Happy birthday, Shakespeare

Today is National Exercise Day so here’s a list of my ten favourite exercises…

1. Jogging my memory
2. Skipping a workout
3. Surfing the net
4. Jumping to conclusions
5. Skating on thin ice
6. Pushing my luck
7. Running my mouth
8. Kicking up a fuss
9. Catching forty winks
10. Throwing in the towel

In a bank just now where there was no sign to show where to begin the queue. Chaos.

‘Death star’ chandeliers and disco dancefloors: making this year’s most dazzling theatre shows On productions ranging from Les Liaisons Dangereuses to John Proctor Is the Villain, an army of technical wizards help ensure London’s stage productions are believable and spectacular

Theatre though x

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

Someone posted this in the other place. And it led me to this gorgeous Third Programme oddity. A radio play without dialogue by Andrew Sachs. In binaural sound. And inspired by a thought from Tom Stoppard ... archive.org/details/the-...

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here"

Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

A man dressed in a gold outfit, with white cotton gloves and blonde wig and wearing blusher and lipstick. A Regency Fop.

Happy World Theatre Day! As Witwoud in The Way of the World. Marvellous

Just learned that magnolias pre-date bees. They evolved at the time of the dinosaurs and have really resilient leaves because they were pollinated by beetles.

I loved being able to buy the bonus material to stream online for Season 12. I’d love that to be available for all the releases.

The second edition of 'Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914–1918' by Peter Chasseaud, a gazetteer including well over 20,000 trench names, complete with map references, is currently available on Kindle for 99p.

Great news! Film is Fabulous are doing wonderful work.

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

The whole point of Dr Who is that, if you take the second letter of each of the 59th words of all the episodes over the last twenty years of broadcast and run them together backwards, the original location of the lost city of Atlantis is revealed.

Grok wrongly claims footage of Glasgow fire shows blaze in Tel Aviv – Full Fact X’s AI chatbot also said a real photo of the fire was fake and made with AI.

After a major fire broke out in Glasgow yesterday, X users asked its AI chatbot Grok to verify imagery from the scene.

But it misidentified genuine footage as firefighters tackling a blaze in Tel Aviv - and even claimed a real photo of the fire had been made with AI.

Somehow, it’s 10 years since we filmed Outside, telling the story of Captain Scott’s tragic expedition to the South Pole. A wonderful cast and crew in Hardangervidda National Park, Norway.

First light at Salisbury, where spire, sky, and meadow meet in perfect harmony. Taken from Harnham Water Meadows, where John Constable created his masterpieces.

But when did everyone stop calling all seven episodes The Dead Planet, or is that just me?

I hope you’re all safe, buddy

Cats, though

13 February 1916 The trenches which the Liverpool Scottish had taken over were dug deep into chalky soil, making them safer than most. The chalky soil made it possible to dig deep dugouts, some of which contained w…

"Terriers have proved of considerable assistance. Trains full of dogs have been despatched to the front, and poison has been fairly effective. Lately a reward has been offered for every dead rat brought in by men in the trenches"
More from 1916 –
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The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”

* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

Magnificent reverberating echo under this railway arch

Can I bagsy Orac, please

Mine too x

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New year, new website.
Have a look. See if you’d like to hire me!

www.andrewcandish.com

Acting is mostly auditioning…

South Bank ready for NYE party animals

how all youtube ads sound to me

An actor’s job is mostly auditioning… :)
Done loads of medical roleplay for students’ exams. A great exercise in ‘reacting truthfully under imaginary circumstances’, needing a head for detail and the occasional swerve into improv. And done mostly lying down.