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'There's a certain Slant of light' - Asides (XX)
‘ There ’ s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – ’ (Emily Dickinson) * U...
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Still awaiting a Pauline conversion. :-)
Some thoughts on my visit to Siena's magnificent cathedral, and agnostics and atheists in religious spaces.
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Some thoughts on my visit to Siena's magnificent cathedral, and agnostics and atheists in religious spaces.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2025/10/ther...
Finished Slow Horses Season 5 last night.
I'm so slow on the uptake. My initial diagnosis of Jackson Lamb's manky trotter was a severe case of athlete's foot! :-)
Also, look at the lovely bit of elegant variation in that last sentence.
I'm so slow on the uptake. My initial diagnosis of Jackson Lamb's manky trotter was a severe case of athlete's foot! :-)
Also, look at the lovely bit of elegant variation in that last sentence.
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Finished Slow Horses Season 5 last night.
I'm so slow on the uptake. My initial diagnosis of Jackson Lamb's manky trotter was a severe case of athlete's foot! :-)
Also, look at the lovely bit of elegant variation in that last sentence.
I'm so slow on the uptake. My initial diagnosis of Jackson Lamb's manky trotter was a severe case of athlete's foot! :-)
Also, look at the lovely bit of elegant variation in that last sentence.
Covers as spoilers.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Covers as spoilers.
An afternoon at the Prince Charles Cinema watching E.T. The credits tell me that the film features Elvis Costello’ ‘Accidents Will Happen’ and Jim Carroll’s ‘People Who Died’. Love those songs but have never noticed them whenever I’ve watched the film.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
An afternoon at the Prince Charles Cinema watching E.T. The credits tell me that the film features Elvis Costello’ ‘Accidents Will Happen’ and Jim Carroll’s ‘People Who Died’. Love those songs but have never noticed them whenever I’ve watched the film.
Long ago chat with Dad!
“You going out?”
“Watching the Charlatans at Brixton”
[After a quick impression of Brixton’s Smiley Culture]: “The Charlatans … those Manc wankers?”
“Listen to the bass on their song Forever. You’ll like it”
18 years gone but still making me smile!
youtu.be/fR1doUlfUjk?...
“You going out?”
“Watching the Charlatans at Brixton”
[After a quick impression of Brixton’s Smiley Culture]: “The Charlatans … those Manc wankers?”
“Listen to the bass on their song Forever. You’ll like it”
18 years gone but still making me smile!
youtu.be/fR1doUlfUjk?...
Forever (Full Length Version)
YouTube video by The Charlatans - Topic
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November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Long ago chat with Dad!
“You going out?”
“Watching the Charlatans at Brixton”
[After a quick impression of Brixton’s Smiley Culture]: “The Charlatans … those Manc wankers?”
“Listen to the bass on their song Forever. You’ll like it”
18 years gone but still making me smile!
youtu.be/fR1doUlfUjk?...
“You going out?”
“Watching the Charlatans at Brixton”
[After a quick impression of Brixton’s Smiley Culture]: “The Charlatans … those Manc wankers?”
“Listen to the bass on their song Forever. You’ll like it”
18 years gone but still making me smile!
youtu.be/fR1doUlfUjk?...
I've just popped into Slough House to take care of a bit of business. Come on, I'd make a great 'Joe'. :-) #SlowHorses
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I've just popped into Slough House to take care of a bit of business. Come on, I'd make a great 'Joe'. :-) #SlowHorses
Lacey the Cat (after Caravaggio). #Catascuro
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lacey the Cat (after Caravaggio). #Catascuro
Dipping in and out of Patti Smith’s new memoir. Love that Simone Weil quote. Wish I could be more Weil … but the only thing we’ve got in common is we suffer from headaches. And the closest I’ll get to Patti Smith is my new barefoot trainers.
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dipping in and out of Patti Smith’s new memoir. Love that Simone Weil quote. Wish I could be more Weil … but the only thing we’ve got in common is we suffer from headaches. And the closest I’ll get to Patti Smith is my new barefoot trainers.
A visit to the National Gallery, accompanied by this fabulous @lrb.co.uk vignette on Carl Gustav Carus's 'View From a Prison Window'.
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John-Paul Stonard · At the National Gallery: View from a Prison Window
Carl Gustav Carus made copies of paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, or sought out the locations he had painted,...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A visit to the National Gallery, accompanied by this fabulous @lrb.co.uk vignette on Carl Gustav Carus's 'View From a Prison Window'.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Twice now I’ve walked past this poster and queued The Pet Shop Boys rather than Lily Allen. I really ought to give her album a listen though.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Twice now I’ve walked past this poster and queued The Pet Shop Boys rather than Lily Allen. I really ought to give her album a listen though.
Really enjoyed the Culture Club documentary at the IMAX. A kind of love story in a way. And Mikey Craig turned up for the Q&A.
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Really enjoyed the Culture Club documentary at the IMAX. A kind of love story in a way. And Mikey Craig turned up for the Q&A.
Off to see the Culture Club documentary at, of all places, the IMAX.
Disregarding ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’, which is peerless, favourite CC moment?
Church of the Poisoned Mind and that glorious harmonica.
Disregarding ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’, which is peerless, favourite CC moment?
Church of the Poisoned Mind and that glorious harmonica.
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Off to see the Culture Club documentary at, of all places, the IMAX.
Disregarding ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’, which is peerless, favourite CC moment?
Church of the Poisoned Mind and that glorious harmonica.
Disregarding ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’, which is peerless, favourite CC moment?
Church of the Poisoned Mind and that glorious harmonica.
In my early twenties, moving into a new mess on a Royal Navy shore base, I found my bunk light wasn’t working. The bulb looked fine so rather than just going to the NAAFI to get a new one, I thought I’d put my finger into the socket to make sure there was a current. 🫤 ⚡️ ⚡️
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In my early twenties, moving into a new mess on a Royal Navy shore base, I found my bunk light wasn’t working. The bulb looked fine so rather than just going to the NAAFI to get a new one, I thought I’d put my finger into the socket to make sure there was a current. 🫤 ⚡️ ⚡️
The artist and painting that has stayed with me from yesterday’s visit to Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern. Ben Enwonwu’s ‘Tutu’.
This photograph doesn’t come close to capturing the beauty, shimmer, depth and presence of this portrait.
This photograph doesn’t come close to capturing the beauty, shimmer, depth and presence of this portrait.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The artist and painting that has stayed with me from yesterday’s visit to Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern. Ben Enwonwu’s ‘Tutu’.
This photograph doesn’t come close to capturing the beauty, shimmer, depth and presence of this portrait.
This photograph doesn’t come close to capturing the beauty, shimmer, depth and presence of this portrait.
Went to a fabulous Ukrainian restaurant called Tatar Bunar on Friday night after my Nordic art experience. Fantastic stuff. Here's Grace Dent's review of the place.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
Tatar Bunar, London EC2: ‘No faff, no lectures. Just dinner, and lots of it’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
Had enough of small plates that send you home hungry? This glam new Ukrainian spot serves big portions of filling carbs
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November 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Went to a fabulous Ukrainian restaurant called Tatar Bunar on Friday night after my Nordic art experience. Fantastic stuff. Here's Grace Dent's review of the place.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
Stay in bed eating bacon sandwiches and listening to Shostakovich … or Lee Miller at Tate Modern?
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Stay in bed eating bacon sandwiches and listening to Shostakovich … or Lee Miller at Tate Modern?
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
The Prince Charles Cinema posing me a right old Saturday afternoon rewatch dilemma. The Thing versus Requiem for a Dream. I’ve flip-flopped back and forth about ten times in the last hour.
Seen neither on the big screen!
Seen neither on the big screen!
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Prince Charles Cinema posing me a right old Saturday afternoon rewatch dilemma. The Thing versus Requiem for a Dream. I’ve flip-flopped back and forth about ten times in the last hour.
Seen neither on the big screen!
Seen neither on the big screen!
Rolled up at the British Museum‘s Nordic Noir exhibition last night and the gallery was closed for a talk with two of the featured artists: Sverre Malling and Jeff Olsson. Gatecrash? Absolutely! And time at the end to see the exhibition.
What I really wanted to see. Maria Nordin’s Act of Comfort.
What I really wanted to see. Maria Nordin’s Act of Comfort.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Rolled up at the British Museum‘s Nordic Noir exhibition last night and the gallery was closed for a talk with two of the featured artists: Sverre Malling and Jeff Olsson. Gatecrash? Absolutely! And time at the end to see the exhibition.
What I really wanted to see. Maria Nordin’s Act of Comfort.
What I really wanted to see. Maria Nordin’s Act of Comfort.
The Weather Station have some new material out and I'm a little bit floored by this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=plSV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=plSV...
The Weather Station - Airport (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Weather Station
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October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Weather Station have some new material out and I'm a little bit floored by this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=plSV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=plSV...
I'm getting old. Was in danger of falling asleep at my desk, so I took myself off to an empty lecture room for a doze. Back at my desk now and listening to tracks from the new Mavis Staples album. If she's doing this at 86, I can stay awake at 54.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
Mavis Staples - "Sad and Beautiful World"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm getting old. Was in danger of falling asleep at my desk, so I took myself off to an empty lecture room for a doze. Back at my desk now and listening to tracks from the new Mavis Staples album. If she's doing this at 86, I can stay awake at 54.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
Sitting in the middle of Tottenham's Lordship Rec after my morning exercise, watching the Canada Geese wheel in from Walthamstow Wetlands to graze away the day.
October 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Sitting in the middle of Tottenham's Lordship Rec after my morning exercise, watching the Canada Geese wheel in from Walthamstow Wetlands to graze away the day.
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I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
Every autumn, the blaze of colour on the house that backs onto the garden never fails to stop me in my tracks.
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every autumn, the blaze of colour on the house that backs onto the garden never fails to stop me in my tracks.
This is stunning, and stopped my scrolling in its tracks. And it also sent me to Google to find out a bit more about Maria Nordin and her work.
Maria Nordin "Act of Comfort" (Sweden, 2022), depicting a woman carrying an impossibly large pile of linen for the laundry. Nordin likes to portray women's unpaid labour in the home, but in beautiful shapes and colours.
#womensart
#womensart
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is stunning, and stopped my scrolling in its tracks. And it also sent me to Google to find out a bit more about Maria Nordin and her work.
Planning to hit the BFI for Terence Davies' adaptation of 'The House of Mirth' after work, but suddenly wavering and thinking about watching the new Depeche Mode documentary instead.
Lily Bart v Gahan. Gillian Anderson v Gore. What shall it be?
Lily Bart v Gahan. Gillian Anderson v Gore. What shall it be?
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Planning to hit the BFI for Terence Davies' adaptation of 'The House of Mirth' after work, but suddenly wavering and thinking about watching the new Depeche Mode documentary instead.
Lily Bart v Gahan. Gillian Anderson v Gore. What shall it be?
Lily Bart v Gahan. Gillian Anderson v Gore. What shall it be?