Ruth Elleson
@ruthelleson.bsky.social
Church/choral musician (alto), massive opera nerd, surtitle operator, and project planner working in public transport. Idiots not tolerated. She/her.
Join us at @stolavehartst.bsky.social this afternoon for Choral Evensong on a Remembrance theme.
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Join us at @stolavehartst.bsky.social this afternoon for Choral Evensong on a Remembrance theme.
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
Tonight’s Lidl pasta. My Italian is not the best, but I think they meant “ripieni”…
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tonight’s Lidl pasta. My Italian is not the best, but I think they meant “ripieni”…
A foggy Remembrance Sunday morning on the shuttle train from Slough to Windsor. You’ll have to take my word for the fact that you can usually see Windsor Castle at this point…
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A foggy Remembrance Sunday morning on the shuttle train from Slough to Windsor. You’ll have to take my word for the fact that you can usually see Windsor Castle at this point…
In case this is useful to anyone who may not otherwise have seen it…
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In case this is useful to anyone who may not otherwise have seen it…
When will I learn to check bridge lift times before trying to take a bus over Tower Bridge?
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When will I learn to check bridge lift times before trying to take a bus over Tower Bridge?
This is FAR from the most obstructively I’ve found a dockless bike parked outside my front door, but come ON, I know you’re an idiot but seriously?
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is FAR from the most obstructively I’ve found a dockless bike parked outside my front door, but come ON, I know you’re an idiot but seriously?
Well, this is a helpful state of affairs on the TV Licensing website on the last day of a month (all UK TV licenses expire on the last day of a calendar month).
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Well, this is a helpful state of affairs on the TV Licensing website on the last day of a month (all UK TV licenses expire on the last day of a calendar month).
OK, I keep seeing this “21st century” epithet and it is bugging me. Dead Man Walking was written and premiered in 2000, which, if you actually start counting from the number 1, was the final year of the 20th century. It feels like it’s being gratuitously described that way to make it stand out.
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
OK, I keep seeing this “21st century” epithet and it is bugging me. Dead Man Walking was written and premiered in 2000, which, if you actually start counting from the number 1, was the final year of the 20th century. It feels like it’s being gratuitously described that way to make it stand out.
True! I stayed in an Ibis in Liège in 2017 that still had a modem socket above the desk 🤣 (and that delightful textured wallpaper…)
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
True! I stayed in an Ibis in Liège in 2017 that still had a modem socket above the desk 🤣 (and that delightful textured wallpaper…)
I got this email last year about the Hackney Empire Panto…
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I got this email last year about the Hackney Empire Panto…
Well, that’s a nice change: on a bus on a Sunday morning, which is supposedly on diversion but in actual fact it’s running normally and there’s no sign of any roadworks at all! They must have finished early.
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Well, that’s a nice change: on a bus on a Sunday morning, which is supposedly on diversion but in actual fact it’s running normally and there’s no sign of any roadworks at all! They must have finished early.
I have a whole repertoire of stock answers to this question! If it’s Richard Strauss it’s a Heckelphone. If it’s Berlioz I need more information, because it’s either a Turkish crescent (“jingling Johnny”) or an ophicleide… don’t ask me about Mahler though because it could be flipping well anything.
October 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I have a whole repertoire of stock answers to this question! If it’s Richard Strauss it’s a Heckelphone. If it’s Berlioz I need more information, because it’s either a Turkish crescent (“jingling Johnny”) or an ophicleide… don’t ask me about Mahler though because it could be flipping well anything.
Apparently there’s a Piquepoul winery called Pique & Mixe 😆
October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Apparently there’s a Piquepoul winery called Pique & Mixe 😆
At Sadler’s Wells for this English National Ballet mixed bill. I am particularly looking forward to a second look at David Dawson’s lovely realisation of Strauss’s Four Last Songs.
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
At Sadler’s Wells for this English National Ballet mixed bill. I am particularly looking forward to a second look at David Dawson’s lovely realisation of Strauss’s Four Last Songs.
Today’s choice of choir pencil was not an intentional slight towards Mahler - rather the first one that I found when I was packing my bag for rehearsal…
(I’d tell you to come to the concert, but it’s sold out 😎)
(I’d tell you to come to the concert, but it’s sold out 😎)
October 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Today’s choice of choir pencil was not an intentional slight towards Mahler - rather the first one that I found when I was packing my bag for rehearsal…
(I’d tell you to come to the concert, but it’s sold out 😎)
(I’d tell you to come to the concert, but it’s sold out 😎)
It’s a few years since I subscribed to it, but the Times used to be a serious paper. Nowadays it thinks this sort of thing is worthy of a push notification…
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It’s a few years since I subscribed to it, but the Times used to be a serious paper. Nowadays it thinks this sort of thing is worthy of a push notification…
This is from a marketing email from the Royal Opera House gift shop. Who measures “time from now until Christmas” in… number of Sundays? 🤷🏻♀️ other than church admin types?
September 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is from a marketing email from the Royal Opera House gift shop. Who measures “time from now until Christmas” in… number of Sundays? 🤷🏻♀️ other than church admin types?
I was MINUTES from returning my ticket in favour of a night in! 😍
September 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I was MINUTES from returning my ticket in favour of a night in! 😍
I just had a look on Twitter for what else I had remarked upon at the time of seeing it at Opera North, and found this. Spontaneous communication is much easier with the aid of modern technology.
September 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I just had a look on Twitter for what else I had remarked upon at the time of seeing it at Opera North, and found this. Spontaneous communication is much easier with the aid of modern technology.
These just arrived in the post. I’m hoping that before I next see Woolf Works at the Royal Ballet - in January/February - I might actually get around to familiarising myself with the source texts. I intended to on both previous occasions and never got around to it.
September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
These just arrived in the post. I’m hoping that before I next see Woolf Works at the Royal Ballet - in January/February - I might actually get around to familiarising myself with the source texts. I intended to on both previous occasions and never got around to it.
I just opened up the weather app on my phone and laughed out loud 😆 but quite honestly I would sooner have two weeks of this than two days of heatwave.
September 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I just opened up the weather app on my phone and laughed out loud 😆 but quite honestly I would sooner have two weeks of this than two days of heatwave.
Commuting home from the City this afternoon and fancy letting the tube strike crowds die down first?
Or maybe you’re on your way to Wilton’s Music Hall to see Patience (as I am)?
Why not start off by joining us at St Olave’s for Choral Evensong?
Or maybe you’re on your way to Wilton’s Music Hall to see Patience (as I am)?
Why not start off by joining us at St Olave’s for Choral Evensong?
September 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Commuting home from the City this afternoon and fancy letting the tube strike crowds die down first?
Or maybe you’re on your way to Wilton’s Music Hall to see Patience (as I am)?
Why not start off by joining us at St Olave’s for Choral Evensong?
Or maybe you’re on your way to Wilton’s Music Hall to see Patience (as I am)?
Why not start off by joining us at St Olave’s for Choral Evensong?
I feel as though there’s somebody with a sense of humour behind this: the waiting room at my dentist’s surgery is basically completely bare other than three display-mounted books about ways of being in relaxed harmony with the world…
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I feel as though there’s somebody with a sense of humour behind this: the waiting room at my dentist’s surgery is basically completely bare other than three display-mounted books about ways of being in relaxed harmony with the world…
“There’ll never be a day so sunny,
It could not happen twice…” 🤣🎶🤔
It could not happen twice…” 🤣🎶🤔
September 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“There’ll never be a day so sunny,
It could not happen twice…” 🤣🎶🤔
It could not happen twice…” 🤣🎶🤔