Love this article. Fascinating. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Everyman cinema for an 11am screening of Project Hail Mary. Everyone was eating and drinking. Is it wrong of me NOT to want to hear someone CRUNCHING REALLY LOUDLY in my ear or burping gassy cider into the ether? #misophonia

Setting up a new Mac is torturous. We are in password and account passkey hell. #mac #hell #passwordidiots

#moon songs for today - The Guardian missed out Family Coach by @thelilactime.bsky.social A must listen for today. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

REALLY?! Tell that to the King on what will be a truly hideous state visit. BBC news website: “US President Donald Trump lashes out at the UK and other countries, telling them to "go get your own oil" from the Strait of Hormuz.”

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

“Trying Times” by James Blake has just come up on my playlist. CRIKEY. THE LYRICS. Listening to it on the Windrush and so want everyone to hear it.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I ❤️ this series so much - it’s a musical odyssey, taking you to new tunes & places you’ve never been before. The knowledge & excitement & passion is contagious.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Lovely article. Not the kind of art school I recall from back in the day. 😳😐

An urban Orion - faint on this iPhone camera, but SO bright in real life! Beautiful. #Orion #constellation #twilight-ish

This evening’s 1989 #totp best tune was Keep on Moving. 💯 classic. Everyone’s jeans were horrid though.

Unprimed art boards and a small blank canvas = art fear #nervous #art #outofpractice

This day six years ago, the place I worked at started its working from home policy due to #Covid-19. The world felt crazy then. And even more so now.

A compromise we can all get behind surely

Fascinating morning @londonmuseum.bsky.social The history is gobsmacking. The brutality of the human trade for sugar, tea, coffee, chocolate, spices etc etc etc…

I went to the @londonmuseum.bsky.social today. Amazing. But I saw something that will stay with me. I got off the tube at Canary Wharf, & as I left the station, I saw a smart young woman holding up an A4 sheet of paper with all her quals on it ACCA, Business MSc. Made me so sad. 1/2 🧵

I listened to Jessie Buckley on Desert Island Discs today. So impressed with her drive and confidence at just 17 to be who she wanted and needed to be. Lovely. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listening to BBCRadio4’s #BroadcastingHouse and shouting at this relentlessly shitty news. To all the raging mad politicians out there happy #iWD2026

Isn’t it weird when you hear your name on the radio? But obviously it’s not you being interviewed. It was a much more cleverer professor from Oxford, my name #Doppelgänger. I’ve spent the last few minutes listening to her as I brew a herbal tea wondering what it’d be like to be THAT Helen!

#DIYDISASTERS Why did I start decorating the bedroom? Because there was a bit of flaking paint & I couldn’t resist picking it, resulting in 2 whole walls being stripped. Tedious prep, expensive white paint dries patchily, & the plaster I sanded for hours still shows as an ugly blob.

Myth made real. Beautiful and somehow weirdly moving. From the glorious book Divine Might by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

Marylebone was beautiful this lunchtime. Winter was gone. Diners sat at pavement tables, groovy pub goers standing outside basking in the sunshine, sneaking a swift pint.

Had #breakfast out this morning. Asked if a particular table was free and if it was ok to sit there and the trendy waiter said “I don’t give a monkey’s”. We stayed, but I do wish I’d told him how utterly charmless he was. And he got the coffee orders wrong. 😑

Descending the stairs for home pilates this morning. Didn’t see the small dumbbell on the floor as I walked off the last stair. Stepped onto it and twisted by ankle. Am now laid up feeling sorry for myself.

How do I know every word of “Together we are beautiful” by Fern Kinney? I never bought the single, and would have thought it was very uncool… #totp

Where the job applications are done! #homeoffice

Bold #abstraction

Be quiet Jenrick. Depression is not a “mild” illness.

Quote with a gif that pops up when you type your name.

Best mimosa blossom in town I reckon. The scent’s as vibrant as the blossom’s colour. I forgot February was so perfumed, what with Sarcococca and winter honeysuckle. So jealous as our potted mimosa is spindly and without blossom 😥

THE SUN’S OUT, THERE IS BLUE SKY!

What’s the best word to describe this morning’s weather on my walk to Crystal Palace? drizzle, dreich, mizzle, dank, fret, smur. If I was in Orkney I’m sure it’d be “altran”. The photo’s of the wonderful glossary of nature words in #Landmarks.

One of my National Gallery favourites. The Renaissance was very surreal. Apollo and Daphne.

Despite being pay as you earn (PAYE) when I had a job last year, the tax man says I owe £££. So I grudgingly paid up and then took myself off to the National Gallery to cheer myself up. This painting resonated.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this was an excellent listen this morning. Time to rewatch The Graduate I reckon.

Went to St Barts North Wing to see the Hogarth Stair and the Great Hall. And the gruesome medical equipment in the small museum (gruesome!).

#jobhunt update day 1: I’ve spent this morning finessing my CV. It looks great, a career & experience distilled into just two pages. Pinged it to a few roles that look wonderful. Then I notice small typos, & in brackets a note to self to “add metrics when you have them.” Hope dashed #CVfail

“And the ship sails on” by @thelilactime.bsky.social and Stephen Duffy is just perfect IMHO.

Hahaha! Love it.

#saturday shoes circa 1605 style!

Blondie, Spandau, Visage - I remember this 1981 episode of #totp so well. Think I spent all my Saturday job money on 12 inches of Rapture and Fade to Grey.

Friday tree vibes - knobbly or filigree (filitree!?) #trees #greyskies

I love the jewellery here - I don’t understand the thin black thread tied to a ring on what must be her wedding finger #tatebritain #stuarts #portraitofalady @tate.bsky.social

Glorious. These are just the outfits for another grey London day. With boots. And attitude.

For #balladwednesday - a sneaky listen to Prefab Sprout’s We Let the Stars Go. “Long ago one stupid night we let the stars go free”

Elegant hands here!

Hmmm. Indeed. Pages 76 and 77 read as very relevant today #peace #democracy #morals

#SophiefromRomania and I were out walking when the latest bloviations from Air Force One emerged - we both agreed enough was enough and that all of us, humans and canines, needed to unite against the orange gangster

*sigh* The News today: everyone, just stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

St Vedast, just off Cheapside.