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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1h

But what happened next? A Hedgehog's Tales of the Slightly Unexpected #HogBore

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3h

@dalesmithonline.com And, on top of all the erudition, the book brings you gems like this...

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 23h

#RunBore 2nd half marathon of the week. You can pretend to have sponsored me if you like. There's an exhausting list of causes in my post from Monday

Running stats. A slow, overweight 58 year old with a heart defect's underwhelming numbers.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone has used the word "brocante" on our telly and I have judged them harshly.

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Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"This is Manchester, we do things differently here." We all know the quote, but where did it *really* come from - and what's it got to do with esteemed British character actor Cyril Shaps? Read on and find out... www.northernsoul.me.uk/24-hour-part...

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello all, Back In 2014 and 2016 I ran a couple of half marathons and I was planning to run a third in 2020, until the world got in the way and I was diagnosed with heart failure (before the COVID vaccine existed if you’re conspiracy minded) and needed a mechanical heart valve fitting.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had to get up early to get something out of my system and see no reason why you shouldn't suffer as well.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Laika the street dog loved the strange smelling men Who locked her away in a warm metal pen She'd fetch them a ball for a treat of sweet meat She'd had it much worse in her days on the street They'd spin her in a drum 'til she'd gag and she'd retch And cram her into a capsule with no room to stretch

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back on me novella, as always happens the decision to reshape a bit of p100 to set up the next bit has me looking at p95 where I tweak some dialogue that makes me realise there's a bit on p50 with a similar word choice that leads me to see there's about 5 pages there that could do with a polish...

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I imagine jockey/Cabbie Tony will be arguing he was stitched up in the edit in this week's 70 Up. I have to say I liked the way his comments on migration were followed by a very different take.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh good, the programme with the haunted automaton child is back on the telly.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watching a 2002 TV Burp now is a lot like being on holiday abroad and trying to make sense of one of those very long variety quiz shows in Spanish that the audience finds hilarious.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Tom Baker classic "Doctor Who and the Horror of the Anatidae".

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never surpassed. I doubt that anyone but Justin would find room for 'Here Comes Mumfie'.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The whale in Pinocchio World War 3 Not existing Poison ivy The Universe existing at all The things that lived in the clock on Vision On A recurring dream of coloured blobs moving along a white line in a black void A Public Information Film where a doll's hair gets ripped out on an escalator.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gosh, my bank card PIN number day comes 'round so regularly. It's almost like it's every year now. Never forget.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My work on #PendasFen would not have been possible without the access provided by the BBC Written Archives Centre. That is, until a major policy change in January 2025 effectively shut down independent, exploratory research. Background here: cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a...

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DEFENDING THE WAC: IS THE BBC A FIT AND PROPER KEEPER OF ITS OWN PAPER ARCHIVE? Ian Greaves on Defending the Written Archives Centre (Part 1)

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the Board of Management on 17 November 1969, it was done so with a view to history. Kenneth Lamb…

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do order, it’s a terrific book. #PendasFen

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Putting together some music for my mother's 80th. There are a lot more songs about braes than I ever knew.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is not a drill, the deeply odd identical man boys who sing duets as "I" making you worry they don't clearly differentiate which of them is which when they pronounce their love to someone in song have now lost David Tennant. Less later as we learn it.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bit odd when an Australian show does an Acknowledgement of Country caption before every episode of series 1 and then just doesn't on series 2. I'm going to assume it's something to do with the international distributors but dropping it comes over as weird.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At the theatre, on press night. Mark Lawson is here. I shall look forward to his review. If we cross paths at the urinals I shall remind him of our chats across the green baize table on Front Row and at the National Theatre. He's bound to remember.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#RunBore No, you've run 37 miles in the last 7 days.

An exciting glimpse of the top of my inner thigh. It's a bit chafed.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Alan Garner klaxon!

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Blimey, Sir Trevor kept that quiet. Less surprised about Morgan.

TV listing for Rose West & Myra Hindley: Their Untold Story with Trevor McDonald. It's followed by Serial Killer with Piers Morgan, so you know this is a classy channel.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Drivers: if you ever given a cheery honk of your horn in recognition or encouragement to someone you know running on the pavement beside a busy road, know that a) it's always indistinguishable from a threat or warning, b) it's often really alarming for runners when you're coming up from behind them,

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

29 years ago we were refitting a museum, decanting all the exhibits so the building could be redeveloped. It was quite an undertaking, long days, hard physical labour, painstaking care. In the middle of that first day someone had to find the never flown Union Flag so it could be raised to half mast.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pleased to announce I am ready for fewer films with a Winston Churchill in now.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Last night we watched Absurd Person Singular on the iPlayer. It's on your actual BBC FOUR tonight. I think Act 2 might be one of the best bits of anything ever. It's worth giving it a go, I reckon.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 30/08/2026

Happy birthday to Mrs Percy B. Shelley whose husband let her write a novel. She probably had another name I dunno.

Screenshot of the credits from a black and white film: "From the novel by MRS PERCY B. SHELLEY"

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Am watching another Crown Court. A 26 year old Wendy Padbury is playing a 14 year old. A) tellies were smaller in the mid 70s, B) we accepted it was theatrical, C) we didn't put actual kids in courtroom dramas about alleged abduction then (and not just because telly was smaller and more theatrical).

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am amazed to learn there are two songs that mention a "cucumber castle". I'm hoping it was late 1960s slang for something.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#RunBore 12 miles on the treadmill this morning, decided to accompany it with The Alexei Sayle Podcast instead of up tempo bangers. That's the kind of filthy hedonist I am.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Another iteration of a synopsis distilled from the long version of something I already have in my head. A necessary but painful process of evolution but this is the most involved back and forth I've ever had before doing any of the bit I always consider the "proper work". I've probably been spoilt.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

All the poor ITV companies that used to do half decent shows. When anyone rediscovers them or they get sold overseas they get badged BBC.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Watching a film with Ron Pember in. He's playing a bit of a weaselly Cockney fella.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Someone is out to destroy our champion high heel wearers. This must stop immediately, I refuse to only have friends left who wear clumpy boots.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We, and more particularly my spouse, have been popping in and helping a neighbour given a terminal diagnosis a few months back. Their family was a long way away but local friends rallied and gave comfort and support, rehomed their dog and dealt with the madness of emergency NHS phone lines. etc.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You will hear a lot about creating two incredibly potent songs on the same day, to even quibble it might have just have been in the same week is beneath us. I hope we'll hear even more about her philanthropy.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Watching a Crown Court written by David Fisher, starring William Gaunt, Ian Marter, Richard Wilson and Christopher Benjamin to mention a few class acts. Gaunt's been given very yellow make up that doesn't trouble his neck. Makes him look gaunt & jaundiced. Next episode Fisher may get to his ladies.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger The Hoosiests

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Last night as we sat out in a neighbour's garden, the geese were mustering for their big flight onwards. We had to put the heating on when we got back home.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

6 Music bizarrely muting the word "head" in Goo Goo Muck by The Cramps but not the "head" that "head" rhymes with a line later. I'm not sure who they're protecting here.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

James Bond wakes up in Purgatory, a bad CGI version of one of the previous dead Ms tell him he is to be given another chance, and a new face. The M morphs into another dead M, a melty faced Moneypenny leads Bond into swirling clouds, a big pop ballad comes on and ethereal ladies start dancing about.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An object believed to have been of religious significance.

A Space Hopper, one of the old orange ones with knobbly horns, a sort of dog face with whisker stubble and a gap-toothed grin like something out of The Banana Splits.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That's another 6 minutes thinking about Eleanor Bron that was absolutely worth longer.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#HogBore A hedgehog noisily wiffles its way into shot at 2:58am. It has drawn attention to itself and another hedgehog lets it know it's not wanted here.

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