Enjoying some late Autumn sun

After months of solar energy, time to turn on the Rayburn to cook tonight’s dinner saying farewell to our son, Tom, as he heads back to Royal Academy of Music tomorrow

Belated Black Cat Appreciation Day, Pip, aged 16!

Moving monologue dramatisation of @lisablowerwrite story, ‘Blessing in Burslem’ by @NVBorderlines and #KwanzaCollective. Thanks and congratulations to all, including the amazing artists who captured the performance, making the theme of the piece part of the dramatic fabric. Brilliant.

Without wishing to take away from your beauty and its novelty value, here’s another vineyard photographed today, this time from Saint Emilion, Bordeaux

A joy to see Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s brilliant adaptation, dir, Iqbal Khan, of #MarriageMarerial by @sathnam.bsky.social at #TheRep Birmingham. A lineage extending back to #ArnoldBennettt in 1908. Fabulous to enjoy this multi-generational drama with a full, responsive & diverse house

Nice photo reminder of Dr Fatima Borrmann’s excellent conference on Family Fictions: Generations and Genealogy at KU Leuven, 15-17 May. It was wonderful to meet with these excellent colleagues and to engage in such an exciting, rich and diverse intellectual conversation. Thank you!

Great pleasure to be keynoting at the excellent Generations and Genealogy in European Literature conference: here’s Tagore, Faculty of Letters @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social : observed huge student social event: why is ‘The Bonnie banks of Loch Lomond’ such a hit among Belgian students??

Easter Sunday, a sunny afternoon spent @middleportpottery.bsky.social !

Really worth seeing @britishlibrary.bsky.social exhibition on the Silk Roads at Dunhuang, an incredible ancient meeting place of religions, trade routes, cultural practices inc early print technologies