The first gig I saw at Nettlebed Folk Club was the wonderful @johnspiers.co.uk and Peter Knight, and last night they were back for the club's 50th birthday celebrations with the Gigspanner Big Band. Quite the most brilliant, exhilarating night of music I've experienced for a long while.

We're back!
🏏 #Cricket #CountyChampionship

I was on that march too. Here's a placard from that day that I enjoyed.

Clearly we are blessed with excellent charity bookshops in the Chilterns area. A shout out also for St Francis Hospice's Chapter Two bookshop in Chesham.

I enjoyed Elif Shak's depiction of Victorian culture and society so much that I was inspired to reread AS Byatt's rich, complex The Children's Book, chronicling family life in artistic and bohemian society in the late C19th. #Books #Booksky

A haunting, unforgettable novel to start the new year.
#Books #BookSky

@starcrossed2018.bsky.social I picked up a 1932 book about the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford - not a great read (lots of lists of plays and grandees), but knowing your penchant for all things R&J thought you might like to see these sketches for sets for the 1929 production.

Always a red letter day when the latest edition arrives from @ccmatters.bsky.social. The empathetic interviews by @anniechave.bsky.social are always a highlight, this time with the great Courtney Walsh.

Here's a rather more extreme C18th look - Hamlet With His Mother by Nicholai Abildgaard, in the National Gallery of Denmark

It's not been a great week on many levels, but fortunately #Bellowhead and @thelongestjohns.bsky.social restored some joy this evening.

@anniechave.bsky.social Can never resist a charity bookstall, and struck gold today!