Shifty barmaid in The Sweeney is one of my fave acting styles

Can hardly believe it but I’m going to be in ANOTHER Shakespeare! I’ve been cast as Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor at Lewes Little Theatre in July. Exciting!

Saddened the name Vic Valentine belongs to the manager of Scottish Trans & not, as it should, a comic popular in working men’s clubs circa 1971

Standing Octopus, by Ikkyu, early 19th century

#netsuke

The legendary Pat Phoenix manages to perform a sigh that sounds rather like “fucks sake” as the theme music fades in. #CoronationStreet

I think we as a society have moved past the need for the things that I personally don't like

Most of the way through this now (ghastly cover) & goodness she was a brilliant writer. You almost don’t want her to be as brilliant as she was.

The best thing ever in Modern Family was the elderly actress whose career highlight was getting the single line “He went out the back” in an episode of Kojak

Shifty barmaid in The Sweeney is one of my fave acting styles

The New Seekers’ version of Pinball Wizard/See Me Feel Me

The amount of gays out there whose fantasy this fella is

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Splargenbletg chilzactkevom nedelsendageog

It should be a reboot of Macmillan & Wife but inexplicably featuring the President of France

Working out, 117 years ago... Physical Culture, April 1907.

Today in pulp I'm looking at Physical Culture magazine - health and fitness from the early 20th Century.

Watching the ep of Coronation Street featuring Gorden Kaye in drag 💯💯💯

94 years ago today, the BBC ran out of news and aired piano music instead

If you simply compiled all the Coronation Street scenes involving Annie Walker’s attempts at social climbing you’d have one of the greatest sitcoms ever made