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Stephen Farrow
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Writer, reader, grammarian, shower singer, theatre addict, news junkie, eyeball-roller. European. Powered by Vimto. Love language, hate sushi.

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Prop money from the Act One finale at ‘The Producers’.

(I was sitting in the front row, it landed in my lap.)
On the magnetic whiteboard in my kitchen, held in place by two round magnets (one yellow, one red), a fake US$100 bill marked 'FOR MOTION PICTURE USE ONLY'. (We'll gloss over the fact that it was used in a stage production rather than a film.)
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Carnaby Street, where this year it is apparently hip to be square.
Christmas lights suspended above Carnaby Street in London - huge stylised stars and Christmas crackers, made of square tubes of lights that look a bit like stickle bricks. In this picture, a pink star, and then blue, purple, and green crackers. Christmas lights suspended above Carnaby Street in London - huge stylised stars and Christmas crackers, made of square tubes of lights that look a bit like stickle bricks. In this picture, a blue cracker, a red star, and then pink, purple, and sky blue crackers. Behind the red star, the arched Carnaby Street sign.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I tend to roll my eyes when Christmas decorations appear in the first half of November, but the lights in Oxford Street are always fun.
Oxford Street in London, around 6pm today (so after dark). In the foreground, a red double-decker bus - a number 98 to Willesden - and overhead, strings of Christmas lights - rows and rows of illuminated stars - suspended across the street at about the third-floor level.
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Brain candy.
The Garrick Theatre in London, with a huge poster with the logo of their current production - a revival of ‘The Producers’ - spanning the full height of the upper level.
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Cake, because older.

(I could tell you the sprinkles were chosen ironically, but I’d be lying.)
On a white plate, a rather garish slice of sponge cake - three tiers of marbled pink/yellow sponge, layered with white icing and raspberry jam, and covered on the top and side with white icing and multicoloured hundreds and thousands.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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¡Hola, Mexico!
On a stainless steel tray, three fish tacos on greaseproof paper, plus two lime wedges, and a bowl containing tortilla chips and pico de gallo
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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For when you need to store a green goat?
A warehouse next to Putney Bridge tube station. A big sign on the side says ‘Green Goat Storage’ and there are plastic goats on the roof.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Underwhelming.

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November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Meh.
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#Worldle #1389 (10.11.2025) 2/6 (100%)

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November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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OK.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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En deux, with no yellow squares in the first line. Whoop-de-doo.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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[blank stare]

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November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Oh, fuck off.
On my TV - the BBC News channel. Nigel Farage, standing at a lectern with a 'Reform UK' banner on it. On a red band across the bottom of the screen - 'BBC News BREAKING: Nigel Farage speaks after BBC bosses resign'
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Yes. The BBC isn't perfect - no news organisation is perfect - but the Telegraph article that precipitated this row was a cynical, disingenuous hit-job.
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Flammkuchen/flammekueche/tarte flambée. Again. And this time I used a timer, so it isn’t overdone.
On a chopping board in my kitchen, a freshly-baked flammkuchen, just out of the oven. It's a pizza-like flatbread topped with sour cream, parmesan, caramelised onions, and bacon.
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"The BBC presenter Nick Robinson said on the Today programme there was a “genuine” concern regarding the broadcaster’s editorial standards and mistakes, however he said he believed there was a “political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation”."

And he's absolutely correct.
Why is the BBC expected to apologise over a Donald Trump speech edit?
Boris Johnson and White House criticise the corporation, but some journalists say criticism is part of campaign to destroy the BBC
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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No word, unfortunately, on whether he goes Bananas To The Beat.
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Banao, a banana-headed boy who loves bananas comes from Kirishima City, Kagoshima, where bananas are grown.
A mascot with a banana for a head stands on one leg in a park.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I'd forgotten how lovely this is. And Joanna Lumley's delivery of *that* line is perfect.
Joanna Lumley in Shirley Valentine
YouTube video by A Thomson
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November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A Woomba with a view?
Facebook post from Terrible Maps. A map of Australia - including Tasmania - with the town of Toowoomba marked with a black dot. Toowoomba is labelled, of course, 'Toowoomba'. The rest of Australia is coloured in yellow, and is labelled 'insufficiently Woomba'. Caption: Measuring woomba intensity across Australia
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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No, they're from Greggs.
Cartoon by Paul Noth. The Biblical era. A very large crowd - let's say five thousand people - assembled to watch Jesus deliver a sermon. In the foreground, a bearded man offering people in the crowd food from a basket of loaves and fishes. Someone in the crowd asks him, "Did Jesus create these locally?"
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Not bad.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Lucky guess.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Also quicker than I got the English one. Whoopee.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Quicker than I got the English one. Whoop-de-frigging-doo.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Meh.
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