Andrew Lane

Not since Ian Atkins's party, I think.

Could be worse; could be Shark Boy and Lavagirl.

I shall pop in, because @josephlidster.bsky.social is a lovely person.

Chicken Masseur?

It's a new safety measure - if the pilot fires the ejection seat while the canopy is down they get squished against it...

If you mean what I think you mean, that's not the canopy - that's a thrust redistribution hatch to allow vertical rather than horizontal movement.

"Syd - the invitation said fancy dress!"

I thought there was something really off with the pacing. Lots of long silences and meaningful looks.

I had to write an entire 4,000 word chapter when I could have just written, "Four difficult days later he arrived in England."

And she apparently has to pay $1bn for the privilege.

Go as a James Bond title sequence instead.

"The Oxford researchers proposed that the large spontaneous waves of brain activity that occur during deep sleep [...] might suppress the brain activity that leads to tinnitus. To test that idea, the team turned to ferrets.." (Sciencealert.com)

My go-to for any scientific questions. They know.

He also manages to get through the whole of the first movie without affecting the plot one iota.

No, but these are...

It wasn't too bad, was it?

The world is sliding towards total war, stocks are crashing, the environment is changing around us, but The Telegraph alerts us to the real problem...

There is no such thing as a bad review.

Apart from this one...

I'm an old coot. My eyes are red, but they're not scary. They just need a good sleep.

This claim is just bollocks...

He and his friends own most of them now, don't they?

Red and blue make purple. I quite like 'The Purple Blur' as a superhero name...

Told by whom? We really need some clarity on this. Unless they were told by an angel in a halo of light or a burning bush, in which case the question is probably moot.

I remember him when he looked older...

I visited the set during filming and interviewed several cast and crew. Fell in love with the lead actress, Anne Bobby. (She's on the right)

I do love the new twist that Trump has discovered: start a war, then declare victory, then claim he's stopped his xth war...

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" - a great werewolf story in which the werewolf never turns up.

A real shock. I started reading 'Flashback' recently. It will be a different book when I go back to it.

I would watch it.

It dubious whether we need a Clacton of the south.