Just finished watching #BlueLights series 2. Loved every minute. Hope series 3 is coming soon…

'The New Necklace,' (1910) the women in William Paxton’s finely detailed interiors helped define idealised female roles for upper-class American women at the turn of the 20thC - his career was greatly celebrated for the realistic intimacy portrayed in his work, a style that…

Wonderful news! Well deserved!

Brilliant news! Congratulations!

Shout out to the extremely helpful and generous staff at Windsor Castle today. Thanks to them I got to spend ages looking at one of my absolute fave pieces of 17th-century embroidery, this raised work cabinet (no photos allowed, sadly). I really lucked out with the weather, too!

I’ve heard of April showers bringing May flowers but this is ridiculous!
Cambridge is meant to have same rainfall
as Sahara desert…. Not today! But my hydrangea is thriving!

I’d forgotten what a very beautiful song #ItsImpossible sung by Perry Como is! #FeudCapotevtheSwans

Such a good series!

Well, FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans is as spiffing as you could wish for. Shimmering performances all round, perfect script and the best credit titles I’ve seen for ages! I am tearing myself away after only 2 episodes but will return tomorrow… #Bingeable

Just bought 2 sets! Just lovely!

Just the new Kate Atkinson proofs... 🐦‍⬛

I’ll be watching #TrumanvtheSwans

Always exciting to see this list come out knowing that every writer here has the talent & work ethic to be published in the next few years. Lucy Cavendish College #FictionPrize has the highest longlist-to-publication ratio of any prize! Looking forward to meeting the final six in May! 📚💫

Here’s a photo!

My old NatWest branch in Cambridge is becoming a Wendy’s! I’ve never been to Wendy’s …

The Wisdom of Norman Geras (an occasional series)
Part 1. Valuing liberal democratic norms and institutions

'... the insistence, under the rubric of 'smashing' the state, on a total discontinuity between bourgeois-democratic and projected socialist polities has tended to obscure

Excellent!

White Lilac in a White Jug: watercolour from 2023

I’ll be watching! Can’t wait!

It’s bliss! Visit in May for fabulous irises…