Anna Mullens

I love accompanying this choir 😊 an absolute joy 🎶

Lola, a brown labrador, is sitting on a grey bed and looking out of a large window. There is blue sky and green grass outside the window and the morning sun is shining on Lola's fur

Lola, a brown labrador, is sitting on a grey bed and looking out of a large window, but to the side this time. There is blue sky and green grass outside the window and the morning sun is shining on Lola's fur

Lola is 10 today! ✨️

It's hard to quantify when your job is "done" as a music teacher, but watching a pupil leave as an experienced and skilled musician and a confident, kind person is pretty damn close. For me, it's never about creating professional musicians - it's about helping mould good humans. 🧵2/2

This afternoon, I had my last lesson with a long-standing 16 year old violin pupil. I was ready to pretty upset about it but, although I'll miss her, I feel really content. 🧵1/2

A brown labrador running through a field (towards the camera) with trees and a grey sky in the background

A similar shot in a field, with grey skies and trees, but the brown labrador is now much closer, mid-walk

Rubbish weather, great company

A mosaic of an owl, with part of the black and white corner of the mosaic border above him. The owl is a mess. He honestly looks like he hasn't slept for days.

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl.
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An 80-piece orchestra, mid rehearsal, taken from a distance

Big workshop orchestra today! Always great to be playing alongside my students, colleagues, family and friends! 🎶

Thomas and Austen: a gay relationship in the MERL archives? - The Museum of English Rural Life For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?

For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

We’re very grateful to our audience, friends, and supporters for helping us to raise money for charity at our Jingle Belles concert !

Some fun for #MDMonday! Our Founder & MD Clare had a big birthday last week so we serenaded her (accompanied by piano harmonies by @anna-cm.bsky.social of course!)

Working with kids today was great as always (see surprise gift from a 6 year old budding jeweller). Adults... eh.