Spinky’s Mama

I wonder if it’s the lack of achievements in government they could trumpet. In 2024 they didn’t have an answer to “why would you want 5 more years of this?”. So instead of a fundamental rethink of what they achieved, former ministers blame the ‘constraints’ (ECHR, Net Zero).

I think she’d have crushed it as Katryca.

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image.

Richard Whiteley, Himoff!: The Memoirs of a TV Matinee Idle.

Extra bonus points for starting the blurb with “‘A face like a cartoonist's suicide note' A.A. Gill, Sunday Times”.

I did wonder if number 6 had some really niche picks for Rear of the Year.

Love love love Remembrance. The story that got the six year olds and the twelve year olds watching together again. So many playground battles the next day!

Seven (not counting ‘changes to maps since the question was written’).

This may be why I didn’t get invited to parties until the turn of the century.

These chuckle heads don’t care and/or understand that we’ve already had 15 years of DOGE thanks to Eric Pickles.

The beige costume is her Watcher form.

My disgust and fear of the content is currently being subsumed by my bafflement at the form. Acrostics conceal information for a limited audience. It’s a *terrible* choice for an opposition party- you’re trying to get voters to notice and remember. You’re not Keats writing about his sister in law!

Iguanadon hand, Natural History Museum London in 1993. I’m on the left, an 11 year old British Asian girl in a purple anorak and grey trousers.

Iguanadon hand, Natural History Museum London in 2025. I’m on the left, a 43 year old British Asian woman in a Breton top and blue jeans.

Iguanadon hand and me, Natural History Museum London.

1993 2025

Spinning Around must have been used in an Exorcist mash up.

Picture of the title card for DOCTOR WHO - THE ARK: EPISODE SHOWCASE + LIVE Q&A WITH JAMES GOSS & GAVIN RYMILL, with Mr Goss and Mr Rymill seated in front.

Great afternoon watching and learning about The Ark at the Riverside Studios with @gossjam.bsky.social and #gavinrymill

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The Zone of Interest is simultaneously one of the best films I’ve seen and one I hope to never see again.

Nope, standard Holmes version as I remember, more often than I’d like.

Go on, then 🏛️

I mean the Khmer Rouge had a pretty big clue to their political affiliations in the second word of their name.

Great article. I keep juggling O-megger (Baker/Martin) and Oh-mayger (John of Patmos)*

*the less said about the Sunday I read out “Gallifrey” instead of “Galilee” the better.

Spence Bakery if you’re wanting coffee and cake. I do like The Good Egg but it’s perpetually rammed.

There’s a lot of people who think a story has to be a universe, like there’s something lacking in ‘just’ a story. (I’m aware that as a Doctor Who fan I’m in a very shiny glass house).

He doesn’t know I’m doing this. He’s drinking coffee, watching Twin Peaks, blissfully unaware his ears are burning.

The Paisley ignorance is from a McCoy interview, so this may be “it is true that it is rumoured” territory.

Members of this household say that JNT changed the scarf because he decided Tartan was too overtly Scottish, when the Doctor isn’t Scottish, he’s a Time Lord. So McCoy suggested Paisley as a replacement correctly gambling that JNT was unlikely to know where Paisley is.

If Dodo had done this in The Steel Sky none of that Monoid business would ever have happened.

Members of my household would like to point out that the scarf in Time and the Rani is tartan and the paisley scarf is from Paradise Towers.

Rigby’s delighted delivery of “Holmes!” when he finds him on the moor breaks the torpor to be very charming.

I think its reputation is down to Tom’s negging and that it’s the last prominent British adaptation before Granada’s, which blows everything else away (and rightly so).

My pet peeve in ‘mad from the start’ Hamlets is whether they make Old Hamlet one of his delusions.

Jonathan Pryce performed Old Hamlet as a voice in his heads a great acting feat, except you have to discount Barnardo, Marcellus and Horatio seeing his Ghost.

“And to drink, meatballs!” when we make a particularly carnivorous set of menu choices.

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