Time Off Info Dump

 

Tuesday 6 January 2026 -

Some songs for next week’s Toppermost recording. 

Songs for a When They Was Fab recording later. 

Film - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. NETFLIX

Recorded When They Was Fab

Wednesday 7 January 2026 - 

Your Friend The Rat on Disney Plus. 

Better Call Saul season 4 episode 9 ‘Wiedersehen’ (I’ve not watched this for years, and hope that I can remember what was happening. (Netflix)

The Librarian: Quest For The Spear on Pluto, starring Noah Wyle, Kyle McLaughlin and Kelly Hu. (Amazon Prime). 


Wednesday 14 January 2026 - 

Inside The Factory - two recent episode from series 10 ‘Jammy Biscuits’, and ‘Oven Chips’ on BBC iPlayer. 

Amanda And Alan’s Spanish Job series 1 episodes 1, 2 and 3 on BBC iPlayer. 

Man Vs Baby episodes 1,2, 3, and 4 on Netflix. 

Thursday 15 January 2026 - 

Radio, blogging, listening. 

Amanda and Alan’s Spanish Job series 1 episodes 4 and 5 on BBC iPlayer. 

Recorded Toppermost of the Poppermost January 1966 sides B and D from 9:45pm to 1am. 


Friday 16 January 2026 - 

Amanda and Alan’s Spanish Job series 1 episodes 6 and 7 on BBC iPlayer. 

Back at work. 

Tuesday 20 January 2026 - 

Amanda and Alan’s Spanish Christmas on BBC iPlayer. 

Amanda and Alan’s Italian Job series 1 episodes 1-5 on BBC iPlayer. 

Recorded an episode of When They Was Fab. 

Wednesday 21 January 2026 - 

Moving things around and working on house stuff. 

Amanda and Alan’s Italian Job series 1 episodes 6, 7, and 8 on BBC iPlayer. 

Guested on Trimming The Musical Fat. 

Amanda and Alan’s Italian Job series 2 episodes 1 and 2 on BBC iPlayer. 

Watched the film The Picture of Dorian Grey (again), starring Ben Barnes on Amazon Prime. The first time we saw this version was at a cinema in Newark on Trent, when we literally a few minutes walk away. 


Tuesday 27 January - 

Toppermost January 1966 Side C recorded. 

Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job 2 episode 3 on BBC iPlayer. 

Wednesday 28 January - 

Cleaning. 

Note writing.

Laundry. 

Court documents received that I filled in. 

Tesco. 

Skyscraper Live on Netflix - free climbing of Taipei 101 building. 

Recorded an episode of Pods Like Us with Matthew Woodcock, the creator and director of The Divide. 

The Roses film on Disney Plus. 


Thursday 29 January 2026 - 

Editing

Amanda and Alan episode 5 on BBC iPlayer. 

Back to work.

Tuesday 3 February - 

Skywalkers film (nothing to do with Star Wars) on Netflix. 

Recorded bits for Toppermost and When They Was Fab. 

Wednesday 4 February - 

Editing

Songwriting

Amanda and Alan season 2 episodes 6, 7 and 8 on BBC iPlayer. 

Better Call Saul season 4 episode 10 on Netflix.


Tuesday 11 February - 

Gogglebox 

Toppermost 

Wednesday 12 February - 

Leap Year film. 

Tuesday 17 - 

Gogglebox

Pods Like Us Rob Walch recorded

When They Was Fab

Wednesday 18 - 

F1 starring Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem. 

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning 

Winter Olympics on BBC iPlayer. 


Tuesday-Thursday 24-26 February 

An oddball here again, because once again I worked on the Wednesday and had Thursday as my night off. 

Now a week later I don’t remember what we watched, but I think that there was an episode of When They Was Fab recorded on the Thursday. 

On the Wednesday I woke up at about 7am after less than four hours of sleep. I had an appointment at the dentist at 10:50 in Newark. I actually parked up at Newark at about 10 o’clock, arriving at the dentist for twenty past ten. 

After the examination I was given a treatment plan that amounted to four or five sessions that will cost £2454 to repair the damage done through being punched at work while doing a site check. 


That night I was so tired working and driving the van. There is something very interesting about that day that I didn’t know about until five days later. That’s to come in a future post. 

So, Tuesday and Thursday off, and back to work on the Friday. 

Not time off related exactly, but over that weekend at work a new starter I had given two training shifts to was on his own, and on the Sunday morning/Monday morning shift he was floundering, so I went back after my shift had finished so that I could help him out. 

Post coming soon about Monday, because that is a big thing. 






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