Simon Coward
@simoncoward.bsky.social
"A good pedant" (Richard Herring)
I think the artist has pulled the London Pavilion slightly towards the corner.
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I think the artist has pulled the London Pavilion slightly towards the corner.
If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.
I often get leaflets and cards for takeaways, gardening services, guttering and roofing, estate agents, taxis etc pushed through my letterbox. I've never had anything quite like this before.
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I often get leaflets and cards for takeaways, gardening services, guttering and roofing, estate agents, taxis etc pushed through my letterbox. I've never had anything quite like this before.
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Your memory is playing tricks here, Justin. Thames and LWT were the only companies to hold out, everyone else had it in March and April 1983. Here's an example 'Regional Variations' listing from The Times for Thursday, 7 April 1983
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Your memory is playing tricks here, Justin. Thames and LWT were the only companies to hold out, everyone else had it in March and April 1983. Here's an example 'Regional Variations' listing from The Times for Thursday, 7 April 1983
It's the same on TIDAL.
September 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It's the same on TIDAL.
Jonny Lee Miller, best known for playing 'Boy with dog' in Jemima Shore Investigates.
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Jonny Lee Miller, best known for playing 'Boy with dog' in Jemima Shore Investigates.
I know I'm a bit late coming back with this, but it's likely that you know more than Google's AI too.
August 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I know I'm a bit late coming back with this, but it's likely that you know more than Google's AI too.
I'd love to know what this was all about... BBC 2, 9 January 1967.
August 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'd love to know what this was all about... BBC 2, 9 January 1967.
Yes, that's the general impression I've had. I can't continue this through the 1980s, but here's a fairly roughly-done graph of weekly average Coronation Street figures from 1977 to 1982.
August 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yes, that's the general impression I've had. I can't continue this through the 1980s, but here's a fairly roughly-done graph of weekly average Coronation Street figures from 1977 to 1982.
Here, for example, is the National Top 100 for the first episode of The Trial of a Timelord, as published in Broadcast magazine.
August 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Here, for example, is the National Top 100 for the first episode of The Trial of a Timelord, as published in Broadcast magazine.
Not on your nelly! This is my last box of my favourite fruit-flavoured tea. I'm sure it doesn't taste quite as good as it used to, but it's all I have. The 'best before end' date is April 2008. #twinings
July 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Not on your nelly! This is my last box of my favourite fruit-flavoured tea. I'm sure it doesn't taste quite as good as it used to, but it's all I have. The 'best before end' date is April 2008. #twinings
Hooray! I've finally joined the club.
I most recently saw the film in November, last year. So do I watch it again before, during, or after I read @greavesian.bsky.social's new tome?
I most recently saw the film in November, last year. So do I watch it again before, during, or after I read @greavesian.bsky.social's new tome?
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hooray! I've finally joined the club.
I most recently saw the film in November, last year. So do I watch it again before, during, or after I read @greavesian.bsky.social's new tome?
I most recently saw the film in November, last year. So do I watch it again before, during, or after I read @greavesian.bsky.social's new tome?
From Michael Richardson's "Bowler Hats and Kinky Boots: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Avengers" (Telos Publishing):
May 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
From Michael Richardson's "Bowler Hats and Kinky Boots: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Avengers" (Telos Publishing):
ATV London had shown it in the normal Sunday 7.25pm timeslot in 1966 and there must have been some hoo-hah over it because ATV midlands were due to show it at 7.30pm the following Friday, but it was replaced by the episode 'Interlude in Venice'.
May 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
ATV London had shown it in the normal Sunday 7.25pm timeslot in 1966 and there must have been some hoo-hah over it because ATV midlands were due to show it at 7.30pm the following Friday, but it was replaced by the episode 'Interlude in Venice'.
If some tiny bits of 'The Hasty Heart' ring more of a bell than the rest of it, it might be because it was from this film that the 'Saturday Live' title sequence got its clips of Ronald Reagan.
May 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If some tiny bits of 'The Hasty Heart' ring more of a bell than the rest of it, it might be because it was from this film that the 'Saturday Live' title sequence got its clips of Ronald Reagan.
This morning I've received an email from VirginMedia which tells me when something will be happening to my landline.
The date format is unusual, at least for communications to the general public, and is also in the past.
#virginmedia
The date format is unusual, at least for communications to the general public, and is also in the past.
#virginmedia
May 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This morning I've received an email from VirginMedia which tells me when something will be happening to my landline.
The date format is unusual, at least for communications to the general public, and is also in the past.
#virginmedia
The date format is unusual, at least for communications to the general public, and is also in the past.
#virginmedia
Back in Feb, I'd booked a rail ticket through the @westmidrailway.bsky.social app. The night before, I noticed that the time on the ticket was wrong, in the ticket details it was fine. An issue when a ticket for a day in BST is booked on a day where it's GMT maybe? Ticket images via email were OK.
April 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Back in Feb, I'd booked a rail ticket through the @westmidrailway.bsky.social app. The night before, I noticed that the time on the ticket was wrong, in the ticket details it was fine. An issue when a ticket for a day in BST is booked on a day where it's GMT maybe? Ticket images via email were OK.
I see that the top bit of that TVTimes cover, 'Be a Better Driver' and the accompanying artwork, is from a genuine cover - week commencing 7 June, 1975.
March 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I see that the top bit of that TVTimes cover, 'Be a Better Driver' and the accompanying artwork, is from a genuine cover - week commencing 7 June, 1975.
Quite an unusual substitution is coming from #Sainsbury's later today.
January 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Quite an unusual substitution is coming from #Sainsbury's later today.
He was also one of many Tories who encouraged the rest of us to believe Dominic Cummings' pathetic tissue of lies.
January 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
He was also one of many Tories who encouraged the rest of us to believe Dominic Cummings' pathetic tissue of lies.