The Five O'Clock Hero #IFLOWAH

@OrkneyLibrary did you see this? x.com/DianaM_Actor/s…

Last month our #LEGO display cases were full of fabulously fictional LEGO models for our #OrkneyLibraryLego WORLD BOOK DAY theme! 📚🦸‍♂️🤖 All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thank you to everyone who made us a model! ❤️ Our next theme is AN EGG-STRAVAGANZA! 🥚

@archivetvmus71 One of my favourite episodes.

Vila's feeling lucky, but he should know by now that the house always wins ... (Blakes 7 - Gambit by Robert Holmes, tx 20th March 1979)

@Dirty_Pitchfork @mattforde Baker and Kelly?

@mattforde I don't watch talksport, so why do I recognise him?

Danny is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He’s got a tough road ahead but he’s got the character to endure it. He’s also absolutely right. If there is something wrong with you, get it checked. Don’t put it off. Catching it early can save your life. Get well soon @dannykellywords

@danlevene Sorry for your loss Dan. Hope you and yours are doing OK.

Today we buried my dad. Geoff (Z''l) was 80. A licenced London taxi driver for 50yrs. A Chelsea supporter for 70+yrs, since his first match in Dec 1954. A husband to my step-mother for 40yrs. A good man who loved London, its people and his family. May his memory be a blessing.

@JokesWithMark Always used to enjoy a curry in Glasgow. Not sure that's a good suggestion for you at the moment though...

Glasgow tonight, upper balcony available! Have a day the next day too, any top tips for what should we do? Then it’s onward to Dumfries & Hexham…

@GaryDelaney The Jokes With Mark Simmons podcast is fascinating, showing the way timing and a small change in words can make such a difference to a gag. Always great to hear how an expert does his work.

I went to see the stalactites at Cheddar Gorge. This is another of my old Apollo jokes. This one is particularly interesting though because of the tweak it to took to get it working properly. Sometimes when you write a joke you get it spot on first time that’s it, thunderbolt, it’s done. but that is unusual. More usually a joke will go through a lot of rewrites, A/B testing, pace variations, set position changes and so on. This had done all that. I had the wording nailed down, but it was still a bit too obvious. So it got a groan. During the little pause before the punchline the crowd would get ahead of me and second guess the joke turning what should’ve been a laugh into a groan. So that pause needed to go but it’s quite a long joke by my standards so what I eventually figured out (by doing lots of club sets in the 2000s) was that I needed to adjust my breathing to get this joke to work properly. It needs a deeper breath than normal before the start so you can do the whole run on in one go and hit the punchline just before the crowd do. The alternative would be to edit it down into a two part rhythm joke (ie Lowe the middle) but that would ruin its rhythm and lessen the impact of the punchline. My new tour Gary on Laughing hits the road very soon.

@SaucySeventies Joan Hickson is in that, in very much a pre-Miss Marple role!

Confessions of a Window Cleaner on the telly again tonight. It's great that these films are now readily available to view on TV. It took until 1997, over 20 years since the films were made, for Confessions to finally make its terrestrial TV debut on Channel 5.

@ThePoke x.com/Wimbledon/stat…

Surely the most WTF tennis shot you’ll see at this or any Wimbledon – so good we had to watch it 3 times to work out what happened. #WorldTennisDay #Recap thepoke.com/2025/07/03/sur…

@felicefan @TheSkyStrikers If it's any consolation, I read it as Gordon Banks and was very confused...

@TheSkyStrikers I only found that out about 3 months ago.

Forgotten fragments of football part 71110125533 This week: Sandie Shaw misses Mexico 70......

@mattforde You're using your thumbs, Matt. Try just using your fingers and you'll see what he means.

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@tennismobes @LouiseMensch @GoodwinMJ @Conservatives "shoo-in"

@LouiseMensch @GoodwinMJ @Conservatives It’s a HUGE loss for #NigelFarage and #Reform #GortonandDentonByElection Supposedly riding high in the polls it should have been a shoe in for them yet they lose by a big margin. It just shows what I’ve been saying. There will be tactical voting to keep them out Hilarious 😂

Matthew Badloss @GoodwinMJ flubs Gorton and Denton for Reform. Whether Greens or Labour prevail, presumably Greens, this shock result means Kemi Badenoch is the real winner. Reform were nailed on to win this a month ago, momentum gone. @Conservatives will be thrilled

@edintravel @scottishwater closed Forest Road before 9am today. Almost missed my train because of that.

Full details on our roadworks list which is updated every weekday afternoon... edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/down…

Road closures planned for Thurs 26 Feb: 🔹Infirmary Street for 5 days for Scottish Water; 🔹George Street (Hanover to Frederick), 12.30am - 6am for SGN; 🔹North Bridge 10pm Thurs - 6am Fri for Balfour Beatty; 🔹Watertoun Road at West Savile Terrace for BT. #edintravel

@N_landCouncil How does one apply for a grant?

💡We're giving away grants of up to £5,000 to help your community projects across Northumberland. 🎥WATCH the video to find out how Blyth Riverside Resource Centre used the funding for a solar powered battery generator. youtu.be/SJhn2bbkT-w

@dog_rates I know we're on the other side of the pond, and this isn't a vote for a dog but a human. A nice "feel good" story here... facebook.com/groups/9289596…

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

@edintravel Yes, that's the one. I've raised this with the council, and I think they've now made the one way road into two way option.

@Tfoch Hello. I guess you mean the resurfacing work not the burst water pipe at Viewforth? It's on until May. We are currently in phase 1 of 3 as far as I know, the next phase is between Leamington Terrace and Viewforth. ^J twitter.com/edintravel/sta… edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/down…

@edintravel Any idea how long the roadworks at Gilmore Place will be there? Currently can't drive out of Lower Gilmore Place (unless we take our chance down a very narrow one way street, in the wrong direction)

@edinhelp Thanks Joanne!

@Tfoch Hi, I have passed this over to the team for their attention. Thanks. Joanne.

Good Morning, Joanne here this morning to assist with enquiries 🙂

@ThePoke x.com/Acyn/status/20…

Jessica Tarlov wins Zinger of the Week for her light-speed response to Fox co-host Jesse Watters’ tale of being called Fascist in a drive-by heckling thepoke.com/2026/02/11/jes…

@Orbness Nothing like having a couple of leggy blonds watch you model...

Sunday morning. Time at the modelling desk. Keeping me company are my favourite pair, Mack and Jem!