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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, I clicked on the article with genuine interest, but then the focus on English mustard was disappointing. The "Wouldn't surprise me if they were made in the same factory" line was the sweetest sweet summer child thing I've read in years. Go Dijon, or go home.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 15h

I was in a semi-pro production of Women Beware Women at the MAC back in 1998. David Gower almost ran me over on my way to the tech. Happy days...

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 15h

Wow no, these were pretty awesome. We're taking the leftovers on a Kew Gardens picnic tomorrow. Recipe here - Mamta Gupta is officially my third nan. www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_displ...

Stuffed Green/Red Chillies With Gram Flour and Spices, In Air-frier

An ever-expanding Indian family cookbook of authentic and easy-to-follow Indian and International recipes.

www.mamtaskitchen.com

Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 16h

"Sorry I've been quiet this evening, I've been stuffing chillies tight."

"Stuffing chillie's tight what?"

"Wash your mouth out, filthy boy..."

Stuffed chillies starter that ended up after the main course of chicken chasni!

A bowl of green and red chillies stuffed with gram flour, onion, and spices, and cooked in the air fryer. So tasty. Husband points.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 20h

Honest question. What did Jared Leto ever DO to get all these headline roles in the first place?

I dimly remember him being a generic skanky villain in Panic Room, quarter of a century ago.

My basic 21st century question remains: why is Jared Leto?

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 21h

Bye bye Watkins. It's like when Thatcher died, only Tories can only scold us for in their own heads for celebrating, in case someone checks their hard drives.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23h

playing D&D for the first time and I have been discouraged from naming my character Captain Tom

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

I was *just* too young to see Wanda at the cinema, and missed it on telly, so didn't see it until lockdown with Mel. We... it passed a pleasant 90 minutes or so. I finally understood why they ribbed him so much about it in the 25th anniversary I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again special.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

I never saw Fierce Creatures becuase of an interview he did with Barry Norman, where he said he wouldn't call it a Wanda sequel because "sequels are never as good" and Norman quietly reeled off half a dozen phenomenal sequels until Cleese was visibly bristling. His thin skin was palpable.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

I think the last time I was glad to see him in something was Rat Race in 2001, so... it's been a while.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

Time well spent :)

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

If we follow the logic behind selling off council houses, I've sat in some of them so long - generally while looking at paintings of rubbish horses - that I pretty much ought to own them anyway.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

And of course the cricketing "rebel tours" - fucking shameful, but at least it got Devon Malcolm into Test cricket.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, he used to be quite local to me so I was generally well-disposed... it wore off some time ago now.

Gary Lineker on the other hand, I now wish I'd bought him a pint every time I saw him.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, even at my most cynical, the bottom line is that everyone has their price, and the AI bros can certainly afford the very best shills right now.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 4d

PG Wodehouse blurbed the first Flashman novel.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 4d

They took the meagre budget for an anniversary talking heads documentary and used it to make three episodes of new Red Dwarf. Its mere existence is magnificent.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 4d

Sure. People remember Reaper Man for the high-concept plot of Death retiring, and SQUEAK, but quite large chunks of it are railing against out-of-town shopping centres and as such have not aged particularly well purely in terms of relevance.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

It's good that the filming was done. It's an aide memoire to those of us that were lucky enough to see it, and a consolation prize to those who didn't. And its broadcast was the tin lid on "The Year David Tennant Stole Christmas".

But yeah.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

Professor Chronotis. "Undergraduates talking to each other, I expect. I've tried to have it banned..."

Pretty much anyone in Ghost Light.

Lady Peinforte: "Richard! Put that bow away, the Cybermen are here! Richard!" She was even wearing lace doilies. Case closed.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

Jilly Cooper and John Woodvine on the same day, that's shit.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no. I last saw him in David Tennant's Hamlet and at the time I assumed that would be a bit of a last hurrah for him. It was the nicest of surprises just how long he kept giving amazing performances.

I loved him as Ralph in the RSC Nicholas Nickleby.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

My first job was in an independent bookshop in the mid-90s, and Jilly Cooper and Joanna Trollope's sales kept them open through the collapse of the Net Book Agreement.

And people mostly bought the Trollopes just so they could hide the naughty Cooper covers while waiting in the queue for the till.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 6d

*racking a shotgun as i grill my daughter’s date* do you have a podcast?

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 6d

I've never seen Goonies. And it's not weird for my generation so much as my peer group, but I've only seen a handful of episodes of Blake's 7.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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