more of you should realise this about me tbqh

One of the myths perpetuated by Shaffer, and this new adaptation, is that Mozart never crossed anything out. He did, and he restructured sections eg using symbols to denote repeats. In K491 he ended up drawing faces instead of asterisks (zoom in). I was so happy to get to see this score at the RCM ❤️

ɹɐǝ⅄ ʍǝᴉΛ ʎddɐH

ooh does anyone know the exact timings to do the same trick with The Apartment

oh no

pfffffff I'm sorry Henry but yes

important: just heard an owl

it's like the word has gone right up to the barre but the mirror is the kind you get at a fairground

flipping heck. re-watched Yes Prime Minister: The Grand Design. had forgotten somehow the atmosphere of the first part especially. that script just lands punch after punch after punch. bleak

@strongmisgiving.bsky.social palate cleanser

if you see something and it reminds you of a memory you'd 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 until seeing the something reminded you of it, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 just before you remembered it

PAIN into ART

oh dear just to add to this while the paint's still wet, hot toad gnirps is without question a festive root vegetable dish from the eighteenth century isn't it

Oh bloody HELL, Radio Three I've had to park :(

impressive that they managed to hold the pencil, really

nooooo 8-O / yesssss \o/

:(. those poor guys just can't catch a break, can they

Animal Facts: If you say the word "tennis" to a duck, it doesn't really react in any particular way

Close enough

this was terrific :)

mise-en-place, chou rouge rôti

- how's the research going? - oh you know. slowly - you surprise me - WATCH IT

yessssssss just finished all the tasks, ALL of them, even the extra-powerful task that was worse than any of the others \o/ now to process the difficult emotions I was using their non-completion to block out wait oh oh 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵

planesailing

Nobody has ever experienced as much physical pleasure as a cat getting exactly the right bit of their ear itched. Is it really possible to levitate? Yes

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

also, cars and shoes and honky horns wait

mildly concerned for us all that this is the stage we're at and it's only the 23rd. Imagine where we'll be by boxing day

@davidwilloughby.bsky.social it's time for the greatest recording of the greatest christmas song ever created #deckthedj

I get this a lot

fabulous

Incredibly good point

more of a cry for help than a comment, really

@mariephillips.bsky.social total washout, wall-to-wall eps :(

apropos of this, driving home this afternoon DON'T YOU DARE anyway the radio played this, and as the last notes faded out, a dj said, not the last time we'll be hearing *that* in the next few days, and I then changed the station, and the first notes of a song started up, and yes, you guessed it

Add a caption. *Yes I’m looking at you @wildobliquities.bsky.social

pronounce ‘Here endeth’ much more loudly than I’d meant The echoes snigger briefly

new for sale, baby shoes just dropped

although, tangentially, if you are as keen as I on the dreadful recipes with NO PHOTOS (the DREAM!), just numbers, in hefty Victorian household cookbooks, you'll know that once there were Many Puddings all called Pudding plus a place, now melted away like snow in spring to little more than Bakewell,

More seasonal than an overpriced German sausage: the Nunkie Ghost Story for Christmas Eve. M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History" broadcast live at 7pm(UK) on 24 Dec & available for catch up anytime after. Simply register in advance & PWYC here christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk

RSVPs appreciated so we can work out how many bags of crisps to buy

It's time to read this. A god tier book. An exquisite long poem disguised as a late 60s book for children

this feels educational tbh

after all why shouldn't books be comfy too

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social new Hendrika and Mr Hofstra pic just dropped

Honestly just ordered this so fast nearly broke my fingers