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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13h

There’s a line of mine in Dundee and Perth, including one who made a pair of shoes for Edward VII

Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13h

Delighted to discover from footling about in the archives that the gymnastics correspondent of the Dundee Courier very much fancied my great grandmother (one of Dundee’s leading gym pianistes) in the 1890s.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 1d

Interestingly: the same hotel where Martin Bashir edited the Princess Diana interview

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 1d

In the Hampshire squad next year, nailed on

Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 1d

She is still there…

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 1d

I know a London state school teacher who took an 18-day PE trip to Australia

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 2d

Mark Pougatch loses at conkers to a man with only a fraction of a conker www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 2d

I worked in Windsor covering the Harry/Megan wedding and they locked their loos to stop the public going in

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 3d

Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and Diane Keaton all going in the same year. Absolute titans of '70s cinema

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 5d

Very disappointed that Celia Imrie says “tenderhooks”.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 5d

This is possibly a new personal worst for a Diet Coke sold in a can. Benugo in St James’s Park in London. £3.25!

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 6d

If Celebrity The Traitors was made in 1978 it would involve Frank Muir, Roy Kinnear and Angharad Rees in boiler suits sitting round a big beige hexagonal table in TC7, and would be all over in 27 minutes.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 6d

Incredible scenes in The Cricket where Australia W recovered from 76/7 and now look like beating Pakistan out of sight.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

Let’s do the fucking news

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 7d

Hugh Jardon, we won’t forget your best bowling figures

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 8d

I read in 2011 that Jilly Cooper was a life-long member of the National Union of Journalists.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 9d

About Peacehaven: it was a new estate named as such in 1917 to capitalise on people’s hope that the war might end.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

"I've just had my TV mended. Well I say mended.. a shifty looking youth in plimsolls came and waggled my aerial and wolfed my gypsy creams... but that's the comprehensive system for you"

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

I watched this performance of hers whenever I needed cheering up during various Covid lockdowns. It's absolutely flawless. What an actress. youtu.be/UKTviQNM6KA...

(Official) Dame Patricia Routledge - "I Went to a Marvellous Party" by Noël Coward

YouTube video by Noël Coward

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 11d

PA: Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for TV show Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96, her agent said.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13d

I didn’t write it or produce it.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13d

“Reality often wears a Greggs apron”. This is terrific and very funny about the reality of professional sport by Surrey’s Cameron Steel.

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The Great British Service Station: County Cricket's Great Equaliser

A roadside hymn to the County Grind

substack.com

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13d

If you’re going to have three equal age strata, then the middle one begins at 28 on that basis.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13d

Every script or brief I’ve ever written about devolved policy has contained three places with alliterative names in different countries of the UK. “But minister, that’s all very well in Bournemouth, but in Belfast or Blaenau Gwent…”

Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 13d

“We love to squeeze bananas,
we love to squeeze ripe plums,
And when they are feeling sad
We love to squeeze our mums.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Force of nature' Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies aged 79

Brian Patten rose to prominence as one of the Liverpool Poets behind The Mersey Sound anthology.

www.bbc.com

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