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Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays
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#Voted ✅ - then to @scripthavenltd.bsky.social to pick up a copy of Is A River Alive? (signed by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social) “Water’s source matters. Its course matters. Each river is differently spirited and differently tongued -“ (p.5)

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My online modern spelling edition of A Dialogue Between Mercury and an English Soldier (1574) by Barnabe Rich. - containing a visit to the court of Venus, a translation of Bandello’s Lady of Chabry, and Rich’s wholesale pilfering from multiple military manuals. mercurysdialogue.wordpress.com

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All Is True* * except possibly the bit about “two short hours”

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Farmers market near the river today, though only really one stall selling stuff straight from a farm (the rest all jams & chutneys, ciders, cheeses, nursery plants etc. - “add value” say the advisors & accountants) - still, nice asparagus, Swiss chard, cauliflower & strawberries from that stall.

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- spool - www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...

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“If you find it difficult to think of a river as alive, try picturing a dying or dead river. This is easier.” - @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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So, first home fixture of the season at @worcestershireccc.bsky.social and there’s a new electronic advertising hoarding right in front of the members’ stand: looks ugly, obscures the view, and makes a noise like a row of air conditioning units.

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I thoroughly endorse the voting intentions of the cats of Portland Street in our forthcoming local elections. #GreenParty

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To Cheltenham’s Wilson Gallery, where the Arts & Craft movement seems to progress from a desire to live in the bourgeois heart of England to an anti-property Maoist absolutism, in the time it takes to make a nice table. [p.s. - the artisanal coffee & crafted cloudscapes of the journey home.]

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- fascinating research from @matthewsteggle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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David Garrick’s 1754 version of The Taming of the Shrew performed on British television in 1939:

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Really leaning in on the all the topical Easter stuff, the @worcestercathedral.bsky.social peregrines now appear to be sitting on at least one newly hatched ball of fluff. - live feed here: www.youtube.com/live/mtiyFRe...

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My pickled new potato w/ vegan curd rice. - points at least for looking like the picture in the recipe (and tasting pretty good); served with chapati, giving the opportunity for a single rice/potato/bread mouthful which is something of a carb-trifecta www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...

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#MUNLYO - Are you not entertained ?!!?

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So, I’m sitting with my phone poised over a deconstructed tomato & pesto sandwich, waiting for my server to deliver the iced aeropress that completes the picture, when she stops halfway across the yard to take a photo of it, because “it looks so good.” [the #UnrecordedLunch is not worth living]

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“Thou look’st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.” - The Alchemist (4.6) by Ben Jonson

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“But now a king, now thus.” @worcestercathedral.bsky.social [see ALT for the full text of the death of King John In Shakespeare’s play.]

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Autumn Breeze & Zandvoort Fishergirl (1884) by Elizabeth Forbes. + The Farmer's Wife by Stanhope Forbes. - Worcester City Art Gallery exhibition: “Elizabeth and Stanhope Forbes: A Marriage of Art”

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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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Meet Nele! The model for the sculpture was none other than Neel Doff, who would later become a literary icon in her own right as the author of Keetje Tippel, a raw and revolutionary novel about a young woman’s struggle in 19th-century Amsterdam. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20071194

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- ‘Twill be long. - I warrant you, take but the cues* I give you, it shall be brief enough. - the reduction, contrition, cribation & comminution (which is to say cutting) of The Alchemist in preparation for it’s fulmination in next season’s REP revival reading [* in Q “cues” is rendered “QQs”]

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A Wildean “Aesthetic Teapot” from the Museum of Royal Worcester; reverse features a mirrored but moustached figure; & on the base: “Fearful consequences through the laws of Natural Selection and Evolution of Living up to one’s Teapot”. more details on this blog: blog.nms.ac.uk/2016/03/23/l...

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