Mike Alexander
@mikealx.bsky.social
No Bad Santa? Seriously...
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
No Bad Santa? Seriously...
Haven't read those. Love the William books though. I did recently read a collection of E. Nesbitt's ghost stories. Bit of a mixed bag, but some good 'uns in there.
September 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Haven't read those. Love the William books though. I did recently read a collection of E. Nesbitt's ghost stories. Bit of a mixed bag, but some good 'uns in there.
Love Donald Barthelme's short stories - I have Forty Stories and Sixty Stories, which contain some real gems. He's the master miniaturist of the genre.
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Love Donald Barthelme's short stories - I have Forty Stories and Sixty Stories, which contain some real gems. He's the master miniaturist of the genre.
Great episode! And great choice of name for the city, of course!
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Great episode! And great choice of name for the city, of course!
Fabulous! Thanks Greg.
August 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Fabulous! Thanks Greg.
You can't just leave us on tenterhooks - we need to know which king was squashed by an elephant after prodding it with a spear! (Or were you thinking of Aurangzeb? It seems he survived, but his horse got squished.)
August 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You can't just leave us on tenterhooks - we need to know which king was squashed by an elephant after prodding it with a spear! (Or were you thinking of Aurangzeb? It seems he survived, but his horse got squished.)
If nothing else, this makes me want to read The Alexandria Quartet again...
August 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If nothing else, this makes me want to read The Alexandria Quartet again...
Bloody Danes, coming over here, painting our mini-roundabouts!
August 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Bloody Danes, coming over here, painting our mini-roundabouts!
"No one knows who they were... or... what they were doing..."
August 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"No one knows who they were... or... what they were doing..."
I'm old enough to remember when it used to be a reception problem on your analogue TV set!
August 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm old enough to remember when it used to be a reception problem on your analogue TV set!
This was a fab episode. Reassuring to know I'm not the only one who's been mixing up my Matildas all this time!
July 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This was a fab episode. Reassuring to know I'm not the only one who's been mixing up my Matildas all this time!
The elephant in the room is social care funding. My Mum's nursing fees have already gone up 10% this year due to the NI rise and increasing operating costs; now the govt wants higher-paid British care workers. Where's the money coming from?
May 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The elephant in the room is social care funding. My Mum's nursing fees have already gone up 10% this year due to the NI rise and increasing operating costs; now the govt wants higher-paid British care workers. Where's the money coming from?
Pics or it didn't happen! 🤣
May 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Pics or it didn't happen! 🤣
On a similar note, if you have no choc sauce available, I recommend breaking up a few plain chocolate digestives into small pieces and adding them to vanilla ice cream. Yum!
April 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
On a similar note, if you have no choc sauce available, I recommend breaking up a few plain chocolate digestives into small pieces and adding them to vanilla ice cream. Yum!
Enjoying this hugely (currently just past half-way through). 🙂
April 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Enjoying this hugely (currently just past half-way through). 🙂
I seem to have accidentally discovered a nautical superstition...
April 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I seem to have accidentally discovered a nautical superstition...
I once foolishly jumped in to explain to a confused Italian that the tourists were asking where the nearest shoe shop was. Mid-sentence, I had a complete mental block on the Italian for "shoe". But I was already committed. "Clothes for the feet" it was, then. I bet they ended up in a sock shop!
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I once foolishly jumped in to explain to a confused Italian that the tourists were asking where the nearest shoe shop was. Mid-sentence, I had a complete mental block on the Italian for "shoe". But I was already committed. "Clothes for the feet" it was, then. I bet they ended up in a sock shop!
Then there's "cosy catastrophe" which has been used of the likes of John Wyndham and John Christopher. I think it's a misnomer. There's nothing cosy about The Day of the Triffids or The Death of Grass.
April 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Then there's "cosy catastrophe" which has been used of the likes of John Wyndham and John Christopher. I think it's a misnomer. There's nothing cosy about The Day of the Triffids or The Death of Grass.
The "Top Secret" magnifying glass gag (with Peter Cushing) is surely one of the best visual gags in movie history!
April 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The "Top Secret" magnifying glass gag (with Peter Cushing) is surely one of the best visual gags in movie history!
So you'll be in an Abelian group? Commuting should be fine then. 😉
March 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
So you'll be in an Abelian group? Commuting should be fine then. 😉
Fab! Will you get time for the Viking ship museum, or to see some Munch paintings?
March 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Fab! Will you get time for the Viking ship museum, or to see some Munch paintings?
"No, you hang up..."
March 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"No, you hang up..."
I was thinking "they've done this one before" - then realised I was thinking of "In Our Time" (Dec 2019). In the IOT programme, if memory serves, they made a case for coffee as the fuel of the Industrial Revolution - the acceptable drug of the Protestant Work Ethic!
March 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I was thinking "they've done this one before" - then realised I was thinking of "In Our Time" (Dec 2019). In the IOT programme, if memory serves, they made a case for coffee as the fuel of the Industrial Revolution - the acceptable drug of the Protestant Work Ethic!