Ooh, so glad the heating got partially fixed yesterday! 🥶
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Ooh, so glad the heating got partially fixed yesterday! 🥶
The BBC's recent survey showed that only 43% of respondents thought it was effective in showing independence from the government. It was the worst result in that survey, and I'd say that's a more pressing concern. l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The BBC's recent survey showed that only 43% of respondents thought it was effective in showing independence from the government. It was the worst result in that survey, and I'd say that's a more pressing concern. l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Hey, @snig.bsky.social , I'm just making sure you know about this new shop in Lewisham (on the station approach). Bigger than it looks, and certainly worth a visit, I'd say.
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hey, @snig.bsky.social , I'm just making sure you know about this new shop in Lewisham (on the station approach). Bigger than it looks, and certainly worth a visit, I'd say.
If I were, for some implausible reason, defining my taste in books by reference to 8 authors, and if, improbably, all 8 I first thought of were men, I think I might lie, just a bit.
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If I were, for some implausible reason, defining my taste in books by reference to 8 authors, and if, improbably, all 8 I first thought of were men, I think I might lie, just a bit.
Hollie McNish, who I must admit I'd never heard of, is doing Private Passions on Radio 3 and she's really charming and interesting. Must find out more. @holliemcnish.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hollie McNish, who I must admit I'd never heard of, is doing Private Passions on Radio 3 and she's really charming and interesting. Must find out more. @holliemcnish.bsky.social
Define my musical taste by 8 musicians, you say? (Yes, I am old. And inclusion on this list does definitely not mean moral approval)
Joni Mitchell
John Martyn
Ravel
Linda Catlin Smith
Miles Davis
David Bowie
Jacques Brel
Mozart
Joni Mitchell
John Martyn
Ravel
Linda Catlin Smith
Miles Davis
David Bowie
Jacques Brel
Mozart
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Define my musical taste by 8 musicians, you say? (Yes, I am old. And inclusion on this list does definitely not mean moral approval)
Joni Mitchell
John Martyn
Ravel
Linda Catlin Smith
Miles Davis
David Bowie
Jacques Brel
Mozart
Joni Mitchell
John Martyn
Ravel
Linda Catlin Smith
Miles Davis
David Bowie
Jacques Brel
Mozart
Oh no how will the people of York get by without a Duke?
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh no how will the people of York get by without a Duke?
The big unanswered question:
Would you like to sin
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger skin?
Or would you prefer
To err with her
On some other fur?
Born on this day in 1864
Would you like to sin
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger skin?
Or would you prefer
To err with her
On some other fur?
Born on this day in 1864
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The big unanswered question:
Would you like to sin
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger skin?
Or would you prefer
To err with her
On some other fur?
Born on this day in 1864
Would you like to sin
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger skin?
Or would you prefer
To err with her
On some other fur?
Born on this day in 1864
“The cover’s blue, yeah,” he says. “It’s a translation, and not much happens, but it’s good.” I *bet* this was a @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social book. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Tim Dowling: I love books – but can’t remember anything about the ones I’ve just read
In bed I lie awake, staring at the books on my nightstand, trying to remember a single salient fact about any of them
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October 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“The cover’s blue, yeah,” he says. “It’s a translation, and not much happens, but it’s good.” I *bet* this was a @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social book. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Happy birthday (85) to this man.
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Happy birthday (85) to this man.
Really smoky smell in the air in #Catford tonight (and not the usual ganja) which I guess is coming from the #Beckenham fire
September 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Really smoky smell in the air in #Catford tonight (and not the usual ganja) which I guess is coming from the #Beckenham fire
Sad news poets.org/poem/long-di...
Long Distance II
Though my mother was already two years dead
poets.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sad news poets.org/poem/long-di...
Not that it seems to matter these days, but I imagine the BritCard™️ wasn't in the manifesto?
September 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Not that it seems to matter these days, but I imagine the BritCard™️ wasn't in the manifesto?
Top 10 TV Comedies for @cairdiul.bsky.social
Top Cat
Bewitched
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
Frasier (up to s7)
Porridge
The Simpsons (up to s10)
Ghosts
The Office (remember when Gervais wasn't a monster?)
[empty slot for the one I've inevitably forgotten]
Top Cat
Bewitched
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
Frasier (up to s7)
Porridge
The Simpsons (up to s10)
Ghosts
The Office (remember when Gervais wasn't a monster?)
[empty slot for the one I've inevitably forgotten]
September 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Top 10 TV Comedies for @cairdiul.bsky.social
Top Cat
Bewitched
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
Frasier (up to s7)
Porridge
The Simpsons (up to s10)
Ghosts
The Office (remember when Gervais wasn't a monster?)
[empty slot for the one I've inevitably forgotten]
Top Cat
Bewitched
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
Frasier (up to s7)
Porridge
The Simpsons (up to s10)
Ghosts
The Office (remember when Gervais wasn't a monster?)
[empty slot for the one I've inevitably forgotten]
'Neatly trimmed and shaved, Robert Redford was just outrageously handsome, incandescently handsome, he was handsomeness on legs. His photograph was in the dictionary next to “handsome”.' www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever
Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie f...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'Neatly trimmed and shaved, Robert Redford was just outrageously handsome, incandescently handsome, he was handsomeness on legs. His photograph was in the dictionary next to “handsome”.' www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
It used to be football club owners who would express full confidence in the manager on Wednesday and sack them on Thursday.
September 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It used to be football club owners who would express full confidence in the manager on Wednesday and sack them on Thursday.
Just re-read this (iykyk). Still an absolute blast.
August 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Just re-read this (iykyk). Still an absolute blast.
Last five concerts:
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Fiona Monbet
Héloise Werner (et amies)
Page Blanche
Elana Sasson
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Fiona Monbet
Héloise Werner (et amies)
Page Blanche
Elana Sasson
August 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Last five concerts:
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Fiona Monbet
Héloise Werner (et amies)
Page Blanche
Elana Sasson
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Fiona Monbet
Héloise Werner (et amies)
Page Blanche
Elana Sasson
I've spent too long today wondering if the throwaway reference to a hugely successful Irish novelist (p 151) is significant. #TonyInterruptor
August 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've spent too long today wondering if the throwaway reference to a hugely successful Irish novelist (p 151) is significant. #TonyInterruptor
First time I've seen this in a book ... not sure if has any legal force, though.
August 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
First time I've seen this in a book ... not sure if has any legal force, though.
In a dream last night I coined the proverb "the closer the dog gets to the fire, the more the apprentice eats". Now having fun asking AI what it could mean. What do you think?
August 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In a dream last night I coined the proverb "the closer the dog gets to the fire, the more the apprentice eats". Now having fun asking AI what it could mean. What do you think?
I've just re-read Pride & Prejudice for the first time in many years. I think we take it somewhat for granted because of all the adaptations but fuck me it's brilliant (as Elizabeth Bennet would say).
August 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I've just re-read Pride & Prejudice for the first time in many years. I think we take it somewhat for granted because of all the adaptations but fuck me it's brilliant (as Elizabeth Bennet would say).
In case you've been looking for a photo of Cleo Laine and Dusty Springfield playing cricket in Los Angeles ... (from www.theguardian.com/music/galler...)
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In case you've been looking for a photo of Cleo Laine and Dusty Springfield playing cricket in Los Angeles ... (from www.theguardian.com/music/galler...)