Passageway between two restaurants at night

Ancient St Albans Cathedral with newer visitor centre lit up at night

People in medieval dress playing recorders, bassoon and bass viol.

People in medieval dress playing medieval instruments and others dancing.

Walking to St Albans Cathedral tonight to see the excellent new Mystery Play.

An Indian colleague got hugely confused when some of us had a conversation in the office about pawn shops. He hadn't come across them and thought we were talking about a different spelling...

An American i was speaking to got some funny looks asking around a pub for a ride when he wanted a lift home.

We're living through a New Gilded Age.

The wealthiest and most powerful are throwing million-dollar balls...
while federal employees stood in food lines to feed their kids during a government shutdown.

So how do I identify which streaming service would be best? I mostly listen to classical and jazz, the more obscure the better, with a particular interest in woman composers.

Sunshine on canal

Roof arches of King's Cross Station (probably)

Canal at night

Bookshop on barge.

Regent's Canal near King's Cross.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Inside 'data centre alley' - the biggest story in economics right now Ed Conway gains access into the heart of "data centre alley" in Virginia - home to the servers that power nearly all the major AI and cloud services in the world.

A fascinating article. The area housing the data centres apparently now uses more electricity than the whole of Denmark.
news.sky.com/story/inside...

This is fascinating - there are several composers listed i have never heard of, let alone symphonies I didn't know existed from composers I do know. Need to do some catching up.

Lovely that book!

Coastline from the cliffs

Sandy area with rocks at low water, with sea and Scarborough Castle in the distance.

Full English Breakfast in a café with a view of breaking waves.

More Scarbados. What gorgeous views!

Scarborough

Sunset

Sunset and tree silhouettes

Coastline

Scarborough looking gorgeous.

We're busy rehearsing Haydn's 'The Seasons' for our performance on Saturday 22 November at @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social 🌱☀️🍂❄️
Tickets are available from the cathedral website: www.stalbanscathedral.org/event/st-alb...

Is that the one Hockney painted?

Unfortunately, although it's a lovely idea, it appears not to be true.

"Just one damned thing after another" by Jodi Taylor

Deacon King Kong by James McBride.

My no. 2 was 9 days late. But most other things were considerably easier than no. 1. Hope all goes well for you.

Loving the mac'n'cheese and the pizzas.

Those ingredients will make at least 10 sandwiches for about £2 each although the salmon will be a bit thin (depending on the size of the pack/tin)

We are releasing anyway

Accidentally deleted database

Tree with orange leaves against a blue sky

Two trees in autumn sunshine

Tree with red leaves and sun shining through

Rosehips against a blue sky.

Lovely Autumn walk through #Highfieldpark. Lovely blue skies!

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

You may need to explain to Golden that this is not a new arrangement that has not been previously discussed.

Because you didn't "earn" it so you don't DESERVE it