In Derry and found my pals!

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Or they could end the hiring freeze in their current system in the home office. 🤷 But no, let's keep more publicity on this issue, which was designed to be punitive and cause misery. BBC News - Government plans to overhaul asylum appeals system www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wonderful to see in BBC News app top stories!! BBC News - Pop-up opera surprises customers in cafes and pubs www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ah, Toronto. Where all the churches are on Queens Street and all the queen's are on Church Street! 💅⛪️

This comes across as bizarre but actually so much of this is recognizable!⛪️✝️🍷🥂🍻 BBC News - 'Any excuse to go to pub' culture at crisis-hit cathedral www.bbc.com/news/article...

Obviously. BBC News - Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is spot on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The political weather really is shifting for the Greens in London. Another by election win - this time in Greenwich.

2025

This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter... But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to. Bitter medicine, but necessary. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Celebrating #eurovision by taking in some Hildegard Von Bingen, the original Euro song diva! #rocknroll

Trevor Eliot Bowes @trevitore.bsky.social returns to ENO next season as Dick Deadeye in the first revival of Cal McCrystal's hilarious production of HMS Pinafore. www.eno.org/whats-on/hms...

In London this Thursday or Friday? Come join us for Aci Galatea e Polifemo in Hampstead! baroquestock.com Oh, and watch this short video of me chatting: youtu.be/YMFhmoBNrOM?...

So basically this morning has taught us that May × Farage = Starmer. "island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together" "Take back control" How about, GIVE ME STRENGTH!

Apparently the pope is Catholic.

How middle-aged am I? When my morning rehearsal was cancelled, I was overjoyed at the thought that I could take some garden waste to the dump. Yes, a dump run is now a thrill. 👴👓🦯

Giant, adorable floof on my train! 😍🐕

Trevor Eliot Bowes @trevitore.bsky.social returns to English Touring Opera next season as Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia. This new production in directed by Robin Norton-Hale and conducted by Gerry Cornelius. englishtouringopera.org.uk/.../the-rape...

It's astonishing how none of the major expenses apps can read UK rail tickets. I had to input every amount on Xero. I'm trying easy expenses for this tax year, and it has the same issue. 🤦 Rail travel is the biggest, most regular expense I have to record. Any other app suggestions?

So today is the beginning of lent. The perfect year to give up social media for 40 days?

Misty London morning.

@geekpie.bsky.social Good news re asteroid!! news.sky.com/story/earth-...

Setting off for the final performance of #ENOFigaro and leaving our house guest behind... 😭 Husband is at home w her, at least. See you soon, Bonnie Bluebell!

So thanks to Cheeto's Ukraine giveaway, the UK is looking at 11% cuts to public services including, you guessed it, culture. All this so we can send peacekeeping troops and arm up for increasingly likely war. But thank god Amazon etc still pay almost no UK tax 🙄 news.sky.com/story/public...

Show #5! #ENOFigaro

Although it's nice to have a day when we acknowledge our love, that should be EVERY DAY! ❤️ Don't take love for granted. Express it constantly - not just when the retail sector tells you to.

In 2024 Elizabeth McKay, the Director of the London Transport Museum (world’s leading museum of urban transport) revealed her pioneering vision: turning up the impact dial & developing creativity via placing culture at the heart of the Museum’s offer, a scheme we’ve named Transported By Culture 🧵

Trevor Eliot Bowes @trevitore.bsky.social performs Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera, opening this evening at the London Coliseum. The production is directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins and conducted by Ainārs Rubiķis. www.eno.org/whats-on/the...

So, understandably, Canada is really not happy right now. Full-on boycott of American goods is being talked about by vast numbers of 🇨🇦 residents. I can only guess that similar is happening in Mexico. Support goods and services from these countries if you can.

How on earth is this legal, let alone happening when we purchase a railcard for our national rail service? Granted, the companies that own the trains now are evil, but this trickery shouldn't be allowed when paying for a public service. @nationalrail.bsky.social @railcards.bsky.social

Watching AI become the world's biggest economic issue while its primary offerings are lost human jobs, crap fake art compiled from stolen sources, and another tick on the doomsday clock, I do have to wonder, where are the ethics committees and legislation on its use?

Music under fire again. And I can tell you from experience that consultation is another word for fait accompli. Immense sympathy for and solidarity with colleagues there.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Oh dear, what's to become of Charlotte? #traitors #thetraitors This programme has gone completely nuts at the 11th hour! I can't wait to see how this pans out. 😛😬🫣

Yesterday, I gave my attention exclusively to things that really matter to me and the people I love. I can truly say, no matter what was going on elsewhere, yesterday was a wonderful day! 4 more years of not watching the news coming right up.

Can everyone please stop using superfluous reflexive pronouns!!! This is the death of the English language. #traitors #thetraitors #yourself #myself #grammar

We need to live with more emotional abundance and less physical abundance. news.sky.com/story/the-fu...

Holy cow. Did you know that the V&A has a collection of 1940s knitting patterns you can access for free? Saving these for later! www.vam.ac.uk/articles/194...

Next weekend in London: Haydn's Missa In Tempore Belli with the LPO. This piece is blowing my mind - it's like an earthly Requiem mass for those living in war and conflict. This will be a special night for me, so please come along and experience this amazing piece! 🙏 lpo.org.uk/event/on-the...

Festive lights 💡🌲🎅

PLEASE make a donation to @streetwiseopera.bsky.social and support this wonderful company as they head into a period of funding worry: www.justgiving.com/campaign/sta...

An actual song in a book of musical theatre songs for teens. Like, wut?

Nothing but blue skies!