I endorse this message (it may actually reduce driving because people would feel like they had more control on foot/on a bike)

I saw it! Awful thing is I wasn’t even surprised!

A19 remains full of arseholes

Verdi’s Requiem in York Minster courtesy of York Music Society. Absolutely fantastic performance in stunning surroundings. The sound from the choir filled the whole enormous space. No photos I’m afraid.

Take a box of tissues!

Film promo poster. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs sit at the top of a grass covered cliff. The sea is in the background and the sky is blue. She has long reddish hair and is wearing shirt, shorts and walking boots. He has grey hair and a beard and is wearing a shirt and rolled up trousers. Both are gazing into the distance but in different directions.

The Salt Path. Our household is a bit in love with both Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Beautifully shot story of a couple who lose everything and find themselves homeless and set out to walk the South West Coast Path. Anderson in particular is amazing - resigned, heartbroken, determined.

Still from the film. Benicio Del Toro is wearing a suit and a bloodstained arm sling. He has cuts on his face. Mia Threapleton is wearing a nun’s habit, blue eyeshadow and red lipstick and has grazes on her face. Behind them is a crashed aeroplane in the jungle.

Bank holiday cinema trip to see The Phoenician Scheme. Extremely Wes Anderson film by Wes Anderson. Thoroughly enjoyed everything about it. Help yourself to a hand grenade.

Still from play publicity shows John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. He is a balding man wearing a red jumper. He is sat at a desk holding a pencil and has books and notebooks on the table in front of him.

Bit of a backlog. Trip in May to the Harold Pinter Theatre to see Giant. Really enjoyed this exploration of when criticism of Israel becomes anti-semitism. Thanks to @naomialderman.bsky.social for posting about it’s return as I’d missed the first run.

Men are too emotional for high stakes jobs really

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

If there’s a strategy, you’re a social media manager and not a poster

I think they booted out the one that went full fash (still Tory tho)

Delegate. Delegate. Delegate…

That’s another reason for using fibrinogen concentrate then!

Blood product management is different. Early use of cryo/fib concentrate vs 1:1:1. Less (no?) role for FFP in obs

Your greater feeling of familiarity in one area should not demean it as a subspecialty

Oh and the management of massive haemorrhage in trauma is not the same as in obstetrics so I’m not sure that comparison flies

I’m immensely amused at your stance that obstetrics isn’t special but paeds is. I was trained to do paeds as well.

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

(I do not feel able to comment on costume design)

Film poster for Warfare. A group of soldiers wearing body armour and combat fatigues emerge from the courtyard of a residential building. They’re all carrying large guns and aiming them in different directions. The sky is grey-brown and full of smoke.

Another bank holiday weekend trip to the cinema, this time to see Alex Garland/Ray Mendoza’s Warfare. Considering it is told entirely from the point of view of the soldiers I felt it very successfully conveyed the utter disastrous folly of the second Iraq war. Very gory (accurately so).

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Trip to the cinema to see Sinners. The racial politics of vampires: discuss. Could have done with a script editor but it was cracking fun, music editing was fantastic and of course marvellous costume design.

A scruffy older man examines an old reel of tape. He is seated at a desk with a reel to reel tape recorder in front of him. Around him and the seat are piles of junk.

Trip to York on a gloriously sunny day to see Gary Oldman in Krapp’s Last Tape. Beckett plays are not exactly cheery are they? Also the A19 is full of absolute arsehole drivers.

John Forsyth receives thanks and applause after conducting orchestra and choir.

Another trip to Middlesbrough Town Hall for a farewell concert - musical director John Forsyth has retired. Cleveland Philharmonic Choir for Ritter’s Magnificat, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music and Mozart’s Requiem. Brilliant night with fantastic performances.

We know. That’s why we live off takeaways.

Orchestra and conductor of the Northern Sinfonia on stage. There is an ornate organ behind them. I’d love to hear it in action one day

Surprise (because I forgot we had tickets) midweek night out - Northern Sinfonia at Middlesbrough Town Hall. Beethoven, Dvorak and a premier by a bloke who’s name I’ve forgotten already.

Would some of them prefer to have a baby to an abortion? Sure. Would they also prefer to be alive with an abortion than dead with a dead baby? Also sure. Would they prefer to have an abortion now and a healthy pregnancy later? Yes definitely. Which is why they can and do make these choices here.

Some abortions are of wanted pregnancies. I have looked after women terminating much wanted pregnancies. It’s very far from as simple as “just avoiding pregnancy”. What if you find out, too late, that pregnancy is going to kill you?

In my village, all the dogs have old man names. We have a Herbert and down the road is an Arthur. We did have an Alfie two doors down and before they moved away I discovered that was short for Alphonse

Movie poster for Black Bag featuring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fssbender wearing stylish eyewear.

Black Bag: I expected a stylish spy thriller which is what I got. I didn’t expect it to be so funny? Also their house looks like they won it in an Omaze prize draw.