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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 14h

I think in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death I was too absolute about how you shouldn’t be glad someone’s been killed. I will make an exception for people who’ve raped babies.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 9d

The thing I most miss about my childhood is the voiceover informing me that one of the actors in the programme I just watched is appearing in When Did You Last See Your Trousers? in a provincial theatre

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 11d

Paint the fence!
Run the raffle
Cut the orange- it’s half time!

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16d

Friday

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 16d

Got this off the Tesco charity bookcase. Is it any good?

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 18d

Coming to Talking Pictures TV soon. I am so excited! www.oldtimereview.co.uk/who-do-you-d...

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 18d

Spectacular

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Ooh that Maine Coon next door’s no better than she should be”

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 22d

Always a pleasure to see Gary Russell's Dick in CEX

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

Worst Kim Woodburn tribute act ever

VipMrGee @vipmrgee.bsky.social · 25d

Kim Goodburn and Jeerawat Thepthut 💫

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

Blanche and Rose

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

Ahh, my dad WAS with Unigate but by the time I went with him had moved to Tom Parker

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

His biggest seller was a house number plaque with an owl on it to which he affixed the numbers while people waited. He sent one to his fave Corrie characters, Mavis & Derek, but they wrote to say it arrived broken, with a signed photo that was pinned up in our hall for years

Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

My dad used to make and sell garden ornaments at car boot sales, to which I would diligently accompany him each Sunday and vigorously browse with the £2 he gave me. The origin of the love of old junk from the 60s & 70s that dominates my life to this day.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

Anyway if you want to know more there’s a film all about it

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

Up until my mum died when I was 10 my dad was a milkman & I went with him on his round on Saturday mornings (up at 3am, break at about 8 for a Milky Lunch bar & the latest Beano for me, page 3 for my dad). The tips I got from elderly customers paid for my Dr Who video collection.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

My dad used to make and sell garden ornaments at car boot sales, to which I would diligently accompany him each Sunday and vigorously browse with the £2 he gave me. The origin of the love of old junk from the 60s & 70s that dominates my life to this day.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 25d

My dad wasn’t Robert Redford in case anyone wonders

Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 26d

My dad died this afternoon. He was the loveliest man I’ve ever known.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 26d

Watching some of the old Dr Whos I used to make him sit through on VHS when I was little. I’ve got The Daleks on - he used to absolutely piss himself at the one that gets dizzy after taking radiation drugs.

Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 26d

My dad died this afternoon. He was the loveliest man I’ve ever known.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 26d

My dad died this afternoon. He was the loveliest man I’ve ever known.

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 28d

"‘Queen Bee’ (1978) features a memorably eccentric gay witness who’s changed his name by deed poll to… Deed Poll. (‘I am an effeminate homosexual’ he dramatically announces, ‘My life is one round of wine, men and song.’)"

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thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/06/l...

Last night on YouTube: Crown Court

IVAN KIRBY celebrates a forgotten milestone in the television depiction of gay men.

thelionandunicorn.com

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Folk horror comes to Crown Court! This case from 1974 is inspired by the Lower Quinton ‘witchcraft murder’ of 1945 & written by David Pinner, whose novel Ritual inspired The Wicker Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3r...