Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 05/10/2026I should have compared them side by side. I HATE the gigantic coverlines. Less is more! ALT text: first image the actual cover of the Radio Times for 10-16 October 2026. Second image a mock-up of what it would look like in the 1970s/80s style. 181
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 05/10/2026What if the new Radio Times was actually an old Radio Times? #RadioTimes #DavidTennant #DoingTime 140
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 27/09/2026He doesn't look a day over 45... back in 1969, this is what the Daily Mirror thought Prince Charles would look like when he was middle aged. 042
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 25/09/2026If you want to know why TGJones is closing stores and struggling, just look at this mess. You can't reach the top shelf, or see what is being sold. Then you can't see what is on the bottom shelf as it's hidden from view. Its USP is treated so badly. Madness #TGJones #WHSmith 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 15/09/2026The @davegorman.bsky.social look is coming to Lidl's #SpecialBuys this week. Just in time for Hallowe'en costume planning. Goodish, I think. 000
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 12/09/2026Absolutely loving the sheer bonkerness of the #LastNightOfTheProms. It's always a joyous celebration of the Proms concert season - one of the best things the licence fee gives us. 0103
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 12/09/2026Absolutely loving the sheer bonkerness of the #LastNightOfTheProms. It's always a joyous celebration of the Proms concert season - one of the best things the licence fee gives us. 0142
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 05/09/2026This jumble sale approach to merchandising of magazines in WHSmith and TGJones infuriates me. News and mags can be impulse purchases, but you need to see the covers to make a snap decision to buy. The stores have a unique proposition on the High Street and they act as if they are ashamed of it. 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 05/09/2026£1.36 for a bargain bin Mars bar in WHSmith. What was it at full price? Five squillion pounds? How I miss the WHCarpet account. 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 29/08/2026Waiting patiently for the cutlery to be laid before he can consider eating his breakfast. #caturday 060
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 17/08/2026Found my sweatshirt picture! Never met Michael Aspel. Never saw the episode. Thank goodness. 030
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 17/08/2026And my Saturday Superstore badge from when Cheggars brought the store to my home city. 030
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 17/08/2026Random aside ... I was a Child's Play child back in 1986, and I still have my badges, sweatshirt and stickers. 250
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 15/08/2026#BBCTwo is showing #Superman III tonight - the one that includes scenes filmed in #Wokingham. 220
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 14/08/2026I was going to bed early but then discovered someone had uploaded some Christmas episodes of Blue Peter to YouTube. 000
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 12/08/2026Why is Sky News showing a close-up of someone's hairy knee? #eclipse 250
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 08/08/2026Apparently it's #InternationalCatDay so here is the floof that was on the flat roof outside the bedroom window, who got down to come in through the back door so he could then race through the house and demand to be let out of said bedroom window so he could go back on the flat roof. #Caturday 050
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 01/08/2026Not long back from seeing #Spider-man #BrandNewDay. Starts off brilliantly, then starts going askew towards the end. Hated the solution to the protagonist. Many scenes go on just that little too long. No complaints about the acting, Tom Holland is an amazing Spider-man. 120
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 18/07/2026I went to Manchester and couldn't make head nor tail of the Bee Network. As a southerner who lives in a town with colour coded buses that match the routes, it's easy to be sure you're on the right bus. 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 16/07/2026Is it the Dalek Death Ray, Funny Feet or Gino Ginelli? 021
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 10/07/2026This is terribly unhelpful system. I can't log in from my phone or laptop; I can't remember the password. I can complete reset codes, try & link accounts and everything that suggests I am who I say I am, but without a log in - from the very machines I used for a/c creation - I'm stuffed. 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 05/07/2026As Sara Cox gets ready to start the Radio 2 breakfast show, I've been pondering what her @radiotimes.bsky.social cover would look like if it were printed during the 1970s/80s. Here we go - and good luck to Sara as she starts the show. Image © Radio Times. 021
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 26/06/2026I've just spotted that cashback website TopCashback is giving 10% cashback on train fares booked with TrainPal... until midnight tonight. If you don't have an account, this referral link gives you a £10 signing on bonus. www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/Phil%20C... 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 12/06/2026I see the Beeb's #worldCup budget doesn't stretch to chairs. 220
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 04/06/2026I am so sorry for the game of cat and mouse you've got to play. We were getting daily gifts, so invested in an OnlyCat cat flap. It detects contraband and locks the flap if spotted. Peaceful nights! 060
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 31/05/2026I've read The Sunday Post since I was in short trousers, even though I can't speak a word of Scottish (well, I even struggle with English). Never in a million years did I expect my fizzog to grace its pages. I'm away to sit on my bucket to celebrate. #BuyAPaper 070
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 30/05/2026Just look at what we had, and compare it to today's meagre offerings. What should have been a jewel in the PSB remit has been diminished. It's the regional output that creates viewer/listener loyalty. ALT TEXT: Pages from 1970s Radio Times, showing listings for Radio Birmingham & London 152
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 29/05/2026Just seen the #worldCup2026 sticker album - now £1.25 for a packet of stickers and to hide the total number of stickers to collect they have given each squad their own numbers. With 48 teams and 20 stickers per team = 980. If every pack contained no swaps, that is 140 packets and £175 200
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 26/05/2026Not sure how I'm going to get across this floor #DoctorWho 170
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 22/05/2026Good morning to everyone except this little floof who let himself in via the cat flap to wake me at 4am demanding breakfast and then again 20 minutes later so I would let him out. 060
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 18/05/2026This Last of the Summer Wine reboot is rather ambitious when it comes to its old men in bathtub stunts 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 17/05/2026The 60s/70s/80s #BBC logo is superior to the current one in every way. Change my mind. 030
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 07/05/2026I ❤️ these stickers! Great idea from Wokingham Borough Council for the #localelections. I wish my dentist still gave me a sticker for being a good adult. 030
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 06/05/2026Oooh! Look what's back ... rules between the columns. I predicted @radiotimes.bsky.social would reintroduce them. 000
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 05/05/2026A Mars bar used to be 63g. Its now 40g. Not only has it lost weight it has lost width, so it feels slender in the hand. This is the worst kind of #shrinkflation - its not a Mars bar, it's a bite. 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 04/05/2026Today is #StarWarsDay, and I like to think of this inspirational quote from Yoda Bear: "Smarter than the average Jedi, I am. Picnic baskets, steal you must not… unless really hungry, hmm?" 010
Phil Creighton @philcreighton.uk · 26/04/2026A rare treat for me this morning! Reading @sundaypost.com in Scotland, rather than reading in Reading. Which is the place I'm heading. 010