Weโre further away from The Rolling Stones recording โSympathy for the Devilโ than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
04.11.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 686 ๐ 146 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 18@oldnick103.bsky.social
Middle School Teacher (Religion and Worldview lead + English, French, Humanities & PSHE), Singer, Actor, Cricket, Jazz and Opera.
Weโre further away from The Rolling Stones recording โSympathy for the Devilโ than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
04.11.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 686 ๐ 146 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 18Worst edition of Taskmaster ever...
17.12.2024 20:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bluesky feed beginning to look my Twitter feed from a few years back.
16.11.2024 19:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gingerbread version of the Robin Hood Pub in St Albans in front of the actual pub.
Gingerbread version of the Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Pub in St Albans.
Gingerbread version of the White Hart Tap in St Albans in front of the actual pub.
Gingerbread version of the Boot in St Albans in front of the actual pub.
For the past two years I've been making gingerbread replicas of the pubs of St Albans. Gearing up for this year's installment! Here's a peek at some of the previous efforts. There are a LOT of great pubs in St Albans--this is going to take me years!
13.11.2024 11:50 โ ๐ 64 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 6I hear it is far nicer over here! Message received. Words of the day start tomorrow.
13.11.2024 19:52 โ ๐ 3332 ๐ 430 ๐ฌ 264 ๐ 99A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, โThe dog understands โTake it!โ It does not understand โPut it down!โโ
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Have read some very favourable reviews of this. Finally got some time to listen.... and I can see why.
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This turned up in my new release section this weekend.
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Spent the day singing Carmina Burana in a workshop in Tring today. Here's some jazz from Germany.
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This One's from the Heart. One of my favourite singers, with a song from a film that I haven't seen in years.
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One of my favourite trumpeters for tonight's listening.
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Antidote to all the Donizetti that I've been singing tonight.
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I remember having this music on while marking books one lunchtime and a Year 5 pupil, who was working outside asked what it was. She only went and bought the album.
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On what would have been dad's 85th birthday. This is one of my desert island discs.
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Music to listen to, while waiting for the rain to clear so I can take a walk.
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Some jazz storytelling for a Saturday morning.
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It's the weekend again!
British Library BL Add MS 11695, f.86r
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New Tobias Hoffman Jazz Orchestra album released today. Enjoyed this on the journey home this evening.
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Perhaps I should have saved this for Halloween.
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Opera rehearsal this evening, so a very late post.
I saw Richard Galliano at the Touraine Jazz Festival in 1993, while cycling to Santiago de Compostela. Couldn't understand why he wasn't a bigger name back then, but people caught on in the end.
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I've been listening to the Gary Potter Quartet this week - another regular from the Cross Keys days.
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Very busy day. Time to unwind with a classic. This title track was from one of the first jazz albums that I ever bought.
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Alan Barnes and David Newton from thirty years ago. I have a signed copy of this CD after hearing Alan play in the Cross Keys.
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New release from Alan Barnes and David Newton. Alan was a regular at the Cross Keys in Marlow about 30 years ago. Their 'Like Minds' CD got played a lot in our flat.
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The first video I share on here has to be my favourite rendition of Whole Lotta Rosie by Tico (parrot) and Frank (non-parrot) of Tico and the Man (a truly great squawk n' roll band)
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Winding down after a busy week with this album released today.
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I feel like piano tonight....๐น
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Late post tonight as I have been singing some Donizetti this evening. This is what I was enjoying in the car on the way to rehearsal.
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Tonight 's track is a standard featuring the piano of Mary Lou Williams.
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Wedding anniversary today. Here's something we used to listen to a lot when we were first married.
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