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mertelstein.bsky.social
Itinerant trombonist, pianist and diplomat, not necessarily in that order. Works with aeroplanes mostly. FRAeS.
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Because obviously the WRU looked at the current situation and thought “what can we possibly do to make this even worse than it is now?”

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Okay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history. More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain. This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵

submitted 177 days ago • 77 comments

The two sides of this weekend’s Children’s Concerts - a splendid, moodily-lit view from my seat in the back row; and the slightly more mundane reality of the backstage warm-up area.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s this week’s (massively self-indulgent) cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

submitted 97 days ago • 41 comments

As an honorary (and soon-to-be-actual) Belgian, I am fully behind this article. Make Beethoven Belgian Again! app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/11/13/l...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

@guitarmoog.bsky.social REM HQ has made it here, in case you followed them on The Other Place.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

This is really well done. Austrian Airlines last post on Twitter.

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Inspired by @philippeauclair.bsky.social I am posting the piece by Ralph Vaughan Williams that made me fall in love with his music. Happy birthday RVW, wherever you may be! youtu.be/suLi1QXbBAU?...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Ralph Vaughan Williams was born #OnThisDay in 1872, so to celebrate his 152nd birthday, here's the great man and his cat.

submitted 135 days ago • 7 comments

A lovely, restorative evening performing Bruckner’s Mass in F Minor with the Bruocsella and choirs from Norway, Lithuania and Brussels.

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Call me naïve but I’d kind of hoped once the bin fire of the last government fizzled out, we’d go back to sensible news stories about policies, rather than remain mired in the Westminster bubble scandal fest. That’ll teach me.

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

Brussels-based people! The orchestra I play with are accompanying choirs from Norway and Lithuania in a performance on Bruckner’s Mass in F Minor on 28 September. The concert is at the Église Notre-Dame au Sablon and starts at 8pm - come and listen! www.bso-orchestra.be?p=55&lang=en

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One of those amazing free resources that lots of people don't know exists: Britain from Above, with historic aerial photos of the entire country. If you get a free account and login, you can zoom close enough to see your Nan's washing on the line in 1951. www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en

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