Alastair Gittner

Spirit of love is not on Spotify but I am enjoying "Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart"

I love your posts. As a frequenter of 2nd hand record shops, buying the records I didn't feel able to buy in the 70s & 80s, married to a music fan whose taste barely goes beyond 1978 and a regular watcher of old music programs on BBC2 & 4 I can honestly say I have only heard of about 1% of them 😂

Just one of the stupidest things that has happened in my lifetime

Are you on the posh account, I cannot see an episode with their Christmas recommendations?

Fabulous and it's not even over Whitby. If it were I might be worried.

...and if Barnsley's game against Liverpool is Saturday afternoon I am at Nottingham at the ASE conference.........

Well done you and thank you sharing the harsh realities of being an author. Good luck for your future sales.

I was due on a close pass exercise with SYP this morning, thankfully it was cancelled!!!🚴🚴‍♂️🌧️

Eleventy one in LOTR

Thank you...someone posted who I trusted without checking

duh!!!!

Thank you for sharing, I could have been a passer-by! I haven't been back for a few years but from Google the shops have changed. Gone the antiquarian book shop and the Board game shop sadly. Not sure TK max has the same ambience.

I taught in secondary for 31 years and during the last few years we were having significant numbers of children coming to us where their reading age was such they needed help to access our science texts. I realised that I had had no instruction on how to teach children to read nor strategies to use

Thank you for the warning. Frankly I struggle with all Christmas adverts finding them tiresome, ghastly (as you suggest) or unfathomable (perfume) though I guess it will not be long before they are replaced with holiday adverts and we are subjected once again to Ms Glynne wanting to hold our hand.

Sunday - Venezuela; History of Advent; Tom Stoppard - BBC Sounds William Crawley takes a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week.

I enjoyed the piece from the wonderful @IMcMillan on Radio4 this morning. He was reminiscing about his time as a bell ringer in a neighbouring parish. Listen here, from 7 mins 20 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m 59 and I enjoyed it.

#strictly proves once again it’s not really a dance competition

Roll with it: the 30 best board games for Christmas 2025 If Monopoly is your festive fallback for family fun then go directly to Jail and do not pass Go. A new wave of party pleasers, trick takers and strategy games can transport you to Stalingrad, the spir...

I know a few of you are board game enthusiasts. You might be interested in @theguardian.com 's review of 30 "best" board games. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I think it is a wonderful quote. I shall be keeping it and sharing it as it is so on the nail.

Even non-science educators are happy to bandy about incorrect scientific language and justify it as "the evolution of language" or "as long as the meaning / message is understood it doesn't matter."

Excellent idea. I have writer-friends and sometimes they don't get the science quite right. I've tried to subtly offer my services as a scientific proof reader, but to no avail. I also think (controversial) that some writers don't really think it is important to get the science right.

I'm sure you have seen the excellent quote from @missmc.bsky.social 's father on this.

A wise man

Increasingly I worry where the real power lies in the US government, is it Vance? It is not Trump. Tha latter has shown that he is increasingly not cognitively skilled enough to put together a document like this, so who is writing it? Trump has no ideology and this is beginning to form one.

He was certainly a hunk 😜

Thank you Mr Grace....(one for the teenagers)

"Ice cold in Alex" this has to be one of the best product placings for beer in the whole of cinema, ever. What do you reckon @petebrownbeer.bsky.social

After a busy couple of days, just taking time out to watch "Ice cold in Alex." At one point our heroes decide to hand-crank the engine to move it imperceptibly up the side of a dune. Is this possible? Well of course physicists on the internet have done the maths. www.open.edu/openlearn/sc...

Good to see you, sorry I was so busy with those turkey sandwiches. Hot food waits for no one!!!!

ooooh a nice little teaser, thank you. We were only talking about this yesterday.