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I did! Thank you for the squashed tomatoes 🍅

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, drinking tea and fixing her laser-stare on someone out of frame

Hubby made me the most amazing birthday card #janeisjudgingyou

I remember an antiques shop in Norwich, on Bridewell Alley I think, where the owner had a live owl perched at the back…

“Weaponised wittering” 😂

Loved that!

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

There’s something very 2nd Doctor about her facade of studied harmlessness and absent-mindedness. My favourite bit of business is when she kicks her ball of yarn under George Baker’s chair in “Bertram’s” to engineer an excuse to talk to him! And of course, she clocks that he’s police right away 😁

I love how Slack instructs Lake to visit “HQ”, i.e. Jane’s sitting room!

“Tootsie Bye!” 😂

Lucy’s romance storyline made no sense to me. She’s so independent and assured, and much more interesting than either of her suitors - the creep and the Labrador. Almost like Christie lost confidence in the character?

I must’ve blanked that! Also the age gap seemed inappropriate, but played by an actress much older than the character? That weirded me out

I’m a bit bereft now that it’s complete. What a wonderful portrayal by Hickson - I have such a deep fondness for her. Probably because she’s the absolute spit of my late Nan.

The only one that I’ve read but not seen. Not sure if that’s the reason that the murderer seemed pretty obvious to me from the outset? But loved seeing Dolly again - I’d happily have watched a whole series pairing the both. And Jane’s tenderness to Jason at the end was lovely.

Holly Aird is fab, and the end scene with Jane and the sisters watching old films of themselves is poignant ❤️

The expressive dance bit felt weirdly like a Channel 4 short. The music sounded very 80s synthy…

God, I hated the makeover sequence - completely threw me out of the story. What was the point?

Absolutely, completely enthralled with this as a child when I found it on my older sister’s bookshelf. Particularly spooked by the ghostwood (?) stuff and the creepy antler guy on the cover

If you see this, post a chef.

Lucy was fab. I didn’t get that she was supposed to be in a love triangle with Cedric though - I thought she was an unwilling target for his creepy advances.

R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.

Oh no! 😢 I absolutely adored his work on Who, especially Castrovalva. I never really bought his talk of “hard science” - physics and maths were almost treated like a respectable veneer on top of the weird magic of the universe. Saw his Q&A at BFi - just as wonderfully curmudgeonly as I’d hoped.

There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP

I had a lump in my throat reading this - an incredible, surgical, laser-guided takedown of bigotry. Brav@ 👏

Yes. Yes I did zoom into that photo to try and read the labels. What of it?

Ponies are super gay, but it’s just a phase

A screen grab of Tegan Jovanka from Doctor Who - a woman in her mid 20s with short red hair and a mauve and lilac air stewardess uniform. She’s mid-sentence (I think she’s saying “if we had an Index File, we could look it up in the Index File!”)

Tim Gunn from Project Runway, a distinguished looking white man in his 60s with neat white hair and glasses, wearing a pinstripe suit, checked shirt and pink tie. He’s pensively stroking his chin during g a critique.

Share a character from a TV show you’d want to be your best friend.

Is it cheating to have a real person? If not, then Tim Gunn. But my alternate is Tegan.

I can save you the effort.

Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer.

To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers.

If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.

Very much into physical media still 😁

I’ll see if I can find it on iplayer

Reskeet the specs, nerds 🤓