🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Pavel Kolesnikov (50 plays), Sting (17), Anastasia Kobekina (12), Anastasia Kobekina & Kammerorchester Basel (12), Frédéric Lo & Michel Houellebecq (12)

House temperatures for May - update with new ‘record’ maximums for my thermometers 🌞

Kitchen - max 23.5

Lounge - max 23.3

Bedroom - max 27.8

BBC National Orchestra of Wales 🎵
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Paweł Kapuła conductor
Sterling Elliott cello

Marta Ptaszyńska
A Winter’s Tale

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – overture

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major

Cardiff Bay

Location check in — The Mount Stuart, Cardiff Bay - a nice strong ale, Wobbly Bob 🍺
🗺 Map of area

Tuesday 26th May 2026, 9:00am

Kitchen, lounge, bedroom

Have had these thermometers for a couple of years and yesterday all recorded new maximum temperatures 🌞

Finished reading: The Medici Secret by Michael White 📚

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Bertrand Chamayou (48 plays), Bob Dylan (18), Amelia Cuni (15), Alexei Lubimov (14), Handley, RLPO, Little (6)

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Black Box Recorder (18 plays), Shovel Dance Collective (14), John Francis Flynn (8), Handley, RLPO, Little (6), Harding, BPO, Zimmermann (6)

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff 🎵

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Alexandre Bloch conductor
Veronika Eberle violin

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major

Sir George Benjamin
Concerto for Orchestra

Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)