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The Witty Little Knitters
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The Witty Little Knitters
#FluidLinks Objects of desire for Christmas presents - which do you pick? 1) Missing Episode return - The Feast of Steven. 2) Sandbaggers action dolly set with 3 figures. 3) Build your own screen accurate scale model of the iconic spiral staircase some people are obsessed with. 🤷♂️
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#FluidLinks Objects of desire for Christmas presents - which do you pick? 1) Missing Episode return - The Feast of Steven. 2) Sandbaggers action dolly set with 3 figures. 3) Build your own screen accurate scale model of the iconic spiral staircase some people are obsessed with. 🤷♂️
Good advice! 👍
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Good advice! 👍
HMV are obviously more efficient than Amazon! Mine not due until Monday…🤷♂️
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
HMV are obviously more efficient than Amazon! Mine not due until Monday…🤷♂️
That’s just brilliant. Incredible how much tastes have changed in 125 years. The list of Sweets and the single bananas for sale are wonderful. 👏👏👏
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
That’s just brilliant. Incredible how much tastes have changed in 125 years. The list of Sweets and the single bananas for sale are wonderful. 👏👏👏
Typical British Council
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Typical British Council
Possibly distant cousins - Homo Cheapo
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Possibly distant cousins - Homo Cheapo
That’s gorgeous. Best I can offer is this one in Frome, Somerset. Thought it was a pub, but not so sure looking at it again. More likely I had just wandered out of a pub…
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
That’s gorgeous. Best I can offer is this one in Frome, Somerset. Thought it was a pub, but not so sure looking at it again. More likely I had just wandered out of a pub…
But did it appear in The Sandbaggers? Surely that’s the big question…
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
But did it appear in The Sandbaggers? Surely that’s the big question…
It’s Theydon Bois, on the central line heading east, that always strikes me as a bizarre name. Sounds like a character from Dickens. It took me over a decade to realise it was pronounced Theydon Boys and not said with an ‘Allo ‘Allo mock-French accent as Theydon “Bwoir”.
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It’s Theydon Bois, on the central line heading east, that always strikes me as a bizarre name. Sounds like a character from Dickens. It took me over a decade to realise it was pronounced Theydon Boys and not said with an ‘Allo ‘Allo mock-French accent as Theydon “Bwoir”.
I absolutely adore that cover. Not sure if it’s the design, the heavy black background or nostalgia for collecting Spider-Man in my 60s childhood. I’ve also got a particular affection for the Shocker’s costume, an unusual quilted brown and yellow affair. You wouldn’t get that nowadays!
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I absolutely adore that cover. Not sure if it’s the design, the heavy black background or nostalgia for collecting Spider-Man in my 60s childhood. I’ve also got a particular affection for the Shocker’s costume, an unusual quilted brown and yellow affair. You wouldn’t get that nowadays!
I could spot AI pretty easily on Zygons, as every actor seemed to have had a face lift and Botox, but wasn’t aware of it at all on Androids. As much as I have always liked Barry Letts, it also became immediately evident that Camfield was a much, much better director, as indeed was Paddy Russell.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I could spot AI pretty easily on Zygons, as every actor seemed to have had a face lift and Botox, but wasn’t aware of it at all on Androids. As much as I have always liked Barry Letts, it also became immediately evident that Camfield was a much, much better director, as indeed was Paddy Russell.
UFO follows a similar pattern, from episodes that define the format of the show at the start of the series to those that go bat-shit crazy.
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
UFO follows a similar pattern, from episodes that define the format of the show at the start of the series to those that go bat-shit crazy.
To be fair, that was precisely my reaction, and I’m sure many other people’s. Delighted that the programme isn’t “dead”! Russell can be a brilliant writer, but the last 2 seasons were even more hit and miss than usual, with both season endings feeling like heavyweight duds. 🤞🤞🤞
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To be fair, that was precisely my reaction, and I’m sure many other people’s. Delighted that the programme isn’t “dead”! Russell can be a brilliant writer, but the last 2 seasons were even more hit and miss than usual, with both season endings feeling like heavyweight duds. 🤞🤞🤞