Christopher White

Bacchae at the National Theatre. Precisely that. 🫤

Yeah but 🐴 🍾

Who would’ve thunk it?

@generalboles.bsky.social relative of yours?

I poach them slowly in water, then eat with boiled potatoes, parsley, olive oil, and a homemade salsa verde!

(NB Not necessarily a recipe for life)

Invisible man. #ClaphamJunction

@lauracummingart.bsky.social I agree!

Looked perfectly normal from this angle

You and me both 😀

Emmaneul Carrère has a friend who is obsessed with the Bhagavad Gita and consults it at every turn. “When one copy falls apart, he goes to get another from the shelf where he’s got a good twenty stored away, the same way he stores Kleenex for his sinusitis”

Mad for anchovies. 🐟

The Conservative Party is slouching towards oblivion It really is over for the Tories, says John Rentoul, which leaves Kemi Badenoch going through the motions at the party’s annual conference in Manchester. But the demise of the party of Margaret Thatch...

The Conservative Party is slouching towards oblivion. My weekend article for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/conse...

The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère — a religious journey A novelised memoir that vividly captures the drama of the Christian experience

#nowreading on.ft.com/48Oev3Y He’a so very good. Give him the Nobel Prize.

📷 Took my new camera for a walk to Clapham High Street.

Me too! 💣

Hi Laura 👋🏻 how nice to see you on here! 😊

#nowplaying

And then some! You never know what the British Heart Foundation is going to turn up.

🎹 Six sides for six quid. #charityshopbargain

It’s one of the reasons why I was determined never to become a commuter when I started a full-time job.

Encountering the strange mixture of sadness and riotous absurdity at the heart of this show at the age of 15 changed my life.

This is a wonderful and nuanced assessment, almost fifty years later.

Literally!

🍷 And then I came across this fabulous painting by Pieter Brueghel.

www.museodelprado.es/en/the-colle...

🇪🇸 Veláquez was who I really went to look at. And now to get a copy of the book by @lauracummingart.bsky.social.

Alone in the Prado: behind the scenes in one of the world’s greatest museums One writer, two months and a feast of Spanish art

Chloe Aridjis had written the second in the series.
on.ft.com/3KUlHS4

[Paging @john-self.bsky.social]

Bedazzle them with a haiku.

Gulp. You got off lucky.

On the plus side, all those diary entries you now don’t have to read.