Lee Batchelor

Rebecca Lucy Taylor of Self Esteem on stage at the Brighton Centre. She's wearing a long black dress with a handmaid's tail style collar and hat.

Seem to have picked up another bloody cold from somewhere but Self Esteem at the Brighton Centre tonight was the best medicine.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

A solid triple bill today at #lff - Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein; A Useful Ghost about a haunted vacuum and so much more; and queer French coming of age movie Enzo 🎬

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A black and white photo of me standing besides a human size drawing on a minotaur like creature

A trip to the Ashmolean in Oxford today for the excellent Stanley Donwood / Thom Yorke / Radiohead exhibition.

The BFI London Film Festival logo on a brightly coloured background.

Kicking off #LFF today with Wake Up Dead Man and Twinless. Really enjoyed both, Wake Up Dead Man especially worth catching with a crowd on the big screen.

This was a hell of a moment at @sigurros.com at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. The band, the orchestra, the choir, the organ... goosebumps

Rye Lane, a rare romcom that delivers on both the rom and the com fronts. But Mark will choose Butch Cassidy this week

Seem to have picked up freshers flu from dropping my nephew at uni at the weekend, but without any of the fun of freshers which doesn't seem like a particular fair deal 🤧

Seeing Alien on the big screen in a packed cinema was a great way to spend a Tuesday night. Everyone knows they're coming, but the jump scares still get you. Not so sure about getting home after they've turned the street lights off 😬

Somehow winning the pub quiz, with my heroic husband turning up at the last minute and somehow getting a question right to separate us from second place.

Essential reading from @zoeamar.bsky.social in @thirdsector.co.uk

A poster for Blade Runner on the enormous screen of the BFI Imax, with a box of popcorn in the foreground

Never get tired of watching Blade Runner and seeing it for the first time on the big screen, on the biggest screen in the UK, was epic.

I think I've got a weekend binge coming. I'm seeing Alien on the big screen in a couple of weeks so it's the perfect warm up for that.

Hope tomorrow is better. What's the verdict on Alien Earth? Haven't got around to it yet.

It's been lovely having a change of scenery and working away for a couple of days. I just really wish I'd broken my run of booking Airbnbs next to building sites 🙉

A tall narrow stained glass window with the sun shining through.

Staying in a beautiful converted church, but all the windows are stained so having to guesstimate the weather based on the light shining in and whether it would like the cars are driving past on wet roads.

A view from the top of a hill, looking down over a small town surrounded by trees and fields. In the foreground are rocks emerging from the ground.

Have escaped to the Peak District for a few days. Making the most of a bit of sun before the rains roll in.

A selfie of a hungover person sitting a pebbly beach

Hanging. Hanging out on the beach. #Brighton

A hand holding a bunch of green beans freshly picked from the garden

A large circular bowl containing a salad of different types of beans, sweetcorn, tomatoes and cucumber sits on a wooden table. On top of the salad are two servers shaped like tennis rackets and laid to cross over each other a bit like the Wimbledon logo

A decent crop of beans and another round of tomatoes = lunch 🫛 🍅

A black and white photo shot from below of a large metal sculpture of a spider towered over a walkway in the enormous space of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern

A quick visit into Tate Modern on the way past. 🕷️

A pebbled beach with the calm blue sea in the background.

The weekend starts here ⛱️

a blurry picture of a man wearing a black sweater with the words `` thumbs down '' written in red . Alt: Thom Yorke doing a thumbs down gesture with the words "thumbs down" written in red over the top.

Feeling bad for Backdrifts and A Punch Up at a Wedding for not getting included on the new Radiohead live album

We've just published the evaluation of our year-long trial of a reduced 32 hour working week.

It's had huge mental health benefits across the board, but especially for those with caring responsibilities or health concerns.

Read the full report: www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/res...

Young Americans by Bowie comes on the radio and I'm instantly transported back 25 years to a summer spent listening to the same 90 minute cassette on repeat while working in Office World 🖇️

Motherfucking wind farms…

A nice couple of days up in Glasgow welcoming a new member to the team. But I do not have much luck with this train line. Looking like it's going to be about 10 hours door to door by the time I make it home. 😒 Though I shouldn't count my chickens...

I don't know if I could've done that if I needed to travel further or take calls from home when living in a shared house. Samaritans have always evolved, and this'll be the next stage of that, but the connection between vols, and with callers, has been the heart of it. I'd be sad if that gets lost.

Samaritans to close more than 100 branches The charity's chief executive says

Sams are obviously under the same pressures as many of us in the charity sector are - trying to plug the gaps with increasing costs and falling incomes. But this is a real shame. My life would be unrecognisable if I hadn't volunteered at my local branch 20 odd years ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...