James Hannah.

Intriguing idea though 🤔

Or are you suggesting the typo was inserted… maliciously? How dare you, sir!

She came home with her script open on the relevant page and her face in her palm…

@sarahefranklin.bsky.social We narrowly avoided another "Aisles of Tesco" debacle today when Our Hero deftly corrected a hitherto unnoticed typo at the very moment she read it out, to avoid calling the deceased "the hostess with the moistest".
"I had actually started *saying* the word", she reports.

I’m on a scene in final stages of current Work in Progress and I simply cannot settle down to it.

I will do ANYTHING else.

I’ve been full of adrenaline about it for days. It’s only a simple scene, but I cannot stay in my seat to get it down.

I am trying to tell myself something, clearly 🙄

a man is standing on the platform of a train station . ALT: a man is standing on the platform of a train station .

As well as basic law and car mechanics, I think schools should offer lessons in middle age and how everything seems to be moving past, but it is in fact yourself ageing.

Coffee-time research: 1920s stage direction(?) of the day.

I read you were just fired?

Care to comment?

Tweevil.

The worst kind.

Fucked if I know.

Probably. Who cares?

WHOAHHHHH!

Amazing! Amazing! Congratulations!

Okay. I've calmed down a bit and can now proof read.

Aidan just got the World Record for Megaminx the twelve sided "cube". He's worked so hard for this. Immensely proud. Happy weekend. #SpeedCubing

youtu.be/zuHohBhaXZ0?...

Dead toe??

Written by Kim -- and illustrated, memorably, on the single release, by a "big big glove".

YouTube video by OfficialLondonTheatre Matilda The Musical perform 'Quiet' | Olivier Awards 2014 with Mastercard

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Quiet (Tim Minchin) Quite apart from all the words and movement and standing on a box in front of a packed auditorium and millions of TV viewers, the interval between "everything, everything is..." and "quiet" seems like the most enormous chasm in music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Lx...

Little peek behind the curtain…
I haven’t done anything today

Thank you! That's gone on the list...

Is that the £300 Arran, you mean? Or is there a lesser masterpiece to try...? By definition, I'm supposing no.

Will check it out! X

Yes — I was thinking that about The Diplomat, which I LOVED less than a year ago; I spotted it again on Netflix and could barely remember it.

There’s no… imprint?

Wednesdays! 9pm. It was a lifesaver in the middle of the week. We too were MASH patients…

Loretta Swit, delivering one of my favourite moments in all TV. I must have thought of her delivery of the line “Did you ever once ever offer me a lousy cup of coffee” once a month for thirty-five years.

YouTube video by Heir Heinrich Von Scrofula Young frankenstein Putting On The Ritz

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Puttin' On The Ritz (Irving Berlin) If it's tunes you're after, there are some days when I would contend that this is the most perfect melody ever written. I couldn't decide on my favourite version, so I just chose the hands-down most memorable one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab7N...

YouTube video by RHINO The B-52's - Private Idaho (Official Audio)

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Private Idaho (The B52s) I've learned that they've removed the apostrophe now. Anyway, I last heard this song in the Minecraft movie a couple of weeks back, and it was a decided high point. The B52s at the top of their vocal and metaphorical game. A joy.
youtu.be/BxHyliIspkA?...

#AtoZofTunes
Polar Bear (Ride arr The Jims) For years I felt that the Oxford accent on Ride records would suit the New York accent of They Might Be Giants, so I eventually arranged and recorded a Ride song in as close to a TMBG style as I could.
(I also did vice versa)
youtu.be/EUGEkphNqcU?...

Brian Harvey's Lament

It’s an extraordinarily gripping and atmospheric book. Highly recommended.

Ah, yes. I probably should have mentioned this. I have a new book out! Published yesterday, and one that was a joy to research and write. All good bookshops, etc., thanks to @georgeisediting.bsky.social and all the fab folk at @picadorbooks.bsky.social

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/that...

@susannahstapleton.bsky.social writing is wonderful. Very much looking forward to getting my hands on this and prioritising it ahead of that big pile of books to be read! #ThatDarkSpring

Something that is not a swear word from Fry and Laurie, of course, is ‘Ted Cunterblast’, but I feel compelled to note it here.