Coffee shops should drop their insipid faux-jazz soundtracks and just put on Brian Eno's Music For Airports . Specifically 1/1, which is the perfect track both in length and tone to drink an Americano to.
Itâs World Migratory Bird Day, so letâs talk about Bar-tailed Godwits. These shorebirds are about the size of a pigeon, and every year tens of thousands of them make their annual autumn migration around this time.
Remember that time everyone got pissed off at Twitter, and started up Substacks? Well, I'm loving your work, guys. Just not your CURRENT work, having just realised I'm 13 months behind on my subscription list. Oops.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born #OnThisDay in 1872, so to celebrate his 152nd birthday, here's the great man and his cat.
I'm pleased to report that David Oyelowo is a very good actor. I mean, I had my suspicions. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...
David Oyelowo is Coriolanus in Lyndsey Turner's thrilling new production of Shakespeare's timeless political tragedy.
Well, frankly I'm disgusted at the Met Office, hiding the truth from us and assuming we'll just get on with our lives, when we know we're going to die in 15000mph winds within a couple of hours.
there should be a website you can use to search the internet
A perfect pint of Ranmore in the Saturday afternoon sun, while watching an Imps win via text commentary. That'll do. A perfect pint of Ranmore in the Saturday afternoon sun, while watching an Imps win via text commentary. That'll do.
Damn, missed this. Might have to have a belated celebration after the weekend. Love them SO much. (Despite the quantity I ate during a year in Sweden as a student... the catering ladies at my folkhĂśgskola were unfailingly generous with the afternoon tea break) Damn, missed this. Might have to have a belated celebration after the weekend. Love them SO much. (Despite the quantity I ate during a year in Sweden as a student... the catering ladies at my folkhĂśgskola were unfailingly generous with the afternoon tea break)
Itâs Kanelbullens Dag in Sweden (and Korvapuustipäivä in Finland) which is to say Cinnamon Bun Day! And I just so happen to have some Swedish Cinnamon Buns as #RecipeOfTheDay to mark this important occasion www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...
Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa...
Today is also the 10th anniversary of the first episode of Detectorists, which basically makes it the best day.