Currently reading: The Odyssey by Homer 📚
About to start Book 6 of The Odyssey. Progressing - at a fairly slow pace that suits me 😄 - alongside the Instant Classics Podcast Book Club episodes. Emily Wilson’s translation is a pleasure to read.
Tell me about a complicated man.
Watched: Pluribus Season 1 📺
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18 plays), Lily Allen (14), Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble (7), John Coltrane (5), Mitropoulos (4)
Location check in — The World’s End, Camden. Pint of London Black 🍺
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Location check in — Andy’s Greek Taverna, Camden 🇬🇷
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Location check in — Freud Museum, London
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From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s extraordinary digital renaissance
Watched: Oh. What. Fun., 2025 - ★★½ 🎥
My compulsory Xmas movie 😊
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Thomas Dunford, Jupiter Ensemble & Lea Desandre (54 plays), Big Special (26), Neil Young (11), Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble (7), CMAT (3)
Xmas dinner from start to end today 🎅
A lot for two but with visitors tonight and tomorrow in mind 😊
Prawn moilee, matter paneer, black daal, rice and roti.
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Seventh straight Premiership win for Aston Villa - against Manchester United. Two great goals for Morgan Rogers 🦁⚽️
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Unthanks (10 plays)
A bit of a lack of scrobbled music 😄
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)
