Evri have done their usual of sending me a "proof of delivery" that is a picture of someone else's parcel outside someone else's door, with a map of someone else's address. Bizarrely, my parcel is actually at my flat when I get home.

No Google, those are not 2019 Vauxhall Vivas.

Looking forward to The Appointment (1981) with Edward Woodward, directed by Lindsey C. Vickers , tonight at 21:55 on Talking Pictures #horror

Just heard some sad news for #TheFilmCrowd. David Pinner, author of "Ritual", the novel which inspired The Wicker Man, died on Christmas Eve. He was 85.

A Happy New Year to One and All

A Merry Christmas to one and all

The Omega Factor followed by Castle of the Living Dead (aka Crypt of Horror) tonight from 21:00 on @talkingpicstv #ChristopherLee #DonaldSutherland #JamesHazeldine #LouiseJameson

Looking forward to The Omega Factor in #TheCellarClub tonight on @talkingpicstv

Peter Vaughan and Rosalie Crutchley both extraordinarily good in that. Watch it!

Now watching... The Return https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489819/

Feeling right sophisticated!

Dennis Wheatley, author of thrillers, horror stories, and works on the Occult, died this day 1977 #OTD #OnThisDay

Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula" and "The Jewel of Seven Stars" (source for the Hammer classic "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb"), born this day 1847. #OTD#OnThisDay

Frank Baker, author of "The Call of Cornwall", "Stories of the Strange and Sinister", "Talk of the Devil", and much more, died this day 1983. A recent discovery for me, despite his Cornish connexions. #OTD #OnThisDay

Watching Count Dracula with #TheFilmCrowd tonight has decided me, my next occult/horror/weird read will be Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Finished "Spores of Doom" by Aaron Worth just before it started, so will get stuck right in.

@DuncanMSussex I'm doing ok thanks, you? I wouldn't buy a crepe pan myself ( but they have them in Lidl regularly so they must sell. Tagines I think people buy after a holiday. If I ever needed chopsticks I daresay I'd possess some! But I manage OK with ordinary cutlery. I suspect the fancy Jap knives are for men who can't afford an E-Type. The article is really just advertising, not journalism. The Guardian gets a cut if you click through to buy.

@DuncanMSussex I'm British. From that list I've got tea towels (not posh French ones though, cheap British and Irish linen, half of them souvenirs), a moka pot (rarely used), a cheap kettle from Argos, and a pepper mill. Never heard of a cazuela before. I've got friends who own tagines, but the only ones who actually use them are Algerian. And anyone who spends $160 on a kitchen knife is insane. And a lot richer than most people I know.

Pretty good! I would have cut the ending even tighter. You see the girl, you hear Loomis screaming, and CUT.

Now watching... Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers

Watching Francis Durbridge's Melissa on @talkingpicstv . It's exactly the same plot as every other Francis Durbridge. That's not a criticism.