Miles and Mingus. Another week or so to go before the #Jazzcafe gig in London.

I am going down a #Shakespeare rabbit hole and I am not sorry.

Happy birthday to me. Seeing this play for the third time and being overwhelmed again. What a show! All these five women are so incredible I have no words! (I'm developing a girl crush on Gina McKee and Tuppence Middleton) #theatreislife

Listening to this on my morning commute today. @goingmedieval.bsky.social when does William Wallace enter the story? 🤭

Today's mood.

I'm getting to the end of #TheMirrorandtheLight and it is written so beautifully that it's breaking my heart and making me forget Cromwell's attrocities against the monasteries and all the people he had killed, chief among them Anne Boleyn.

Currently obsessed with Wolf Hall. How could Cromwell trust that snake Wriothesley?? How? #History

Best cameo ever! #RIPGene

I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to live in London and able to visit the theatre every now and then. This week I saw two plays, both starring Hollywood A Listers. One was delightful, the other was one of the most boring pieces of theatre I've ever seen.

@markravenhill.bsky.social hello! I've been following your 101 playwriting exercises and I've loved them. They have been very helpful for my writing recently. Somehow I stopped receiving them after exercise number 60? Is there anywhere I could find them? Thank you!

Happy Penguin Awareness Day!

Finally caught up with the latest #Nosferatu. I was nervous at the beginning because I thought I might have to punch some girls for using their phones during the movie but it went well. Movie is good, a lot of hard work went into it and it shows. Count Orlok is worth the price of admission.

Watching #Rivals and going "What, Danny Dyer can act?" Yes, he can!

Last day of Christmas. It's been a very long Christmas this year, but I'm slowly peeling myself away from my home town. Back to London town very soon. Let the madness begin!

Reading Love in the Time of Cholera and I'm both frustrated with these people and enthralled by them. One enters the world of Gabriel Garcia Marquez at their own peril.

Fragile Beauty exhibition at the V&A is a marvellous thing. If you're in London this weekend, do yourself a favour and go. It shows humanity in all its facets.

Cinematic Mood 🎬 Happy New Year Wishing you a fine 2025🥂🎆🍾 #NewYears #NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear #TuesdayVibes #FilmSky 📽️

Needle moving very fast between total joy and total meaningless. Between Summer of George (ignorance) and Waiting for Godot (bleak ignorance). Happy New Year!

What do we do After the Thin Man? We watch The Apartment, 1960, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, up next.

On second thought, maybe I shouldn't have dedicated the last hours of the year to finish the book. Now I'm shaken with nostalgic solitudes. #OneHundredYearsofSolitude

"find the paradise of shared solitude"

Currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude for the first time and I am hooked. Exquisite.

So my friend was watching Dungeons and Dragons Honour among Thieves and I was a bit ambivalent about it and then this happened:

So far this Christmas break I watched: Bad Sisters Season 1 8/10 Ludwig 8/10 Final two episodes of Ghosts (been saving them for Christmas) 10/10 (obviously!) Magpie Murders 9/10 (10/10 for Miss Manville's wardrobe) Finished season 2 of Slow Horses 10/10

Matilda is rather unimpressed with Christmas. But I love Christmas so Merry Christmas everyone!

A real hero!

Cancelling plans is okay. Putting yourself first is okay. Going for a long walk is okay. Abandoning society is okay. Moving into a cave with a family of raccoons is okay. Giving them tiny swords & shields is okay. Do what you need to do to cope.

Just a small caveat: I missed this the first time but when Ali asks what's the relationship between Edward Earl of Warwick and Warwick the Kingmaker, Graham says no relation. I think Edward is the grandson of the Kingmaker, being the son of Isabel, daughter of said Kingmaker.

So! @rexfactor.bsky.social Because I like you so much I decided to relisten to some episodes while I finish some reports at work. Merry Christmas!

"[if] we're doing it again, we're using poison this time, like normal women" #badsisters

So I'm taking it easy at work this week. "Let's listen to the newest Gone Medieval pod episode!" I say to myself. 5 minutes in... Yes, I'm hiding behind the couch, @goingmedieval.bsky.social! It's both ghosty and Christmassy and I know what I'm reading tonight. and probably sleep with the lights on

I think it's worth sitting through the whole of Home Alone 2 just to see Tim Curry's bottom lip quiver with embarrassment when he gets slapped by Catherine O'Hara. #Christmas #christmasmovie

#NowWatching #FirstWatch Rebecca (1940) 🎬📽️ #filmsky Recommended by @danicoucou.bsky.social!

Friday philosophies #carolelombard #mymangodfrey #screwballcomedy

Buster Keaton is one of the most beautiful people to have been photographed. And yes, we have a very serious podcast!

Seeing as everyone is raving about Robert Eggers NOSFERATU, how about listen to @nickschandler.bsky.social & @danicoucou.bsky.social talk about the original FW Murnau 1922 masterpiece, and the stylishly cool A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT. www.buzzsprout.com/981214/episo...

I'm in the "kill your darlings" stage of redrafting my #WIP. Sometimes I feel it might be better if I started from scratch.

"MASH" (1970), Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland.

I saw this on Facebook today. #AI #thefavourite #wtf

I actually woke up before sunrise today!

One of my favourite films of all time. Laughton understood lighting and Stanley Cortez was brilliant! Robert Mitchum at his scariest and Lillian Gish at her most gentle.

Me throughout December #IloveChristmas

I can't figure out why I've not watched You Can't Take It With You until now, but I'm in the process of rectifying it. #frankcapra

Me, reading the exchange between Richard III and Elizabeth Woodville in Act IV, scene 4. #shakespeare

This is definitely my favourite ending of a #filmnoir #NoirvemberChallenge Day 30. Such an iconic ending. "There's nothing else. Just us... And the cameras... And those wonderful people out there in the dark"

I just saw this last night for the first time and it was great! Really enjoyable. Marie Windsor is amazing. #NoirvemberChallenge

Couldn't argue with this, I think that scene alone won her the Oscar (Although I secretly wish Barbara had won that night). Love Gaslight #NoirvemberChallenge

It's been amazing! Found some really good new movies! Now onto Christmas! I might have to watch The Thin Man to make a proper transition from #Noirvember to Xmas. #NoirvemberChallenge

Alas #Noirvember & the #NoirvemberChallenge are both coming to an end bc nothing lasts forever… Special thanks once again to LadyKdesigns.bsky.social for allowing me to illustrate her 2024 challenge board!