Mark Ludmon

Found time today to visit Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury in Suffolk before a meeting. A fantastic museum and gallery with a mix of contemporary art, including a great Stanley Spencer exhibition on until March, alongside Gainsboroughs & Constables.

#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer

Finding new friends in your 30s is a doddle compared to doing it in your 40s and older.

A panel sitting in front of a white cinema screen saying only Jay Kelly and N for Netflix including Noah Baumbach, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup, producer David Heyman and casting director Nina Gold.

Enjoyed seeing Noah Baumbach’s film, Jay Kelly, on the big screen with a starry cast led by George Clooney. Despite his character’s flaws, it’s a compelling celebration of films & film-making. The post-screening Q&A with Clooney, Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup etc added to the fun.
#JayKelly

Glasman comes across as a total buffoon in this piece. I can only assume that the Telegraph is trying to make him sound ridiculous and stupid.

Hey, marketers: it may be a Friday today but Black Friday is NOT “here” yet…
#BlackFriday

Morning. Don’t know if this counts as promotion or just me
Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.

The frontage of Trafalgar Theatre by night with Clarkston on the marquee featuring an image of Joe Locke.

Pleased to catch Clarkston in its final week at Trafalgar Theatre: a solid American drama lifted by three very strong performances from Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville.
#LondonTheatre

The frontage of the Harold Pinter Theatre with displays promoting The Weir

Looking forward to a haunting time at The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Have I Got Phobia For You Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...

A clever way of highlighting how today’s transphobia is horrifyingly similar to the homophobic rhetoric of the past.

haveigotphobiaforyou.com

An excellent must-read article (especially for someone like me recovering from a mystery stress fracture probably caused by exercise)

You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why Adapting your fitness routine to your physical realities can help prevent injury from over-exercising

You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why

Born With Teeth was very entertaining, especially for someone as interested in early modern English theatre and history as me. I can’t believe I nearly missed it. Ncuti Gatwa was great but Edward Bluemel was superb as Will Shakespeare.

The exterior of the Wyndham’s Theatre in London with Born With Teeth on the marquee.

Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.

It’s disgusting how the far right have tried to politicise the poppy when it should be an apolitical symbol of peace and remembrance.

This toothless licensing scheme has been snuck in by councils without any publicity so I’m not surprised she didn’t know. Because of this story, I found out the licence was introduced in my area last month. It seems to serve no purpose and will only drive up rents even further.

Shelves of books including Wayne Sleep’s autobiography, Just Different, between Joshua Whitehead’s novel, Jonny Appleseed, and Boy George’s memoir, Karma.

Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!

The video backdrop, in the style of a 1940s black and white movie, saying Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical with a bare, stagily lit stage.

A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein

Inside Manchester Victoria station where a Starbucks has been installed in the old railway bar which still has the sign “1st Class Refreshment Room” over the windows and doors.

At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester

The programme for Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein propped up on the bar at Hope Mill Theatre next to a beer pump.

Neon-style LED tubes saying Showtime in the distressed interior of Hope Mill Theatre

String of white lights hang over the industrial shed-like entrance to Hope Mill Theatre

The upright piano in the bar of Hope Mill Theatre festooned with Halloween pumpkin decorations.

Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein

A black goat being chased by an alpaca in a pen at Vauxhall City Farm with Vauxhall Gardens park and a skyline of skyscrapers in the background.

“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”

Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.

#vauxhall

Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen

Laurie Kynaston as Hungry Paul and Alex Lawther as Leonard facing each other sitting on low cushions at a round wooden table in Leonard & Hungry Paul.

The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul

Another “Brexit benefit”? A clothing company is exiting the UK market after 25 years because of “the complexity and cost of cross-border operations between the UK and Europe in the current trade environment”.
#Brexit

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK - BBC News The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

More nonsense. It’s a good thing that UK-born British citizens don’t need to be proficient to “A Level English” standard (whatever that means). Literacy surveys show the average reading age among British adults is 9 to 11.

(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aimee Lou Wood and a beaming Suranne Jones standing outside a suburban front door.

Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.

‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under way

‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules

“Po medijskem linču”?! Po kraji dela drugega pisatelja. Ampak mi je žal, da ima duševno bolezen.

I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!

Phew. I was worried what I’d wake up to

I’ve seen she’s shared some horrific anti-LGBT+ content on social media and in interviews. I worry how much influence they have on police treatment of LGBT+ people in their counties.