Appropriately today I’m in Stratford-Upon-Avon where (we guesstimate) Shakespeare was born on this very day 462 years ago in this very house 🤩

Found this book which brought a burst of nostalgia
A tale of blatant discrimination against a woman with clear dyspraxia

Two stewards in livery serve a couple in suits a restaurant- grade meal in a train dining carriage

The modern world in old Ladybird books.
Eating on trains, 1974.
Artist: Frank Humphris

News Viktor Orban is conceeding the Hungarian election and Rachel Zegler won an Olivier Award coming in at the same time :)

As the misspelt church banner said
‘Chris is Risen!’

!!!!

Bet he wishes he’d thought of that..

Not to be an apostrophe person but wonder which student they asked..

Pleasingly naff Sword in the Stone sculpture at Castle Cary station

Got stuck at Castle Cary for a while.
And some people say there’s no historical evidence for King Arthur 🤷🏻‍♂️

Can’t remember a time before I was on this train.
Just going to accept I live here now.

Train delayed. At least 4.5 hours to go. Thank gawd at least after uhhming and ahing over whether I needed a physical copy I brought Alan Bennett’s latest diaries at the station 📖

Saw Arcadia last night then didn’t sleep for ages thinking obsessively about why Stoppard’s play is so perfect.. 💔

Can only really wear this to other productions of Romeo and Juliet but still..

New Romeo and Juliet with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe was great fun, with lots of unexpected turns even in such a well know story.
Been there, done that, got the pleasingly daft promotional scarf 🧣

New Romeo and Juliet with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe was great fun, with lots of unexpected turns even in such a well know story.
Been there, done that, got the pleasingly daft promotional scarf 🧣

❤️

Whatever you possibly think this could be, it’s even better. All in the delivery.

‘I have concluded my work here is done, as optimal communications have been achieved’

“The Prime Minister begged me not to advise him to appoint Peter Mandelson.
He didn’t want to take the advice but I advised him to do so.”

THE MORALITY Of SHAKESPEARE's DRAMA ILLUSTRATED. By [the infamous] MRS. GRIFFITH.

HENRY THE SIXTH. THIRD PART. [was no great thing]

DAVID GARRICK, Efq. [a slayer]

THE TAMING O F THE S H R E W. [Easy as taming a monky]

I’m loving the attitude in the marginalia to this copy of Griffith’s Morality of Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated (1775).

Leonard Bernstein Estate Actually Responds to Affirm Lydia Tár Was His Student Leonard Bernstein's estate responded in jest over "TÁR" director Todd Field's claim that his character didn't actually study with him.

What lying? www.indiewire.com/features/gen...

Waiting for the traumatic but fascinating image of porridge pouring out of the house and flooding the streets..

One of the funny* things about the Jenrick defection is his articles basically amount to "Reheated Thatcherism and bungs to pensioners have broken Britain, and that's why I'm joining the Reheated Thatcherism and Bungs to Pensioners Party".

Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Interview with Paul from the Chuckle Brothers in the Guardian asks if he'd ever like to do Shakespeare.

He says, "To me, or not to me, that is the question."

My favourite Chuckle Brothers gag:

Barry: It's a lovely church, Vicar.
Vicar: It's Norman.
Barry: It's a lovely church, Norman.

It’s generally ironic how none of us would ever speak to other people the way we speak internally to ourselves.. x

Four ceramic guinea pigs of descending size. The largest is about as big as a walnut, and the smallest is barely as large as a pencil tip. There is a pencil for scale.

dont talk to me or my son or my sons son or my sons sons son ever again

Happy Twelfth Night friends