Stephen McBarron

Jim Gamble gone - withdraws as candidate for Chair of Abuse Inquiry #wato

“It’s like he’s on a piece of elastic!” All joking aside - this is going to become a big news story (lucky it broke after #PMQs ) #wato

“We have lots of old manuscripts gathering dust on our shelves - we choose one at random then get a celebrity like you to stick their name on the cover for a fat fee and put it in the shops ready for Christmas!” The real story behind that new ‘Keira Knightley’ children’s novel! #r4today

“How we fill on a slow news day” just explained by Jonny Dymond in that trail there #r4today

Inflation static at 3.8% means Kemi Badenoch will have to revert to Plan B at #PMQs - banging on about that Chinese Spy! “Is he still out there? Is he still looking through keyholes?” All of that! #r4today

No Trump - Putin meeting after all! Was the usual bluster and hot air from the Orange Buffoon! #bbcpm

Absolutely - and I doubt he’ll get the Republican nomination for 2028 anyway. The last big card Trump has left to play is his endorsement for the next Presidential election and I doubt he’ll use that on Vance (he’s already ditched one Vice President after all). He’ll want to play Kingmaker big time!

If he’s hoping to create a legacy by vandalising the White House and building the Trump Ballroom he’ll be disappointed! They’ll simply rename it after he’s gone, in much the same way Clinton never got an aircraft carrier named after him because people would simply snigger when they saw it! #r4today

Actually - in the image, there’s just 1 magazine not owned by IPC - tv satellite week which was owned by Bauer (probably still is). Still illustrates the point about the lack of genuine choice though)

Possible the outage is evidence that the internet is becoming like the supermarket with the illusion of choice - look at all those soap powders (actually just brands owned by Lever Brothers or Johnson & Johnson, so actually a choice of 2)! Or tv guides all owned by IPC! #r4today

21st October is Reptile Awareness Day! Though back in the 70s it was possible to seamlessly integrate a huge snake into your daily life almost unnoticed (at least according to Whizzer and Chips)! #r4today

Adam spends over 40 years running the farm only to see it being given to Ruairi who has been in farming for less than 40 minutes (and managed to set fire to it in that time) #TheArchers

Ambridge - where people can learn farming in a fortnight! Absurd! #TheArchers

Dismal surprise party storyline! Every party in a soap is a surprise party - not having a surprise party would be the real surprise #TheArchers

Halloween decorations in a pub - on 20th October? I have an inflatable pumpkin I always blow up at August Bank Holiday - as if I’d leave it this late! #TheArchers

October 1981
#autumn

What’s with the old lady on You & Yours talking to a cold call scammer and saying “I was just letting him talk”? I never answer strange numbers then look them up on Who Called Me and block the scammers and spammers! Never give these jokers the time of day! #wato

Hearing that interview you’ll understand why there’s a Lucy Powell landslide victory for Deputy Leader incoming on Saturday #r4today

So the rancid relatives of Harper Lee have been doing a bit of literary grave robbing - publishing the contents of her waste bin to cash in! ‘Milkman - an extra quart of skimmed milk and a hazelnut yoghurt please!’ Hardly a fully formed short story is it? #r4today

Are they HobNobs (the biscuits - why are we never given all the facts?) #TheArchers

Meeting with a bride to be? Stuff that daft barn and get on with some farming #TheArchers

“Get out of my pub!” What else did George expect to hear? #TheArchers

Wouldn’t a bereaved person inheriting a farm hire relief milkers instead of getting the neighbours round? #TheArchers

I take 10 tablets a day for my heart condition and thought that was the most possible until I met a neighbour a few days ago who is on 23 tablets a day - I’m a positive amateur compared to that guy

18th October is the Feast of St Luke! St Luke’s Little Summer is said to occur around this time - a period of warm, dry weather before Autumn returns! See if this happens! #r4today #TheArchers

He’ll still be doing this because he isn’t banned from ‘family events’ - though he should be. He can be not invited like last Christmas at Sandringham but at funerals etc he’s made a point of arriving in front of the cameras and placing himself front and centre - because of his sheer arrogance

Yes - that’s how I know they’ve arrived most evenings

Jones the Steam edition of #bbcaq tonight

True - there’s always a loophole with these characters.

Foxes back outside my place again tonight. 3 of them this time. Can’t startle them with the flash so unfortunately no clearer image #TheArchers