RIP Alan Rothwell - David Barlow in Corrie, drug addict Nicholas Black in Brookside, but best known to a generation from Hickory House and Picture Box. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTG...

Home town side Yateley United FC revealed today that following their promotion to step 5, they will be playing in Combined Counties Football League - Premier Division South for 2026/27 season. This will be the club's first season playing at step 5. Well done on success this year - go Green Army 💚🟡

Finished reading another Mrs Bradley murder mystery. First published in 1932 (!), "The Saltmarsh Murders" by Gladys Mitchell is true to this prolific crime fiction series, yet no less peculiar or lurid. Ideal distraction.

'Juncture' Graphite sketch

The Port of London #London

Not sure from where the recommendation came but just finished reading "The Rising of the Moon" by Gladys Mitchell, first published 1945. Bit of light (or is that dark?) relief on book front. Prolific author. Bought three more titles in her Mrs Bradley series on strength of it. 📚

In 1976 you could travel from London to Paris by train and hovercraft in just six hours for just £14.40. Those were the days.

Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter. With love and gratitude and condolences to his family. www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

Trashcan Sinatras: "The Bitter End". First new single in a while. Cherished them ever since "Obscurity Knocks" from album "Cake". Memories blasting that out of car stereo in my Triumph Dolomite as we crossed the South Downs to Rottingdean. Just what was needed right now. 🙏 youtu.be/6Z-vo2ksrW0?...

Good evening

I’m so happy with this comp. No acetates or anything recovered from a degrading quarter inch… all songs that will be familiar to anyone who woke up to Wogan/Ray Moore/Steve Jones in the 80s. www.acerecords.co.uk/weds-morning...

Quite the book. "Wolf Solent" by John Cowper Powys. Took me a little longer than usual reading but magical, earthy with lessons for the soul. A liberation of a true and particular sense of place. 📚

This week's "Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett" podcast: My Brain Surgery with Maribou State's Chris Davids. Had the same surgery for Chiari Malformation almost 30 years ago. Real parallels. Great listen to Chris Davids of the electronic duo. Wish him all the best. 🧠🤕 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I used to love listening to "Something Understood" I always felt I'd learnt something, or been given a different perspective. Sir Mark Tully obituary www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Very sad to hear about the passing of former colleague Mark Tully, the "voice of India" and also a wonderful presenter of "Something Understood." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Top deck of a Glasgow bus, 1995, photo by Martin Parr.

Got hold of some this moquette pattern a few years ago. Had it made into near indestructible dining seat cushions, and a wingback armchair cushion. Texture and look continue to make me smile years later.

On a day full of grey skies and mud, love is still in fashion. #Wildflowerhour

Making the commonplace moments of magic. RIP Martin Parr - and thank you!

"Tale Waves" was Gilly Stewart's storytelling podcast for children, part of Farnham's Sound Vault community project (2017). Audio format reimagined for YouTube (2025). 25 videos. Original writing, classical music, soundscapes, fantasy worlds & life lessons. Playlist> youtube.com/playlist?lis...

‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service

#BBCRadio3 is broadcasting from a train for an entire day to mark the 200th anniversary of the modern #railway 🚂 📻 Listen to Train Tracks, live on Saturday 27 September on BBC Radio 3 and #BBCSounds #trains #music More 👇🏻

Chain Gang was released as a single in March 1956, before Heartbreak Hotel reached the UK. And I think it's rather wonderful.

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Have been a huge fan of Diana Luke since listening as a teen to my local radio station, Guildford's County Sound, then on Jazz FM and GLR. Now I'm one of the band of "moonbathers & bedwarmers" who tune in avidly to her late night show on @boomradio.co.uk. Thanks @theliveluke.bsky.social 👏👏.

I was sorry to hear that Ray Brooks has died. In 1999 I was involved in making a low budget BBC documentary about Belle & Sebastian and we got Ray to narrate it. We were fans of his work on Mr. Benn. He did a smashing job for us and was pleasant to work with. Here’s a short extract.

Been buying vintage Fuzzy Felt for the art I’m making & it’s so deeply tender & touching finding some still carry ghost traces of the last owner’s play & since the sets are so old, I wonder if these little scenes were made by a child who’s my age now, with fond middle-aged memories of creating them

First book purchase arrived today from @foxlanebooks.bsky.social Beautiful attention to detail in packaging from Kirstie. Will definitely become rpt. customer. ❤️ my signed independent bookshop edition of "The Art of a Lie" by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Big fan of her other work to date.

100-plus public figures, academics and campaign groups warn 'every sign from the government suggests the right to an EHCP is to be removed from children attending mainstream schools.' I unpick the battle over legal rights & @lawsocgazette's dealings w DfE www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/sen...

Morning walk destination with Poppy dog. Pond on Yateley Green. Eyes begin with the lilypads and water and work out. #green #Yateley #Hampshire #BlackwaterValley #fridayfeeling

This ad has always been one of my favourite things. Kenny Everett bumps into Gerald Harper on the stairs in one of the launch TV promos for Capital Radio in 1973. What a prospect. Sad to hear the news. RIP Gerald Harper. He cut quite the dash. youtu.be/WYobDSEE67w?...

Brian Wilson RIP. News made me shed a few tears just now. Farewell to a true American genius. Thanks for everything you gave us. youtu.be/S22a1CITgj0

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m sure you won’t remember but we spoke on air a couple of years ago about whether you can copyright a voice and what AI could already do. Please read this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Saint Etienne single ‘Glad’, produced by Tom Rowlands (Chemical Bros) and features Jez Williams (Doves). They’re going out in style….. youtu.be/h5fWxY9IHkw

Trees of Quarry Lane. Out walking the dog this morning. #thicktrunktuesday

Visited the Highland Laddie in Leeds. What a stunning boozer! I need to come back when I’m not driving.

Poppies from my garden, #cyanotype made in the garden this afternoon.

Thinking of the likely smile on the face of former club president Arthur English as he looks down on Aldershot Town's achievement today, winning the FA Trophy 3-0 against Spennymoor Town. My affiliations lie elsewhere, but this is local.

Lost my head - and those of a few dolls - starting to restore my special succulents rockery in the front garden this weekend.

I love this man. Oh,Have I already told you? Well I’ll tell you again then! 😂💙💛MOT #LUFC

As if by magic, Poppy and I emerged from the shade of the trees in the Royal Oak Valley to find this little spot bathed in sunshine. Perfect walk with the dog this morning. 🐾

Democracy, out the back with the bins, hanging by a thread? Or just a poorly positioned Polling Station sign? Vote! #LocalElections2025

Democracy, out the back with the bins, hanging by a thread? Or just a poorly positioned Polling Station sign? Vote! #LocalElections2025

& last of April - Beltane eve - rowan flower opening & the light through new leaves is soft & fresh, the sun fiery & benign - amongst insects a chaffinchthroat pulses in song, you inhale pollen & dust & air is humid, it is another world from the beginning of the month

Elections in Hampshire were cancelled, but the retirement of our Lib Dem county councillor Adrian Collett after over 40 years amazing public service means fellow residents in Yateley East & Blackwater get a by-election vote. Adrian was one of first to help politicise me back in 1987. 1/3

Photos of Leeds back-to-back streets from 2006 to 2024 to feature in new book by Ricky Adam with some photos being exhibited at Village, Thornton Arcade, Leeds until 27 April. 👇 BBC News - Back-to-back life on streets of Leeds caught on camera - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farewell and "Thank You" Clodagh Rodgers. RIP. I became a touch obsessed by her lesser spotted song "Save Me" ever since it first stopped me in my tracks.

Boris hides behind fridge cheese wall.