James Hannah.
@jameshannah.bsky.social
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This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find what goodies you have for me.
Door 3. It’s CHOCOLATE.
OK then: what's your most notable CHOCOLATE experience?
Mine is obviously my realisation that none of the children in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory speak to each other for the whole book.
Door 3. It’s CHOCOLATE.
OK then: what's your most notable CHOCOLATE experience?
Mine is obviously my realisation that none of the children in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory speak to each other for the whole book.
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find what goodies you have for me.
Door 3. It’s CHOCOLATE.
OK then: what's your most notable CHOCOLATE experience?
Mine is obviously my realisation that none of the children in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory speak to each other for the whole book.
Door 3. It’s CHOCOLATE.
OK then: what's your most notable CHOCOLATE experience?
Mine is obviously my realisation that none of the children in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory speak to each other for the whole book.
Hello! This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find out what goodies you have for me.
Door 2. It’s a BALL.
So: What is the best thing you have ever done with a BALL?
(Once, in deep goth phase, I scored the shootout basket for my team to win; I hated every second of their dumb celebration.)
Door 2. It’s a BALL.
So: What is the best thing you have ever done with a BALL?
(Once, in deep goth phase, I scored the shootout basket for my team to win; I hated every second of their dumb celebration.)
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hello! This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find out what goodies you have for me.
Door 2. It’s a BALL.
So: What is the best thing you have ever done with a BALL?
(Once, in deep goth phase, I scored the shootout basket for my team to win; I hated every second of their dumb celebration.)
Door 2. It’s a BALL.
So: What is the best thing you have ever done with a BALL?
(Once, in deep goth phase, I scored the shootout basket for my team to win; I hated every second of their dumb celebration.)
Hello! This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find out what goodies you have for me.
Door 1. It is a picture of an Ampersand.
OK: What are your favourite things that are joined together by an ampersand?
Door 1. It is a picture of an Ampersand.
OK: What are your favourite things that are joined together by an ampersand?
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Hello! This year, I am opening YOUR advent calendar to find out what goodies you have for me.
Door 1. It is a picture of an Ampersand.
OK: What are your favourite things that are joined together by an ampersand?
Door 1. It is a picture of an Ampersand.
OK: What are your favourite things that are joined together by an ampersand?
Reading Middlemarch for the first time. I am enjoying it. I like the very peceptive observations about internal motivations between Celia and Dorothea. What do any of you Middlemarch heads like about it?
(This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)
(This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reading Middlemarch for the first time. I am enjoying it. I like the very peceptive observations about internal motivations between Celia and Dorothea. What do any of you Middlemarch heads like about it?
(This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)
(This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)
Just laughed out loud at Terry Jones's summation of Monty Python:
"We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..."
(from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')
"We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..."
(from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just laughed out loud at Terry Jones's summation of Monty Python:
"We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..."
(from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')
"We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..."
(from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')
Grand Designs opening and closing interview shots, an occasional project.
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Grand Designs opening and closing interview shots, an occasional project.
The bathroom’s free!
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The bathroom’s free!
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…
My first festival. Look at those bands. I didn’t even set foot in the comedy tent, which would today blow my head off.
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My first festival. Look at those bands. I didn’t even set foot in the comedy tent, which would today blow my head off.
I have read both Ben Elton’s and Nigel Planer’s memoirs back-to-back, and they both mention being inspired in the 1970s by the music of, among others, Nick Drake, and while not impossible, that is also the lie I would tell.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I have read both Ben Elton’s and Nigel Planer’s memoirs back-to-back, and they both mention being inspired in the 1970s by the music of, among others, Nick Drake, and while not impossible, that is also the lie I would tell.
Reposted by James Hannah.
Guy Fawkes' signature before and after hearing Paul Shane's You've lost that loving feeling on Pebble Mill at One
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Guy Fawkes' signature before and after hearing Paul Shane's You've lost that loving feeling on Pebble Mill at One
#AtoZofTunes
Roam (B52s) Putting this in to annoy B52s gatekeepers. I'm fortunate enough to bloody love this tune and album, as well as all the previous ones, all the way back to Planet Claire, and all the way forth to Keep This Party Going. Some of it's shite, but NOT MUCH.
youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4?...
Roam (B52s) Putting this in to annoy B52s gatekeepers. I'm fortunate enough to bloody love this tune and album, as well as all the previous ones, all the way back to Planet Claire, and all the way forth to Keep This Party Going. Some of it's shite, but NOT MUCH.
youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4?...
The B-52's - Roam (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#AtoZofTunes
Roam (B52s) Putting this in to annoy B52s gatekeepers. I'm fortunate enough to bloody love this tune and album, as well as all the previous ones, all the way back to Planet Claire, and all the way forth to Keep This Party Going. Some of it's shite, but NOT MUCH.
youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4?...
Roam (B52s) Putting this in to annoy B52s gatekeepers. I'm fortunate enough to bloody love this tune and album, as well as all the previous ones, all the way back to Planet Claire, and all the way forth to Keep This Party Going. Some of it's shite, but NOT MUCH.
youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4?...
Two lessons from today:
(a) obey distance recommendations on seed packets
(b) don’t leave picking, peeling and chopping the veg until the last minute.
(a) obey distance recommendations on seed packets
(b) don’t leave picking, peeling and chopping the veg until the last minute.
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Two lessons from today:
(a) obey distance recommendations on seed packets
(b) don’t leave picking, peeling and chopping the veg until the last minute.
(a) obey distance recommendations on seed packets
(b) don’t leave picking, peeling and chopping the veg until the last minute.
Realised just now that the Literary Review’s ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award has quietly gone away. (Five years ago). The joke got old, maybe.
October 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Realised just now that the Literary Review’s ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award has quietly gone away. (Five years ago). The joke got old, maybe.
Coffee time research: I have just discovered my great great great grandmother was named Hannah Hannah.
(If you're now thinking '🎶Batmaaaan', have a word with yourself.)
(If you're now thinking '🎶Batmaaaan', have a word with yourself.)
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Coffee time research: I have just discovered my great great great grandmother was named Hannah Hannah.
(If you're now thinking '🎶Batmaaaan', have a word with yourself.)
(If you're now thinking '🎶Batmaaaan', have a word with yourself.)
Shuddering at Oliver Hardy’s This Is Your Life…
“I remember him as a very brave boy. He went into the Oconee river to save his brother Sam from drowning. He pulled him out and he gave him artificial respiration but it was too late, he’d been in the water too long.”
“Thank you, Mrs Althea Horne!”
“I remember him as a very brave boy. He went into the Oconee river to save his brother Sam from drowning. He pulled him out and he gave him artificial respiration but it was too late, he’d been in the water too long.”
“Thank you, Mrs Althea Horne!”
September 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Shuddering at Oliver Hardy’s This Is Your Life…
“I remember him as a very brave boy. He went into the Oconee river to save his brother Sam from drowning. He pulled him out and he gave him artificial respiration but it was too late, he’d been in the water too long.”
“Thank you, Mrs Althea Horne!”
“I remember him as a very brave boy. He went into the Oconee river to save his brother Sam from drowning. He pulled him out and he gave him artificial respiration but it was too late, he’d been in the water too long.”
“Thank you, Mrs Althea Horne!”
Coffee time research.
If we accept
no pain = no gain
and we cancel out the negatives, it should be:
pain = gain
But I contend that is NOT TRUE. They are selling us on a negative.
Similarly:
If you don’t show me yours = I won’t show you mine.
NOT TRUE.
🍤
If we accept
no pain = no gain
and we cancel out the negatives, it should be:
pain = gain
But I contend that is NOT TRUE. They are selling us on a negative.
Similarly:
If you don’t show me yours = I won’t show you mine.
NOT TRUE.
🍤
September 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Coffee time research.
If we accept
no pain = no gain
and we cancel out the negatives, it should be:
pain = gain
But I contend that is NOT TRUE. They are selling us on a negative.
Similarly:
If you don’t show me yours = I won’t show you mine.
NOT TRUE.
🍤
If we accept
no pain = no gain
and we cancel out the negatives, it should be:
pain = gain
But I contend that is NOT TRUE. They are selling us on a negative.
Similarly:
If you don’t show me yours = I won’t show you mine.
NOT TRUE.
🍤
“Jason Epstein at Random House has produced a telephone-directory sized tome, that makes 49,000 books available — a personalised bookstore that gives you backlist as well as current. By the mid-90s, computer owners will be able to buy everything from their home offices…”
—Tina Brown diary, Jan 1990
—Tina Brown diary, Jan 1990
September 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“Jason Epstein at Random House has produced a telephone-directory sized tome, that makes 49,000 books available — a personalised bookstore that gives you backlist as well as current. By the mid-90s, computer owners will be able to buy everything from their home offices…”
—Tina Brown diary, Jan 1990
—Tina Brown diary, Jan 1990
My wife just said “how come we run out of paracetamol so quickly?” and I said “because the parrots eat them all” and she did not find it at all funny, because she, perforce, had a really bad headache, and that joke is not all it’s cracked up to be.
September 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My wife just said “how come we run out of paracetamol so quickly?” and I said “because the parrots eat them all” and she did not find it at all funny, because she, perforce, had a really bad headache, and that joke is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Paul McCartney’s life must, on a bad day, feel like he’s Charon, just waiting for someone to come and relieve him of the oar.
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Paul McCartney’s life must, on a bad day, feel like he’s Charon, just waiting for someone to come and relieve him of the oar.
I wonder if we will start to have AI forecasts, like “And we’ve got a strong front of cancer research sweeping over from the west, slowing as it runs into the anti-vax front west of the Pennines. Still some power outages after last week’s storm of 4k Miffy meme creation, so do wrap up warm…”
a weatherman says " dont worry " on the screen
ALT: a weatherman says " dont worry " on the screen
media.tenor.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I wonder if we will start to have AI forecasts, like “And we’ve got a strong front of cancer research sweeping over from the west, slowing as it runs into the anti-vax front west of the Pennines. Still some power outages after last week’s storm of 4k Miffy meme creation, so do wrap up warm…”
Reposted by James Hannah.
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
I prefer to think of the news not as ‘relentless’, but ‘relent-free’.
August 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I prefer to think of the news not as ‘relentless’, but ‘relent-free’.
Lines that are covering throbbing plot-holes (an occasional series):
"Of course! I’d forgotten about the House of Lords! The Lords will never let the bill through!"
[Blackadder The Third, episode 1, rendering the previous 20 minutes of plot almost completely redundant]
"Of course! I’d forgotten about the House of Lords! The Lords will never let the bill through!"
[Blackadder The Third, episode 1, rendering the previous 20 minutes of plot almost completely redundant]
August 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Lines that are covering throbbing plot-holes (an occasional series):
"Of course! I’d forgotten about the House of Lords! The Lords will never let the bill through!"
[Blackadder The Third, episode 1, rendering the previous 20 minutes of plot almost completely redundant]
"Of course! I’d forgotten about the House of Lords! The Lords will never let the bill through!"
[Blackadder The Third, episode 1, rendering the previous 20 minutes of plot almost completely redundant]