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Agreed! And, unlike jumpers, you can slip them on and off without having to remove your glasses…

HD: one of the lesser known members of the family…

when I moved to the UK 20 years ago brits sneered at the US because of how especially post-9/11 the flag was plastered everywhere and waved in everyone's faces and politicians could not shut up about 'the real america, the greatest country in the world in all of history, blah blah blah'

Fabulous! It takes me back to a very enjoyable afternoon that Philippa and I spent in the Poli grappa museum (Bassano dG) a few years ago.

@backlisted.bsky.social I've been wanting to support Backlisted by using @bookshop-org-uk, but whenever I try to choose Backlisted as my bookshop, it doesn’t come up in the drop-down list in the search. What am I doing wrong?!

That's it! Philippa and I squealed when we saw the episode last Friday - the day before, we'd had lunch there, after just getting the all-clear from P's consultant at Bart’s (after 18 weeks of chemo/immuno, the scan showed complete remission 🥳)

And starring Beppe's Café (just opposite Bart's Hospital) in episode 1: an absolute institution, and lifeline for both staff and patients…

Yes, I’m fed up of having to leap up from the sofa to get close enough to the screen to read the damn things - by which time, of course, they've disappeared…

I think it’s wild that the dangers of a mad king are so well known that it’s the basis of fairy tales that kids read, biblical stories, and a significant bit of other oral traditions—and yet when it happens a significant number of people are still like “idk, maybe it’s fine this time”

It's fabulous, isn’t it?! I saw it in the (London) National Gallery's Siena exhibition earlier this summer, but it normally lives in Liverpool at the Walker: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/christ-discovered-temple

Discussed on this week's Locklisted (from the @backlisted people)

Wonderful musician. I first heard him with Alexis Korner's band in 1967 (when I was a teenager just getting into blues & folk) and then, of course, with all the Pentangle releases afterwards. I dabbled a bit in bass playing then: his was the sound I had in my head.

One of my very favourites! And looking wonderfully vivid after its recent restoration.

Glad you liked Eva Zaïcik: I haven’t yet heard her live, but have loved her recordings.

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Thanks for the hint! I should have gone for the noun first…

And in the next-door Colorado county to our grandchildren's school - chilling.

Sunset on the Zattere, Venice, with an ice cream

We've been back home for just a couple of hours now, and already I'm missing the sunset gelatos at Nico…

Ooh yes, I remember that recording! Alan's playing, and his teaching, was a big influence on me when I started off on historical flutes back in the late 1970s.

Thinking of amari, I had one at Stappo on Tuesday which was new to me: the improbably named Jefferson, from Calabria. Very delicious. https://www.spiritacademy.it/it/liquori/jefferson-amaro-importante-6649.html

Greetings from San Trovaso! Sorry to hear of your flight delay; hope all goes well at the Lido tomorrow.

If you’re still here on the 6th, can I recommend an excellent concert?! (That I happen to be playing in…)

A fine selection of PGJ's Nathan Sutherland mysteries.

Plenty of @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social holiday reading here in our Venice Airbnb - though I've already read these ones… So instead, I've got @davidhewson.com's first Arnold Clover on my kindle -and am about to head over to Danilo with an empty water bottle to stock up for the weekend.

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Novus Quartet. Both quartets go for a leaner, cleaner sound which I like.

Well, it was upright when I posted it, even if I’m not, now I’ve drunk it 😜

A Negroni in a glass, with plastic straw and Big slice of orange

#TheNegroniDiaries: celebrating our arrival in Italy (Cernobbio, Como) with the first Negroni of the trip. No fancy herbs here, unlike some of @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social's recent ones…

Yes, glorious piece! I first sang it, as a student in Durham, back in the 1970s (just after David Munrow had recorded it), and have loved it ever since.

I’ll be in the middle of rehearsals then: sorry to miss it!

Concert handbill, featuring Canaletto's view of Venice’s Redentore church, and the text: NELLO STILE VENEZIANO Mottetti, salmi e sonate di Giovanni Gabrieli e i suoi seguaci per due a cinque cori di voci e strumenti I CHIAROSCURISTI Diretti da Philip Thorby CHIESA DEL SANTISSIMO REDENTORE Sabato 6 settembre alle ore 18:00 Offerta libera per il restauro della chiesa

If anyone is in Venice on Sept 6th: I'm one of a group of visiting (mostly) English singers and instrumentalists for this concert. Composers include G Gabrieli, Croce, Viadana, and Schütz (who studied in Venice with Gabrieli).

Ooh yes, 7 Floor Malaysia: such lovely people!