No Friend To This House by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social is magnificent - a wonderful read and I now want to be Medea (eeek!)
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Artworks- a people’s history of punk on @bbcsounds.bsky.social by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social is superb inspirational nostalgia! Wonderful
Bowie: The Final Act on @channel4.bsky.social is superb - music history for future generations
#Riotwomen on #bbc #iplayer is absolutely superb. Bravo to the magnificent cast, beautiful Hebden Bridge and writer #SallyWainwright more please!
A Thousand Feasts by @nigelslater.bsky.social is a mesmerising delight - like Sei Shonagan’s The Pillow Book with more cooking but the same joy at fresh snow and beautiful gardens. Recommended
Excellent news! @profbriancox.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social
It’s great! Recommend for all wolfish readers!
Clemency Burton-Hill is magnificently brave in the impressive My Brain: After The Rupture on @bbc and @bbciplayer superb and important. Bravo!
Mussolini: son of the century is superb- and very timely. Directed by Joe Wright for Sky
#RyeLane film is a delight!
This is absolutely delicious! It also works for vegans with a tin of black beans added before the cheese. And then Parmesan as well for the non- vegans. Mmmm
Love this by John Atkinson
Selected Early Writings of the Poets I the roses are red and all the violets are blue oh look, a haiku - Basho II Roses are red, unlike those daffs, I wander lonely as a giraffe cloud. - William Wordsworth III Look – the roses are red! They make my heart sing! They fill me with hope – Like a feathery thing! - Emily Dickinson IV ROSES ARE … NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE? I MUST HAVE LEFT MY CAPS LOCK ON - ee cummings V Roses are dead, see how they droop. All of us die: life’s only truth. - Philip Larkin VI The roses had gone (unlike my bunion) so got this instead – here, have an onion. - Carol Ann Duffy Brian Bilston
If you’re struggling to write a poem for a loved one for Valentine’s Day, take heart: even the great poets had to start somewhere.
Uproar- a magnificent trawl through gossipy political satire and scandal - the memes of Georgian England - by @historyalice.bsky.social is a total delight! Recommended
Pub Walks in Underhill Country by Nat Segnit (radio 4) and My Mess is a Bit Of A Life by Georgia Pritchett (veep, succession)- both wonderfully chortlesome
If you're up early tomorrow morning for some reason, this is your reminder that the UK has a brilliant pass of the International Space Station, which passes overhead about 6.07am (check timings for where you are at heavens-above.com). Worth pointing out to anyone small who has woken you up...
Medieval Horizons, Why The Middle Ages Matter by @ianmortimer.bsky.social is fascinating, important and a great read - very quotable - we stand on the shoulders of medieval giants
#WolfHall soundtrack is ethereal magical superb
Ooh that book is a delight! Fascinating and quotable
#WolfHall was magnificent
Happy 45th birthday to London Calling. Released by The Clash on this day in 1979
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Strong Message Here by @aiannucci.bsky.social and @helenlewis.bsky.social on #bbcradio4 #bbcsounds is superb
Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
Kentish hops. Real ale IKEA style