Nick Fisher

Spoilers, I'm still listening to the Britten.

Exactly!

It's not a very Cornish place name tbh.

What are the Carolingians up to these days?

There are moments in the Finale when Bernstein seems to be teetering on the edge of losing control of the music, which is how it should be, I suppose. Colossal.

Up there with Bernstein’s with the VPO? (Which I find exhausting but also utterly thrilling).

(Terrific Oscar Peterson night on BBC4 tonight, btw).

Good to see this out in the wild. I spent many years studying photosynthesis in Amaranthus sp. - it’s a C4 species, unappreciated by many!

I've got cats in the garden wanting their dinner.

It’s his universe of a symphony.

Apples ripening on the tree, bindweed. Sodden.

Coco.

All a bit soft and autumnal this morning.

Mahler 2 on the radio, cricket highlights on the box, don’t tell me I don’t know how to have a good time on a Saturday night.

Lawks, is that tonight? I’m behind with basically ALL OF THEM.

Earlier this summer I had a noisy rook come perch on my roof at dawn and shout for his friends. This went on for weeks.

inside or outside?

I find it helps if you imagine Jenkins sighing, and starting with 'My dear boy...'

Perhaps the political persuasion of voters the govt is interested in communicating with are mostly to be found on Twitter?

Heaps of fascinating papers here (including PGR5!)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Richard Mabey yet!

Who was our last golfing PM? Harold Macmillan?

A Novel Multivariate Analysis: Overturning Long‐Held Beliefs About Non‐Photochemical Quenching When light absorption exceeds photochemical quenching, plants activate non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) to dissipate excess energy as heat. Recently, we have developed a novel multivariate pipeline ...

For the NPQ fans, an interesting dissection of the induction kinetics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I still prefer his sixth symphony, mind you.

I have neighbours who help themselves and bake cakes for me. It's a good arrangement.

A garden scene. Red apples, hydrangea. Humid.

Absolute apple scenes in the garden today. Beauty of Bath (I think), which has to be eaten within a few minutes of picking. Floury disappointment otherwise.

Not a fan since I saw one take out a house martin returning to its nest a couple of years back. Terrible noise. Stick to pigeons, sparrowhawks!

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2025, BBC Proms: Mozart and Bruckner Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO, Ryan Wigglesworth and Mariam Batsashvili.

Bruckner 7 tonight, serious stuff. (And also an intriguing and poignant world premiere from Ryan Wigglesworth).

@radiolento.bsky.social (no music, just sounds of outdoor places - wind, water, birds).

Definitely a privet hawk!

An excellent job opportunity in the Netherlands for a postdoc interested in biological kinetic spectrofluorimetry & spectrophotometry. You'll be helping development new spectroscopic techniques for measuring photosynthetic energy transduction. #plantsciencejobs #plantscience

I still have the set!