Hannah Cooper

Paul (McCartney) drinking tea on a sofa with Eddie the Scottie dog

Paul and Eddie wish you a very good morning

For a while I thought I might manage this one day, but my mother has similarly never been an early person. She’s now been retired several years and enjoys sleeping until 8.30-9 most days.

I didn’t know about it! Think I’m rather out the loop since leaving Twitter regularly.

I am still keen to do a London crawl with Double Diamond - I mentioned it to @huskyteer.co.uk between cocktails last weekend, who is possibly up for it too.

We had a nice chat and I got some gentle form tips. My gym seems to have become more friendly, which is lovely yet also weird for me…

It’s my solo time, I’ve never had gym buddies and I’ve never spoken to people at the gym. Feel increasingly confident trying new things and asking for help though.

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Sensed someone watching me at the gym as I was lifting dumbbells. I do a superset (different exercises back-to-back) and when I was done I looked away from the mirror to see the bloke next to me open-mouthed.

“You. Are. A. Machine!”

Honestly the best confidence boost I’ve ever had at the gym! 😁

I’ve got a quiet social month coming up, but it’s also the time when the shortening days and general grimness of looming winter starts to gnaw at my general disposition.

Chatted to a local friend last night, who has helpfully encouraged me to join 2 budget-friendly evenings out this week.

It’s nice and low-effort. Often ends up on as the last thing before bed when I’m channel hopping but not really up for committing to anything entirely. Useful for a preview of new shows and it benefits from you tuning in to more episodes as you get to know the different contributors.

He’s tinkering in Q Branch! That’s surely all there is!

I was a latecomer to Stranger Things but have watched the first 3 seasons over the last year. Interestingly, you’re the second person who’s recently told me they got bored early on. I was certainly less gripped initially but intrigued enough to stick with it and get to a more bingeable point.

I only started watching odd episodes of Gogglebox in the last couple of years, but it’s often been useful for me to go, “Yep, definitely don’t need to check out that show.”

I’ve been presuming that I Kissed a Girl/Boy are the low-budget homosexual equivalent.

Strictly’s cultural ubiquity means I kind of know how it works, but only saw Brucie presenting the end when it used to be on before Doctor Who.

For ages I assumed Love Island was this tiny barely watched thing on ITV2, but then had a couple of jobs where I was the only person not watching it.

Line of Duty. I’ve seen the first episode twice but never found time for the rest.

Also Love Island and (probably the biggest) Strictly Come Dancing. Neither are my sort of thing.

Do you have a gill measurer or do you convert them?

006 and 007 in the pre titles sequence

Bond and Xenya Onnatop

Tank chase shot with a winged horse statue aboard the tank

Alec points a gun in Bond’s face

Watched GoldenEye at the cinema today for its 30th anniversary. Always been a favourite.

I love the series figuring itself out post-Cold War and how this “misogynistic dinosaur” fits. Trevelyan makes a great villain. Brosnan’s Bond has a lot of fun and the tank chase remains a highlight.

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The fact that she had an 80% chance of being completely cured if she’d had treatment seems to make it worse. This wasn’t a young person with an incredibly bleak diagnosis desperately clutching at something. I feel so sorry for her brothers, who clearly can’t have a relationship with their parents.

Not the Nine O’Clock News, series 2 episode 5 broadcast 28 April 1980.

Not a classic sketch but curiously uses the Blake’s 7 theme roughly one month after the broadcast of Terminal.

I’d love to know why they picked the theme for this sketch.

We had email through Sky before we had a family PC. It was my first introduction to anything online, before I understood what ‘internet’ really was. My uncle had just moved to Australia so my dad and I started emailing him.

This has given me the mental image of you walking down a street with lots of space dollies waving cheerily from the doorways.

Had someone tell me they thought it was because the house was previously a HMO. But even if they converted the living room to a bedroom that still only made 3 beds!

I’m looking at 2-beds where I find 2 toilets a tad excessive and l think I’d need to be buying a giant family mansion before I’d find 4 acceptable.

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A booklet titled Thames Winter Schedule 1971

A lovely surprise package from @transdiffusion.org that prompted a “Phwoooar!”

I had a fantastic children’s encyclopaedia (possibly Kingfisher) and particularly liked the section on space that explained the solar system. I was horrified that our sun would die one day and concerned that we needed an Earth exit plan.

It can be hard to fill in gaps for people whose careers finished before my memory starts. Some simply don’t crop up now in nostalgia or history run-downs. Shows that were the equivalent of The One Show - always there, well-known, but not must-watch - aren’t repeated.

As someone relatively clued up on old TV who was born in the 90s, my blank spots include:

People who only appeared as presenters/guests, especially average shows with no nostalgia
Shows that aren’t drama or comedy - less likely to have DVD releases
Certain factual shows - rarely if ever repeated

Couple of other things in mind…

The group chat approved and while I was trying it on 1 stranger stopped by the rails and then another by the mirror to tell me it looked good. Bring on winter.