Luci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda)

@tomgillmor.bsky.social !

I love that you’ve used this gif. This is my former colleague Gill who used to be our caption writer at Mary Evans Picture Library. She died last year sadly and it was only a couple of months before that we discovered she was a meme & had tonnes of followers on YouTube for her EFL courses!

Morning from a gloriously sunny London. Day off. I’ve been for a run, I’ve walked the dog, I’ve got myself ready & now just waiting to be given a tour of the Medieval Palace at the Tower of London for Royalty in Britain magazine.

Thank you so much! I’m really excited about the tour - there’s so much history packed into the Hippodrome, and I can’t wait to share it. Your book is a brilliant companion to the tour. And for those joining, the Hippodrome has some exclusive offers in store…

You’re right. But he did turn up just in time after I’d shaken his kibble container a few times. And in fact behaved impeccably at the vet’s.

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Need to set off for the vet in 15 minutes and cat is nowhere to be seen.

Jane’s upcoming tour of the London Hippodrome will be excellent. You can explore nooks & crannies of the building & learn about its past - and on your way out, you can buy my book ‘The London Hippodrome - An Entertainment of Unexampled Brilliance’ ! The perfect day out for theatre history fans.

Just spent a highly depressing hour trying on clothes that have been stored in a suitcase for not quite two years. About 2 things out of 30 fit. Bloody menopause.

Just did the 3rd of week 2 this morning.

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Went out two nights in a row this week and basically I am not the young gazelle I once was so won’t be doing that again.

One of my favourite songs of all time. And one of my favourite to run to. When I run. Which isn’t often.

Love me a bit of Sade.

I really love this. It’s the sort of thing I fantasised about wearing when I was a romantic teenager well into Merchant Ivory and Roman Pokanski’s Tess.

Thoroughly enjoyed this!

Stage school founder Sylvia Young has died. I used to live in her former house, just round the corner from me now - Clavering Rd, Aldersbrook. Someone told me about it after she was on This is Your Life. Wasn’t sure if true but a few letters arrived addressed to her over the years so seems was so.

Nothing like a bit of early morning blackberry picking to set you up for the week. Feargal had to hang around waiting for me this time.

I think the real me might have been abducted by aliens and replaced by a cyborg because I HAVE DONE MY TAX RETURN. In JULY.

I kind of wish that Prince William had brought along George and Louis to the match as well as Charlotte. Women’s football should be of equal interest to boys and girls.

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1st article for issue 3 of Royalty in Britain done & dusted. Loads still to write but good to get one ticked off. Feel like I’m on my way. Need to keep chipping away at it and not let it dominate the remainder of my summer (we go to press 19th Sept).

Lusting after one of these for autumn/winter.

Wondering if Tesco will mind if I bring my dog, donkey and miniature pony shopping? Found in The Sketch, 1927 at work. You see, the digitisation of the ILN a decade ago revolutionised us being able to search it, but you still can’t beat a flick through 1 of the volumes to turn up gems like this.

I’ve been wading through this for weeks & despite its brilliance am finding it hard going. But I carry on for choice tidbits like this. And yes, I am reading in the bath.

Don’t worry. You’ll be able to run it off in a few week’s time.

I am massively loving #toomuch on Netflix. It’s spot on. Funny, rude, raw and brilliantly but gently parodies London Life. Will Sharpe is extraordinarily good as Felix.

Yep, did it this morning.

Too Good to Go bounty from Boulangerie Jade, Blackheath. £4.50.

Good idea. I’ve started it so many times. Have finished it a few times too but life gets in the way. Don’t think I’ll ever return to my days of running 5-6 miles fairly easily (did the Great North Run once) but would like to be able get back to doing a 5k a week. (I’ve had plantar fasciitis too!).

Before going to bed last night I vowed that THIS would be the Monday where I made a new start, up with the lark beginning with the first #couchto5k run. No excuses. Anyway, I went.

19/20C Danish artist Peter Vilhelm Ilsted created calm interiors with artful use of light ~ here he depicts a woman reading by candlelight /and by sunlight