@profcarolyne.bsky.social this is selling v well in Edinburgh, apparently.

Remembered this when seeing this week’s private eye

It’s not true, but any excuse to post this favourite

Join us for @kitchenbee.bsky.social’s excellent tomato pie.

@hertfordcollege.bsky.social, which would have just built its iconic bridge. Come visit for your research.

Fine Shakespeare birthday cake in Bath

So that’s the advantage conferred by a private school
education. No wonder they’re so cross about the VAT

Brilliant showing of Grand Theft Hamlet this evening @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social, courtesy of Mubi. 1/2

It’s the best I can do.

Stroking a tired dog. Hope the weekend brings some cheer, Helen

I was honoured to contribute to Henry Woudhuysen’s festschrift, brilliantly edited by Daniel Smith and Hazel Wilkinson. My chapter, on the elusive Love’s Labour’s Won, is free to access until 13 February - check it out and the rest of the book too 👇

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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, and me at the BBC having recorded In Our Time on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - tx 28 December.