Julian Wild
@julianwild.bsky.social
Lawyer, adviser, golfer, football supporter, swimmer, charity trustee, modest gambler, Secretary Philip Larkin Society⚖️🏌️♂️⚽️🏊♂️📚
Just finished the highly-acclaimed debut novel #TheNames by #FlorenceKnapp. It’s a very original & fascinating idea for a novel. Thought-provoking & memorable📚👏
May 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just finished the highly-acclaimed debut novel #TheNames by #FlorenceKnapp. It’s a very original & fascinating idea for a novel. Thought-provoking & memorable📚👏
My favourite castle. This time in November #Dunnottar
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My favourite castle. This time in November #Dunnottar
Gorgeous day doing a ‘Spy Trail’ around Tynemouth with my daughter & her children. 3 hours’ walking!
February 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Gorgeous day doing a ‘Spy Trail’ around Tynemouth with my daughter & her children. 3 hours’ walking!
Just completed 27 hours of listening to a brilliant narration of James Joyce’s Ulysses. An amazing listen which I really enjoyed. Hilarious in parts. Stream of consciousness & remarkably contemporary🎧🙂📚
February 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Just completed 27 hours of listening to a brilliant narration of James Joyce’s Ulysses. An amazing listen which I really enjoyed. Hilarious in parts. Stream of consciousness & remarkably contemporary🎧🙂📚
Lovely lunch of Grimsby haddock at Five Bells, Bassingham near Lincoln🙂🍽️🍺 Interesting poster of Lincoln Races!
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Lovely lunch of Grimsby haddock at Five Bells, Bassingham near Lincoln🙂🍽️🍺 Interesting poster of Lincoln Races!
Been walking with 🐶🎃 at the King George V Playing Fields (‘recreation ground’) in Cottingham, setting for Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’. Here are the ‘swing and sandpit’ (or equivalent)🙂📚
February 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Been walking with 🐶🎃 at the King George V Playing Fields (‘recreation ground’) in Cottingham, setting for Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’. Here are the ‘swing and sandpit’ (or equivalent)🙂📚
Today is the 33rd anniversary of the death of my father, Eric Wild, known to the family as Bill & to work colleagues at Shell & BP as Jimmy. He spent 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW on the Burma Railway. He was a wonderful man & always in my thoughts🥲
February 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Today is the 33rd anniversary of the death of my father, Eric Wild, known to the family as Bill & to work colleagues at Shell & BP as Jimmy. He spent 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW on the Burma Railway. He was a wonderful man & always in my thoughts🥲
Final result for the beech tree’s haircut. Very smart 🙂🌳
February 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Final result for the beech tree’s haircut. Very smart 🙂🌳
Very impressive work by the tree surgeon reducing our huge beech tree. Amazing how he can shape the tree from that high up. It was very cold all day🥶👏
February 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Very impressive work by the tree surgeon reducing our huge beech tree. Amazing how he can shape the tree from that high up. It was very cold all day🥶👏
Finished Robert Harris’s excellent #Munich. It starts with a quote from historian FW Maitland (1850-1906) “We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future”. The way the ‘superpowers’ sought to carve up Czechoslovakia in 1938 should be a stark reminder for Ukraine🇺🇦
February 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Finished Robert Harris’s excellent #Munich. It starts with a quote from historian FW Maitland (1850-1906) “We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future”. The way the ‘superpowers’ sought to carve up Czechoslovakia in 1938 should be a stark reminder for Ukraine🇺🇦
Just finished Robert Harris’s ‘An Officer And A Spy’. I studied the Dreyfus Affair at school but this is a remarkable retelling of the political scandal which divided French society😳📚🇫🇷
February 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Just finished Robert Harris’s ‘An Officer And A Spy’. I studied the Dreyfus Affair at school but this is a remarkable retelling of the political scandal which divided French society😳📚🇫🇷
I’ve taken pictures like this a hundred times but being with Pumpkin on a beautiful sunny day down by the Humber, with the bridge beyond, always gladdens my heart. This was today😍🐶🎃
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’ve taken pictures like this a hundred times but being with Pumpkin on a beautiful sunny day down by the Humber, with the bridge beyond, always gladdens my heart. This was today😍🐶🎃
Today would have been the 79th wedding anniversary of my parents, Eric & Daphne Wild, married OTD in 1946 at St James’s Piccadilly after my father returned from 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW. Miss them very much🥲
February 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today would have been the 79th wedding anniversary of my parents, Eric & Daphne Wild, married OTD in 1946 at St James’s Piccadilly after my father returned from 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW. Miss them very much🥲
Just finished Robert Harris’s latest novel #Precipice Extraordinary story of the relationship between HH Asquith & Venetia Stanley before and during WW1. Highly recommended📕👍
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just finished Robert Harris’s latest novel #Precipice Extraordinary story of the relationship between HH Asquith & Venetia Stanley before and during WW1. Highly recommended📕👍
Pumpkin enjoying the sun & the snowdrops on a Spring-like February Sunday. Lovely day😎🐶🎃
February 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Pumpkin enjoying the sun & the snowdrops on a Spring-like February Sunday. Lovely day😎🐶🎃
Argentinian Malbec. Sadly not my own brand but pretty good value🙂🍷🇦🇷
January 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Argentinian Malbec. Sadly not my own brand but pretty good value🙂🍷🇦🇷
Pumpkin a bit wind-swept on our walk today😐🎃🐶💨
January 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Pumpkin a bit wind-swept on our walk today😐🎃🐶💨
Red sky in the morning😳
January 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Red sky in the morning😳
Walking down from the old railway line to the playing fields at Anlaby. Beautiful day but only 2 degrees & the ground still frozen🥶❄️🐶🎃
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Walking down from the old railway line to the playing fields at Anlaby. Beautiful day but only 2 degrees & the ground still frozen🥶❄️🐶🎃
No football today! Frozen pitch😐🐶🎃❄️
January 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
No football today! Frozen pitch😐🐶🎃❄️
No football today! Frozen pitch😐🐶🎃❄️
January 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
No football today! Frozen pitch😐🐶🎃❄️
Nice ‘Weary Walkers’ stroll round King George V Playing Fields in Cottingham. Frosty &
a bit waterlogged in parts but a bright, crisp morning. Scene of Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’🙂🐶🎃📚@plsoc.bsky.social
a bit waterlogged in parts but a bright, crisp morning. Scene of Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’🙂🐶🎃📚@plsoc.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nice ‘Weary Walkers’ stroll round King George V Playing Fields in Cottingham. Frosty &
a bit waterlogged in parts but a bright, crisp morning. Scene of Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’🙂🐶🎃📚@plsoc.bsky.social
a bit waterlogged in parts but a bright, crisp morning. Scene of Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’🙂🐶🎃📚@plsoc.bsky.social
Listening to this brilliant edition of #ThisCulturalLife whilst walking 🐶🎃 down the old Hull&Barnsley railway line. Even Philip Larkin gets a mention. Beautiful day! @plsoc.bsky.social @johnwilson14.bsky.social @edwinapitman.bsky.social 🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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January 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Listening to this brilliant edition of #ThisCulturalLife whilst walking 🐶🎃 down the old Hull&Barnsley railway line. Even Philip Larkin gets a mention. Beautiful day! @plsoc.bsky.social @johnwilson14.bsky.social @edwinapitman.bsky.social 🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I’m working in the bedroom & 🐶🎃 has taken herself off to bed😴
December 30, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I’m working in the bedroom & 🐶🎃 has taken herself off to bed😴
My weekend of Irish culture finished with the beautifully-filmed & poignant ‘That They May Face the Rising Sun’ based on the novel by John McGahern 🎥🎬🇮🇪
December 29, 2024 at 8:25 PM
My weekend of Irish culture finished with the beautifully-filmed & poignant ‘That They May Face the Rising Sun’ based on the novel by John McGahern 🎥🎬🇮🇪