Quite the honour to see a preview of Pale View of Hills and have a Q&A with Kazuo Ishiguro and Camilla Aiko. Loved the film.

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JONATHAN GROFF as Rosalind! Crashed the website. Involuntary squeaking when I heard about this in the members bar at the South Bank.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... UK premiere of John Adams’ Piano Concerto ‘After the Fall’ with superstar Vikingur Olafsson

Looking forward to seeing the GOT extravaganza in July in Stratford @the-rsc.bsky.social and further announcements tomorrow…. 🤐

I am not going to pretend I enjoyed If I had Legs I'd Kick You. But (spoiler) if I said the only scene I laughed at featured the hamster being run over, does that make me a bad person?

Today the outstanding Samurai exhibition. Given the half term WEATHER the @britishmuseum.bsky.social is packed so is only open this Saturday for members and ticket holders www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Lucian Freud day at the NPG

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/events/meltd... Quite a coup

Fluffy white stuff outside in Norfolk

Into The Weekend with Masterpiece Theatre #Sondheim @bridgetheatre.bsky.social 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

Well worth seeing Richard Eyre’s darkly humorous Dance of Death @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social. I think they need a safe word for Will Keen’s bouts of illness they are so convincing. And the programme told me Munch asked Strindberg to do the catalogue entry for 😱!

FWIW I thought this comment from Neel Kashkari was probably one of the most interesting ones — and one that we should still be thinking about today.

Great work by the @financialtimes.com. Just staggering given the kerfuffle over the Robertson loan to buy the Notting Hill house.

HMV in Oxford Street selling I Swear DVD 📀 at the same price as the Bezos behemoth. And although I could have bought David McCloskey’s The Persian for a couple of quid less online yesterday, my copy from Waterstones on the King’s Road is signed. 📖✍️ #SupportTheHighStreet

My first time in Notre Dame since the fire… and she didn’t disappoint!

Magnificent stormy painting of 1826 Brighton with the Chain Pier looking towards Marine Parade. My grandfather claimed he remembered seeing it but he would have been a tiny tot when it was lost in 1896.

Lots of mixed opinions on Alex Honnold's solo of Taipei 101 today, which will be streamed live on Netflix (!). Many won't know about his non-profit, Honnold Foundation, to which he donates around 1/3 of his earnings. My interview with him for FT HTSI from 2023: www.ft.com/content/fdc1...

Great cast, great play from Luke Norris at the Royal Court. Robert Aramayo, basking in his Bafta nomination, and theatre superstar Rosie Sheehy.

Would be so much nicer if the announcement pieces celebrated the positive story of those who had been nominated.

Frozen Hour Meets #GoldenHour Awaiting the big yellow orb to rise above the mountains this morning. It's -2°C, it feels colder. #StunDay #SkySunday Langley Twp, British Columbia #photography #landscape #sunrise #fog #nature #originalcontent #mountain #langley #BritishColumbia #imagesofcanada

A good day for the Lego kit to arrive.

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/eve... Ariane Grande and Jonathan Bailey 😍. on sale May 2026 for summer 2027.

Booked Owain & Henry in November to see @mmchshe.bsky.social play Owain Glyndwr for his @welshnattheatre.bsky.social enterprise. All credit to him for his energy, time and financial commitment to support the arts in Wales.

Turner's sketchbook at Tate Britain.

Snowy Norfolk earlier in the week. Doesn't stop the air force practising their skirmishes overhead.

Nuuk, capital of Greenland. August 2024

Prince Christian Sound, Greenland August 2024

Stromness this afternoon. The sun sets as another snow shower arrives.

Looking back on some of my favourite moments of 2025. These 8-month-old cubs coming to check out the tundra buggy was definitely one of those unforgettable encounters. #mammals 🌿

Theatre: Royal Court season plus Branagh, Erivo, Sheen and Manville/Turner Les Liaisons are the recommendations.

First theatre show of the year and it's a train crash. 🕛

Fair play to Thames Water which worked overnight to fix a broken water pipe under the road within 24 hours of being notified this week.

It’s done: The four MTV UK/Europe music channels have shut down. But they went out cheekily. Final song on MTV Music was “Video Killed the Radio Star,” natch. youtu.be/9hqJ9Fe-FeQ?...

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

All My Sons is just as good as everyone says. Paapa Essiedu and Bryan Cranston are outstanding. Last theatre trip of 2025!

Don't usually get to inspect the ceiling fixtures

Nice to see Max Richter on the New Year honours list

Local cinema was pretty packed for the 4.30pm screening of Marty Supreme. Very Safdie: fast, aggressive, entertaining and a lot of not very nice people.

The sound-augmented Oregon Trail ornament is sending me. Nothing says festive cheer like the phrase “You have died of dysentery.” www.hallmark.com/ornaments/ke...

Stuff vs Experiences. Tough call for the aspirational Xmas present @designmuseum.bsky.social

10 Elmore Leonard novels on Kindle deal of the day at 99p

Weren’t we led to believe that AI would be able to zip through all these files in the blink of an eye and generate a list of who was with Miss Scarlett in the ballroom with a candlestick?

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Kenrex is worth an evening of your time. Stunning tour de force performance from the multi dimensional Jack Holden. Currently at @theotherpalace.bsky.social

So popular I’m on a waitlist! What a great idea. Huge Lego fan (except the bricks I’ve stepped on bare foot)….

This is an incredible story about Nathan Newby, who talked a man out of bombing a hospital: ‘It’s just a bomb’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Staging the gender bending queer celebration Oh, Mary! with Mason Alexander Park at the Trafalgar Studios is an entirely appropriate response to the nonsense gathering on Whitehall.