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Joseph Lidster
6 years
Accurate.
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Just remembered the mysterious monoliths. Did we just abandon that storyline?
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
Last week my younger brother - supermarket worker, single dad of two teenage girls - had a minor stroke & is now recuperating at home. My parents want to help him & the girls but know that they can't. Am I ok to head up north like #DominicCummings did because my family need me?
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I don’t think Cummings and Johnson have any concept of how FURIOUS people who have been making these incredible sacrifices for months now will be about this. This isn’t just going to be a Twitter thing.
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Joseph Lidster
10 months
Obsessed with #TheSix having set up a WhatsApp group chat after burying Keanu. Who’s the group admin? Does it have a profile pic? Does Kathy keep accidentally sending it her Wordle score? #EastEnders
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
Just over a year ago my nan was so ill I had to go home to say final goodbyes. Then… she just kept going. Yesterday, she’s in the pub necking wine out of a straw. Hero.
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
Just watched The Nightmare Man - a story I wrote for The Sarah Jane Adventures - for the first time in about ten years. It was actually really lovely. Such a gorgeous talented cast as well. Hashtag emotions.
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Joseph Lidster
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I wonder if Denise ever chats to Libby on the phone and Libby’s like “yeah, no real news, just working, the usual. How are things there?” #EastEnders
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
Done a thing. So so happy. THEY ARE BACK!!!! "Ready?" "Always."
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
The only thing I didn't like about Doctor Who was the drunk man throwing his salad at the monster and being killed because basically he was me.
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
That TARDIS team - all of them - having to sit there and let it happen is one of the most devastating things that's ever happened in Doctor Who.
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
Ben Mitchell recast. #EastEnders
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
3 years
Jacob Rees-Mogg says a "convivial fraternal spirit" means the Conservatives do not need to wear masks in the House of Commons "We on this side know each other," he says
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Joseph Lidster
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In pub. People on next table keep talking about the Slitheen and the Blathereen. I don’t know whether to say anything #TheSarahJaneAdventures
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST IMPORTANT DR WHO PERSON
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Joseph Lidster
12 years
Never stops being funny. “ @ScottFilmCritic : This is the best picture of a surprised building you'll see all day. http://t.co/EJ6yz6PS”
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
The Matrix 2. I genuinely didn’t go to the cinema for YEARS after sitting through that.
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Eric Bailey
6 years
Good afternoon, Twitter! What's the worst movie you ever paid to see at the theater?
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2 years
Twenty years ago today my first ever piece of professional writing - a Doctor Who story where aliens try to take over Ibiza with trance music and pills was recorded. It feels like both yesterday and a lifetime ago. Thanks for everything @bigfinish !
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
THAT. WAS. GLORIOUS. #DoctorWho
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
I’m going out in Soho with Young People. We’re JUST starting the pre-going out drinks.
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Boyfriend already annoyed with me saying EVERY line of dialogue along with the characters #itslikeearthafterathunderstorm
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Living the dream
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
She wins everything 👑
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
Last night a cat came up to me in an alleyway and was very friendly. I worried he might be missing so I called the number on his collar and turns out I’ve made a new friend 🥰
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Joseph Lidster
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Remembering that period of lockdown when you could visit people but you had to keep your distance meaning family photos look like publicity photos for a new series of Torchwood or Bonekickers
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
#FarewellSarahJane Me, Liz and Nikki Wilson at the 2009 RTS Awards. An honour to have worked with such a brilliant brilliant person. xx
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Dear @Tesco . Linda currently looking after the self-service till area in your Old Kent Road store is doing an AMAZING job. Dealing with multiple customers & queries, making sure the queue goes down as quick as possible & just being brilliantly chilled & friendly. Hero of the day!
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Joseph Lidster
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Amazing how I wrote this when I was 10 years old
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Andrew Hsieh 🔶
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16 years ago, on #BigBangDay , the first #Torchwood audio drama Lost Souls aired on BBC Radio 4. Coincidentally, this was also the first full-cast radio play that I ever listened to. And I enjoyed it.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
This has been a dream job. Fans of the old series are going to love it. Kids who've never heard of it are going to love it. Fans of amazing scary telly are going to love it. JUST DON'T LOOK INTO HIS EYES! #TheDemonHeadmaster
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Emma Reeves
5 years
Thrilled to be able to confirm that the brilliant @NicholasGleaves is playing the new Demon Headmaster in a 10 part series written by @joelidster @DanePictionaire Lucy Moore and me and script edited by @CathianneX
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
One of my best friends died yesterday. Paul was funny, glorious, fabulous and so kind. The love on here and Facebook for him shows just how much he was adored by everyone who knew him. Always look after those around you xx
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
oh my god 🤯
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Ducky Whovian ❤️❤️➕🦆
1 year
Guys I've only just noticed that these are meant to be legs 😭😭😭
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
Doing a rewatch of Cracker - teenage me’s favourite tv show. Genuinely don’t believe there’s ever been or will be a better ten minutes of television than the last ten minutes of episode 2 of To Be a Somebody.
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1 year
HOW DID YOU NOT SEE IT BEFORE??? YOU LITERALLY TOOK TWO STEPS!!! BLOODY PISSHEADS!!
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Honestly, these lads 😍
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1 year
What a time to be alive
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Imagine watching this trailer and seeing clips from only the second piece of telly you’ve ever written. I watched it MANY times 😍
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Ethan Luke 💫
1 year
This trailer still lives in my mind rent free. Truly the coolest show ever broadcast on CBBC
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
Rewatched the first Sapphire and Steel story this evening. What a genuinely brilliant piece of television. And lovely to watch with a couple of mates who'd never seen it before and see them go from "bemused" to "enthralled". Just so good on every level.
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
Apparently it’s ten years since @ManningOfficial talked me down from a climbing frame.
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
To the bloke sat opposite on the train who just loudly said "remember when we went into that suspected gay bar. We've never downed our drinks so quickly." Trust me, you and your mates have nowt to worry about. And this is coming from someone who really ain't that fussy.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
@rhodri In my boyfriend’s aunt’s teddy bear room
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Joseph Lidster
8 months
I’m a homosexual
@GigaBasedDad
Giga Based Dad
8 months
What's stopping you from building awesome things for your wife?
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
It’s been two years since I last had a cigarette. To celebrate I have cosplayed as the tube.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Just passed Nigel Havers in the street. Haven’t forgiven him for what he did to Sarah Jane Smith so I totally blanked him. That’ll learn him.
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Joseph Lidster
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You clearly never saw Dr Who Terror of the Vervoids in 1986
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Natalia Barbour
4 months
No kid remembers their best day in front of the TV.
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
Reunited with Chris Chibnall. He’s been kinda busy… #gally1
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
I wrote one of these and it’s got one of the best casts I’ve ever written for. And it’s perfect for Halloween 👻
@bigfinish
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1 year
FLASH FOES SALE! 💥 Click to grab a discounted #DoctorWho audio drama download (single stories or newly-created trilogy compilation).
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
At my cousin’s wedding and he’s just told us the beautiful story of how he met his bride. “She came up on Facebook’s ‘people you may know’ and I thought she was fit.” 🥰
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
It's the high bombardment of positive ions. #DoctorWho
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Joseph Lidster
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Yay for 26 years of @bigfinish 🥰
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Joseph Lidster
11 months
Happy birthday Doctor Who!!
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
Celebrating Trailer Day with my neighbour and pal @danny_ants . #DoctorWho
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@bigfinish
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2 years
🔊 TRAILER REVEAL! 🔊 Hear Rani take on the world in a new trailer and click to pre-order the Beyond Bannerman Road box set!
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
A pub full of Dr Who fans have all just failed #whamageddon thanks to @QuizOfRassilon and @edwardrussell .
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
Wordle 220 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OH. MY. GOD.
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Joseph Lidster
4 months
I love New Benton so much
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Joseph Lidster
4 months
This unit in UNIT tho 😍
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Joseph Lidster
5 months
Happy 28th Anniversary Doctor Who The TV Movie
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
According to Facebook it’s been EIGHT YEARS since my first Torchwood audio with @TracyAnnO . Which is mad as I’m only 22 now!
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Finally watched Dr Who. Just glorious.
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
What street does ManBat live on?
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Joseph Lidster
4 days
Thank you @TheLisaBowerman for this lovely pic of me @MinettaLane having a sensible orange squash at last night's @bigfinish do.
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
the most improbable thing I've ever written 💜
@Ethan_LMP
Ethan Luke 💫
1 year
The pure happiness I got from seeing K9 return in this series! 😍
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
So last night I had my drink spiked. Thankfully I had a mate with me who got me out of there but still feeling very dazed. Be careful out there people.
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Joseph Lidster
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
My proudest moment
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay . A few months ago I went to the doctors because of physical pain I was suffering. Turns out I’ve got anxiety AND depression (double whammy!) Turns out I can manage it with tablets & a daily routine I learned from therapy. I can sleep now. Tell someone x
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
New people realising the awesomeness that is Barbara Wright makes #DoctorWhoOnTwitch the best thing to happen in 2018.
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
Awh, apparently 14 years ago today I was writing my favourite Sarah Jane Adventure. But taking a break to buy some lamb, fact fans. #thesarahjaneadventures #behindthescenes #theartofwriting #themagicyoudontsee #anecdote #onefortheautobiography
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
And it’s now three years since I had a cigarette #stoptober
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Joseph Lidster
10 months
Bought a pizza and some garlic bread on Wizards vs Aliens 🍕
@MattChorley
Matt Chorley
10 months
After Nadhim Zahawi made cameo playing himself on TV this week... When have you made a cameo on TV? Vox-pop? Quiz show? Wandered into shot by mistake?
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
How did I not win an award for Man Buying Pizza in Wizards Vs Aliens tho
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Joseph Lidster
3 years
I mean I’m not saying today is ALL ABOUT ME but one year ago I stopped smoking. Good luck to anyone who’s doing #Stoptober . If I can stop after 25 years of being a heavy smoker, then so can you.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Me being interviewed: “Watching Peter Capaldi saying my words is the most exciting thing ever.” CUT TO: Me looking bored, scrolling through my phone during the filming. 🥺
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Joseph Lidster
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Someone never saw Doctor Who Terror of the Vervoids
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Natalia Barbour
4 months
No kid remembers their best day in front of the TV.
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
I’ll never not forget thinking this was going to be the worst thing to happen in March 2020
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Joseph Lidster
8 years
Ooh! The #SherlockLive thing I was part of earlier this year is up for an award! If you’ve got 30 seconds to vote…
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
And that’s a month off the cigs, lads.
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
Last night’s cocktail was very Dr Who
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Just successfully left a networking event without speaking to anyone
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Teenage boy on train on his phone “oh my god you’ve got to help me! I was just out with Millie & when I went to say bye I accidentally said I loved you so I called her and said ‘I meant as a friend’ then hung up on her & I don’t know what to do.” He’s starring in his own rom-com.
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
SHE’S BACK 😍
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@bbcdoctorwho
Doctor Who
2 years
“The show is just beginning…” #DoctorWho returns in 2023 ❤️❤️➕🔷
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
I’m not saying my tea is better than your tea but my tea is better than your tea.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Just found a newspaper article about me getting my A-level results (nearly 25 years ago 🤯). This was also years before I came out. There were NO clues.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
💜 never forgotten. A new Doctor Who character has been named after a fan who passed away @RadioTimes
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
Lovely Dr Who drinks at the BFI yesterday. Hangover status; Nyssa.
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
As a writer, I'm often asked to share words of wisdom and I feel bad that I can never really think of anything to say. But, today I discovered something really vital. Never, while writing a script, quietly munch through three packets of sweets without reading the packaging first.
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Joseph Lidster
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*stares at computer for two hours realising there's no way to deal with a major plot hole in this story so might as well quit doing any writing ever again* *leaves computer and within TEN SECONDS has worked out how to deal with it* WHEN WILL I LEARN?!
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Joseph Lidster
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"So, Joe, have you written that spec script yet?" "No, I've been busy." "Busy?" "Well I kinda accidentally watched all 26 episodes of 1980s classic cartoon serial Around the World with Willy Fogg."
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Joseph Lidster
7 years
@rudemrlang @thatslifeuk I SAID I WANTED UGGS!
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
Sod it. I’m going back to bed.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Thanks for the memories, Facebook.
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Joseph Lidster
5 years
Good morning from a good dog.
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Joseph Lidster
4 years
Day 5 of giving up smoking. Things I currently hate: my boyfriend, my best mate for whistling, my friends I’m seeing shortly, all my friends, everyone on Twitter including you, trains, WhatsApp for letting people message me, the fact that it’s slightly too warm inside this coat
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Not particularly interesting but my profile pic is me standing exactly where Rani describes standing in the opening scenes of Rani Takes on the World. Casablanca’s just across the sea 🌞 #BeyondBannermanRoad
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Joseph Lidster
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Have I successfully completed a script this week? I have not. Have I successfully done any exercise. Also no. Cleared my emails? Nope. HAVE I GROWN A RED CHILLI? YES I BLOODY WELL HAVE!
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Joseph Lidster
8 months
Unexpected reunion with C’rizz yesterday. And wine. So much wine.
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Joseph Lidster
6 months
My wife is a 6’5 man.
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Joseph Lidster
1 year
Living the dream
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Joseph Lidster
2 years
11 years since @ManningOfficial made a successful intervention
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Joseph Lidster
8 years
Broken. But that was amazing fun. #sherlocklive
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Joseph Lidster
6 years
Doctor Who getting her clothes from a charity shop 😍
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Joseph Lidster
11 months
I am finally watching the new Dr Who
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