Wendy Bradley
@wendybradley.bsky.social
The tax-and-science-fiction one.
So you have a 95 year old who wants to buy a new iphone. The nearest Apple shop is too far & not accessible. There’s a Curry’s we can get to, but no way of contacting them to see if they will have a chair for her, have stock, will update the new phone with her old details…
January 29, 2026 at 9:04 AM
So you have a 95 year old who wants to buy a new iphone. The nearest Apple shop is too far & not accessible. There’s a Curry’s we can get to, but no way of contacting them to see if they will have a chair for her, have stock, will update the new phone with her old details…
Shout out to the lovely people at the X-ray department at the Hallamshire @sth.nhs.uk who did my knee X-ray this morning and couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful.
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Shout out to the lovely people at the X-ray department at the Hallamshire @sth.nhs.uk who did my knee X-ray this morning and couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful.
#Corrie Could you *please* employ a lighting specialist who knows how to light black faces? Ronnie keeps disappearing. It’s not a new issue so shouldn’t be that big an ask. www.theguardian.com/film/2017/se...
It’s lit! How film finally learned to light black skin
In lighting, makeup and camera calibration, cinema has pandered to white skin for decades. Now, a new generation of film-makers are keen to ensure people of colour look as good on screen as they shoul...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
#Corrie Could you *please* employ a lighting specialist who knows how to light black faces? Ronnie keeps disappearing. It’s not a new issue so shouldn’t be that big an ask. www.theguardian.com/film/2017/se...
#Corriedale I’m going to want the cops to have collected some dashcam footage of Carl putting Debbie into the driver’s seat and Evil!Theo refastening Billy’s seatbelt please. And Vic just say what happened - no jury would convict! Self-defence.
January 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
#Corriedale I’m going to want the cops to have collected some dashcam footage of Carl putting Debbie into the driver’s seat and Evil!Theo refastening Billy’s seatbelt please. And Vic just say what happened - no jury would convict! Self-defence.
#Emmerdale I’m sick of this storyline now: somebody dob Ray in for goodness’ sake!
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#Emmerdale I’m sick of this storyline now: somebody dob Ray in for goodness’ sake!
#Emmerdale Hidden video camera. Edited selection of Ray’s threats onto the village group chat and simultaneously to the police. As the Duke of Wellington said, publish and be damned.
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#Emmerdale Hidden video camera. Edited selection of Ray’s threats onto the village group chat and simultaneously to the police. As the Duke of Wellington said, publish and be damned.
#Emmerdale Yay! Cain is back! Put the truth about Celia and Cain on the village group chat and assemble with pitchforks at dawn!
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
#Emmerdale Yay! Cain is back! Put the truth about Celia and Cain on the village group chat and assemble with pitchforks at dawn!
#Emmerdale Stop this - you’ve got me yelling “kill him! Just kill him” at the screen, and I don’t like feeling that way. (But Bear should kill Celia please)
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#Emmerdale Stop this - you’ve got me yelling “kill him! Just kill him” at the screen, and I don’t like feeling that way. (But Bear should kill Celia please)
Nope #Emmerdale, I’m not having it. Every righteous dude in the village needs to turn up at Celia’s farm with a baseball bat and get it sorted. (Obviously only in fiction, irl call the cops)
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Nope #Emmerdale, I’m not having it. Every righteous dude in the village needs to turn up at Celia’s farm with a baseball bat and get it sorted. (Obviously only in fiction, irl call the cops)
#Emmerdale is just too stressful right now and the sws are stretching it out too long again. Can we cut to the scene where Cain, Paddy, Marlon, Aaron, basically a full-on Emmerdale posse, invade Celia’s farm and rescue everyone please?
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#Emmerdale is just too stressful right now and the sws are stretching it out too long again. Can we cut to the scene where Cain, Paddy, Marlon, Aaron, basically a full-on Emmerdale posse, invade Celia’s farm and rescue everyone please?
Bring back Budget secrecy!!! So sick of leaking, kite-flying, briefing - are they trying to bore us to death before the Budget even starts?
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Bring back Budget secrecy!!! So sick of leaking, kite-flying, briefing - are they trying to bore us to death before the Budget even starts?
How many times? Just alter your subtitle settings so they’re on screen one tab (ten spaces) to the right, so subtitle users can see the whole score! It’s hardly rocket science.
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
How many times? Just alter your subtitle settings so they’re on screen one tab (ten spaces) to the right, so subtitle users can see the whole score! It’s hardly rocket science.
Oh come on - the Sutton Hoo replica ship has to be called Hooty McHootface, obviously!
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Oh come on - the Sutton Hoo replica ship has to be called Hooty McHootface, obviously!
Make it illegal to gamble with an offshore bookie. Let the betting companies onshore and pay their taxes or sod off.
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Make it illegal to gamble with an offshore bookie. Let the betting companies onshore and pay their taxes or sod off.
Proposition: forty per cent of soap opera plots would be solved if soap opera characters would just lock their doors.
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Proposition: forty per cent of soap opera plots would be solved if soap opera characters would just lock their doors.
#Subtitlefail Yeah. They were from “Nepal” not “nipple” thanks. #Cenotaph
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#Subtitlefail Yeah. They were from “Nepal” not “nipple” thanks. #Cenotaph
#TriggerPoint …and a nation screams as one “put your bloody gas mask back on”
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#TriggerPoint …and a nation screams as one “put your bloody gas mask back on”
My new step counter just vibrated in my pocket and told me to move about more and I am *outraged*
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My new step counter just vibrated in my pocket and told me to move about more and I am *outraged*
Boomtown Rats concert later this week: they aren’t due on stage till 9.20. 9.20???? Come on, St Sir Bob, know your audience! We’re of an age to be snoozing in front of the telly at 9.20, not pogoing! Play a matinee & you’d be sold out
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Boomtown Rats concert later this week: they aren’t due on stage till 9.20. 9.20???? Come on, St Sir Bob, know your audience! We’re of an age to be snoozing in front of the telly at 9.20, not pogoing! Play a matinee & you’d be sold out
#TheOnePerCentClub wait, how many more GLASSES you said! I got the “right” answer but I angsted over whether you were counting PAIRS of glasses as one or two. Rotten swizz.
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
#TheOnePerCentClub wait, how many more GLASSES you said! I got the “right” answer but I angsted over whether you were counting PAIRS of glasses as one or two. Rotten swizz.
#MurderBeforeEvensong 4) This isn’t the Middle Ages: churches weren’t left unlocked and empty ready for random murderers, even in 1988.
October 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
#MurderBeforeEvensong 4) This isn’t the Middle Ages: churches weren’t left unlocked and empty ready for random murderers, even in 1988.