Leonora
toomuchsinging.bsky.social
Leonora
@toomuchsinging.bsky.social
Expert procrastinator with a tendency to think about music rather than work. Often found humming random bits of Bach or Purcell while walking down the street.
Third batch of the season, and I have reached the ‘I never want to see a Seville orange again in my entire life’ (or at least not until next year) stage of marmalade making.
January 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
My cat has never been fed by anyone in her entire life, and if there appears to be food already in her dish then you're merely imagining it.
SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT

The cat has already been fed.
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Just saw my first Waymo driverless car on the streets of London. Call me a Luddite, but there was something very sinister-looking about it...
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social Happy New Year from my very sticky kitchen (I’ve just had a little lick of it, and I think it’s worked out ok)!
December 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This afternoon I’ll be singing carols outside while freezing my bits off for at least 90 minutes. Wondering if I can take a companion for extra warmth.
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Something a bit unusual for the season, from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir disc: Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine re-arranged for Christmas, as heard in Peterhouse Chapel at Christmas in the 1630s

open.spotify.com/track/51kurW...
Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings
open.spotify.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Just managed to catch my cat in the nick of time as she was about to lick the brandy butter. Which would have been...interesting (if hilarious).
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Top tip of the day: do not stuff your fridge so full of Christmas food that an entire tub of beetroot soup falls out and spills everywhere. Not unless you actually *want* your kitchen (not to mention your legs) to look like the scene of a particularly brutal axe murder.
December 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I've just been catching up with @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social on the radio this morning www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Wonderful stuff! Now Radio 3 needs to broadcast an entire Siglo concert.
Saturday Morning - A Christmas party with superstar organist Anna Lapwood - BBC Sounds
Tom hosts a Christmas party! With organist Anna Lapwood and choir Siglo de Oro.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Very chuffed to have won a copy of this beautiful book by @mattfromlondon.bsky.social and @thisismikehall.com (plus accompanying print). Looking forward to regaling my family with nerdy nuggets of Londonness.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Loving the BBC Singers performing the O antiphons set by female composers on Radio 3 right now. This is basically my idea of radio heaven.
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Enjoyable carol service singing with Faire is the XI this evening (I'm not a cricketer - I merely got roped in), made even more enjoyable by this fabulous typo.
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
For years I was misled by 'misled' - it wasn't until I was in my late teens that I realised it didn't rhyme with 'bristled'.
Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.

Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Enjoyable evening belting out carols with the choir of @peterhousecam.bsky.social under @sjjackson32.bsky.social, whose timely arrival with copies of the music (no thanks to the trains between Cambridge and London) meant that we didn't all have to improvise our own interesting harmonies/descants.
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Dead
Tell us in the comments!
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
You’ve seen Stir-up Sunday - now let me introduce Whirr-up Wednesday.
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Genuinely affordable housing?
Following the news that amphibious 'Duck' tours will return to London - which other lost experiences would you like to see resurrected?
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
They could market a gluten-free version under the tagline 'Pleni sunt coeliac et terra gloria tua'.
a visionary, touched by the muse, has created their Yorkshire Pudding Sistine Chapel
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Good to see there are still some decent Labour MPs out there. I just hope voices like Creasy's can prevail.
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@patrickallies.bsky.social Apologies if I turn up tomorrow with a slightly hairy copy of the Manchicourt!
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My mum (who, bless her, is well known for her malapropisms) yesterday kept referring to the Ministry of Sound (large nightclub in Elephant & Castle) as 'The Sound of Music', and I'm still silently laughing.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM