Reading this from the print edition. I wonder if anyone else reads 'Adorno raised an eye at Schubert's proclivity for the tavern' and thinks of the advert that finished 'Vot about my unfinished Kronenberg?' Nicholas Spice · Butter wouldn’t melt: Schubert’s​ Imagination share.google/rxeJUpOtkS0V...

I've found an Instagram clip of Oscar the Grouch off Sesame Street singing the news aria from 'Nixon in China' and the people I want to send it to aren't on Instagram.

Anyone had this year's vomiting virus? It's completely wiped me out.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... I don't have the energy to read a book that would make me angry. But I wish this reviewer had addressed the thought, okay, what if Chronic Lyme and Long Covid are psychosomatic? What's the treatment protocol? How are you going to make it stop?

It's a universally acknowledged fact that a large whatsapp group made of mostly older people will have at least one accidental post or 'recording audio' per week.

International Women's Day wasn't such a thing in 2012 but Mr S still marked it by marrying an international woman.

Hyperspecific public sector DP observation: it's really annoying the way (e) automatically updates to the euro sign in Word, isn't it? Especially after 6 (1)

I get served a lot of clips of 'men in less-visited countries'. I'm not saying it's wrong for them to go, but there's never any acknowledgement that they're only acceptable to many of these countries as white, straight-presenting men. Or at least that their experience would be different otherwise.

Past Katharine was too tired to cook last night and it won't be possible at lunchtime so it's kebab lunch day.

I read it recently and can thoroughly recommend!

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

#EggClub goes East. Early riser veggie breakfast at The Full Monty just off Roman Road. Mushrooms were perfect, veg sausage a bit odd-tasting.

A Victorian room 'boasted of no furniture but eight old leathern chairs and two old tables .. surrounded by shelves'. Barely furnished, Victorian style. (From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope).

Trying to make the prospect of a mammogram on my rest day more appealing by finding a caff to go to near Mile End Hospital.

Was hoping to travel back from Milan on the new European sleeper in June. Now confirmed it's not running until September. Alternative plan to get some way along the TGV and spend the night, probably at Chambery.

Just listened to this excellent World Service podcast interviewing people with Tourette's Syndrome - starting with two African American interviewees. So insightful. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ah the arrival of Purim .. flatbed trucks and their thumping speakers already out tonight.

Can anyone tell me, in Iranian protests, what it means if you wear/ fly the current official flag, and what you are saying if you fly the pre-revolutionary one?

Be lovely if some of you can come to my concert on Saturday 21st March in the City of London. But even if you can't, please admire the poster. Tickets from hanoverchoir.org.uk/events/

This is very lovely.

This was an interesting interview and fascinating to hear the AI applications for early Alzheimer's detection. But most of us have loads of evidence before diagnosis. We have to deal with denial: our own, the person's, friends and family and sadly diagnostic memory clinics everywhere.

I'm meeting up with some old friends in a couple of weeks in a mid-market chain. I'm actually looking forward to some basic food and a starter and main I eat myself. I love going to adventurous places with adventurous friends but it can be very tiring.

Given what was reported shortly aftetwards yesterday a. Guessing you weren't actually called Rodney b. I hope Radio 3 gave you a great start to what must have been a challenging day.

On the one hand, presents a case for a writer he loves, never drops his worship, but writes an article about a terrible person whose work I don't want to explore. It's genius! James Wolcott · What you can get away with: Updike Reconsidered share.google/avUsPFbExatG...

Radio 3 listeners read out 'Rodney is a Police Officer in Central London'. Oh Rod!

Drop a crush from your youth.

When I was a Film & TV Studies student at Glasgow, a visiting speaker laid into the film 'Prague' as a 'europudding' that wasted Scottish Screen Fund money when it could have been spent on something more 'culturally Scottish' .

I'm enjoying reading the @paulsinha.bsky.social autobiography, 'Once Sinha Lifetime' and discover we have both been on Quiz Teams with Gavin Fuller, once Britain's youngest Mastermind winner and also once Librarian at the Telegraph.

I'm not saying it's every advert in my feed, but every ad that *isn't* about quirky geography, trains or singing is: Women over 40! Your body looks like this AND YOU SHOULD HATE IT.

FOI peeps, does Section 37 apply retrospectively to AMW (I realise it was never Absolute for him anyway)?

I'm learning some choral settings of Robert Frost, a poet I don't know at all. At first I was baffled by how simple and conversational it was - it seemed almost banal. But it's starting to work on me.

Friend having online chats with a train driver. Friend 1: reduced travel! Friend 2: think of the pension! Me: choo choo train!

Anyone in London know how the Piccadilly line is doing? TFL says strike action but only minor delays.

If you have been enjoying the winter sport, you may like this book, which gave me the first explanation of curling I ever understood. The Library of Ice | Book by Nancy Campbell | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster UK share.google/LHxiVuuEcdcX...

Having a housematewarming tonight. She's also lost a partner. She is a consummate hostess and there will be cocktails and canapes. Can't help thinking how much Mr S would be enjoying the prep and hosting. This was us on holiday 15 years ago.

#EggClub - got a rare unbooked seat (counter, by the front door, constant drafts) at 215 Hackney. I tend to avoid Shakshuka as I find it too liquid but extra Halloumi bulked it out and the bread was excellent.

#EggClub - got a rare unbooked seat (counter, by the front door, constant drafts) at 215 Hackney. I tend to avoid Shakshuka as I find it too liquid but extra Halloumi bulked it out and the bread was excellent.

www.better.org.uk/leisure-cent... Everyone likes to moan about their local authority, but this is such a good partnership.

Me, filing my nails: 'the crooked straight and the rough places plain'.

Seeing this post being shared a lot, so I feel the need to point out that it is misinformation! The actual article doesn't name who the 8 complaints came from (I doubt an FOI would include that info), or state that they all came from cis people. Read the article: www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Reading about Jessica Mitford and remembering Max Moseley's case against NOTW, mentioning the 'media obsession with the Mitfords'. Mate, I think they'd have covered any businessman's participation in a Nazi-themed sex party, even one whose father didn't found the British Union of Fascists.

It's in English! My father would have turned the radio off in disgust but I've got used to it (only necessary because I know it so well) and it's a particularly lush and romantic interpretation.

Well that was an absolute delight. It is often very sad (and I have just been clearing out a loved one's belongings) but so full of humanity it can't help being comforting. @kitchenbee.bsky.social deserves a bunch of awards for this one.

Has anyone collected the 'Ignore the Smears' memes yet?

I don't remember all this Winter Olympic interest before. But then four years ago we were in the other place.

My friend is using this tailor for her wedding. I hadn't thought about LBGTQ+ friendly tailoring but it feels so positive that it exists. www.orhanlondontailoring.com

In the entire history of formalised sex verification in women's sport from the 50s to the present day, do you know how many instances of men disguising themselves in order to sneak into women's sport they've found? Zero.