Help wanted. Can anyone identify the clothing worn by the young woman in this portrait photo by W.T. Furniss who is buried at Wardsend. It looks like work wear e.g. munitions worker (the period is right) but the scarf/neckerchief and fascinator(?) are a bit of a puzzle.

The current #thetenx5 lists flying around here are killing me when it comes to shortlisting for my #WeeklyMusicCall. Even without those, there's a lot of great regulations at the moment.

About bloody time with Jöro.

I hope to find out if I'm going to be a grandfather or grandmother tomorrow, as it were. One potential piece of news, in the latter event, made me cry.

I wish to strongly recommend the brilliantly manned Annabelle Chair legs to you. Try Shoo-Fly for starters. youtu.be/wMTjvjxG1eU?...

Anyone in London/ who sees shows: I'm down next weekend with an unexpected evening to kill. What should I be seeing?

Disco Inferno 🔥🔥🔥 #BurnsNight

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

I really like The Brothers Comatose - I commend them to you - and here they are with Sweet Sally doing a cracking take on Bob's Don't Think Twice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlW...

Anyway. Bernie Taupin's third wife's Dad's fourth wife was Rita Hayworth. Just goes to show.

An interesting range of #vinyl coming up for auction here tomorrow. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

"A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) - Sam Cooke 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zD...

Putting a set list of music from or linked to New Orleans for tomorrow's #WeeklyMusicCall. Suggestions gratefully accepted. Though there's shed loads to go at, obv.

After an evening mostly in tears last night, for not a lot of reason, I am officially pulling the red alarm cord labelled "struggling". Been a while since my MH took a real downturn, so I now need to work out how to pilot a way ahead from here.

I've just spent half an hour watching Darlene Love on various Christmas Lettermans doing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). Couldn't be happier. She is a living marvel.

Stop. Anthropomorphising. AI. It can't "lie", any more than it can apologise, or tell the truth. It isn't human; it doesn't have agency or intent. It doesn't know what lying is; it doesn't have human emotions or motivations. Grok is a shit tool with zero guardrails, made deliberately so by humans.

I'm watching the Operation Mincemeat film for the first time, having seen the musical a couple of times (and booked in at least twice more, I think). The film appears to be a serious situation. Firth has not yet changed costume nor engaged in dialogue about newts. Puzzled.

I see your top ten guitarist lists but not one mention of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Pfffft! 🙌🏽

Meanwhile, I'm just into book 5 (of 6) in Adam Bede. Poor Hetty. It's genuinely riveting stuff.

We won a match! God bless West Ham and all who sail in her. I genuinely thought we'd go the entire season without. It's 98% likely we're going down so, but at least this is one humiliation avoided. Next on our list: to overtake Derby's 11 points de minimis. #WWFC

Making headway with Mary Ann's Adam Bede. I need to finish it by Sunday evening. The squire's dance has just been and gone. I seem to recall from vague memories of reading it maybe 25 years ago that it's about to all go wrong. #GeorgeEliot

Well, I have zero idea what I am best doing with the year ahead. There are some pretty miraculous things hopefully happening, which I'll be a small part of. But, purely for my own sake, I feel a bit all over the place. No sure where to head. So, I have a rum and coke and Baba O'Reilly playing...

Major need from Nether Edge: I have changed the bed. Feeling a bit becalmed at the moment, so this counts as an achievement.

Got my clock up and running, from the very helpful @hiddenbritain.bsky.social. V pleasing. Not quite level yet though by, the look of this.

excuse me and I say this unironically but paddington 2 is one of the best films ever made

The #DuvetKnowItsChristmas night is a source of pure joy. Go delve in the hashtag, and lob in a few quid if you can.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Right, your Christmas won't be complete until you've seen me singing Tim Minchin's beautiful White Wine In The Sun. So here it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Q1... I'm in a community choir called Bevox, based in Sheffield & Lincoln. I'm well aware that it's flawed. But, for me, this is very good.

Goose walked.

Weary, and on the downward slope, so I'm listening to things that cheer me up. This piece of low down and dirty joy included. Pretty much perfect. #TheFaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwyy...

In a very, very rare event for me, I'm actually proud of something I did today. Choir solo - White Wine In The Sun. I think the last one was mum's eulogy; early 2018. Unless you count winning the ongoing battle against my suicidal thoughts. Not sure I do, tbh.

. @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social Hi there. Seen A Christmas Carol twice this week. Cracking. Loved the singing. Will you publish those? Please? Score or recordings... But a big tip of my top hat to the costume designers. Late Georgian distinguished from mid-Victorian, if I read them right.

I've forgotten where I came upon this, but this was in my bookmarked tracks to try. So I've just listened to this, by Ichikawa Misuzu, and it's lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwks...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles Katherine Priddy: 🎵 Frightening Machines #6music #KatherinePriddy ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify #NowPlaying▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

@hiddenbritain.bsky.social Hi. I've just bought a BBC2 clock from you. The second hand would make it to about ten to, then start going backwards to about half past, then change direction again. It's now all stopped completely. Any suggesting please?

@watsoncomedian.bsky.social 'Eyup lad. Having to climb on stage takes third place in your show entries I've seen. #2 Hiding in a box on stage to surprise people with the wrong gig time. #1 Coming out DMs saying "Where's James Tringham?"

Well, I think that went pretty well. Both the choir, and my solo. Sure, bits I could improve - not least by not being on the verge of cracking up at the end. I'm no great singer. But, for me, I think I should be happy. I did White Wine in the Sun, fwiw. Which is beautiful.

Our first main choir concert of the Christmas run up tonight. Here, the big Methodist Church by the Crucible. I'm doing a solo, and can feel the nerves course through me as I type that.

Soul flag flies at half mast today.

I was out last night, so I'd missed that Steve Cropper has died. One of my absolute heroes. As my bio will indicate.

Out tonight to see Carlos Alomar, George Murray, Kevin Armstrong, Tal Bergman and more doing Bowie '76-'80. Lead singer was Cunio. Very strong, and at least a three octave range. Keys was Axel Tosca. He did a solo that sounded to me like a romantic classical piece. Can anyone tell me?

Congratulations to the red half of my adopted home city. Commiserations to the blue one. Hope it went smoothly.

Didn't know this. Just listened. It's really good. A definite find. Thanks.

And my audition earlier I think went decently, for me. I'm OK, but no great singer. However, this one I love.

There's also a really good a capella cover here www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAD8...

Here's the choir version. I love the original. I happened to be in Austria (on honeymoon, obv) when it first came out and it was on MTV heavy rotation. It's a brilliant pop song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OY-... I've heard it hundreds and hundreds of times. Still no idea what most of the lyrics are.

Settling down to pick my choices for tomorrow's #WeeklyMusicCall. I saw Robert Plant has done a Tiny Desk, so I'll check that. But, of course, I'm listening to a choral version of Nur Ein Wort that I played a couple of months ago.

It’s #Caturday so how dare we serve Axl’s lunch a few minutes late?!