Spinky’s Mama
@spinkysmama.bsky.social
Lawyer, civil servant, Londoner, Doctor Who fan, maritorious, mother of a spinky, God-botherer. Mostly doomscrolling, telly chat and terrible jokes. All views my own. She/Her.
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Spinky’s Mama
@spinkysmama.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Cis is a category of woman. Trans is a category of woman. We have overlapping and unique experiences. And we have to stand together.
Insert a movie into another movie:
A Room with a View to a Kill Bill
A Room with a View to a Kill Bill
Insert a movie into another movie:
CARRY ON HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
CARRY ON HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
Insert a movie into another movie:
WITHNAIL & I, ROBOT
WITHNAIL & I, ROBOT
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Insert a movie into another movie:
A Room with a View to a Kill Bill
A Room with a View to a Kill Bill
Gonna troll @cooraysmith.bsky.social by claiming they’re doing colourised BBC4 reedit of Whistle and I’ll Come to You and showing him this.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Gonna troll @cooraysmith.bsky.social by claiming they’re doing colourised BBC4 reedit of Whistle and I’ll Come to You and showing him this.
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... Snow! New at psychic paper, the oddly specific crossover between Haisman & Lincoln and Lennon & McCartney.
The Abominable Snowmen
“In the meadow, we can build a snowman…” In the 1980s more of Doctor Who was missing than is the case today. Not just in that nearly two dozen episodes have...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... Snow! New at psychic paper, the oddly specific crossover between Haisman & Lincoln and Lennon & McCartney.
Helping out on Kew Gardens school trip.
Not my 8yo: The greenhouse staircase is dangerous!
Me: Don’t worry, that staircase has been standing since I used it when I was your age.
Not my 8yo: So it’s all old and rusty?
Not my 8yo: The greenhouse staircase is dangerous!
Me: Don’t worry, that staircase has been standing since I used it when I was your age.
Not my 8yo: So it’s all old and rusty?
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Helping out on Kew Gardens school trip.
Not my 8yo: The greenhouse staircase is dangerous!
Me: Don’t worry, that staircase has been standing since I used it when I was your age.
Not my 8yo: So it’s all old and rusty?
Not my 8yo: The greenhouse staircase is dangerous!
Me: Don’t worry, that staircase has been standing since I used it when I was your age.
Not my 8yo: So it’s all old and rusty?
Three of these Fannys are the protagonist of Mansfield Park, and the remaining one is Cradock.
Must do better at swears 🤬
Must do better at swears 🤬
@spinkysmama.bsky.social has swears! They've used 29 profanities in their last 1,305 posts.
🥇 "fanny" (4 times)
🥈 "knob" (4 times)
🥉 "hell" (3 times)
🥇 "fanny" (4 times)
🥈 "knob" (4 times)
🥉 "hell" (3 times)
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Three of these Fannys are the protagonist of Mansfield Park, and the remaining one is Cradock.
Must do better at swears 🤬
Must do better at swears 🤬
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
TIL that Richard Dimbleby, Denis Thatcher, Francis Crick and Patrick Troughton attended the same school* at the same time and now I want to see the sitcom.
*Mill Hill School, a school in Mill Hill
*Mill Hill School, a school in Mill Hill
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
TIL that Richard Dimbleby, Denis Thatcher, Francis Crick and Patrick Troughton attended the same school* at the same time and now I want to see the sitcom.
*Mill Hill School, a school in Mill Hill
*Mill Hill School, a school in Mill Hill
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... We're on the lip of apocalypse at Psychic Paper, as we revisit Serial C. In the right order this time. For paid subscribers only, but why not become one and get access to the archive?
The Edge of Destruction
“Back from the edge. Back from the dead. Back before demons took control of my head.” The third Doctor Who serial has a writing and production history almost...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... We're on the lip of apocalypse at Psychic Paper, as we revisit Serial C. In the right order this time. For paid subscribers only, but why not become one and get access to the archive?
For when you’re looking to be demure and mindful but have to out that damned spot.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For when you’re looking to be demure and mindful but have to out that damned spot.
I would make entirely, excruciatingly faithful versions of Frankenstein and Dracula. Featuring for the first time in cinematic history:
- the goulash recipe Jonathan Harker gets for Mina Murray
- Ernest Frankenstein, the middle brother who stays well out of it and becomes a farmer
- the goulash recipe Jonathan Harker gets for Mina Murray
- Ernest Frankenstein, the middle brother who stays well out of it and becomes a farmer
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I would make entirely, excruciatingly faithful versions of Frankenstein and Dracula. Featuring for the first time in cinematic history:
- the goulash recipe Jonathan Harker gets for Mina Murray
- Ernest Frankenstein, the middle brother who stays well out of it and becomes a farmer
- the goulash recipe Jonathan Harker gets for Mina Murray
- Ernest Frankenstein, the middle brother who stays well out of it and becomes a farmer
Norman Ashby, Guy Leopold and Robin Bland walk into a pub. The barman says “Lads, I’m gonna have to see some ID.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Norman Ashby, Guy Leopold and Robin Bland walk into a pub. The barman says “Lads, I’m gonna have to see some ID.”
Harold Pinter and a bear walk into a pub.
The barman says “Why the big pause?”
The barman says “Why the big pause?”
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Harold Pinter and a bear walk into a pub.
The barman says “Why the big pause?”
The barman says “Why the big pause?”
Your crimes are without number and your villainy without end, Charlie Brown.
It can only have been created out of pure energy while the skull was restructuring Thea's brain, Charlie Brown.
You're a big man but you're out of shape, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Your crimes are without number and your villainy without end, Charlie Brown.
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
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November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
BSB - Part One: "I don't know why you say 'Goodbye' I say 'Hello'."
Interviewed for the New Jersey Network’s The Making of Doctor Who in 1988, producer John Nathan-Turner explained his wish to leave the series by saying it...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Share a Smile 😁🖤
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Share a Smile 😁🖤
If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky:
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky:
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For paid subscribers* but with a taster and a link to a free piece for the interested but uncommitted: "Where's your head at?" New @ Psychic Paper.
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* Why not become one and get full access to the archive?
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
* Why not become one and get full access to the archive?
The Brain of Morbius
“Where’s your head at? Where’s your head at? Where’s your head at? Where’s your heeeeeead at? Where’s your head at? Where’s your head at?” Doctor Who...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
For paid subscribers* but with a taster and a link to a free piece for the interested but uncommitted: "Where's your head at?" New @ Psychic Paper.
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
* Why not become one and get full access to the archive?
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
* Why not become one and get full access to the archive?
Terrible thing, vegetable envy 🍆
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Terrible thing, vegetable envy 🍆
8 yo has made this drawing at school for the past week . He says it is “a nice sunny day” but we suspect he is designing and refining the flag of the republic over which he will be dictator.
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
8 yo has made this drawing at school for the past week . He says it is “a nice sunny day” but we suspect he is designing and refining the flag of the republic over which he will be dictator.
This hasn’t exactly been my default reaction since 2010 but may as well have been.
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This hasn’t exactly been my default reaction since 2010 but may as well have been.
We celebrated my mum’s memory with her favourite things.
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We celebrated my mum’s memory with her favourite things.
Reupping this thread as today would have been my mother’s 80th birthday. If you met her, or like the sound of her, raise a glass or something that gives you joy.
With the *everything*, here’s the letter accepting my mother for her first UK medical residency, aged 20.
She wanted to develop her expertise before graduating from the University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine, one of the very few woman students there.
🧵about her and why she came here. (1/5)
She wanted to develop her expertise before graduating from the University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine, one of the very few woman students there.
🧵about her and why she came here. (1/5)
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Reupping this thread as today would have been my mother’s 80th birthday. If you met her, or like the sound of her, raise a glass or something that gives you joy.
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on psychic paper: How much Doctor Who do you have to have absorbed to count as a fan, and what's the most obscure Doctor Who story you can think of?
For paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?
For paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?
"All of Me, Loves All of You?"
Something that comes up a lot online is the idea of how much of Doctor Who you have to have engaged with (or have recall of) to legitimately call yourself a...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on psychic paper: How much Doctor Who do you have to have absorbed to count as a fan, and what's the most obscure Doctor Who story you can think of?
For paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?
For paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?
Me: So that’s 90 minute edits of stories from the first four Doctors.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
#DoctorWho In An Exciting Adventure With The Sea Devils is getting a 'special re-edited' repeat on Sunday 7th December at 7pm on BBC Four.
The 90-minute 'blockbuster special' (we just called them omnibuses in my day) will feature new sound design by Mark Ayres and additional music by Lorne Balfe.
The 90-minute 'blockbuster special' (we just called them omnibuses in my day) will feature new sound design by Mark Ayres and additional music by Lorne Balfe.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Me: So that’s 90 minute edits of stories from the first four Doctors.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.
@cooraysmith.bsky.social : Keep them going. Do one for Black Orchid. Do every scene twice.