Watched: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, 2023 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: The Last Kingdom 📺

It’s taken me nearly two years to work my way through all five seasons of The Last Kingdom (set in the 9th and 10th century British Isles). Enjoyed them all but my interest did wane slightly after the death of Alfred the Great. I still wanted to finish the storyline though.

To quote The Guardian review from 2015:

This is not a smaller-scale, less sexy, British Game of Thrones – it’s proper historical drama, and it’s a ton of fun

The film The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is next 👀

Retailing 🛍️

That worked quite well for a first attempt. Slightly soggy bottom my only criticism 😁

Served with garlic roast potatoes, some soy glazed broccoli and samphire. Sunday dinner sorted!

I have constructed a salmon Wellington. To be baked shortly 🐟

Spurs 1-2 Aston Villa. Villa’s season recovery continues. And a fantastic second goal! ⚽️🙂

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Alim Beisembayev (14 plays), Tadaaki Otaka, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales (13), Serebrier, Russian National Orchestra, Yang, Romanovsky, Chisson, Serov, Barton-Pine (10), June Christy (7), Bernstein (4)

Watched: The Hurt Locker, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥

Preparing for a piano concerto, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Cellist rehearsing, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff 🎵

Thursday 25th October 2025

Themes & Variations

Dmitri Shostakovich - Theme and Variations, Op. 3 (1921)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 102 (1956–7)
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.6 in F major, ‘Le matin’ (1761)
Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a (1873)

Jaime Martín, conductor
Alim Beisembayev, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Location check in — Wales Millennium Centre
🗺 Map of area

🔎 Zoom in

Cardiff Bay sunset

Watched: The Woman in Cabin 10, 2025 - ★★ 🎥

Watched: High Life, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥