Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On

That is brilliant use! Do love a train journey...

So grateful (& surprised) for this years @alcs.co.uk payment - so very welcome... Thanks to all those who have photocopied my work, and thanks most of all to the wonderful folks at @alcs.co.uk for collecting and redistributing the cold hard cash my way... Sign up now if you write & publish anything!

totally... Surprised this year to receive 3x my 'usual' amount, but honestly any amount is a boon. I also got £1.34 from PLR last month, and was equally as delighted by that! It's weird how I plan what to spend my ALCS payments on more like a gift, something to treasure often...

I am celebrating surprisingly hard today, having seen my statement! It is always such a joy, and most welcome...

If you enjoy watching Dragons Den, or the latest series from SaraDavies #thebigideaworks, you might be interested to read my latest article, for the nostalgic Best of British Magazine, which looks at the BBC television series, TV Inventors Club, which ran from 1948-1956... www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk

SDE would like to make more friends on Bluesky 😀, so with that in mind, we're giving away one of these fantastic #NikKershaw box sets! 10CDs and a DVD! Please like and share and we'll pick a random winner in a week's time, on 28 Feb. Open to everyone! Good luck...

Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton The British Food History Podcast · Episode

A brand new episode of The British Food History Podcast has dropped. My guest is food historian @drlindsaymiddleton.bsky.social and the topic is Alexis Soyer, arguably the 1st celebrity chef.

Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/44Em...

Veggie haggis pizza, had the haggis, tatties and neeps last night!

Aw, thanks!

Hi everyone!

I’m a PhD fellow from @UABBarcelona looking for a room to rent in Edinburgh from March 1st to May 1st during my visiting fellowship at @Uni_Edinburgh (Social Policy).

Any tips & RTs are appreciated! 🙏
@ewanrobo.bsky.social @davidevampa.bsky.social l @philiprathgeb.bsky.social

Take care of everyone, I know you will x

Doesn't stop people always trying to get me 'just try' them, I need to 'acquire a taste' apparently... No, I need to resolve my irrational fear! 😂 It does pain me that I dislike ANY food mind you...

It's actually more of a fear/phobia of olives, I can't really deal with them anywhere near me! 😂 I'll just have the custard...

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Olives...

#HNY25

always thankful that I've had enough work to warrant a tax bill!

like to get it out of the way! Happy New Year to you guys too...

I have celebrated the end of the year by paying my Tax bill, starting afresh for 2025! #HappyNewYear

OTD in early British television: 29 December 1938 - Illuminations John Wyver writes: 'Are you wondering whether to get a television set or not?,' critic Grace Wyndham Goldie (above, c. 1937) asked in her Listener review-of-the-year column dated Thursday 29 December ...

'Bliss was it in that dawn of television to be alive, but to be writing about it for The Listener was very heaven.'

Yesterday's OTD in early British television was a celebration of Grace Wyndham Goldie - and a plea for a contact for her Estate.

www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer. She was born on 26 February 1909 and passed away on 27 December 1994 at the age of 85. She frequently appeared on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.

Remembering TV cook Fanny Cradock who passed away today in 1994, age 85.

Cradock was a critic, television cook and writer.

She was usually seen with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.

tvark.org/fanny-cradoc...

now...

certainly a dangerous driver!

A black and white photo of Fanny Cradock showing her pots and pans off in her kitchen. She's wearing a light coloured trousers suit and a jaunty white headband. It's the 70s.

Fanny Cradock died on this day, 30 years ago 😱

#OTD - 27 Dec 1937 - “Dick Whittington and His Cat" -
Television’s first grand Christmas pantomime, written by #ArthurAskey.
This sequence opens with #PamelaRandall as Fairy Bow Belle, and ends with #CyrilFletcher as the Emperor of Morocco.
Producer: #ReginaldSmith.

cover of the book Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting 1945-1975 by Kylie Andrews. The book is black, with white text. The cover image is B&W whopping a woman with her arms folded, standing beside a man filming with a reel film camera marked ABC. It looks sunny.

New Book Review - Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 from @kylieandrews.bsky.social - a ‘group biography’ aiming to clearly perform an act of recovery to reinstate the ‘blind spot of gender in broadcasting’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A man and a woman in evening dress seated at a dinner table, each sniffing a glass of wine held in front of them.

OTD in early British television: spoiled for the eve of Christmas Eve choice today, I think we might attempt a double-header, celebrating 'Polite Wine Drinking' (pictured) on this day in 1937, and then 'The Director of Television in the Witness Box', shown on Friday 23 December 1938.

*faceplant*

Recirculating this starter pack now it's got a few more people on it. And if you'd like to be added, just say the word. It started with the BAFTSS SIG but anyone is welcome. 'Room for one more inside, sir!', as Miles Malleson might say if he were on Bluesky... go.bsky.app/KD7kfpH

I'd be very chuffed to be added if poss, thanks! 📺

Fanny Cradock shuffles around the kitchen with a round Christmas pudding, passing it to her assistant, Sara.

Fanny Cradock decorates her Christmas tree, with her cooker in the background. Don't we all have Kitchen Trees?

Happy Holidays!