Dr Jane Park 🎻🏳️‍⚧️

Splendid! 🤩

Am really looking forward to performing with my amazing Jarualda Quartet comrades in this gorgeous intimate space 😍 It will be quite the musical ride this eve... 😀 😊 🎻🎻🎻🎻❤️‍🔥

Nearly posh frock o'clock... #musoEP

We’re very excited to share that the Barriers to Education website has officially launched: lnkd.in/e5vmcDaQ

The website has been created to bring parents, carers and professionals together with practical, compassionate approaches that make a real difference.

Me with my viola playing in our local pub. Little tattoo of an image designed by my daughter for my son. Means the world.

Been a bit quiet I have, mainly because a) start of term has been 🍌🍌😅 & b) epic # of opera, orch & quartet gigs this month! #musoEP

Pictures say more than words. I can't convey the depth of my gratitude for the musical & EP family that surrounds me 🥰 so in lieu of a bid to find words, this will do.

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

1) Teacher–student relationships aren’t “soft extras.”

This analysis (2.6m pupils) shows they drive achievement, motivation, executive function, belonging + wellbeing.

Predictable structures + relational warmth = accelerators of learning, not distractions.

Marking 50 years since the composer’s death, this programme resonates powerfully in today’s climate, where the call to resist oppression feels as urgent as it ever has.

Expect characteristic intensity from the Jarualdas, bringing stunning music to beautiful rural spaces across Shropshire 🎻🎻🎻🎻❤️

Join us for an unforgettable evening of music & meaning on Saturday 4th October as @jarualdaquartet.bsky.social presents a world premiere of Paul Henley's Lyric Movement alongside Shostakovich’s haunting Eighth String Quartet—written in 1960 and dedicated “to the victims of fascism and war.”

Rehearsing this afternoon with the glorious Sally (clarinet) & Pam (piano), preparing some beautiful works by Max Bruch & Mozart's Kegelstatt trio for a gig on 31.10 🤩🥰

What a lush way to spend time 🥰

‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists – HOPE not hate Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...

Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.”

But the truth is very different.

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

Get educated. Level up. 🏳️‍⚧️

Rhyfeddol!

To anyone considering family train holiday in Europe, it works. Back from two weeks; LDN>Brussels>Munich >Verona>Turin->London.
6yo fave train, the Nightjet sleeper to Munich. Rest of us, the train over the Alps into Italy.

Hat tip to @seatsixtyone.bsky.social for opening eyes to what is doable.1/

I’m sorry but no. Protests and demos with dozens or low hundreds of attendees are not especially newsworthy. I’ve seen larger turnouts at a Warhammer event.

The brilliant 9Bach, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, August 2025.

#FreePalestine

Working from home but Min has other thoughts on this #floof

How does one commission? Perhaps we might exchange commodities 🤩

Lovely of you 💖 Positivity serves such a powerful protective function 🥰

This little bee is buzzing to share something exciting with you... nearly ready... just building up a little Queen Bee energy 🤭, and the confidence to try to fly... ✨️ #EdPsychs

⛅️⛅️⛅️

Roshi Nasehi on why theatres need robust AI policies In the corporate race to develop AI models, not enough is being done to protect artists from having their work “scraped” by tech companies, says Roshi Nasehi

Thought-provoking piece from my dear friend Roshi Nasehi on AI, power and their threat to creativity:

www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/all-...

🤭❤️📈

Thank you for sharing your important research Kathy and for all of the neuroaffirming you do. I’m looking forward to reading 👏🏾🙌🏾

Casting my mind back a whole 3 years to a time when we all agreed this kind of stuff was bad and authoritarian actually

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

My 3 are just permanently splurged across the cool tiled floor in the kitchen... might join them 🤭

Me too! ELSA is purple, SLT is aqua, annual leave bright pink and stat work is grey - all are welcome to analyse colour choices 🤭💖💜🩵🤍

Shed Six

Mediocregrass

Mush

The faded Blue-wash Tones

Politicians creating social conditions that push people into such poverty they are forced to steal powdered baby milk which now has security tags on it to help protect the spiraling profits of supermarket chains is, in fact, part of the problem here