Games – Well Eye Never

September 2026 Favourites

Hello again, I hope you’ve had a good month. I know the news hasn’t been very cheerful lately, but other than sending love to the amazing people at the RNLI (who some people bizarrely get mixed up with the equally wonderful RNIB), and reassuring you that I’ve never used AI to produce my content and have no plans to do so, I’m not going to comment on recent events beyond that.

Instead, I’m going to share my usual mixture of entertainment that I’ve been enjoying, including TV shows, autobiographies, interviews and more, as well as an update on how things are going for my mother and I. None of it’s sponsored or gifted as usual, and I hope you find it interesting.

Sneaky Sasquatch – Game Review & Progress

Now that I have more time on my hands, since leaving work to become a full-time carer, I’ve been getting back into video games as one of various ways to keep myself entertained. And I’ve started with Apple Arcade, seeing as I own a Mac and was able to use a special offer of 3 months for the price of 1. I played a few games on there during lockdown in 2020, but then stopped and have only recently taken another look at it.

My initial assumption was that I would just write relatively short reviews in my monthly Favourites posts, as I’ve done with other titles previously. But I’m currently playing a game that is absolutely massive in scope and has been keeping me busy for a few months already, so it warrants a post of its own to do it justice. I will move on to try other titles in due course, but I want to see how much of this one I can complete first.

The game in question is called Sneaky Sasquatch. It was one of the original launch titles on Apple Arcade back in 2019, but it’s still getting updates and high ratings now. So I thought I’d take a look to see what all the fuss is about, and it is indeed very addictive. There are some aspects I can’t do very well or at all because of my limited eyesight, but on the whole it’s a lot of fun.

I’m therefore going to share my general thoughts about the game here, along with a more in-depth look at the progress I’ve been making on the various tasks and missions you can do, which I’ll keep updated every so often. None of this is sponsored or connected with the developers in any way, so all opinions are my own, and I hope you enjoy!

August 2026 Favourites

Well, I never thought I’d want a summer to end, but I’m glad that one’s out of the way! Occasional spells of hot weather are welcome, but to have 6 intense heatwaves in close succession over the last few months has been quite exceptional, and ultimately it got too much for my mother and I. So it has set us back a bit, but it also led to an important realisation about being a carer, which is helping me to move forward. You can see the blog post I made yesterday for more about that, it’s been good to get it off my chest.

It means I still haven’t been anywhere exciting for a while, but at least I’m getting out of the house again for local walks and shopping, which I’m happy about. And when I’ve been at home, I’ve been enjoying plenty of entertainment as usual, with a few TV shows, a couple of audiobooks and an addictive game. So I hope you find this latest roundup interesting as usual.

July 2026 Favourites

Hello again, hope you’re doing well. I know it’s lovely to have sunshine in the summer, but this exceptional period of hot and dry weather is getting a bit much now isn’t it? If you or someone you know is affected by wildfires, droughts or the heat in general at the moment, I hope you’re staying safe and comfortable as best you can.

Naturally it’s been having an impact on my mother, so even though after my foot injury I’m feeling well enough to go out a bit more again, I’ve still had to stick around at home a lot of the time to make sure she’s ok. I’ll be giving a little update about my caring situation in this post.

So again there’s nothing for me to write about in London just yet, but I’m hopeful that will finally change during August, particularly with a booking I have for my birthday that I’m very much looking forward to.

However, there is plenty of entertainment for me to review from July, including a couple of crime dramas I discussed on Radio 4’s In Touch, along with some audio and TV comedies, and I’ve even tried getting back into playing video games. And, as ever, none of it’s sponsored or gifted. So I hope you enjoy!

February & March 2026 Favourites

Hello again, I hope your year’s been going well so far, and you’re enjoying the Easter weekend. For me, the first few months of 2026 have been a transition period, as I’ve been making the switch from my support worker role to a new zero-hours contract as an accessibility tester, so I can focus more on caring for my mother and looking after my own wellbeing. You can find out more about all of that in my latest Carer & Career Update post.

Because of that, along with the often cold and wet weather, I haven’t done many interesting things in London since my January Favourites. I’ve been out for a few walks, got a haircut and done some shopping when the weather allows, but that’s it – until very recently, when I saw my first theatre show of the year with a friend of mine, which was a much-needed bit of light relief.

So in this post I’ll be talking about my theatre visit, which involved a touch tour and audio description, as well as the variety of entertainment I’ve been enjoying at home. None of it’s sponsored or gifted as usual, and I hope you find it interesting!

Freddie Mercury’s World – Part 8 – Little Things

Here’s the next part of my in-depth series about my visit to the exhibition Freddie Mercury: A World Of His Own at Sotheby’s in 2023. And we’re continuing on from my previous post about the Crazy Little Things gallery.

This time I’m going to show you a wide selection of mostly smaller items that were sold in the first and second Crazy auctions, and occasionally some of the other auctions, from jewellery to various random objects.

As always, to enlarge the images you can click on them, and to read more about each item you can click on its name. Enjoy!

Freddie Mercury’s World – Part 7 – The Collector

Freddie Mercury was an avid collector of objects, who had a real eye for beauty, loved all things feline and had a great sense of humour. And that’s clearly in evidence here, as we continue looking back at my photos from the 2023 A World Of His Own exhibition that took place at Sotheby’s.

This time we’re looking at items to do with cats, clothing, books and music that he collected. Most of them are from the auctions Crazy Little Things 1 and Crazy Little Things 2, which raised £10.3 million altogether! But there are a few bits and pieces from other auctions mixed in too, just as there were some items from the Crazy auctions in my previous posts.

So there’s plenty to look through, and as before you can click on the images to enlarge them and the item names to learn more. Hope you enjoy as always!

Doctor Who Review – Series 5

Now that the most recent series of Doctor Who is out of the way – and I’ve just updated that review with details of its Blu-ray steelbook release – and as there’s going to be a big gap until the next series while the BBC decide what to do, I’m going to continue rewatching the earlier series of the modern era.

I’ve already reviewed all of the series and spin-offs from Russell T Davies’ first stint as showrunner, so it’s time to move on to the fifth series overseen by Steven Moffat, which aired 15 years ago in 2010. Hard to believe it’s that old already.

With a new showrunner, Doctor, companions, Tardis and theme tune, this was another fresh start for the programme, and it worked really well. So I hope you enjoy my deep dive into it.

Black Mirror – Series 1-7 Reviews

Ever since the new 7th series of Black Mirror dropped on Netflix in April, I’ve been rewatching the entire show from the beginning, as I haven’t seen the earlier series for quite a while, and never even got around to Series 6 after it launched. Consequently, I’ve been writing little reviews in my Favourites posts each month, but now I’m finally up to date, I thought I would gather everything together in one post, including my reactions to the latest series.

Black Mirror is an anthology show by Charlie Brooker, which originally started on Channel 4 before Netflix took over production from Series 3. It consists of 33 episodes of varying durations, each of which tells a standalone story (apart from the finale of the latest series, which serves as a sequel to a much earlier episode). There was also an interactive film called Bandersnatch, but that was removed on May 12 as part of a general overhaul to the streaming service. I’ve included my review from the time of its release in this post for completeness.

The various scenarios are generally set in the not-too-distant future, looking at advances in technology and media that are based in reality but pushed to their extremes. There are occasional deviations from that though, including episodes that focus purely on human psychology, take place in earlier time periods, or even stray into the supernatural.

In any case, it’s often very dark and unsettling, as well as interesting and entertaining. Even though we know the events are very unlikely to actually happen in most cases, and are sometimes in the realm of sci-fi or fantasy, they’re not entirely implausible either and tend to be quite relatable in some way. Where technology plays a key part of the story, for example, we know it could exist one day or even does already in some cases. And we’re already well aware of how manipulation and misinformation are rife in certain corners of social media, journalism and politics. Hence the show is a ‘black mirror’, exposing the dark sides of humanity and technology.

With every story being so unique in content and style, featuring a different cast every time, it’s inevitable that some are better than others, and every viewer will have their own preferences. So here are my own personal reactions to each episode, without revealing any major spoilers given that the stories often go in surprising directions that are meant to provoke thought or just shock you. I hope you find it interesting.

London 2012 Revisited – Sporting Celebrations

Recently I’ve been looking back in detail at the 2012 Olympics & Paralympics, with the aid of the Blu-ray sets released by the BBC and Channel 4. For the Olympics I wrote about the Opening & Closing ceremonies and highlights from Days 1-8 & 9-16, and then I made a separate post about my Paralympics highlights.

Back in 2012, however, I also had a combined hard drive and DVD recorder connected to my TV, which meant I was able to record programmes, do some very basic editing and copy them on to discs. So I ended up recording a selection of shows relating to the Olympics & Paralympics, and I stored them on several DVDs, which I still have in my collection. And I’ve therefore been rewatching them as part of my nostalgia trip. They naturally aren’t as high quality as professional DVDs or Blu-rays, but they’re still good enough.

I’ve already discussed a few recordings relating to the Olympics in previous posts, as noted in the list of contents below. But here in this final post, to conclude my trip down memory lane, I’m going to run through the other stuff I captured, including our big victory parade, the Sports Personality Of The Year, documentaries, and appearances by some of the athletes on chat shows and game shows. I’ve also created a playlist with clips from some of these programmes, and some other relevant videos. So I hope you enjoy looking through it all!

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