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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Series Two, going in. Just hope they've 'removed' the double yellow lines near Abingdon Priory in 'Weapon' 😉😋🤔

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love books. I love television. But most of all I love books about television.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you were watching 'Starve Acre' on your own and your dog drops it's favourite toy in front of you..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just spotted some idiot at the gym put a water bottle in the Pringles holder on the treadmill.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A few cracking beers with a very old friend in a proper boozer last night. #headingtonquarry #masonsarms

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

House to myself. A pot of Yorkshire tea, a plate of fig rolls and this..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first rule of Norman Collier club is that ou d ot alk ut orm Co er club.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First Horlicks of the autumn tonight. Full fat organic milk too. Get me. 😀

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'A gin & orange, a lemon squash and a scotch & water please!' Happy Birthday Fawlty Towers, 51 today.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Blue Sky hive mind. I appeal to you. Shada. The best version to watch. I have two options on my shelf. The delux sole seperate release of the steelbook or the Season 17 collection blu ray boxset. Just want the best possible experience of the story really. Ideas?

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They're showing Haircut One Hundred videos all day today on the Love channel. You can catch up on Love+1..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Struggling to sleep at the moment so tonight will try and get to sleep by humming to myself the four different versions of the 'Starsky & Hutch' theme tune. Not ready for bed quite just yet but I'm stressing as I can only remember two so far.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Top notch grub and moreish ales in this quality hostelry just outside Keswick. Very dog friendly too. Weather of biblical proportions. Cosy.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sun-dappled garden but a slight chill in the air. A real 'New Season on BBC1' feel to proceedings. 😋

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Saturday Night Horror Double Bill..😊

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Narrowly avoided a collision with a grown man on an electric scooter on the way to work earlier. He literally came from nowhere. Really? A grown man, an adult, on a scooter, I thought to myself as I drove off listening to a Dr Who television soundtrack from 1966...

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Late to the party but the tv series of 'Say Nothing' was an astonishing piece of television. Just started the book. Utterly gripping.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Daughter's watching 'Clue' as a tribute to Tim Curry. I've never seen it, it's bluddy brilliant! 😃

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

'Jesus Loves You'. A lovely phrase to hear in a church. Not so nice to hear in a Mexican prison..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Splendid day spent at HQ yesterday. The weather gods did indeed smile down upon us.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

First Dolly, now Tim Curry 😢. Turning into quite a shitter of a week isn't it?

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

'Look for this sign to show you are on the right track'

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fabulous book, highly recommended. A real page turner.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

'On The Buses' 3 films on Blu Ray? Yep. Ordered, a long time family favourite these. Sorry.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Though I'd just spotted Sigourney Weaver in an episode of 'Doc Martin' but no. That's crazy,right?

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some advice on A-Level results day. If you are applying to do a degree in oceanography you will need 7 C's..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sat in my back garden on a sultry summers evening with the drone of the Oxford Cheetahs speedway drifting over the rooftops always gives me big nostalgia vibes. Has mainly been a summer constant since back in the 70s when I'd sit in my parents garden playing with Evel Knievel. The toy obviously..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My profile says Dog Daddy to Hattie, our Fox Red Labrador, so anyway here she is. Slightly damp from a cooling dip in the Isis yesterday ( That's the Thames to non-Oxonians 😋😉)

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Daughter home. Masters at University of York almost done. Job sorted in London from October. Gone early on the 'Hallowe'en Dogs' pyjamas though. Love this!

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

To be fair Jesus always called a stone wall wide ball..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was today years old when I found out that Dana Andrews was Steve Forrests brother.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My blueprint for a potential new series. Far future sci-fi then straight back to pure historical. It can work, look at 'The Odyssey'. Educate the buggers!! 😁. 'All of Time & Space...' they said 😉

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Love the 'retro' minimalist look of the matchball in tonights Boro v Wrexham EFL Cup match. Looks almost plain white to me. Good to see. Is it a Mitre Multiplex? 😁

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I wonder if he ever did finish it..?

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

10 years ago. He wasn't on the Calvados though..😄 @andypodding.bsky.social

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My sister was a contestant on the childrens quiz show 'Starstrider' in 1984. She got to meet Roger Sloman & Sylvester McCoy. I was on 'Rolf on Saturday OK?' in 1978 and I got to meet Rolf, Dana, Wilfred Makepiece Lunn and Showaddywaddy. Who's the real winner here? 😁

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To use an oft quoted line from 'Grange Hill' "Flippin' 'eck, Alan!"

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Watched 'McVicar' tonight for the first time since 1987 maybe. Had totally forgot Ian Hendry, Brian Hall, Tony Haygarth and Ralph Watson were all in it. However, I do remember Georgina Hale baring her ass cheeks in a pinny cooking breakfast though. Funny how the mind works eh?

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'How Grand Was My Guignol' indeed. What a tome this is. Pages 203 and 206 still shit me up. From the mists of time, my original 1973 copy bought at WH Smith & Son in Cowley Centre, Oxford.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Somebody must know the postcode for central Newcastle. Anyone?

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Radio Times snippet. September 1969.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There's nothing big or clever about name-dropping. Paul McCartney told me that.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Listenting to 'Big War Movie Themes' by Geoff Love & his Orchestra. Banger after (Whizz) Banger. '633 Squadron' is utterly sublime.

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Me. The summer of 1976. Yes, that one. The summer of Action Man!!

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Gone for the '1936 Axis' choice of beers tonight..😋

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My mate and I came 4th in a 'Dr Frankenstein & Igor' themed fancy dress competition last night. Disappointing. Still, it's not the winning, it's the taking parts that counts..

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Nigel Barrett @scorbydoo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of my very earliest television memorys along with 'Sam on Boffs Island' was this utterly bizarre cartoon called 'Tomfoolery'. Very early 70s, 72/73 maybe. ATV? It was American, again unsure, and had a tall Insect type main character that basically introduced batshit type sketches and skits.

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