Godfrey's right on this one. Bet he needed a couple replacing. #CallMyBluff
Graeme LF 🇺🇦
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Slightly foxed. Lancastrian. Obscurist. Goonatic. Beatle nut. Christian. Quondam and eventual jazz pianist, I hope. Massively over-sensitive. Kiboshed by ME. Hobbies: leaning against the sideboard gasping for breath.
#CallMyBluff back on BBC Four tonight folks, at 9:45pm! Sadly the Combover Hour has thinned to 30 minutes, but we live in hope for more treats when Autumn arrives…
Simon has decided that Sibelius’ Second Symphony isn’t as cat-friendly as last night’s RVW On Wenlock Edge, and refuses to sit on my knee. I knew it was a one-off.
Simon the Bengal has decided, unusually, that I’m no threat if I’m sat outside listening to Vaughan Williams. I think he likes it.
Just think. If the film 1941 had been a hit then there could have been a Goodies movie directed by Spielberg. As Bill said, "One day we had a call from Steven Spielberg. He left a message saying he wanted to make a Goodies film. We laughed it off, but it was true." 1941 tanked, so it didn't happen
RIP Bill Oddie - major part of my formative years. Here he is back in 2019, at the last ever recording made by The Goodies, telling Dirk Maggs how to do everything. That was the most joyous night I’ve spent in a theatre for many a year.
I've always felt both Bill Oddie and Eric Idle were frustrated rock stars and if they'd had any sense should have formed a supergroup called ODDLE
Watching Shirley Valentine yet again to get me in the mood for a forthcoming holiday…and the US dub is really irritating. We’ve lost the full Scouse beauty of ‘two rabbits havin’ a shag’, amongst lots of other bits.
Just slammed the boot shut on my car and the windscreen shattered. I’m not a happy man.
Emitting the following involuntary “body noises”: *Standing up = dying manatee winched from mineshaft *Sitting down = air escaping from punctured pouffe *Bending over = concussed bison wrestled into sack *Sneezing = final roar of once-proud warrior race
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w agoWhat's your old person trait?
Gutted to hear that my old boss - Rubette, Arthur Daley imitator, incredible jazz guitarist and superb wit - has left the building. Rest easy, guv’nor. 💔
Well, that affected me less than I thought it might. Always a rugby league fan, and oh yes, cricket. [checks Eng V Ind One-Day score] [retires to garden with a beer, a nice book, and earphones playing Sibelius, where I’ll probably remain until October]
No, I went into the kitchen, and I’ve definitely got just the one.
Magnificent. That’ll be one of the last filmed sequences with the fabulous Pete McGurk, too.
filmisfabulous!@filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 3w agoDudley Moore Trio Found Film is Fabulous have catalogued the films within 2 private collections. During the examination of one 400ft reel, a scene from a missing BBC ep was discovered. It featured ‘The Dudley Moore Trio’, on the show: This is Petula Clark Broadcast: 19th Dec 67
Wigan won the rugby tonight against Warrington. Lancashire beat Yorkshire in the T20 Blast. A good football match was on. I watched two episodes of a Harlan Coben serial on Netflix because I’m married.
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