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Content Director @AudioAlways . Conscious uncouplings from @AbsoluteRadio , @RadioX and the mighty Xfm. What a perfect waste of time.

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Dave Masterman
7 years
Bristol City captain shakes Pep’s hand, and - during the one and only moment he may ever have with the great man - decides to ask him why he’s taken the Stone Island badge off the sleeve of his bomber jacket. Football is brilliant.
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4 years
Such a disappointing reunion episode. If you can’t get the full cast, just don’t bother.
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4 years
As a working (exhausted) father of three under 3 year-olds - and someone who has followed the guidelines to the letter in terms of getting zero external help from anyone for the last ten weeks - this latest government clusterfuck is pretty moral-sapping, to say the least.
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3 years
Just racked up a lateral flow test in the disabled toilets for my mate before heading to Courteeners. Different times.
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6 months
From Xfm to Radio X to 5 Live to BBC Sounds, to have seen out a Digital Decade with these two good friends is a genuine privilege. I’ve loved every second. Ten - More - Years! @elisjames @nomadicrevery
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4 years
Is it time to get the band back together? #SecondLockdown
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6 years
Yesterday, my wife rushed our 8-month old to the doctors, worried that her yellow complexion might be down to a kidney problem. It wasn’t. It was down to not properly wiping the carrot off her face from lunch. Learning curve.
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3 years
I feel more dejected and disappointed by the behaviour of the English fans (beating up Italians, rushing gates, trashing London etc) than I do about the result of the game. It’s pathetic, and such a shame that this behaviour overshadows a courageous performance.
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5 years
Elis James and John Robins on XFM/ @RadioX will go down in history as one of the station’s most important shows. Humour, sensitivity and tact has never been dealt with in such a wonderful way. What an honour to have played a small part in its 5-year existence 💙
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3 years
This. Is. Historeh.
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4 years
Last night twin 1 pooed on our duvet, was sick on their bedding, and then weed on the carpet. Seeing this, twin 2 was sick on her babygrow, and began weeing on the changing mat. In the panic, Hannah stubbed her toe on the bed and began to cry. An insane 20 seconds at 2.15am.
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5 years
Lads, I think @foals are back..
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1 year
💙💙💙
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2 years
Two years to the day since we all received the full value of our licence fee in one 51 second video.
@bbc5live
BBC Radio 5 Live
4 years
A young lad innocently kicks a ball towards @elisjames and @nomadicrevery as they film for #footballfocus What happens next will bring tears to the eyes Luckily, the kid is fine. Elis, on the other hand, hasn't left the depths of his own Shame Well since Saturday #elisandjohn
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3 months
This feels significant. Gold 🏆 for Moment Of The Year at the ARIAS. Couldn’t be prouder. @nomadicrevery @elisjames @audioalways
@radioacademy
The Radio Academy
3 months
🏆And the Radio Times Moment of the Year… GOLD - @nomadicrevery reveals his struggles with alcohol addiction and his journey of recovery @bbc5live SILVER - @RealKenBruce joins @greatesthitsuk BRONZE - Luton Town are promoted to the Premier League, @BBCSport3CR #UKARIAS
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5 years
💙💕
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2 years
I initially resigned this #content to the safety of the show’s Facebook page, but I’ve now had a wine, so here’s Elis running through the 5 Live weekend schedule as Dumbledore* *Elis doesn’t get Harry Potter @nomadicrevery @elisjames
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2 years
After 17 daily calls to the (useless) passport office, three interventions from helpful MPs (ta Jacob), a potential trip to Durham, and an eventual trip to L’pool less than 24 hours before flying… we have our long lost fifth and final passport.. 14 weeks after sending them off.
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4 years
The wonderful @four_four_tee specialise in stitching great footballing moments onto t-shirts. So for Elis’s 40th birthday, we asked them to commemorate the greatest sporting spectacle of all time - Elis kicking a ball at a small child. The results were perfect.
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4 years
Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄 Like everyone, for many reasons (some pictured!), I’ve found this year extremely tough, but theres’s light up ahead, it’s a certainty. As you can see, we’re really leaning into the whole Waltons Xmas vibe, and I’m absolutely loving it. 🍷
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7 years
Gonna miss this silly lot! A fun show to end my Breakfast days on @RadioX . It's been an absolute blast. x 🙅🏻‍♂️
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5 years
Plotting #content
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4 years
I’ve watched this over 50 times already.
@bbc5live
BBC Radio 5 Live
4 years
A young lad innocently kicks a ball towards @elisjames and @nomadicrevery as they film for #footballfocus What happens next will bring tears to the eyes Luckily, the kid is fine. Elis, on the other hand, hasn't left the depths of his own Shame Well since Saturday #elisandjohn
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4 years
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3 years
Macca basically thinking up Get Back on the spot (a future classic), with George and Ringo yawning their way through the whole song, is absolutely sensational viewing. This doc is bonkers. #Beatles
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5 years
LCD’s ‘All My Friends’ as the final song on @elisjames and @nomadicrevery on @Radiox - preceded by the good radio bell - has tipped me over the edge. What a wonderful ending to a fucking incredible show. 💙💙💙 I’m not crying you’re crying.
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4 years
A whole year since our @bbc5live baptism of fire. Time flies! To celebrate 12 months of terrestrial badinage, today’s show is a belter, with two SUBLIME surprise guests for El and John. Tune in now. @BBCSounds
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4 years
In a hospital waiting room, an April O’Neil has just been called for. She must have been in her late twenties, meaning her parents were fully aware of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reporter at time of birth. Astounding.
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2 years
We’re taking our three infant children on holiday tomorrow, and Hannah’s now pissing herself having noticed that I’ve packed a book in my hand luggage.
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Dave Masterman
4 years
I just told Hannah I’m going to buy a Michael Jordan Bulls vest. She said no you’re fucking not. So that’s that.
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2 years
No train out of Euston all evening. There was finally a train to Wolverhampton which I dashed to get, as it was the only train to at least go north. Anyway I can’t read and I’m off to Wolverton.
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2 years
Lyla is not a kid who sits still for long, but she’s been absolutely captivated for the last two hours - asking questions, jumping, celebrating, crying. What a night, and what an introduction to football for an impressionable four year old! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁 #ENGGER
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7 years
What. A. Fucking. Jacket. #OneLoveManchester
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3 years
I love this man.
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4 years
Playing in a busy park when our three year-old has a mini meltdown by shouting ‘I want to go to the pub!’ repeatedly. I’ve never felt proud and embarrassed at the same time before. (we are now on the way to the pub)
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10 months
Massive it is 🏆
@britpodawards
British Podcast Awards
10 months
Congratulations to this year’s winners in the #BritishPodcastAwards Entertainment category Gold : Elis James and John Robins / @elisjames / @nomadicrevery
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7 years
My last ever day at @RadioX , concluding with drinks on the roof with some absolute hammer legends. It's been an amazing 11 years.
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3 years
My boys. The boys.
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John Robins
3 years
Happy New Year everyone! Elis came to my house because he is a good man and we’re drinking pints and talking about our feelings and mortgage rates.
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3 years
We came. We saw. We rotavated.
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5 years
My nephew got his first phone today, so I thought I’d have some fun with him via text message. I think it went pretty well.
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Dave Masterman
5 years
Well this is all very exciting! May 31st can't come soon enough. The toasties are on me.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
5 years
Fridays. 1-3pm. From May 31. Got plans? Cancel them! Elis James and John Robins are joining 5 Live! @nomadicrevery and @elisjames will present an entertainment show (also released as a podcast). In summer, they will launch an additional podcast. More:
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3 years
I’m going to write a poem. Will tears rhyme with years? I couldn’t possibly say.
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Dave Masterman
4 years
I just started to talk Hannah through a pub crawl I’m planning with my London mates when all this is over, I described three pubs, and she started to cry. And this is why I’ll be with this woman for the rest of my life.
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Dave Masterman
4 years
It’s funny, at 36 years old, I still get through a bottle of wine, and think to myself ‘I feel so good right now, there’s just no way this can turn into a hangover tomorrow morning’. Mug.
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Dave Masterman
2 years
Tell me your pub doesn’t usually serve coffee without telling me your pub doesn’t usually serve coffee.
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2 years
What a night. 🐝 We go again next weekend. We do not let this slip. #allmyfriends #dancingwithdave @elisjames @nomadicrevery
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2 years
Preparation complete for this afternoon’s live show.
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5 years
Surround yourself with people you love. 💕
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4 years
Who’d have thought it’d have taken a global pandemic for me to really get to know my red wines. I now know that - for me - a cab sav is always broadly fine, but it’s the Malbecs that’s I’m really getting on with. Fuck knows what a Pinotage is.
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3 years
I think, I THINK the young lad opposite me is chatting up the girl sitting next to him by running her through his breakfast routine (‘I then get the milk out, and then choose my cereal..’) Strap in folks, but I think it might be working.
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8 years
Thanks everyone! We made it to 25k, so here's my bottom. What a time to be alive. #LoveYourBruno
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7 years
One clear glitch with the latest IOS update is that every now and then you'll be updated with a news story from the 1930s. So frustrating.
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3 years
When my wife is feeling down she apparently ‘looks at pictures of our beautiful kids’. When I need a similar pick me up I’ll check on our mesh-structured wireless internet speeds. I do sometimes wonder whether we’ll go the distance.
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5 years
Today was a bracing baptism of fire on the mighty @bbc5live with the new show (they have some very opinionated listeners, it seems!). But my lord, what fun. I already can’t wait to go again next Friday. Here’s the podcast. Enjoy! #elisandjohn
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3 years
The boy can write, I’ll give him that. Give this a read, it’s wonderful.
@nomadicrevery
John Robins
3 years
Half of every conversation is listening. let someone know they’re being heard #TimeToTalk @MindCharity
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4 years
I fear that if I compare the fear, pain and anxiety Hannah is feeling about giving birth to twins to when I ran a marathon one more time, I might soon be self-isolating in the garden.
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Dave Masterman
4 years
Happy anniversary to my first love. Proud to say we’re still together 25 years later. You’re my rock. Here’s to another 25. #blessed #soulmates
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6 years
Honoured and humbled to have picked up this bad boy last night. I head back up north with my family in the new year for a brand new adventure, so this is a perfect bookend to an incredible 10 years in London. #AudibleAPAs18
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5 years
Before I go to bed, I’ll just make sure the jumper I want to wear for my final day at @absoluteradio is clean. I sure hope my wife didn’t put it on a 40 degree wash by accident...
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3 years
Lyla’s 4th birthday party The politics of pass the parcel, the brutal repetition of Uptown Funk, face glitter that’ll appear for years, the dilemma of how much you can shout at other people’s kids (15 of them). All an incessant hum under the seventh Buck’s Fizz of the day.
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5 years
Leicester Photographer: Great! Cheers Danny, I think that’s you done. Ward: You sure? You only took one picture. Photographer: No it’ll be fine. Off you pop. #BreLei #FACup
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3 years
*RING THE GOOD PODCAST BELL* Huge congrats to @elisjames and @nomadicrevery , and a big thank you to @audioalways super producers @JessTemby and @MooresBertie , who really put in the hours with this podcast to make it the success it was. Series 3 anyone? #topsoff
@BPGPressGuild
Broadcasting Press Guild
3 years
Podcast of the Year at the #BPGAwards is… How Do You Cope?…with @elisjames and @nomadicrevery @BBCSounds @bbc5live
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3 years
Just explained the ESL to Hannah. Her response was: ‘that Martin Rashton can’t be happy with all of this.’ Took me a short while to figure out she was talking about Marcus Rashford.
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4 years
STOP THE COUNT
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5 months
I MEANT SHE’D BE IN TUNE WITH THE VIBE OF THE SHOW.
@bbc5live
BBC Radio 5 Live
5 months
Poor Producer @masterman ... We know what you were trying to say!
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Dave Masterman
4 years
A man came round to fix our drain today. I asked him how long the newly fitted piece would last for. He proudly exclaimed ‘oh you’ll be dead way before this thing packs in’. And then invoiced me for £450 + VAT. So that was nice.
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7 years
The A Team... @Pipskin 🙌🏻
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6 years
Tim Lovejoy’s face after John Robins @nomadicrevery made Sunday Brunch producers leave in a ‘risqué’ punchline from his stand-up show. Now you know what I was dealing with. Absolute renegade. #Unproducable
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2 years
Having a lovely (and rare) evening out with Hannah where we’ve decided more money absolutely would make us happier and anyone who thinks otherwise is insane. It’s soul-nourishing stuff.
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4 years
Everyone’s happy
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3 years
That was so much fun. Thanks to @elisjames and @nomadicrevery for the invite, and what a pleasure hanging out with the wonderful @Vinay_K_Joshi . X forever. #elisjohndavevin
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2 years
How the hell has Kurt Zouma been able to start a professional top flight football game tonight?
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6 years
Such is her love for her family, my wife insisted she take this picture of me and Lyla immediately. Such a caring, thoughtful person.
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7 years
What a day! Thanks for all the support. It made the whole experience unforgettable. Sub 3 was a stretch too far, but I'll take 3.11!
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7 years
Heartbroken for a city that I've always been SO proud to call home. Look after each other, Manchester. It's what you've always done best. x
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4 years
What with all the technological advances in hospital equipment over the years, it amazes me that these lidded jugs are still in heavy rotation. The amount of water I’ve spilt over the past 24 hours is laughable.
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4 years
To follow on from my former friend’s kind tweet about today’s audio disaster ( @nomadicrevery ), I thought I may as well now share with you the corrupt audio we have as a result. This will play in my nightmares for the next five years.
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4 years
In lighter news, this morning's hospital appointment wasn't a casual physio check up as assumed, but a rigorous hour-long NHS circuit class, meaning I was planking at 8.27am this morning in Barbour desert boots and a knitted jumper like an absolute whopper.
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3 years
I can’t read this right now @matt , as I’m just editing together a ten minute in-car audio package of @nomadicrevery ’s farewell voyage of his 2004 Skoda Fabia, where - in real time - he counts down to, and then applauds, its 185,600th mile.
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Matt Deegan
3 years
New newsletter post: Your Radio Station Bores Me (puts on hard hat):
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3 years
Just to conclude, one of the two protagonists found this thread whilst I was still on the train with them, so I duly apologised, alighted, sent three more DMs to apologise, and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Final thoughts. They both seemed like lovely people. Bye.
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This. Feels. Significant. All My Friends Clubnight Friday 19th July Band On The Wall Unbelievably. the Mayor of Greater Manchester on the ones and twos. 🐝 EARLY BIRD ON SALE NOW 💥
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4 years
If you’re offered something a touch indulgent this evening by a family member, friend or loved one, reply with ‘when in home!’. It goes down an absolute storm.
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3 years
Lawn maintenance, home security, the seasons, bunting, Pimms, school in the 90s.. All conversations I’ve sparked up over the last hour to distract Hannah from the fact we’re still watching Italy v Turkey. Made it to half time. She cottoned on. We’re now watching first dates.
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To the outside world I’m angry and disappointed that our daughter’s behaviour today has meant we’ve sent her to bed without a book. Inside, I’m absolutely ecstatic that I get an extra 20 minutes ‘couch and stare’ time.
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5 years
If you’re going to text me a link purporting to the death of a well-known boxer, only for the click through to take me to a man waving his willy from side to side, PLEASE don’t do it five minutes before we’re starting a show on 5 Live - the home of breaking news and sport.
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4 years
As a nation, have we ever needed anything more? Roll on Sunday
@RealBobMortimer
bob mortimer
4 years
I fall a lot when we film gone fishing. Here is one that didn't make the cut from this Sunday's brand new ep. 8:00pm BBC2
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4 years
Lyla’s big into The BFG at the moment, so she’s over the moon that I’m taking her to a magical place this afternoon with thousands of colourful dream jars stacked one on top of the other.. we’re going to majestic wine.
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1 year
Just two great guys enjoying life. #TrebleWinners
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7 years
As I turn to my wife and exclaim: 'I'm really looking forward to seeing how these cakes turn out!' My youth, as I know it, is over. #GBBO
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4 years
Incredibly, as I continue to eat everything under the sun, whilst doing fairly well with my exercises, I’m managing to get both fitter and fatter. It’s really quite impressive.
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3 years
Bloody hell. 12.30pm kick offs should be banned. Never has my GCSE drama (B) been more useful to try and persuade my wife that I’m sober.
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Dave Masterman
4 years
In addition to the radio show, we’ve now released the first of our Isolation Tapes episodes on the usual Elis James and John Robins podcast feed. To help keep spirits up, more will be released over the coming days. We do hope they help. Spread the word!
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4 years
I’m about to watch @thecourteeners at 4pm. 4pm! I’m gonna be tipsy and happy and in bed by 9. For a 35 year-old man with things to do tomorrow, is doesn’t get any better than this. God bless the matinee
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3 years
Proper Blair Witch vibes from Lyla when she gets into a sulk these days. Absolutely terrifying.
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3 years
Ensemble! 🥇⭐️ #apas21
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15 days
Wow. What a night. That was something else! Turns out the King Of The North is also the Duke Of The Dancefloor! 💥 A huge thanks to @AndyBurnhamGM for making this edition of All My Friends one of the very best yet. Until next time, Manchester! 🐝
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4 years
To avoid any further reputational damage, I feel I must point out I wasn’t actually in a Wetherspoons at 6am this morning. This is a photo from the internet. I’m at home feeding babies.
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