I was looking at this episode today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... and it reminded me of this line and I burst out laughing

Pleased this got in

Well, impressive The Observer managed to actually get this in the paper given it ended at midnight, and nice to see something like an actual match report in this paper, but at no point does it actually mention the score

"What I want to know from the government is why aren’t there any little girls called Wendy any more? There were a lot when I grew up. Come on, John Major, what’s going on?"

Pleased with what the Word Nerds cooked up for this

Here are the answers, would be a good Pointless question I think. Well done if you got Rosalind Wilson at home

"If Archie Knox, why is Jude Bellingham?"

Here's the cast of the 1982 All Star Record Breakers in the Radio Times in early 1983 to mark sixty years of children's programmes. How many can you name?

This is just plain wrong, they go up immediately. I don't really know why this kind of thing gets printed unchallenged

This one was to coincide with Fergie's planned appearance on Parkinson but she pulled out i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QDE...

My rolling Radio Times re-read has reached the issue that illustrates the long lead times for colour printing in the early eighties

This is not the actual telly, but this is the model. We also had an ITT radio of similar vintage in the kitchen which my dad got when he worked for then

Would have preferred Westlife to have covered the B-side, tbh #totp

Like "Dyson Hoover", I suppose

Here's one of Millie so she doesn't feel left out at Mittens getting all the exposure

That first episode, though #totp

Something I will never understand on Twitter and now BlueSky is people tagging in news organisations as if they might have missed it. And yes, the post they're tagging them into is a link to an article from one of them

I know it's not the dream final, but still exciting to have written this

WE'VE BEEN MENTIONED ON TELLY

Our local Facebook group excited by the Great Bed of Ware being mentioned on HIGNFY, but the last forty years have passed them by a bit

Kids never been interested in thirty year old stuff, you say?

A million points to me for not doing a variation on "holding back the years" while writing this

An equally reputable news source

Thought I should join in before everyone's sick of the sight of it

Had a lovely afternoon today riding a vintage underground train actually underground

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... I love this Stephen Collins cartoon so much

(NB The next "season" started the following week)

Got a new mattress, can't use it though