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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 · 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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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 27/06/2026

Scoreboard has overheated and shut down completely. Makeshift solution.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 21/06/2026

Free beer for dads today courtesy of the Barsham Brewery, and I knew there was one reason why I had children

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 19/06/2026

Some people don't like them, but Devolo network points (running the internet signal through your home 240v wiring) transformed things for me, if budgets allow?

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 06/05/2026

Didn't like that stupid achilles tendon anyway. Overrated.

My leg in plaster, in a transparent attemp at sympathy engagement

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 04/05/2026

"FFS it's that bloke who tries to play cricket AGAIN"

The car park of the NHS Minor Injuries Unit at Cromer

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 18/04/2026

"You have..?! Yes, my name's Goodwin. M.G.P.T. Goodwin."

Shot of JR Hartley from the old Yellow Pages ads, calling round every bookshop in a manner designed to make the viewer feel increasingly sorry for the chap.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 03/04/2026

Just got my shopping delivered, thanks guys, will look after it I promise.

An ordinary-looking banana, labelled 'the UK's favourite banana'

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 06/01/2026

That reminds me - you've not been here for dinner for a while...

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/12/2025

Only one tool here and it's the guy who proof-read the box

The box of a Philips beard trimmer, boasting 'One tool, ultimate precison' (sic). 'Ultimate precison' is in bold face.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 23/11/2025

'And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas...'

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 11/11/2025

Can't remember who it was on here that pointed me towards @gailmyerscough.co.uk but thank you - just bought a couple of items from her and they are absolutely lovely pieces of design.

A notebook. On the front cover is a graphic representation of the brutalist Forton Services tower on the M6.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 25/09/2025

MASSIVE DELIGHT - the Leningrad Cowboys have reformed and are touring (under a revised name for fairly obvious reasons). Five dates in Finland, initially. One of the best live acts I've ever seen. Think their chances of making it to the King's Lynn Corn Exchange are pretty slim, but never say never.

Tour Poster for the LC Cowboys and Harlem Angels, listing five dates in Finland

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 30/08/2025

Last league day before I can relax a bit and send the odd Skeet again.

Car boot absolutely packed with cricket gear

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 17/07/2025

Motivational email from the ECB

Screenshot of the ECB's weekly recreational cricket stats email, advising me that last weekend I scored 1 run, took 0 wickets, and achieved 0 dismissals, putting me at position 109107 in the national runs ranking and 72154 in the wickets ranking. It urges me to tell my friends how I got on, and share to Facebook and Twitter (not BlueSky)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 06/07/2025

Cricket viewing over at Snettisham, watching their ladies take a 10-run victory. Thunder started just as the final ball was bowled. #excellenttiming

Ladies playing at Snettisham Cricket Club with the church in the background

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/06/2025

Final scorecard: Norfolk win by 6 wickets. norfolkcf.play-cricket.com/website/resu...

Photograph of blue skies over the cricket ground

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 17/04/2025

One of the original signed Guccis. TBH probably a bit heavy for me, but used it for years.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 08/04/2025

Hang on - *FRANK DREBIN CONNECTION KLAXON* - "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit killing cylons"

Old publicity for Battlestar Galactica, featuring Lorne Green and Lloyd Bridges, who starred in Airplane!

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/03/2025

Fair to say the trousers are on the long side.

Cricket trousers, around a foot too long

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/03/2025

New kit for Norfolk Women this year.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 27/03/2025

Gotta say I wasn't anticipating this change of direction

An ad for a show entitled Justin Time to Rock, depicting Justin Fletcher wielding a Gibson SG.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 12/03/2025

GARDEN DESIGN BLUESKY: guidance required. Does this look like: a) the lid of our old gas bbq, that my wife has cleverly upcycled into a distressed shabby-chic-type planter? b) somebody has pulled up in an uninsured Ford Transit and fly-tipped a rusty bbq over the wall into my garden?

An upturned old gas barbecue lid filled with earth, sat in the corner of my otherwise delightful garden.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 05/03/2025

Every time I open HootSuite to do something for a client, I'm reminded why social media is swamped with garbage.

A screenshot from the Hootsuite log in screen. Reads: Do more in less time with OwlyWriter AI. Generate captions and posts in seconds. OwlyWriter AI makes content creation seriously easy for busy social pros like you. Our AI tool is so simple to use, anyone can do it. Click to get started.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 17/02/2025

Seriously good-looking piece of wood for the season to come. Thanks to Luke at The Crick3t Lab, Mildenhall.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 30/01/2025

I genuinely remember nothing about this, but suspect that I was not having a great day.

A Facebook post from over a decade ago that reads: "As I said to my youngest earlier on: who HASN'T managed to get their arm stuck in a gate and then shat themselves?"

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 11/01/2025

Clearly a bit bored in the M&S bakery.

A prepackaged chocolate cake sporting a heart decoration that appears to have gone wrong.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 23/12/2024

Pies cooling. Official start of Christmas.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/12/2024

Christmas present for my dad just arrived - looks good @jonathancampion.bsky.social

Getting Out in hardback, posing on a bookshelf

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 07/12/2024

If you see this post an image you saved just because it made you laugh.

A photograph in a curry house window of Adrian Chiles being held hostage.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 03/12/2024

TV future beckons for South Korea president

Bob Mortimer reads from a card on Would I Lie to You

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 27/11/2024

It's a joke tournament, but fair do's

Cricket score: Salt is batting with Pepper

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 27/11/2024

Now listening: Queen 1 Collectors Edition, 2024 Mix Transformational remix alert! They have sorted out the drum sound! They have SORTED OUT THE DRUM SOUND! This is very exciting, and I am suddenly a little kid pretending to be Brian May again (which may be regrettable if anybody comes to the door).

Record sleeve artwork of Queen's first album

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 27/11/2024

This might not be MASSIVELY helpful, but a couple of years ago I gave my son a signed England bat...

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 23/11/2024

Just checked and Articulate for Dogs still a thing.

Google AI overview, assuring people that there is a version of the board game Articulate, for dogs.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era. I loved that SS Turbo. Which had clearly failed to make contact with the ball.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 19/11/2024

Well, if you're going to arrange a 9am breakfast meeting on a wet Tuesday then this is a pretty good choice as far as I'm concerned (most excellent scrambled eggs)

The Dabbling Duck pub in Great Massingham, Norfolk

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/11/2024

>> the same museum that they use to exhibit a particularly old peanut. I'm just gutted that it was closed when I passed by.

Smithfield, Virginia - the museum home of the world's oldest peanut.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/11/2024

Smiling at all these people who think that the US has suddenly gone all mad, when we're talking about a country that exhibits OLD HAM in a museum. (1/2)

Photo of a banner advertising the world's oldest ham as a museum exhibit in Smithfield, VA.

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