☎️L is for landlines - and learning to share!

You're not a real family, unless you have a landline!

Will do 😎👍

Another long shot question but: can anyone recommend a good therapist/psychiatrist in the Bristol area - or anywhere in the UK I guess if they consult online - who specialises in OCD?

As before, genuinely asking for a friend. They have had therapy before but struggled with keeping up the CBT

Haha, thank you! I love it. Mrs Stoopalu made that and the big crow, both paper mache

Likewise!

Haha! I was tempted to tag you but thought "No, let's see..." :)

These particular boxes are 30x20x14 cm, and if you lay them landscape-wise are just the right height for standard, small format paperbacks

FFS I forgot the alt text again. Three photos of bamboo boxes, lined with books and pamphlets, stood on end on top of a chest of drawers and an IKEA bookcase

New hoarding technique unlocked: small but sturdy bamboo storage boxes on end are great for creating 'shelves' on top of things that aren't shelves. Okay, you could just stick the books there but this keeps them together, they don't flop over or fall down the back, and it looks nice dunnit

Hello, vote Green

No, but did get bussed in to be audience members in a TV debate at TVS in Southampton, in which Brian Sewell held forth on Good Vs Bad Taste and upset the woman behind me by slagging off Mercedes. "They can't even get the wheel arches right." We were disappointed that Fred Dinenage wasn't presenting

A big square bit of concrete coming out of the ground on a building site, with the shuttering still round the sides and a rectangular area in the middle

A close up

Some lovely concrete shuttering going on up the road.

Six colour photos of men heavily done up with wigs or facial hair for TV or film

Four black and white photos of men done up for film or TV with wigs and facial hair

Tempted to start a hairdressing salon so can use these in the window

Tchyuh, that's THE Wigs.

A chapter header: "10 WIGS"

Tempted to start a band called Wigs so can use this as LP cover

Photo of a bloke with absorbent cotton glued all over his face and combed down to a thin layer

Colour photo of bloke with old age makeup applied

Or either of these

A photo of a bloke with 'old age' makeup from that book I posted yesterday. He's got his hand up to his chin and is looking at the camera with a "thoughtful / perceptive" expression

Yes you may nick this for your next profile pic

Ha! Current living room table cloth. The material it's made of is a bit weird but I do love a big blousey flower pattern.

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

I do, ta!

Two page spread: a man being made up as the Cowardly Lion and another being transformed into the Mad Hatter

Two page spread: 12 photos showing "special effects makeup" being applied to a man's face, to make it look like he's been cut and bruised.

Big hardback book called FILM AND TELEVISION MAKEUP by Herman Buchman. Published by Watson Guptill, 1973. The cover is a colour photograph of a woman having eyeliner applied

Excellent lunchtime charity shop find

🐳 EPISODE 10 🐳

We're back after a week off, doing what we do best.

In this case, explaining biblical themes in Moby-Dick through daytime TV.

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Pet for robot Pearly King

William Bastard Silly

England and Wales, Census, 1851

Ha!

Unavoidable, J is on lates! Now you mention it, I reckon the inspiration for this one was me getting into a rage last night when I turned my back on a pan for 1 second and it boiled over and flooded the hob

A slide depicting chalk downland