Ivan

God Is OK If You Like That Sort of Thing

However she is within a mile of a Waitrose

For a moment I was surprised how heavily tattooed cookery writer Jane Grigson was for the 70s

Arthur Lowe saying “homosexual practices”

That’s Life! was just incredible. Its two most famous moments are a man being movingly celebrated by the now grown Jewish children he got out of Nazi Germany & a dog saying “sausages”. No other programme has ever had that range.

We contacted the Grim Reaper’s office but were told “This has nothing to do with us”

I think it’s great they make traffic cones just for goth students to steal

I like how someone has clearly gone “No, you need to put Margo on the cover”

Films & Filming, September 1965

Films & Filming was the Grindr of the 60s

Man alive! It's @hellothisisivan.bsky.social! "Eventually we meet two particularly vivid characters: 82-year-old Cyril Fluck, who continues in the business in order to ‘keep me away from my wife, who hates the sight of me’, & the flashy Barry Quartermaine" thelionandunicorn.com/2026/09/26/l...

"Pauline, with her big eyelashes, blonde Vidal Sassoon hairdo and loudly patterned clothes, has a go-ahead job with one of the new boutique chains revolutionising the country’s fashion." It's @hellothisisivan.bsky.social on "Man Alive". thelionandunicorn.com/2026/09/26/l...

Shocked and disgusted by a man who messaged me on Grindr about his diaper fetish. We call them nappies in this country thank you

Yes, it’s Eileen the Singing Lollipop Lady accompanied by the glamorous Terry Durham!

This, from a 1975 BBC documentary on nuns, is honestly one of the most unexpectedly hilarious things ever, I promise

“No you idiot, I said I wanted to watch gay PORN”

If you’ve ever wanted to hear Rita Webb getting angry while Status Quo’s Pictures of Matchstick Men swells in the background TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY

"His story is often considered one of unrealised potential, derailed by his self-parodic turn as Jason King and then definitively by that fateful incident at Gloucester bus station." @hellothisisivan.bsky.social on Peter Wyngarde, born 99 years ago today. thelionandunicorn.com/2025/08/20/l...

“No you idiot, I said I wanted to watch gay PORN”

Strange how no item you see in a charity shop will ever seem like it comes from as unfathomably ancient an era as the Mrs Stephen Fry book

Two of my fave artists, in VERY different fields, beautifully united

Bloody hell 1985 BBC report on Madonna, don’t hold back!

I hate a man who

Oxfam Bookshop in Hove are currently selling 1000 books from late local resident Raymond Briggs’ personal library

I hate a man who

Good afternoon

“Sorry to hear that Oscar winning actress who was in Casualty has died. I met her once” “Fricker?” “No, we just shook hands”

Unexpected sighting of one of the Axons from Dr Who taking part in a protest against the redevelopment of Covent Garden in 1972

Good evening

Good evening, how are you?

The mournful ghost of Charles Hawtrey

Typeface of the day. Spotted in Oxfam's sheet music section

They do like it up em

On the beach listening to two couples from Tooting who’ve only just met but have both come down the seaside for the day bonding over how they knew Ronnie Biggs & Nosher Powell

On the beach looking like a gay Arthur Lowe

“Model and waiter” is so gloriously bitchy

Tempted to buy this just for the lovely box. I have all the books, which are a completely random selection somebody’s just stuffed in there anyway!

Becoming single in your 40s is profoundly depressing. Dating apps are like a visit to the Mos Eisley Cantina.

Out on the absolute lash (four pints) with @hellothisisivan.bsky.social

Matchbook, Bluesville Jazz Club, Bilbao, 1966

György Kemény, 'Autumn Fair', 1969

I love the irony that Barry Manilow wrote most of his own songs, but not this one

I’ve bought an orange shag pile rug. Peak Ivan has been achieved

Literally bought the t shirt

Me remembering I own a pair of Peter Wyngarde’s cufflinks

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