Are you sure you're not my daughter? She's watched 'Nativity' about 50 times in the last month #misterpoppy
07.11.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@johnaspinall.bsky.social
Dad, husband, cat owner, old telly watcher, computer programmer. In roughly that order.
Are you sure you're not my daughter? She's watched 'Nativity' about 50 times in the last month #misterpoppy
07.11.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0He couldn't beat the clock.
27.09.2025 20:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, not Saturday afternoon! No wonder you've never met Tommy Trinder (or have you?)
27.09.2025 20:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Did it also show you a video of your house exploding?
24.09.2025 18:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I reckon he prefers it - gets to hang out upstairs with Claudia on Saturdays without all the training and competition nonsense.
20.09.2025 20:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Mud on the tracks?
05.08.2025 15:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"If your train's on time I'll give you the money myself"
29.07.2025 18:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Frank Spencer, Eddie Waring, Harold Wilson. Mike Yarwood's act, basically.
19.07.2025 19:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Looks like my mother-in-law!" So much to love in that segment. I used to be able to recite Roy and Kenny Lynch's middle-eight banter by heart (probably still could - "don't forget the double-breasted lid!"). Also love Roy stumbling into the Dr Terror film poster as he struggles home. Lovely stuff.
19.07.2025 19:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The photo of buckets, spades and fishing nets is so evocative of childhood holidays. Just needs the Beezer summer special.
27.06.2025 19:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A wooden shed in the sun
At the age of 55 I am finally a man with a shed. #lifegoals #arthurjackson #shedcast #shedshedsheds
27.06.2025 16:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cry from the Aspinall kitchen: "we've run out of ramekins!" #middleclasscrisis
14.06.2025 13:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Man at C&A"
23.05.2025 06:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A good excuse to give Rosita a spin
16.04.2025 19:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did you post this from your mobile telling bone?
10.04.2025 11:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You know Spring is really here when the cats start building their nests.
10.04.2025 11:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Successful" is an odd choice of adjective. Usually it would be "major" or "hit". Successful feels just one step up from "adequate".
08.04.2025 10:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cover of the tie-in paperback to Codename Icarus
Missed the last episode. Bought the book. Not sure I ever actually read it.
08.04.2025 10:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Can I take you up the adjoining Scandinavian gift shop?"
29.03.2025 19:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Lene" "just arrived from Denmark" "speciality: cutting" - is this some kind of Oxonian polari?
29.03.2025 19:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0A "Talking Heads" reboot? I can picture you as a latter-day Thora Hird.
16.03.2025 09:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's practically compulsory in France. My daughter has just had two with Nutella, folded into triangles. Triangles! I looked on disapprovingly as I ate my sensible British rolled-up lemon and sugar pancake.
04.03.2025 20:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There aren't enough cars named after Pipkins characters. I'd happily drive a Vauxhall Topov.
06.02.2025 12:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That reminds me - the Outnumbered special is on tonight
26.12.2024 09:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0