Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥

The Director’s Cut 🎬

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14)

BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎵

Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Elizaveta Ivanova, flute

Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto 

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)

Watching my nephew (red skull cap) playing rugby in the Principality Stadium - Road to Principality: Schools and Dewar Shield Finals Day 🏉

Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷

Watched: The Roses, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥

Jalfrezi 🌶️

Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), The Utopia Strong (14), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (12), Petrenko, Vasily (3)

Now going to listen to a couple of cricket podcasts, which is going to depress the mood. The episode title of the first is Darkness Descends 🙉

Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game 👏⚽️