Brilliant and indispensable viewing. I particularly loved those baobab trees and their metaphorical two fingers to empire - they have become my arboreal heroes.

You might have read this book already, but if not, I highly recommend it www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...

Luckily my daughter's 'care' wasn't quite as appalling as in the article, and a few of the health professionals were great, but even then, after three years in the system she left it deeply traumatised and recovery took years. She's a remarkable young woman to have got through it.

I always look forward to your Londonist Time Machine posts - thank you for brightening my inbox!

Would a VPN not work?

Aer on a G String?

To be fair, Herschel called the planet 'Georgium Sidus', although that sounds a bit like a nasty disease you might contract after uranus has been discovered.

Yes, I noticed that the other day!

I always think of clouds like that above the Thames as being a flotilla of sky-ships.

I'm not going to pretend I'm hugely familiar with his music, but I've sung his Viderunt Omnes (In fact there's a group of us who perform it nearly every December in Trafalgar Square as part of our carol singing) and Vox in Rama, and they're both wonderful.

Too true. I'm a translator (alongside being an author), and I've seen my income plummet over the past few years, largely as a result of AI. It's rare these days that I get to concerts, as I simply can't afford to risk spending money when I don't know where my next income is coming from. It's scary.