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@RichardBratby youtu.be/DKVnU1tOkuE?si… This is never not funny, any time of year 🎄

Duty brings me to the Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Christmas Album and I don't think I've ever heard an artist sounding so comprehensively ill at ease. It's like when Princess Margaret appeared on The Archers. I don't think it could feel more awkward even if Edward Heath was conducting.

@lib_thinks Hippydippy! That's exactly the word I've been looking for to describe the book (although I did find the ending affecting). The play lost any subtlety and had ridiculous "Carry On Up The Globe " bits added. Film sounds dire (esp what a friend termed the Call the Midwife episode)

Ha! In the play I was mainly filled with rage at the real improbability of a mother being so neglectful of her other - female - children - obsessed with her own loss. Annoyingly hippydippy book too.

@RichardBratby @nguyenhdi I'm not a great reader but mostly enjoyed the novel, however the play was awful, boring with the "Carry On Up The Globe" interludes. Pleased to hear the film is closer to source but put off by what a friend described as its "Call the Midwife" scene. Of course now taken as gospel.

@nguyenhdi As an adaptation, it was much more faithful to the novel than was the stage version, but then I was never very convinced by the novel. It did, however, feel like a reasonably plausible evocation of the period, and the central performances carried a lot of conviction.

Off to see Hamnet: The Movie - totally sold out at the (admittedly tiny) cinema. Seems there's a vast cultural appetite for engaging with Shakespeare, as long as it doesn't involve any actual Shakespeare.

Brightlingsea Museum curator talks of its origins and her 35-year career in history ift.tt/jIaDkxK

@RichardBratby @AnnetteRubery for some reason I thought of Rusty 🤣

@daryl_millar @aardman In the end credits, one of the pictures was unmistakably of Peter Sallis in his famous role as Samuel Pepys

I enjoyed Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. But if there was a dedication to Peter Sallis, I didn't notice it. I know he died a while ago. But as this was the first full-length Wallace & Gromit project without him, there should have been a dedication @aardman.

@crossjacktar Very subtle but one of the pictures in the end credits was unmistakably Peter Sallis in his famous role as Samuel Pepys

Brilliant we loved it, but it should have had a dedication to Peter Sallis at the end.

@adydent67 Actually there was another reference in the end credits - one of the pictures was unmistakably Peter in his famous role as Samuel Pepys

I worried there was no reference in the end credits to Peter Sallis, but this makes up for it totally.

@_tcb_01 @alt_bandyroos @sainsburys @walkers_crisps 🤣 so pleased you have something to sustain you over the festive period (although if you eat them all you'll probably turn a shade of Donald Trump orange). Happy Wotsit 🎄

@_tcb_01 @alt_bandyroos @sainsburys @walkers_crisps I am desperate to know if your Wotsits were delivered?!

Come to this new thing!!

@BarnacreAlpacas Special carrot for Wexford 🥕

Signal wasn’t great at the show once it got busy ar we couldn’t post any pictures. The Team did us proud, we were in some very competitive classes and all but Wexford bought home a rosette and three bought home sashes, Nightshade, Quercus and Kreuzer 🖤🖤🤎

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I unlocked £30 Rush tickets for Kiss Me, Kate on @TodayTixUK! todaytix.com/london/shows/1…

I unlocked £29.50 Rush tickets for Hello, Dolly! on @TodayTixUK! todaytix.com/london/shows/3…

@poemanyone We usually measure things in Northern Line minutes!

Football minutes longer than London Underground minutes, I see. #football

Yay! Knighthood for #johnrutter, very well deserved!

@martgathercole This is brilliant, no mucking about with euphemistic "dog poo'! Interested to know how they enforce it?

For #SignsOnSunday no messing around in Hayfield, kerching 🐾🐶 💩💰🙄

@iolanthe Great thread, thank you!

I always tell people that the best bit of Whit Friday is the finale at Denshaw, and to go there LATE. Tonight was a great example of that - I was posting videos fairly regularly throughout the evening, but the last one I posted was at 10.54pm (24 minutes after last sign-in)...