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Godfrey's right on this one. Bet he needed a couple replacing. #CallMyBluff

Strong aviators game there, Peter. #CallMyBluff

#CallMyBluff back on BBC Four tonight folks, at 9:45pm! Sadly the Combover Hour has thinned to 30 minutes, but we live in hope for more treats when Autumn arrives…

Simon has decided that Sibelius’ Second Symphony isn’t as cat-friendly as last night’s RVW On Wenlock Edge, and refuses to sit on my knee. I knew it was a one-off.

Simon the Bengal has decided, unusually, that I’m no threat if I’m sat outside listening to Vaughan Williams. I think he likes it.

RIP Bill Oddie - major part of my formative years. Here he is back in 2019, at the last ever recording made by The Goodies, telling Dirk Maggs how to do everything. That was the most joyous night I’ve spent in a theatre for many a year.

Watching Shirley Valentine yet again to get me in the mood for a forthcoming holiday…and the US dub is really irritating. We’ve lost the full Scouse beauty of ‘two rabbits havin’ a shag’, amongst lots of other bits.

Just slammed the boot shut on my car and the windscreen shattered. I’m not a happy man.

Gutted to hear that my old boss - Rubette, Arthur Daley imitator, incredible jazz guitarist and superb wit - has left the building. Rest easy, guv’nor. 💔

Well, that affected me less than I thought it might. Always a rugby league fan, and oh yes, cricket. [checks Eng V Ind One-Day score] [retires to garden with a beer, a nice book, and earphones playing Sibelius, where I’ll probably remain until October]

Hydration break.

No, I went into the kitchen, and I’ve definitely got just the one.

Magnificent. That’ll be one of the last filmed sequences with the fabulous Pete McGurk, too.

Hydration break.

Wigan won the rugby tonight against Warrington. Lancashire beat Yorkshire in the T20 Blast. A good football match was on. I watched two episodes of a Harlan Coben serial on Netflix because I’m married.

Hydration break.