Film log - watched: Living, 2022 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥

Currently reading: Scarpia by Piers Paul Read 📚

Finished reading: What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt 📚

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Kinks (36 plays), Jeremy Pelt (17), Stacey Kent (15), Carolyn Sampson; Bach Collegium Japan Chorus; Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki; Olivia Vermeulen; Makoto Sakurada; Christian Immler (13), Leif Ove Andsnes (13)

Aston Villa last won the FA Cup in 1957 ⚽️

Saturday afternoon - a prawn curry, a pint of Old Peculier 🍺 and watching 📺 Crystal Palace v Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley ⚽️

Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome 🔗

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Leif Ove Andsnes (24 plays), Roger Waters (22), Lankum (13), Leif Ove Andsnes, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir & Grete Pedersen (12), Babyshambles (11)

Film log - watched: Gladiator II, 2024 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥

Birthday lunch at The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd - oven roasted miso cod, wild rice, red pepper & gochujang puree and a kimchi fritter. And a bowl of chips 😊

Also a Weird Dad porter 🍺

Film log - watched: Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity, 2025 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥

My daughter’s birthday today. We were with a mixed clientele in the pub.

The Grace. 🗺

Some wax clearance needed 🕯️

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. 🗺

A Ton of Tea
Ai Weiwei

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Harding, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Buratto, Tetelman, Tézier (41 plays), Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini (13), The Loft (12), Tribe3 (6), Beck (2)