Martin Smith

From the outside, at least

I'm not sure there's a single house on that road that is not architecturally obscene. Well, maybe one.

It's on Millionaires Row, what do you expect?

Came across the fictionalised version of this glorious tale in a Patrick O' Brian novel. The real thing is, if anything, even better.

Impossible for that not to happen.

I love that people can have so many different reactions. For me that piece is so very *almost* great. But I may grow into it in time...

That was a very special read. Thank you.

One of the biggest parts of my being an instrumental teacher is guiding my kids through the doldrums when they hit a talent plateau.

A poster for a concert by Richmond Orchestra at 7.30 on 16 May at St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park, W London, In aid of the Mulberry Centre for cancer sufferers and their families. Programme includes Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Beethoven 3rd piano concerto with soloist Rachele Howes, and Brahms Symphony No. 2. There is a QR code for booking tickets.

Delighted that @rorchestra.bsky.social are again playing in May to support the Mulberry Centre and its invaluable work for cancer sufferers and their families. @torindouglas.bsky.social sure you're already aware of this. Everyone else, please support us if you can in this noblest of causes.

Mortification of the flesh is good for you. That's why I play the violin. Which, when I play it, has the added benefit of mortifying the ears.

Quality post.

Diolch yn fawr! Lluniau hyfryd!

Defaid gwych!

Pob lwc

Are you still eligible?

Fwc o ofnadwy

A most beautiful thread by the great @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social. It says something very important about religion, whatever yours may or may not be.

Ond yn mwyaf i fy ngwraig

Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus i bawb!

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Elgar the Snow, though you need a couple of violins? (I am not expensive.)

awww you guyssss

That is beautiful.

Extraordinary honesty (in a profession that likes to keep things buttoned up). I'm sure it will help others, too.

When I visited Gettysburg many years ago I bought several volumes about the American Civil War, and what I remember from one of them was the way it just seemed to slowly but irresistibly snowball. It was hard to say exactly where it started

This was most beautiful. Bravo, and thank you.

This is disgusting.

@rorchestra.bsky.social poster for our next concert in March just dropped. Hugely fun programme, including the amazing Concerto for Violin and Horn by Ethel Smyth, a truly unique work

I do have my NI number and my driving licence number in memory. Other things are admittedly somewhat hazy. Feel I probably should have memorized my passport by now, I'll have to have a go at that

Oho.