asking price having more than doubled, and then remembering that it’s unmortgagable due to the ‘deck access’.
I was not expecting Jimmy Carr to turn up as a support at the Sarah Silverman gig at the Palladium with his Niagara of filth. Sarah Keyworth got things going nicely. I’d never heard a double mastectomy called ‘top surgery’ before but everyone else had. Great night and quite a touching show.
To mark George Cole’s centenary, BBC Radio 4 Extra is broadcasting Call for the Dead, starring Cole as George Smiley, from 1978. Stumbled upon it this morning. It’s fantastic. Check BBC Sounds.
There’s also been some audio material released on years gone by. However, Kev was actually cancelled by auntie back in the day, making his way back via semi-autonomous BBC Local Radio.
Channel 5 have got out an old announcer (David Wheale perhaps?) to introduce The Cancellation of Kenny Everett. I mean, there was literally a whole evening of Kev on BBC 4 last weekend and nearly all of his Thames series was available on DVD until. Rework went bust. That’s not what I call cancelled.