Somebody posted this insane Spotify playlist of every track on: Now 1 - 114 (1983 - 2023) Now That's What I Call Music 1 - 114 https://t.co/r6tTpI90RU
And itโs like a lifetime of cultural archaeology. I might listen to all 228 hours of it.
Currently reliving my university years.
I'm thrilled to finally be able to tell folks that this is happening. Four new specials of Modern Life Is Goodish are in pipeline.
Tickets for the recordings are out today. If you're on my mailing list, check your inbox as there's a priority link in there.
WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY was released 53 years ago today. One of the most beloved family films ever made and among the most popular works of Gene Wilder, the making of story is like entering a world of pure imaginationโฆ
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@sainsburyarch Pretty sure some of those were still in my nans' cupboards in the mid to late 80s and icing for many a fairy cake was coloured with them ๐๐
Pancake Day Acronyms
ROFL: roll or fold lovingly
FFS: for flips sake
LOL: lashings of lemon
BYOB: bring your own batter
TMI: too much indigestion
BFF: best fillings forever
LMFAO: love mine flambรฉed and orangey
AWOL: ace without leavening
IHOP: International House of Pancakes
NSA: nutella spread amply
It's Pancake Day
Yes it's Pancake Day
Yes it's P-P-P-P P-P-P-P Pancake Day!
(It is now *35 years* since Danny John-Julesโs song on Maid Marian and Her Merry Men was first aired on BBC One in 1989)
On this day in 1974, at 1.45pm - between Pebble Mill at One and Music Time - we met the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole world, for the very first time... ๐
Happy 50th Birthday Bagpuss! ๐ฅณ๐
Healthy young people please fucking stop sitting in priority seats on tubes and buses also donโt sit in the seats where the mums with buggies need to sit - and if I ask you to move so a v old man can sit down - donโt tell me to fuck off - you can fuck off - ok