Steve Hyett
@stevehyett.bsky.social
Storyteller, Lamplighter and Saggar-makers bottom-knocker.
Gossip Columnist for the Isle of Aran Shoemaker's Monthly.
Writes stuff. Acts a bit. Attempts to teach drama. None well.
Gossip Columnist for the Isle of Aran Shoemaker's Monthly.
Writes stuff. Acts a bit. Attempts to teach drama. None well.
Well, that's that done for another year.
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Well, that's that done for another year.
Just walked round to Iceland to pick up milk, and there are men in there, clearly sent on a last-minute errand to pick up something, who look like they've never been in a supermarket before. All with lost, bewildered looks on their little faces.
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just walked round to Iceland to pick up milk, and there are men in there, clearly sent on a last-minute errand to pick up something, who look like they've never been in a supermarket before. All with lost, bewildered looks on their little faces.
Amazed to spot that Michael Palin has a copy of the Vic Reeves Big Night In book...until I realised that he wrote the foreword.
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Amazed to spot that Michael Palin has a copy of the Vic Reeves Big Night In book...until I realised that he wrote the foreword.
Post you from a different era.
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Post you from a different era.
Looking for a new teapot online, and was struck by this rather grim proclamation.
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Looking for a new teapot online, and was struck by this rather grim proclamation.
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Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
December 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
How sad, his Road To Hell album is bloody fantastic.
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
How sad, his Road To Hell album is bloody fantastic.
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New on The Goon Show Preservation Society website, there’s the Multiple Choice Quiz and the Peter Sellers Picture Quiz which were set for our annual meeting.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Christmas Reading from the GSPS
A Very Merry Christmas to everyone from the Goon Show Preservation Society. If you’re looking to pass some time over the festive season, have a go at the quizzes which were set for this year’s annu…
goonshow.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New on The Goon Show Preservation Society website, there’s the Multiple Choice Quiz and the Peter Sellers Picture Quiz which were set for our annual meeting.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Romana...is that you? You've regenerated!
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Romana...is that you? You've regenerated!
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Christmas Ident Calendar Day 22. BBC1 asked viewers to consider themselves one of us in 2011. Stars sang the song from Lionel Bart's Oliver. Several idents including one with The Gruffalo & child. Christmas Day top 3: Downton Abbey 12.11m, EastEnders 11.33m, Doctor Who 10.77m.
December 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Christmas Ident Calendar Day 22. BBC1 asked viewers to consider themselves one of us in 2011. Stars sang the song from Lionel Bart's Oliver. Several idents including one with The Gruffalo & child. Christmas Day top 3: Downton Abbey 12.11m, EastEnders 11.33m, Doctor Who 10.77m.
Well, I quite enjoyed that, and Tovey and Redgrave were brilliant but....why did the tank split? Why did they drug Barclay and inject him? Why did he grow gills? And where did the virus come from?
Maybe I need to re-watch, I clearly missed something somewhere.
Maybe I need to re-watch, I clearly missed something somewhere.
December 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Well, I quite enjoyed that, and Tovey and Redgrave were brilliant but....why did the tank split? Why did they drug Barclay and inject him? Why did he grow gills? And where did the virus come from?
Maybe I need to re-watch, I clearly missed something somewhere.
Maybe I need to re-watch, I clearly missed something somewhere.
Nice little tribute to Lionel Jeffries in the remake of the Amazing Mr. Blunden on SKY at the moment.
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Nice little tribute to Lionel Jeffries in the remake of the Amazing Mr. Blunden on SKY at the moment.
I'm sure Chester Draws was on the bill with Arthur Askey a few times.
December 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm sure Chester Draws was on the bill with Arthur Askey a few times.
Just heard that another old work colleague has popped their clogs, that's three this year. Younger than me too. It's all a bit rubbish and no mistake. 😔
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just heard that another old work colleague has popped their clogs, that's three this year. Younger than me too. It's all a bit rubbish and no mistake. 😔
I see the Blue Origin rocket has launched again.
December 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I see the Blue Origin rocket has launched again.
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Fox reporting that all entries in the Epstein files discussing Donald and Melania Trump, other members of the Trump administration, and their friends have been blacked out of the Epstein files as released. www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Fox reporting that all entries in the Epstein files discussing Donald and Melania Trump, other members of the Trump administration, and their friends have been blacked out of the Epstein files as released. www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...
I remember seeing the Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue doing a joke about this, the punchline being 'What's she going to cook like with a chimp's knee on her.' You can make up the joke yourself. #TOTP
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I remember seeing the Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue doing a joke about this, the punchline being 'What's she going to cook like with a chimp's knee on her.' You can make up the joke yourself. #TOTP
Every charity shop in the country clearing their shelves to make way for David Walliams' books....and so soon after they had to do so for the works of Neil Gaiman.
December 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Every charity shop in the country clearing their shelves to make way for David Walliams' books....and so soon after they had to do so for the works of Neil Gaiman.
I suppose the ratty little turd will be begging GB News for a job now.
December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I suppose the ratty little turd will be begging GB News for a job now.
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What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man
