James Hannah.
@jameshannah.bsky.social
James Hannah is filmed before a live studio audience
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?
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.
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.
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.
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: 1920s stage direction(?) of the day.
May 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Coffee-time research: 1920s stage direction(?) of the day.
Written by Kim -- and illustrated, memorably, on the single release, by a "big big glove".
May 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Written by Kim -- and illustrated, memorably, on the single release, by a "big big glove".
Loretta Swit, delivering one of my favourite moments in all TV. I must have thought of her delivery of the line “Did you ever once ever offer me a lousy cup of coffee” once a month for thirty-five years.
May 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Loretta Swit, delivering one of my favourite moments in all TV. I must have thought of her delivery of the line “Did you ever once ever offer me a lousy cup of coffee” once a month for thirty-five years.
The most gifted researcher and writer (@susannahstapleton.bsky.social) has painstakingly pieced together a new book, but written it with such deftness, you won’t feel a thing…
It’ll be filed under True Crime, but it’s all character and community around Olive Branson’s grim demise. #ThatDarkSpring
It’ll be filed under True Crime, but it’s all character and community around Olive Branson’s grim demise. #ThatDarkSpring
April 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The most gifted researcher and writer (@susannahstapleton.bsky.social) has painstakingly pieced together a new book, but written it with such deftness, you won’t feel a thing…
It’ll be filed under True Crime, but it’s all character and community around Olive Branson’s grim demise. #ThatDarkSpring
It’ll be filed under True Crime, but it’s all character and community around Olive Branson’s grim demise. #ThatDarkSpring
10 years ago today that my debut novel came out. What brilliant people helped bring it into the world.
I think one update every 10 years on book 2 is OK. I'm 90,000 words in, and feeling very good. Finished this year -- then it's out of my hands, and hopefully into yours.
I think one update every 10 years on book 2 is OK. I'm 90,000 words in, and feeling very good. Finished this year -- then it's out of my hands, and hopefully into yours.
March 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
10 years ago today that my debut novel came out. What brilliant people helped bring it into the world.
I think one update every 10 years on book 2 is OK. I'm 90,000 words in, and feeling very good. Finished this year -- then it's out of my hands, and hopefully into yours.
I think one update every 10 years on book 2 is OK. I'm 90,000 words in, and feeling very good. Finished this year -- then it's out of my hands, and hopefully into yours.
I have searched for years to find this 1989 clip.
Football as life. We are all, from time to time, Falkirk defender Jim Holmes.
Football as life. We are all, from time to time, Falkirk defender Jim Holmes.
January 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I have searched for years to find this 1989 clip.
Football as life. We are all, from time to time, Falkirk defender Jim Holmes.
Football as life. We are all, from time to time, Falkirk defender Jim Holmes.
If this is true, I ought to be a LOT better at darts.
January 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If this is true, I ought to be a LOT better at darts.
Ten years since the first #Toblorange. What a decade it’s been.
December 28, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Ten years since the first #Toblorange. What a decade it’s been.
I had no idea! A bit of scratching-around research led me to a few photos hiding away on a flickr account I have no memory of setting up. Apparently 1st September 2007, which tallies.
November 29, 2024 at 12:48 PM
I had no idea! A bit of scratching-around research led me to a few photos hiding away on a flickr account I have no memory of setting up. Apparently 1st September 2007, which tallies.
DELETE SEARCH HISTORY
March 25, 2024 at 8:40 AM
DELETE SEARCH HISTORY
Pretty sure you won’t be beating my audiobook listening stats for October 😘💅
December 18, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Pretty sure you won’t be beating my audiobook listening stats for October 😘💅
I look at this even now, and I think, it's just too much stuff.
December 4, 2023 at 1:59 PM
I look at this even now, and I think, it's just too much stuff.
The final useable shot I got of my wife’s birthday parachute experience.
November 8, 2023 at 11:22 PM
The final useable shot I got of my wife’s birthday parachute experience.
The Gardener’s World Instagram has dared to do a feature on the best leaf blowers, and, although I despise leaf blowers just as much as the next person, I felt as if the 100% humourless indignance in the replies needed a little leavening. When are the times that *your* tribe has needed reining in?
November 1, 2023 at 9:04 AM
The Gardener’s World Instagram has dared to do a feature on the best leaf blowers, and, although I despise leaf blowers just as much as the next person, I felt as if the 100% humourless indignance in the replies needed a little leavening. When are the times that *your* tribe has needed reining in?