@georgiamann we used sing duermete Nina in our little ‘world music’ group called The Bordurian Working Women’s Chorus. Also more gorgeous lullabies- there are a lot of Nanitas to different tunes - Spanish lullabies- any of those would be lovely to hear.

@eurostarjustin.bsky.social hi Justin! Can’t find a general eurostar @ so writing to you.. this train to Paris (8 am from kxsp) has filthy loos and nonavigo passes…maybe pass it on?

@tommckinney.bsky.social good to have you back! Everyone bewailing end of WOlympics but aren’t the Winter Paras happening next week? Often much better.

Hope to get my dad to take me to Clapham Junction one day.

@tommckinney Richard Stokes was our French and German teacher at school - excellent and a nice man. He ran Liederabends then too.

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...

NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending. Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now 1/

A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."

The Gendered Experience of ECT: Insights From a Global Survey | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

Poplar trees with evening sky Albert Steiner, 1920s

Not sure why my phone has passively aggressively sent me this message, it sounds like something you'd say to a drunk ambassador.

Astronomical #winter starts today. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight with the sun starting to set later each day until Summer Solstice. The mosaic depicts the dancing Genii (protective spirits) of the four seasons. The Genius of winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak.🧵1/2 #Solstice

These are bad times for the BBC: Trump is suing, its leaders have resigned, GB News snaps at its heels. In our winter issue, @aiannucci.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, @sophiasgaler.bsky.social and others suggest how it could change.

Three failed Xmas fruit cakes and I’m off to buy an Xmas Colin the 🐛 instead.

@tommckinney.bsky.social my favourite ‘Christmas’ song is Tchaikovsky s Crown of Roses. Sad, haunting, certainly not jolly, seeing the bleak future for Jesus.

@petroc.bsky.social oddly as you played Les Tricoteuses yesterday I was driving over Hampstead Heath on the way back from Yarn Club at work.

In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart

@tommckinney.bsky.social my music of the year was Caroline Shaws The Swallow sung at a Dunedin consort @dunedinconsort weekend in Stirling. I still try and sing it with friends. Quite hard…

Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments

Do your Xmas shopping @oxfamgb.bsky.social ! Loads of lovely things.

This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.

Happy December!🎄🌟 Once the 10th month of the Roman calendar, December began with festivals for Neptune & Pietas on the 1st — the start of a busy season that included Saturnalia & the birthday of Sol Invictus. Follow @trimontiumtrust this month as we explore Roman winter traditions.

Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".

Sectioned children face more trauma in the institutions supposed to protect them

Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.

Prunella Scales, who has died aged 93, was superb as Sybil in Fawlty Towers and in so many other roles. Here’s my musical tribute to a wonderful actress.

Archaeology of the plastic hair curler. All found on Cornish beaches.

RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

The mighty Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings kept us spellbound. Truly great.

@tommckinney.bsky.social yikes! Nooooo! If you play this, you can play a track from the new Robert Plant album in mitigation…

Wonderful #barbicancentre concert of Preisner at 70. Wall of sound and sounds beautifully done.

@petroc.bsky.social first song Coal for Mike is about the widow of an Ohio section hand on the freight trains of Ohio. His brakes man friends threw coal over her fence as the train raced by. Very beautiful. Kohl fur Mike.

@tommckinney.bsky.social just about to set off next week on a memorable train journey. London- Sicily via Paris, Turin, and Naples . They put the train on the ferry! 70th birthday present to ourselves.

Walking Couple by Moonlight, 1654, by Gesina ter Borch, the Dutch watercolorist and draftswoman who produced mainly watercolour paintings capturing her observations of daily life. One of more than 900 prints available through our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints

mmhmm www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/22/l...

The shortlists for the inaugural year of The British Audio Awards, also known as The Speakies, have been revealed and include industry names such as Hamza Yassin, AF Steadman, and Dr Rangan Chatterjee 👇 #BookSky

A time traveller from just a few years ago would find BBC News’ coverage of Trump’s upcoming UK visit jaw dropping. All about how to make an impressionable & volatile infant feel pampered enough not to have a tantrum. That’s what our global diplomacy 2025 amounts to.

@catherinewestmp.bsky.social hi Catherine - is there a water fountain in Priory Park? Could there be?

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

@tommckinney.bsky.social we don’t all love the Proms. Can’t wait for them to be over. Far too many popular symphonies and Friday night is music night type scenarios.

@tommckinney.bsky.social v glad to see my three yr old granddaughter developing a healthy admiration for Bowie. She asks the smart speaker to play Major Tom. I used to dress as DB in the 70s - 12 inch silver platforms et al saw him twice - epic of course. I dare you to play some…

Textiles: the art of mankind at #fashionandtextilemuseum is unmissable. Ends Sun. Everything from woven plastic and QRCodes to Guatemalan trinket mats, via Chinese jackets and embroidered cats.

“Through tree planting and forest restoration, we’re not only repairing what’s been lost, we’re also investing in the future.” 🇨🇦 🌳🌲🌲🌳 🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

‘Every week I look forward to it’: Belfast woman, 97, completes 250 parkruns

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

This will be fascinating! Especially excited for Raisa Kabirs keynote at 3.15 on day 1.

The Royal School of Needlework is hosting its first conference and though in-person tickets are sold out you can still join us virtually! I’ve put an embarrassing amount of work into this so hopefully it’ll be a fun and informative conference for all! royal-needlework.org.uk/events-exhib...

@catherinewestmp.bsky.social Good to see NHS plans laid out - but can’t see much about mental health crisis houses, vital to wellbeing of people in distress. E Finchley one proved literally a lifeline recently. As an emphasis is on local, this needs addressing.