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Dave McKay
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Scarred for life. No compensation. 🎶
Private Flu Vaccination
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Likewise.
That time the (then) 1yo stayed in the car because there was a bear at Bridport services. (Picture shows puppet bear outside window of car, with infant child safely in car seat)
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Oh dear. Nadine's opened the eggnog.
Today's Daily Mail banner headline: "Angels ARE real — and I came face to face with one at my door just last week" (Nadine Dorries, page 17)
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Are @gralefrit.bsky.social and @dempster2000.bsky.social in cahoots? Yippee-ki-yay!
Two adjacent, contemporaneous Bluesky posts referencing that Bruce Willis film.
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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2026 has to be the year the 9yo gets his own Spotify account.
"My" Spotify Unwrapped for 2025. All of the tracks are from our 9yo's overnight listening. We have The Chess Game by John Williams from some Harry Potter film or other. Then the 2005 Doctor Who theme, arranged by Murray Gold from the Ron Grainer original. Gravity Falls theme, by Brad Breeck. Back to Doctor Who with You're A Dead Man. Murray Gold again. And finally, from Revenge of the Sith, it's John Williams and the LSO with Anakin's Betrayal.
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Why are your children in our kitchen? 🤣
A slide out kitchen drawer filled with spice jars.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The Thames television logo, with "VERY" written on it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The virtual tour has scarred me for life. The bathroom appears to have an overhead portal to Hell.
A hole in the ceiling of a dilapidated bathroon leads to what appears to be an ill-fitting roof access hatch through which orangey-red light can be seen.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Lovely to meet you!
Selfie with Matthew!
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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People really do give their children some fucking stupid names these days.
A shop receipt which states: "You were served by: Trainee".
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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You know those people? The ones with the massive poppies for Armistice Day? Get one up on them by buying and pinning a Changing Rooms designer to your lapel.
The Royal British Legion poppy shop web page. The options: Poppy Pins & Badges; Poppy Brooches; Buy a Poppy; Football Pins; Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen; Jewellery
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Bonus points if the book is That's Not My Lion.
That's Not My Lion, from the Usborne touchy-feely book range.
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I'm a bit late to the party, but it had to be done!
Lyrics from The Beatles' For No One, as a Mamdani slogan. And in her eyes, you see nothing No sign of love behind the tears Cried for no one A love that should have lasted years
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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That works for me too, though my favourite BOOK with my name in has got to be ...
A Mills & Boon novel called The Return of David McKay
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Every uhr is elf uhr.
Elf film poster.
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
Harry Robot, made, from junk, by our (then) 4yo during a lockdown home learning session. He has a biscuit box body, a painkiller box head, and various yoghurt pot/straw limbs. Two milk bottle tops stuck to his body denote his heart (red) and belly (green). He wears a silver tinfoil pie case hat, has a orange suncream bottle top nose, and raisins for eyes. We still have him today, though his raisin eyes are not the original models.
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Shot, chaser.
Guardian headline #1; 'Crisps up perfectly': the best (and worst) supermarket bacon, tasted and rated Guardian headline #2: Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Jesus. Amateur hour from Chris Mason.
A screen grab of Chris Mason's report on the Labour deputy leadership announcement. It contains a sentence which starts "Us reporters are ...".
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I'm sure the lungfish classification headings on Wikipedia are also the roll call for Trumpton fire station.
Kingdom, phylum, clade, clade, clade, class
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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There is no secret plan ...
Josh Lyman telling the press corps that there's no secret plan.
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Is Chris Mason okay? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And the SNP has been in devolved government in Scotland since before you could buy an iPhone – since May 2007.
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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It's Herbie Hocking Day! I wonder where he and Soft Bear are now?
A picture of Soft Bear, owned by five year old Herbie Hocking. Soft Bear is pictured as a light brown, medium sized plush teddy bear with nice paws and a fetchingly large nose. As quoted in The Times from today in 2009, Herbie says “I love soft bear because he is soft. Sometimes his feet turn into rocket boots – he’s really good at jumping to the moon. He won a cup for going to the moon.”
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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"Well, that's all right then ..."
In the judgment, Vargas described Not Like Us as a “cultural sensation” and said the lyrics accusing Drake of being a paedophile were “set to a catchy beat and propulsive bassline”.
October 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Glesni appears to have been dropped from the headline visuals. I don't blame her.
Three young Tory misfits.
October 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Robert Jenrick may be many things, but he's no Shari Lewis.
Bob Jenrick at the Tory conference, wielding a judge's wig like a sock puppet.
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM