There aren’t many films that I’ve actually broken down into a literal flood of tears over. I’d heard that it’s happening a fair bit during Hamnet, and Max Richters score is certainly a huge part of it for me. This is a nice insight into how he was involved closely theankler.com/p/hes-the-re...

The only piece of direct marketing I’ve had from John Lewis (that I can remember), suggesting a new television. Sent to the same email address I used to buy a (bargain) television only a few months ago…

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Spotify Wrapped stats are in, always a hoot… • 52,845 mins (36 days) • Top genre: Soundtrack • Top artist: Public Service Broadcasting • Top song: How Bad Do U Want Me (Lady Gaga) • Top album: Interstellar (Hans Zimmer) • Listening age: 30 • Discovery role: Scout 🧭

Sucker for the Red Cups

Goodnight for now London!

This guy has your coffee order sorted

Of course that’s the headline, there is no other contender

Had an entire screen at Vue to myself last night. I wouldn’t have had it any other way! Watched @edgarwright.bsky.social’s Last Night in Soho. Late to the party on this but what a film! Beautiful shots of London, amazing recreation of the 60s and a cracking story to go with it.

This is one of those moments where I'm able to say "THIS IS MY TIME TO SHINE" and it has a double meaning 🧑‍🦲

"Some precious Duolingo streaks could be lost unless the internet outage is fixed before the end of the day." Can you imagine Duolingo allowing that to happen?

The (formidable) Last Dinner Party outstore gig last night courtesy of @vinilorecstore.bsky.social

An evening with the greats, Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade courtesy of @waterstones.bsky.social for @bobmort.bsky.social’s new book ‘The Long Shoe’ Get these two their own chat show!

This would seem like a perfect time for me to become "Britian" If I had any interest in: - Being an influencer - Becoming my own "brand" - Starting my own political party - Having a series of Christmas No 1's and associated merchandise involving chocolate bars www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Watched No Time to Die last night, enjoyed it a lot more than out initial cinema outing. Most enjoyable was the John Barry / Louie Armstrong throwbacks and the (can you call it) reverse parallel (?) to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service with the ending. Need to look up M’s quote he took from a book

A list of things that have certainly made me feel that I’m out of touch with home fashion www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

Kingfishers still farting about at Blashford. This isn’t a cardboard cut out of one, once I tried to slowly open the window of the hide it did a runner…

On Friday I had a brilliant time at the BFI Southbank watching two films involving the @petshopboys.co.uk The wonderfully surreal ‘it couldn’t happen here’ followed by a Q&A with Neil Tennant who sat with us to watch the premiere of the ‘Battleship Potemkin’ remaster synced to the PSB score!

Lovely evening walk over Purbeck

Been hanging around the local lake looking for kingfisher juveniles, they’re quite frequent at the moment but I’ve struggled to get good photos. Lovely to watch though 😊

Cracking Tuesday!

I’ve drawn out watching Andor for months and watched the final episode today, it’s been such a good show - need more quality like this please!

Apparently not too early for blackberries

Finished the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy today, shame there’s no plans for a third. A worthy successor to Voyager, proper good Trek and great cast. Fingers crossed someone picks this up…

Hovis Hill!

We had a bat in the house! I can now add ‘careful bat removal’ to my skills list… Can you do that AI?

A walk, a pint and… why not?

So happy to see a Woodpecker hopping to feed its babies this morning!!

Somewhere on Mustafa, #Eurovision has started - thank you #Norway for recreating Vader’s Castle

Seeing what food ChatGPT can change Stonehenge into - Pink Wafer anyone?

Fordingbridge Beacon lighting for today’s 80th Anniversary of VE Day

A privilege as always to see the stones

New blog post with the latest MixTape! blog.rathbone.dev/mixtape-x-25... WARNING: This one is all over the shop

Beautiful evening, stunning moon, better camera needed!!

Finished Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. A raw, inside look at her time at Facebook (2011–2018), trying to do good while the platform didn’t. Amazing stories about Zuckerberg, Sandberg, the price of “move fast break things.” When we build software, real lives are always on the other side.

Happy Friday!! Great bunch of new music out today 😊 New Album from Self Esteem, a single from Lorde and a lovely release from Teleman called the Piano EP that they’ve been drop feeding over the last month or so. Let’s go 🎧

Tonight’s movie was Interstellar It’s still a perfect movie

Strategy

First day of the holidays for me, car almost packed and a big journey planned!

Very excited to announce that I have been promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Serene! This is very special to me as this isn't just a result of hard work. It's a reflection of the people I've had the opportunity to work with, learn from, and be inspired by over my last 20+ years. Thank you! 🥰

Saw A Minecraft Movie today. Experienced the weirdest current trend of people applauding meme moments during the movie. Either I’m getting old or boring. Still, I somehow want to blame Trump…

I would totally have preferred that!! I’m not a fan of it just being Switch 2, it doesn’t feel very Nintendo. Other contenders I’d have accepted: ❤️‍🔥 Switch Ultra 💛 Switch Advance 🤎 NEW Switch 🧡 GameTube ❤️‍🩹 Game & Switch 💚 Switcheroo 💙 Switchy

There's a lot of nostalgia in here 😍 and I'm not ashamed to admit I still miss my Windows Phone. (I had tried to forget about Ballmer as a wired version of Dr Evil..!)

This month's MixTape blog post is here!

Late drive home last night after seeing Back to the Future the musical! Been waiting a long time to see this and the opportunity presented itself so we threw ourselves at it. It’s the most incredible experience, I’m still in awe… GREAT SCOTT

Good evening Wembley!

Okay I’ve changed my mind, I am a bit worried

Great Q&A episode on this Thursday’s Rest is Entertainment dedicated entirely to Adolescence with the Director and Director of Photography. Covering some of the technical miracles like THAT drone section… open.spotify.com/episode/1mg0...

I don’t think we should be worried about AI for a while still

Bit of fun for a Friday - I took my photo with the view of Salisbury from Old Sarum and asked Sora to add some atmospheric weather to it!