Ruth Elleson
@ruthelleson.bsky.social
Church/choral musician (alto), massive opera nerd, surtitle operator, and project planner working in public transport. Idiots not tolerated. She/her.
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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
Shocked that the TV version of Carols from Kings (on at the moment) not only omitted the war verse from ‘It came upon the midnight clear’ but also the Herod verse from ‘Unto us is born a son’ 😮
Tune into tomorrow’s repeat of the live radio broadcast if you think the violent bits are important!
Tune into tomorrow’s repeat of the live radio broadcast if you think the violent bits are important!
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Shocked that the TV version of Carols from Kings (on at the moment) not only omitted the war verse from ‘It came upon the midnight clear’ but also the Herod verse from ‘Unto us is born a son’ 😮
Tune into tomorrow’s repeat of the live radio broadcast if you think the violent bits are important!
Tune into tomorrow’s repeat of the live radio broadcast if you think the violent bits are important!
Good old DHL. I appreciate the logistics of delivery-slot estimating must be tricky two days before Christmas, but with a slot of 17:31-19:31 it was a bit of a surprise to receive the item just after 13:00. Another half hour and I’d have been out, assuming I needed to be back by 17:31…
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Good old DHL. I appreciate the logistics of delivery-slot estimating must be tricky two days before Christmas, but with a slot of 17:31-19:31 it was a bit of a surprise to receive the item just after 13:00. Another half hour and I’d have been out, assuming I needed to be back by 17:31…
Was there a jumbo prize crossword in the Christmas puzzle supplement of the Guardian on Saturday, or is it yet to come? I can’t find one online that fits the usual description, and completely forgot to buy or look at the print edition on Saturday…
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Was there a jumbo prize crossword in the Christmas puzzle supplement of the Guardian on Saturday, or is it yet to come? I can’t find one online that fits the usual description, and completely forgot to buy or look at the print edition on Saturday…
Guess who HAD a completely free day tomorrow, and thought they were done singing until Christmas Eve, but is now getting up in the morning and singing somewhere new in order to help out an ailing pal? 🙋🏻♀️
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Guess who HAD a completely free day tomorrow, and thought they were done singing until Christmas Eve, but is now getting up in the morning and singing somewhere new in order to help out an ailing pal? 🙋🏻♀️
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Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.
I haven’t made any Christmas Day plans yet, and am SORELY tempted to book myself into a restaurant (that’s on my way home from choir and still has availability). But as a happy introvert, my greatest dread is that well-meaning extroverts at other tables will try to adopt me 😬
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I haven’t made any Christmas Day plans yet, and am SORELY tempted to book myself into a restaurant (that’s on my way home from choir and still has availability). But as a happy introvert, my greatest dread is that well-meaning extroverts at other tables will try to adopt me 😬
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HOPEY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
December 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
HOPEY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
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david walliams denying the allegations just exhausts me honestly. just once id like some guy to say 'shit, yeah, you got me' and own up to it
all these men expect us to believe that each of them have *multiple* false accusers and that it's so incredibly common for that to happen. it's unbelievable
all these men expect us to believe that each of them have *multiple* false accusers and that it's so incredibly common for that to happen. it's unbelievable
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
david walliams denying the allegations just exhausts me honestly. just once id like some guy to say 'shit, yeah, you got me' and own up to it
all these men expect us to believe that each of them have *multiple* false accusers and that it's so incredibly common for that to happen. it's unbelievable
all these men expect us to believe that each of them have *multiple* false accusers and that it's so incredibly common for that to happen. it's unbelievable
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The Christmas comeback we need this year
In Korean, if someone is being foolish you could ask them 니 머리는 장식이냐? It means “Is your head a decoration?”
December 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Christmas comeback we need this year
Today I learned that as decent a sight-reader as I profess to be, my ability to sight-read a funky close-harmony arrangement of White Christmas while transposing it up a tone is… limited
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today I learned that as decent a sight-reader as I profess to be, my ability to sight-read a funky close-harmony arrangement of White Christmas while transposing it up a tone is… limited
Hurrah. I thought I’d somehow irretrievably fallen off the Operation Mincemeat Ticket Lottery, but I unexpectedly scored a win today while busy carol-singing. This time I have the holy grail: front row. I’ll put with the crick in my neck in return for nobody blocking my view with a standing ovation.
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hurrah. I thought I’d somehow irretrievably fallen off the Operation Mincemeat Ticket Lottery, but I unexpectedly scored a win today while busy carol-singing. This time I have the holy grail: front row. I’ll put with the crick in my neck in return for nobody blocking my view with a standing ovation.
Feeling a tad overdressed in my sparkly Jessica Rabbit party frock (obviously with a coat over the top!) waiting for the bus at 10:50am, but those carols aren’t going to sing themselves!
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Feeling a tad overdressed in my sparkly Jessica Rabbit party frock (obviously with a coat over the top!) waiting for the bus at 10:50am, but those carols aren’t going to sing themselves!
In the same way that Black Friday sales all seem to launch a week or two before actual Black Friday, how the heck have I just made a purchase in TodayTix’s “Boxing Day Sale”? Why name something after a specific day when it’s not yet that day, rather than a longer period of time…
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
In the same way that Black Friday sales all seem to launch a week or two before actual Black Friday, how the heck have I just made a purchase in TodayTix’s “Boxing Day Sale”? Why name something after a specific day when it’s not yet that day, rather than a longer period of time…
I love it when my phone thinks it knows the current weather better than I do. I’ve been out and about for the last 5.5 hours in persistent driving rain and umbrella-destroying wind. Feeling virtuous because I’ve had a singing lesson and been to the gym, but I’m still questioning my life choices.
December 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I love it when my phone thinks it knows the current weather better than I do. I’ve been out and about for the last 5.5 hours in persistent driving rain and umbrella-destroying wind. Feeling virtuous because I’ve had a singing lesson and been to the gym, but I’m still questioning my life choices.
I’m off my day job for three weeks 🤩 - very busy with choir for a few more days before I get a proper holiday, but turning THIS off is the most glorious feeling.
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I’m off my day job for three weeks 🤩 - very busy with choir for a few more days before I get a proper holiday, but turning THIS off is the most glorious feeling.
This evening is the highest-profile carol service of my typical Christmas schedule, as well as the one with by far the best canapés afterwards. Always a juggling act to fuel myself adequately for the former, while not spoiling my appetite for the latter 😉
December 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This evening is the highest-profile carol service of my typical Christmas schedule, as well as the one with by far the best canapés afterwards. Always a juggling act to fuel myself adequately for the former, while not spoiling my appetite for the latter 😉
I’m now down to counting the hours (4) 😃
Counting the days (6) until I go on early Christmas leave from my day job, and can stop having days to which I can only refer as Carol Service Sandwiches.
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I’m now down to counting the hours (4) 😃
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Compare this to the United States, where the 1st graders shot at Sandy Hook in 2012 could have been students at Brown shot 13 years later, and where we have done nothing.
It's not impossible to make gun violence rare.
We just keep choosing not to try.
It's not impossible to make gun violence rare.
We just keep choosing not to try.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Compare this to the United States, where the 1st graders shot at Sandy Hook in 2012 could have been students at Brown shot 13 years later, and where we have done nothing.
It's not impossible to make gun violence rare.
We just keep choosing not to try.
It's not impossible to make gun violence rare.
We just keep choosing not to try.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
Worked *much* harder than usual at choir this morning. Soprano dep didn’t turn up, necessitating a change of introit to something I’ve never seen before, lots of unison hymns (tiring) and the solo aria bit of “O thou that tellest” instead of the chorus as scheduled. Plus page-turning etc…
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Worked *much* harder than usual at choir this morning. Soprano dep didn’t turn up, necessitating a change of introit to something I’ve never seen before, lots of unison hymns (tiring) and the solo aria bit of “O thou that tellest” instead of the chorus as scheduled. Plus page-turning etc…
Today the Facebook algorithm has dramatically overestimated both my budget (even at 2025 prices!) and my available space 😆
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today the Facebook algorithm has dramatically overestimated both my budget (even at 2025 prices!) and my available space 😆
Glad tidings of great joy! The only Aldi in the whole of inner South-East London is back in its rightful spot at the New Cross Gate end of the Old Kent Road, following a three-year absence while the site was redeveloped.
December 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Glad tidings of great joy! The only Aldi in the whole of inner South-East London is back in its rightful spot at the New Cross Gate end of the Old Kent Road, following a three-year absence while the site was redeveloped.
Today is even more complicated than Wednesday’s Carol Service Sandwich. I’m dressed largely for the “warm and festive” dress code of tonight’s Parish Wassail, via being in the office this afternoon, and have somehow managed to forget to bring black shoes for singing at a lunchtime funeral…
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Today is even more complicated than Wednesday’s Carol Service Sandwich. I’m dressed largely for the “warm and festive” dress code of tonight’s Parish Wassail, via being in the office this afternoon, and have somehow managed to forget to bring black shoes for singing at a lunchtime funeral…
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My actual response would probably get me banned from Bluesky. So here's a less strongly worded version.
I already can. It's called having a heart and lovely, treasured childhood memories that are mine and mine alone. Now can you do us all a favour and go rot in hell where you belong.
I already can. It's called having a heart and lovely, treasured childhood memories that are mine and mine alone. Now can you do us all a favour and go rot in hell where you belong.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
My actual response would probably get me banned from Bluesky. So here's a less strongly worded version.
I already can. It's called having a heart and lovely, treasured childhood memories that are mine and mine alone. Now can you do us all a favour and go rot in hell where you belong.
I already can. It's called having a heart and lovely, treasured childhood memories that are mine and mine alone. Now can you do us all a favour and go rot in hell where you belong.