Nikki C 🎃🧹🧙🏻‍♀️🐈

(listening to my body)

What's that, body? An entire wedge of blue cheese? Are you sure?

Dr Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes - Time of Death Dr. Richard Shepherd, the UK's leading forensic pathologist, is coming to Westlands in Yeovil on October 25th with his new tour, Unnatural Causes – Time of Death. It's a journey into the world of fore...

Absolutely brilliant interview from @somersetcool.bsky.social on @besomerset.bsky.social with forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd. If you watch TV shows about crime and murder and find yourself saying "Well actually..." a lot, this is the guy for you! www.besomerset.com/post/dr-rich...

What a course this was! The magic of Messiah in incomparable detail. Can't wait to hear the final recording. Plus all of those amazing resources will go into our fab new Library for choral singers to learn from for years to come ❤️🎶

Our Brahms German Requiem has met with incredible reaction.
Our collaboration with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus is nothing short of remarkable. Here's Ben explaining
how we created this landmark recording & you can enjoy the performance in full, here www.youtube.com/live/-sIQjqY...

An utterly fantastic performance - so proud of everyone!

It's always a true honour for @choiroftheearth.com to work with the Bergen Philharmonic, and this collaborative performance of Brahms' Requiem is just superb! At 18:30 BST @benenglandbem.bsky.social will conduct the recording premiere live. It's open to all so do join us!
📹🎶 youtu.be/-sIQjqYtvUY

You just brought back a vivid memory of my granny's book, full of names, numbers and notes that only made sense if you knew the context. Written in her "best" handwriting with the ink from a hundred different pens and kept beside the phone in the hall. I haven't thought about that in maybe 20 years.

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

The UK just doesn't have enough care workers for an aging population and the work is very tough. Those who come here to take up these jobs - often away from their homes and families - are rewarded with poor pay and conditions. They deserve our thanks, not abuse.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Hello, 4am existential crisis. Right on time, I see.

Still get the occasional craving for fruit cocktail tbh

Oooh definitely looking forward to that 🎄

Obsessed with #TheDivineComedy Rainy Sunday Afternoon. The heartbreak of The Last Time I Saw the Old Man; the childhood magic of All the Pretty Lights (my Christmas song for this year); the wit of Down The Rabbit Hole & Mar-a-Lago By The Sea; and the sheer feels of Invisible Thread. A superb album!

Aye but Boots though

Glass coffee carafe with a plastic straw inserted into the drip hole in the lid. Text says: “That moment when I realized my coffee pot has a straw holder”

Some days there’s just not enough coffee

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Nope

I just had a neighbor ask "how are you." The social negotiation required to produce a concise, non-committal answer has depleted my energy for the next two fiscal quarters.

Seemingly we've entered the solid month of the year where every time I see a conker on the ground some inner Pavlovian response sparks an earworm of Come Ye Thankful People Come on a loop 🍂🌰🎶

We are so excited and honoured to be working with Patrick to record his stunning work, The Wedding At Cana. If you're a choral singer looking for something new, join us from 28 Oct to 18 Dec for this unique opportunity, plus top-notch teaching and a lot of fun! ❤️🎶

My brain: Needs to use GPS when I’m driving to remember how to get to a place I’ve previously driven to multiple times before.

Also my brain: Remembers every single lyric to the 1990 hit Ice Ice Baby when it comes on the radio while I’m driving to the place it can’t remember how to get to.

24 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky (no “e” over here) with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

It’s emotional!

We’re not far from the end of our Ultimate Messiah course now and what an experience it's been. 🎶

We're in week 13 of learning Handel’s masterpiece in unprecedented detail and of course, we say Amen to that!

#ChoralSky #Choir #Singing #Messiah #ChoirOfTheEarth #TuesdayMotivation

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For as long as I can remember I've always had little periods of weltschmerz - a very useful German word describing a sadness about the state of the world. These days, however, I think we need a new word for those of us experiencing sheer fecking terror about the state of the world. Weltaaaaah maybe?

A model walking on a runway, wearing a ball gown that creates the illusion of her body being separated into two parts with a gap in between.

magician: *sweating* hold on i can fix this

I know we don't judge people by appearances but I can't be the only one who would much rather stick with the Beast than the pretty prince he turns back into 😏🔥

A 4 panel comic strip from Fowl Language Comics by Brian Gordon. In Panel 1, an anxious-looking duck stands by a window at sunrise thinking, "Oh my God, I have so much to do, I don't even know where to start!". In Panels 2 and 3 the duck doesn't move but time passes outside the window. In the final panel it is nighttime and the duck still hasn't moved, still looks anxious, and thinks, "Well, I gave it my best shot."

I feel seen.

QUANTUS TREMOR EST FUTURUS

The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister in Sweden.

He should have his cabinet together by the end of the weekend.

YouTube video by WilsonPhillipsVEVO Wilson Phillips - Hold On (Official Music Video)

A few minutes of 90s music therapy for anyone having a tough time right now. You got this ✊🏻❤️ youtu.be/uIbXvaE39wM