Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings Rome

This is a beat away from being the saddest haiku ever

Blew Tiddler and Tadpole’s minds today by showing them this 3D representation of the Save icon.

"All of us who are really serious about lifting people out of poverty" says Tory Steve Baker, Chair of the ERG. And not a squeak out of the presenter: it's as if this is taking place in a parallel universe. #Newsnight

Heavy suppression in a protest against Ben Gvir's execution law, At least three people arrested and a Journalist was injured after a water cannon direcly shot him

Well done Newsnight for enabling Jacob Rees-Mogg express his "feelings" – unmoderated by any attempt at journalistic scrutiny – that there are "hundreds and millions of people who are *technically* eligible to claim asylum here." #Newsnight

The look in his eyes

My students are going to exciting places this Easter. Me? I am planning to rub candle-wax into the grooves of an old chest of drawers, bicarb-of-soda the inside of a kist to use for linens, and have a bone density scan. #weyhey

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

What on earth is going on? Brexit is being discussed! And there are two sane people on the panel. I can't follow what they're saying because I'm stunned. #Newsnight

Bus Painting: Sawston Chapel Cemetery in weak sunshine

Grateful to those of you posting about #pmqs because I can't watch it IRL. Just reading the posts makes my heart beat too hard. Particularly sickening to read Beth Rigby's brazen spin on it.

Mystified as to the point of Arlene Foster on this programme. #Newsnight

Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Cattle, according to 9yo pianist Alice’s theory homework. #pianoteaching

This, by Andrew O'Hagan, is too good to carry on reading on-screen. Off to the corner shop.

Chris Mason forgot to mention Brexit, when taking about recent 'huge shocks' to the economy that have left us more vulnerable. #bbcnews

So the last season of #Industry was pretty on-the-money, so to speak. Which is terrifying. #HBOIndustry www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.

This is what ecocide looks like.

is this a proofreading error – in which case🤣, or an obscure Americanism – in which case, 😠? Or my waning cognitive ability, in which case: 😨? #nytimesgames

Al Carns was pretty impressive there. #Newsnight

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

I love this painting by Winifred Nicholson of the pianist, Vera Moore. She's been describing as looking "as if she had just been told a lovely secret when she played".

A 15-year-old is a CHILD, not a "young women". Lazy headline. #Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Mangoes. We used to have to eat them in the bath when we were kids - could make a delicious mess of eating them.

The BBC is lost

Since publishing what I think of the way the graded music exam syllabus is being mis-used, and the problematic expectations this sets up for parents, I am getting fewer contacts through my website. So it's working! 💪 #PianoTeaching

“When the state is the alleged victim, the state moves at pace. When women are the alleged victims, the state has been taking its time.” Former Chief Crown Prosecutor Nasir Afzal on #bbcnews. #MountbattenWindsor #Andrew #arrest

Sneakily playing a note with an unexpected finger is – says 11yo pianist Boris – a "Fake Rabona pass". He's right! I must add this to the Blog I'll Never Write: a new version of Dozen A Day exercises, but they're all types of football manoeuvre. #PianoTeaching #TheBlogIWillNeverWrite

Anyone need some calm relief? Switch off Matt Vicker's inane gibbering and appreciate a few minutes' silence. I thoroughly recommend it. #Newsnight

Well if Tim Allan was doing a good job, I'd hate to see what failure looked like. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"ABRSM sounds like a disease," my nephew just said. He's right. The UK is manic about measurement. We test children more frequently, more intensively, harder, younger and for longer than *any other children in the world*. #PianoTeaching #MusicEd theconversation.com/even-more-te...

Feel like Mandelson meant this alarming story wasn’t noticed enough this week www.ft.com/content/cd08...

'Delphi is watering down their hummus,' my sister just texted to me. We live it large.

I want a Labour Leader who can beat Reform. I don't think it's Keir Starmer. I don't know if it's Andy Burnham. I'd get behind whoever could do it. The ONLY thing I'm sure about is: Andy Burnham needs to stfu. #AndyBurnham

Irish Traitors is a revelation! Less glossy and lavish than UK Traitors but all the better for it: raw, edgy, uncomfortable, witty. One player quips, after using his fluency in Irish for a mission: 'Well that'll be a first: surviving *because* I speak Irish'. #IrishTraitors #TheTraitors

Okay, bye bye, little house on Rightmove.

I'm not sure what I think of blocking Andy Burnham. I am sure that he is not the Great White Hope of the left – he's just as jellyfishy as Starmer. He just has a nice face and voice. Is that enough to stave off a Reform govt? I dunno. I'm at the point of desperation now. #AndyBurnham

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

It's unbearable to have these lies pumped, unfiltered - like raw sewage - live into my home. This isn't journalism. #bbcnews

Wow: my sister’s garden just now (in Devon) #NorthernLights

Post-teaching exorcism.

I think I just heard the most beautiful thing I have ever heard (live, obviously): Paul Lewis's Mozart (C minor, k457). The Adagio – I wish I hadn't had to make conversation and get home etc afterwards. Just wanted to sit there.

Laura Kuennsberg is interviewing Robert Jenrick more in sorrow than in anger: a note of gentle, sad and meek reproach. #bbcnews

How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)

Wow: great paragraph on the British obsession with graded music exams. This is piano teacher Alice Pinto quoting from @jessicaduchen.bsky.social 's novel, Alicia's Gift, in an interview with @crosseyedpianist.bsky.social . Here's the whole article: crosseyedpianist.com/2014/09/22/a... #PianoTeaching

How I'm entering 2026:

This is exciting. Imagine the possibilities of #Tidalpower! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Tidalpower