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Daughter's new top had a small hole. Sorted by Netty Rhodes expert stitching! find chaffy

I went to a very literary birthday party last night and seated in the corner unable to chat to all the standing guests, I spotted 90 year old Michael Frayn. So on the basis that I would always regret it if I didn’t grab this opportunity, I pulled up a chair and introduced myself.

The years have been rather wibbly wobbly timey wimey, now that you mention it. 😉

I've found a little more about the black Battle of Trafalgar veteran Richard Baker - photographed at Greenwich Hospital Old Royal Naval College with his comrades nearly 50 years later - including perhaps why he joined the Navy when he did. We know he was born a slave in Baltimore in 1770

We've been rightly singing the praises of Brighton's own indie folk enchantress Bess Atwell for a number of years 🩷 She'll be joining us in the shop again on Friday for an intimate album launch show that's not to be missed! Album + entry: link.dice.fm/id73c77279a8?d…

You can be as snarky as you like but I’ve done my national service and it really really toughened me up. Back in the mid/late 1990s France allowed those with dual citizenship living abroad to do their compulsory service voluntarily. That meant you could more or less pick ..

Liberal England: For the first time in 37 years a new parliament will meet without a member of the cast of The Railway Children #films #railways #ge2024 liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/05/for-fi…

If any of these jump out in the future I'll let you know, but it made me laugh to search for Elvi Rhodes and realise she wrote romance books! Love that for them, honestly. #SaveLockwoodandCo #SkullSassOff

Modern life seems to be as much about trying to get motion-sensitive taps to recognise my hands as anything else.

I think there’s some subtext to these bushes (that’s Reading, between the lines)

Honestly say what you like about the damage Liz Truss did to the country economically, or to the Tory party psephologically, but psychologically she did wonders for everyone’s imposter syndrome didn’t she?

Recently, as part of research for several new film projects, I’ve digitised a substantial collection of BFI Southbank programmes, from the 1950s up to the present day. Full of gems and forgotten seasons, there’s a rich history I’ve found fascinating: boxd.it/u2AkG 📽️

Could you live without your smartphone? (yes, obviously) open.substack.com/pub/technology…

Bits I wish I hadn't edited out of my forthcoming autobiography #1 : " Som­etimes, when I'm feeling a little envious of my heroes, and what they achieved, I think ‘Yes, but Leonard Bernstein and Frank Zappa never got to play an hour’s live set in a Womble costume at Glastonbury”

Until tonight I was not aware that there is a popular singer called Celeste. Until tonight, 5 lovely women from Liverpool weren't aware that there is a French avant-garde post-hardcore, post-black metal band called Celeste. Sadly for them I was not the one at the wrong gig.

The End of the Pier Show series began today in 1974 on BBC 2. The show celebrates the golden age of British seaside piers with a cast that included Peter Sellers, Madeleine Smith, John Wells and Carl Davis. The show ran for just 6 episodes.

Doctor Who In Memoriam 2024 Remembering everyone we lost from Doctor Who this year. Please be nice. Ta. youtu.be/SKzqWWW763A?si… via YouTube