Especially when it contains gems like this.

Unsolicited tick pic

Mind completely blown. I always assumed synaesthesia was a unique personal response to sensory input. The idea that this response could be replicated in others (in some way) is …wow. Going to have to re-listen to it!

on.ft.com/3UV2EsR Why Beethoven is good for your brain - free shared article.

How the other half live, FT newsletter edition.

@metoffice.bsky.social Why do your forecasts have a daily high (top left) which frequently differs by 2° from the details? Why isn’t the daily high figure the maximum value off the hourly numbers? There’s a big comfort difference between 17° and barely 15°!

Been a while since I knitted a sock, had forgotten the trauma of Turning The Heel: that phase of groping in the dark, following the pattern in blind hope, a chaos of needles and random bits of knitting, and then… gradually emerging from that confusion, something unmistakably like a sock.

@sambarton.bsky.social Hej! Obscure offer ahoy: would you like (or know someone that would like) a book of Danish School Songbook (Danish folk songs in 1/2/3 parts)?

I reached this page this morning. It felt rather too contemporary.

(Christopher Isherwood, ‘Mr Norris Changes Trains’, 1935)

This sentence has been rattling around my noggin and depressing me for nearly 2 months now.