Lucy Poole

Good morning.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.
Sonnet 60
#ShakespeareSunday
📸 by me, looking towards Bamburgh, Northumberland, last week

I strongly feel this for music too. I first encountered this brilliant attitude at the @blurfanclub.bsky.social and have replicated it across my choral singing sphere as it is often much needed there.

(Image stolen from @snowythepyro.bsky.social on another platform)

#UncommonInstrumentAwarenessDay

Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
I saw a picture of the cover on here: not a direct link to the author being present.
Haven’t read it yet but plan to when I’m finished the current book I’m reading (which is Testaments).

Also just bought!

Is there *any* evidence that presence on bsky contributes in any way to book sales? I’ll take anecdotes! Who here has bought a book bc they heard about it on bsky *alone*? Because I’m ready to bounce.

😮🤩 what a beaut!

I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it.

AYLI 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday #Falassarna

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4
#ShakespeareSunday
#holiday

It is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible.

~ Jane Austen

Pockets of joy (pockets are indeed joyful after all)…

Steps in the right direction at last.

Turn down the lights, turn up the volume for a sublime moment. The words of Jackie Morris read by Jerome Flynn put together with music by Dougal Abbott. This is balm for the soul. (Stained glass by me!)

looking up at a full moon surrounded by trees at night Alt: looking up at a full moon surrounded by trees at night

Dreaming times ....

I wanna be number 1 today because I’ve got research work to do and the owl would make me feel all clever.

Morning! Although, I’d rather Shetland…😉

Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 73 reported killed while waiting for food Pontiff also speaks of anguish over Israeli strike on territory’s only Catholic church, which killed three people

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A View of London and the Surrounding Country Taken from the Top of St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1845, horizontal panorama, highlighted aquatint, diam. 755 cm. Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Collection, London.

anamorphic representation of London from the top of St Paul's Cathedral, c. 1845

Screenshot from Wikipedia: A black and white image of a racehorse with text below reading Potoooooooo British thoroughbred racehorse Potoooooooo or variations of Pot-8-Os (1773 - November 1800) was an 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse who won over 25 races and placed higher than some of the most prominent racehorses of his time. He went on to be an important sire, whose leading runners included Epsom Derby winners Waxy, Champion, and Tyrant. He is best known for the unusual spelling of his name, pronounced Potatoes.

just super stuff

Massive Attack announce alliance of artists supporting Gaza Massive Attack, Kneecap, Fontaines DC, and Brian Eno have formed a syndicate for artists in support of Gaza, championing a list of demands after many threats.

Putting this one here too

faroutmagazine.co.uk/massive-atta...

I think I need y'all to know that one of my most favorite photos of all time is this one of Damon Albarn & Seye Adelekan kissing onstage

BBC Radio 6 Music
Huw Stephens

Now Playing
Africa Express
Hacernos Asi (feat. Damon Albarn, Joan As Police Woman, Nick Zinner, Seye Adelekan, Luisa Almaguer & Mexican Institute of Sound)

Africa Express – “Soledad” (Feat. Damon Albarn, Nick Zinner, Joan As Police Woman, & More) A couple weeks ago, Africa Express announced their new studio album Africa Express presents… Bahidorá, which is out July 11 via World Circuit Records. Today, they shared new singles “Soledad” featurin...

From the forthcomimg Africa Express LP, hear the new singles “Soledad” (featuring Damon Albarn, Luisa Almaguer, Nick Zinner, Seye Adelekan, Joan As Police Woman, and the Mexican Institute Of Sound) and “Otim Hop” (with Otim Alpha, Bootie Brown, K.O.G., and Tom Excell)

Let me know when you go and I’ll see if I’m free to join you! #beckenhammassive

I live just up the road…have never been…always meant to go!

Amen

Cartoon: a series of six drawings of a man's head and shoulders. In each drawing he is wearing a trilby style hat at an increased angle until in the last one it is on the side of his head. The six stages are: Normal, Askew, Acock, Jaunty, Rakish, Alert Authorities. Caption: Hat Angle Guide

Hat angle guide

Stick one in your pocket, you'll never know when you might need it.

www.worldofmoose.com/products/hat...

J.S.Bach
David Bowie