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Right then. You know how I like birds? And you may or may not know that I’m a conductor by trade. Next Saturday, 14th June, the two come together in a concert with Brent Symphony Orchestra. Bird-based music by Respighi, Rautavaara, Kodaly and Sibelius. Do come! www.ticketsource.co.uk/brentsymphon...

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Sometimes it even works. When there's an X in the month.

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He and Sir Clive Woodward should form a support group for themselves.

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Greetings girl and welcome to my world of phrase I'm right up to bat It's a Daisy Age and you're about to walk top-stage so wipe your Lottos on the mat

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gosh dang it to heck! it’s the

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Still Life https://www.wikiart.org/en/samuel-peploe/still-life-1906

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Gosh, is it International Gratuitously Plug Your Book Day already? Comes round earlier every week. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/taki...

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Edinburgh Minute founder Michael MacLeod on taking a different approach to local news 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2520... @edinburghminute.bsky.social

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not pre-internet but pre-me-having-a-smartphone, I once made a trip to London for Important Work Reasons and my partner very kindly wrote down the directions I needed from a website called like "MapQuest" and gave them to me on a piece of paper, but accidentally got the lefts and rights mixed up

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In the future, the real power behind the power will be airline pilots, and I never saw that coming.

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Imagine doing this when the Venetians had already created the perfect way of selecting your City State dictator.

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This is genuinely one of the pieces of stately home financial chicanery that I am most outraged about. The story of how the national memorial fund for World War Two - set up to buy free access land - ended up keeping posh people in their posh houses. open.substack.com/pub/susannah...

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4 WEEKS TODAY! 🥳 Join us on Wednesday 2nd of July to hear @liammcilvanney.bsky.social in conversation with @valmcdermid.bsky.social about The Good Father. 📚 Sign up here: goldenharebooks.com/products/the... @zaffrebooks.bsky.social

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Current mood: youtu.be/YIMUxg-DMuU?...

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Be born with the surname 'Collins'.

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Burnham-on-Sea Low Lighthouse repainting, 2016. A full-page opener introducing the Somerset chapter of #ThePerimeterBook Order here 👉 is.gd/P2BW67

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This reads like unused dialogue from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is the voice of HAL.

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The one monastic order Henry VIII could not dispossess.

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Ditto pen like a knife.

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Where I am in the great Unbound financial shipwreck, so far. With an added does of, and are you a nice agent who wants an excellent book? open.substack.com/pub/susannah...

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NEWS: An innovative 1960s modernist school in Leicestershire, centered on a striking dodecagon timber assembly hall, has Grade II listed following support from C20. Glenmere Community Primary School in Wigston was designed by architects Farmer & Dark in 1963-64. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/lincoln...

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Gentle Jesus, make it stop.

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I spoke with music journalist @katehutchinson.bsky.social about her new Studio Radicals podcast, where she deep dives into the work of amazing engineers and artists, including @martasalogni.bsky.social @hannahpeel.bsky.social and my beloved #SuzanneCiani

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What happens when teens spend a few hours a week reading to care home residents? 🤔 Elgin Academy's school library reading project is helping to break down age barriers between teenagers and senior citizens. #LibrariesChangeLives

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#birdbot

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In today’s episode of Oh Mate: “Have you got that photo of the Vicar of Dibley cast ready?” “Yep, here you go” [hits publish] Oh mate.

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Morning.

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I didn't see that coming.

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Pubs of Scotland: Busy Bee, Saughton Mains, Edinburgh. Also doubled as a post apocalyptic fallout shelter.

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Tom's at it again. 'It' being 'taking superlative images that he shares with us'.

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Don't have a podcast but want to start one? No problem. Here are my suggestions for podcasts that don't exist but definitely should. I look forward to listening 👍

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Local history nerds: did you know that the BL's digitisations of all their Goad fire insurance maps were on Wikimedia Commons? (I did not know this.) The collection includes some that are earlier than the NLS georeferenced layer. commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

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I hope one day someone will buy me one of those, except it's all Scampi Fries.

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What's up darling, you've barely touched your Adidas tiramishoe

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@itvnews.bsky.social what aren't MSM pushing this news? Instead it's all "Farage says this" and "Farage states that". "Farage is the people's choice", "Farage is the people's champion". Farage is a fraud, always was and always will be.

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