Phil Cheesman

Noooo… how did I miss a Salisbury gig? That’s practically my local… and I’m sure I’d have noticed it listed- I checked not that long ago…

Scene: two teenage boys in school, in their uniforms, walking along corridor by the lockers. BOY 1: Argh! [We see what he is reacting to. They have seen their friend DANNY, who is a great big man with a thick neck, wrinkles, a strong jaw and nose. He is dressed in a school uniform much too small for him.] DANNY: Hi lads. BOY 2: Danny... What’s happened to you? DANNY: Yeah it’s really weird… DANNY: I thought I was 15, but I’m actually a character in a prestige TV drama who is inexplicably being played by an adult actor? DANNY: I think this is like, a flashback scene which explains my future story as a troubled genius. BOY 1: But your neck is all thick BOY 2: You’ve got actual wrinkles BOY 1: You look like a massive boy DANNY: Stop it lads! DANNY: You are saying mean things to me that will fuel my inner conflict and drive my narrative forward! BOY 1: Is that a grey hair? DANNY [running away]: SOB! [ends]

I think this one was from Sex Education S1 time? Or it may have been Normal People

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Dried frog (toad) pills mentioned! 🐸
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Did Terry Pratchett take bursar medication inspiration from the English renaissance?

Great podcast from @gregjenner.bsky.social and co.

The paradox is that I cared so little that I didn’t care enough to throw my hands up in the air in the first place

Everyone talks about the rarity of quicksand in adult life but we should address the complete lack of kissing booths.

The Ipcress File is the one that astonishes me.

Ages at time of release, L-R: 32 / 41 / 38.

27 & 33 on release (probably younger when filming)

Sounds like an entirely sensible approach: I for one am glad you made it through to continue the nonsense!

So it’s Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. They offered me 5 or 6 months chemotherapy or an hour listening to Jamiroquai. I’ve gone for the chemo.

Nurse took an awful lot of blood this morning. Only when she left did I notice her Black Pudding Enthusiasts badge. Mildly disconcerting.

World Cancer Day today. Sympathy with all those dealing with the diagnosis. I resolved to be as silly and childish as possible throughout, as that was the only thing I could control.

My Father
Was
A gamboling lamb
Down
In Milton
Keynes

Drake meme - but with Charlie Drake

Can’t have been the first to do this, but:-

This is why we went back to exactly the former. Costs a fair bit more but sooo worth it

Is there a bigger downgrade than the daily doorstep milk delivery in recycled glass bottles from a local dairy on an electric vehicle to having to buy milk in plastic bottles from multi million pound supermarkets.

Met Office yellow snow warning for the Scottish Highlands.

Your occasional reminder that yellow snow is perfectly natural and totally safe to eat.

I've just invented the music genre "bagpipe jazz" and you're all going to find out what it sounds like unless my demands are met

In 1997, the Chuckle Brothers won the World's Biggest Sheep Competition with their two metre ewe.

Phil Spector's brother, Crispin, was Head of Quality Control for Walkers.

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

22.00 FILM: BASIC INSTINCT 10 PRINT "SHARON STONES IS GUILTY"; 20 GOTO 10 RUN

Spoilers

On Les Dawson’s 95th birthday:

All the better. They’re arrogant.

Just remember, with each crunch you are canonically ending the life of a sentient creature.

Always a moral quandary eating M&Ms, because I hate those characters with a passion, but that yellow peanut pos sure is delicious.

Signing the last of the Milhaus prints

FYI: we continue to be bad at April Fools day

A Midsummer Night’s Daydream Believer #shakespearemonkees @quantick.bsky.social

My favourite episode of Magnum PI is the one where they used him to work out the circumference of a circle of ice creams.

Mandelson and Blair in matching dark suits, white shirts and ties.

Martin and Gary Kemp as The Krays, 1990.

Ever since I decorated my floorboards with paints somewhere between matte and satin, I’ve been walking on eggshells.