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I think this is great.

Christmas jumper and DMs: Ella on the stairs by Peter Brown (featured in today’s @financialtimes.com )

This is a completely brilliant book that I can’t believe I’ve only just read:

Hockney charcoal

Hockney Warter Yorkshire

Hockney father

Hockney Isherwood California

The David Hockney 25 exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton is brilliant. Spent several wonderful hours here. @davidhockney.bsky.social

What Do You Remember? The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.

What do you remember? Lovely piece that starts with the book, I Remember by Joe Bainard www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection by Andy Miller.

I’ve written about Brian Wilson, who died this week. This bonus instalment of Inventory is available to ALL subscribers to the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon, at whatever level. Sign up now for free to read it. The SMiLE you send out returns to you. 🙏 www.patreon.com/backlisted

Monet Paris Light

Stunning #Paris exhibition at Kunst Museum Den Haag - last chance to see! #monet #manet #renoir #Bazille www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/een-wande...

What was true in 1982 also appears to be true today:

@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social I think you would like this.

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Terrific Lucas Foglia exhibition at the foto museum in Den Haag tracing the migration of painted lady butterflies and the parallel human stories.

You can see the impact of that migration from N. Europe to Sub-Saharan Africa. A butterfly can travel 4,000km until its wings are literally worn out.

240. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend — Backlisted The wonderful Nina Stibbe , award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation . When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of ...

New @backlisted.bsky.social episode! The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend, with Nina Stibbe @ninastibbe.bsky.social and us. This discussion convinced me that one may sell millions of books and still be a neglected writer.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend Podcast Episode · Backlisted · 26/05/2025 · 1h 16m

This is totally brilliant: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... @backlisted.bsky.social

Reading Lucy Mangan bookish children’s YA literature

Lucy Mangan on reading children’s and YA literature

Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

“the tragedy at the heart of this story: the people suffering are on some level aware of what’s going wrong, but seem powerless to prevent it.” Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health on.ft.com/40l0ogO

Gloom winter mud hedge tree puddle desaturated

There’s something comforting about this English gloom

My favourite albums of the year #2024. Might do a thread.

The hollow land by Jane Gardam

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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14/20

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13/20

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12/20

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11/20

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10/20

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9/20

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8/20

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7/20

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6/20

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5/20

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