Alela Diane @aleladiane.bsky.social supporting King Creosote at Hackney Church hackney.church/events/king-... Sorry for the low-grade iPhone7 pics. Visual equivalence of straining to hear Alela's voice above the North London hipster hubbub. #noisyconcert

Dove Cottage and the last apple in Dorothy's orchard. wordsworth.org.uk/explore/

At Lanercost Priory @englishheritage.bsky.social the William Morris drape behind the altar, the tiered arches, the lion emblem. Edward I was here in 1306-07.

This book #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems has achieved Wainwright status... in Grasmere.

On the main table in my local Waterstone's, Bromley. The book of the year. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems

In the wheat fields at Kiefer/Van Gogh show @royalacademyarts.bsky.social www.royalacademy.org.uk

At Saturday's march in London bsky.app/profile/pscu... @pscupdates.bsky.social

Little Egret on Glassmill pond, on the Ravensbourne river, just yards from Bromley high street. Shows what a bit of re-wilding can do.

Did anybody else read this deeply weird column, and then check out the Mirror newspaper's 30 June wrapup of the Glastonbury festival (Rod Stewart pages 4-5, Olivia Rodrigo pp8-9, how great it all was pp 12-13 etc)? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Who just said: “Teaching our children to speak up for the change they want and need is the only way that we make this world a better place." A. Sir Keir Starmer B. Benjamin Netanyahu C. Bob Vylan

Landvetter Airport Hotel, Göteborg, is not like any other airport hotel. It's a Nordic interior design experience with its own art collection. landvetterairporthotel.se/image-gallery/

At the Botanical Gardens in Göteborg www.botaniska.se

Camille O'Sullivan's sung interpretation of The Rape of Lucrece is a joy. What would she do with the ekphrasis; addressing the painting of Priam's Troy? Oxford dons hate the interruption of the drama, and O'Sullivan cleverly used only "Her blue blood changed to black in every vein".

Still in Greece. So many temples.

At the May Day rally in Athens. Relief from the traffic...

Wonderful talk by Angela Hatton for Historic Houses @historic-houses.bsky.social sky.social at Camden Place; built on former property of William Camden (1551-1623). Later guests Empress Eugénie & Napoleon III feel present still. New (since 1894!) occupants Chislehurst Golf Club made us all welcome.

BT says we are ready for Digital Voice; just plug phone in back of the hub. Problematic.

A long weekend's grandchild care in Gothenburg means lots of trams www.goteborg.com/en/guides/ge... ... and paper planes.

St. Mildred's by the castle, Canterbury; a lovely church with a chimney.

A view of Southwark Street from the office before heading down to follow a medieval/Tudor trail www.layersoflondon.org Southwark has changed a lot since then. @layersoflondon.bsky.social

Hard work in the gloom at Chevening where @borisjohnsonmp.bsky.social skipped COBRA meetings in the pandemic to write his divorce papers. Still, mustn't grumble; got the memorial to Frederica, wife of Napoleonic war hero James Stanhope, whose family bequeathed the estate to a grateful ruling class.

Happy Christmas Eve from the high street in Beckenham... that's in Southeast London. For those of you in Trumpland, London is a city floating on an island off the coast of Europe.

Foxes have pretty much taken over our neighbourhood. This one spent most of the day in our back garden.