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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 16h

[tractor/lorry passes, carrying hay bales] Me, pointing: Hey!!!

Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/09/2026

Some really interesting replies/quotes (I'd pick Harry Lime or Steerpike out of those mentioned.) But my top choice would be the truck in 'Duel'. Which I've never got over since I saw the film as a kid

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/09/2026

Wrapping up my wife's birthday present and honestly this is set to rekindle our marriage.

A big box adorned with a massive red love heart. Inside is a cordless lawnmower.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 24/09/2026

Taken a step back from life to care for my dad, and it kills me that he can't remember his own amazing Tolkien story from the 1950s: being an office junior at Allen & Unwin when the first LOTR proofs came in, and poring over them with his colleagues in sheer wonder. What a moment, to see that first.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 23/09/2026

A Lord of the Rings cover band called McFly, You Fools

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 20/09/2026

Anyone else staying up for the Russian election results? Gonna be a real nailbiter.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 18/09/2026

Going to upgrade all my tartan, to pay my respects.

A shop sign solemnly advertising Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Tartan

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 06/09/2026

Watching Bouchier and Dunkley run between the wickets is one of the most hair-raising things in cricket.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 02/09/2026

I've bought an electric car and I'm just stupidly, stupidly excited to discover that you can plug a kettle in the back

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 02/09/2026

doctor: i’ve looked at your scans and i’m afraid it’s dancer me: you mean cancer? [from the roof we hear hoofsteps and jingling]

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is "redacted" KID: ████████ JUDGE: correct

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 29/08/2026

Sat in a pavilion watching the rain

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 26/08/2026

Guys, maybe make some time this evening to check up on your beloved celebrity neighbours

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 25/08/2026

Some terrific Dolly Parton stories being shared. I don't have one, but taking my family to Dollywood was a brilliant experience. Would heartily recommend.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom

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Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why does BBC Radio matter? 📻 Radio plays generate royalties for musicians, including non-featured artists through equitable remuneration Funding BBC Radio is one way to ensure musicians get paid for their labour ✊ Agree? 🔁 Repost to help spread the word 🔗 theMU.org/ProtectOurBBC #ProtectOurBBC

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 19/08/2026

Being swamped with scam robo-calls this morning. There's a little job for Andy Burnham.

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Talking yesterday about odd times people got angry with you online. When Right Said Fredder, conspiracy theorist and COVID denier Richard Fairbrass got hospitalised with COVID, I said “He had to wait 16 weeks for his bed because Bryan Adams was in it” and his brother threatened to “fuck me up” (1/2)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

Keeping track of the Sandringham derby online. My son appears to have bowled well. Disappointing that the Play Cricket wagon wheel doesn't include the big tree inside the boundary.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

Enjoying the athletics but a bit baffled by the throwing events. Got these incredibly fine tolerences for where to hurl it from, but basically it hits the ground then some bloke wanders over with a marker post and says 'yeah, about there'

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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

That alert was both alarming and disappointing. I thought somebody had RTed one of my posts.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

Listening to Betjeman's Banana Blush at the bedside of my very, very old and poorly dad, and I'm in bits. What an utterly magnificent record.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

Essex Police say it's my wife's turn to get the tea

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 13/08/2026

My view possibly skewed by growing up drinking in villages with ruddy faced pillar of the community kindly uncle figure type landlords

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 13/08/2026

Skipper smuggled out in the tea hamper

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Celebrating their A-Level results. The Boy Collins did particularly well, and Banks Senior and Rutherford Minor have no cause for complaint.

Picture disc copy of Genesis - "3x3". Our heroes are jumping into the air in a pastiche of the Beatles "Twist and Shout" EP cover, although in this case they've been forced into action to make an A-Level results joke.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 12/08/2026

Just a reminder that using dark glasses to watch the eclipse is woke, you should totally look directly at the sun to own the libs

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 12/08/2026

Long shot they'll arrive on time, but ordered some solar eclipse glasses from Wildberries

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 06/08/2026

Date night, and met up in Cambridge for an outdoor performance of Romeo and Juliet. My brilliant, but highly scientific -side-of-the-brain wife has just asked me what it's about.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 02/08/2026

Absolute thriller in the Women's One Day cup as Northumberland gasp over the line at Norfolk, 9 wickets down on the last ball of the 50.

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Philip Brown's wonderfully constructed photo of Neil Williams bowling in the game between Warwickshire and Essex at Edgbaston in September 1996. Here he describes the way the shot came about - espn.com/cricket/stor...

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/07/2026

Just used a system of jugs and child exploitation to lob my bathwater on the back lawn

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the 70s, there was a fad for iron-on t-shirts designs - branded images, or make-your-own kits with mixed images, letters, numbers, etc. A kid at my jnr school had a Goodies t-shirt that his mum had made with iron-on letters, but had spelled it Goodeys. He acquired the nickname Dim Brooke-Taylor.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Three was always better. Bill Oddie RIP.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 27/07/2026

Good to see much love for Bill Oddie. Without him, there's no [inserts huge, huge list of incredible comedy successors. I mean, HUGE].

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Oh, this photo of the Goodies on TotP, from the BBC's obit for Bill Oddie. Bill at the front, absolutely sincere, the rock star a part of him always knew he could be. Tim and Graybags... not so into it but fully committed to the bit, giving it everything they've got while looking beautifully silly.

The Goodies on Top of the Pops. Bill giving it everything he's got. Tim and Graybags doing backing vocals while glammed up to if not the nines, at least the sixes and sevens. As always, giving it everything they've got. Could never fault them for commitment.

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Andor the Relentless @outstack.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There was some documentary years ago pointing out that Bill Oddie wasn't some wannabe rock star - he for a brief time was one of the UK's best-selling pop composers. The Goodies were a huge part of my childhood, and the music was a massive part of the show. RIP Bill.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 21/07/2026

"It came up tails, it rhymed with sails, so I made it back to the ship." Bob Dylan's 115th dream.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 21/07/2026

Watching #TheHundred on BBC and it's basically the Blue Peter of cricket even more this time round - trendy vicar adults' idea of a show for kids.

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Paying $5 for the petting zoo just to feel something (a goat)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 20/07/2026

Advertising sales guy from 'Your Dog' magazine was trying to get hold of a colleague, leading to the office-wide tannoy announcement from our receptionist: 'James, Your Dog's on line two'

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thomas Tuchel has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing (go to a back five at half time)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 18/07/2026

Back from hols. Highlight: reaching the top at El Castell de Guadalest in an orthopedic boot and 35 deg sun. Lowlight: the lady asking in a combo of Spanish and gestures that I should look after her baby whilst she went for a swim. The baby then woke up and a seagull started going through her stuff

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