Ian McMillan
@imcmillan.bsky.social
I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Morning Dave
Dave Green@artist-in-a-shed.bsky.social · 3h agoDissonant ode I am here You are there A landmass Between us Sheer dunes Executive homes Biomass sheds Plough patterns Empty roads I message You reply The world turns Love gathers Or drifts In every vale Binds the land Folds us in Like soil Morn @imcmillan.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Morning listening: this powerful drama. Well worth hearing.
Drama on 4 - The Test Batter Can’t Breathe - BBC Sounds
Set in the world of cricket, a new drama from the award-winning writer of Life and Time.
bbc.co.uk
Teaching from this is always a joy; people’s eyes widen as they see what’s possible.
Ian McMillan@imcmillan.bsky.social · 18h agoBrilliant charity shop find: 99 different ways of describing the same incident, including past tense/present tense/exclamation!/back slang …
Late stroll. A bin solemnly guards a lampost. The lopsided moon in the sky ponders the perfectly round moon on a stick, which looms over a traffic island. In the windless streetlight the path through the park is an intriguing corridor. Leaves show off their greenness. @imcmillan.bsky.social
It’s been one of my charity shop hunts along with Smallcreep’s Day and The Wayward Bus
Simon H.@poppah.bsky.social · 14h agoWell done. I have been looking for a copy of that for ages.
Last night of my holiday, I'd like it to roll on obv, but no big trauma about being back at work. Think I've worked too long and experienced plenty of vagaries of the workplace to worry that much. That being said I hope your weeks go well .
Out now on Kingston University Press: 2001 Proverbs, with SJ Fowler, new maxims for modern living. Thanks to the students and staff at Kingston for their work on this and to @imcmillan.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social and Chris McCabe for endorsements. More at www.stevenjfowler.com/proverbs
Brilliant charity shop find: 99 different ways of describing the same incident, including past tense/present tense/exclamation!/back slang …
Morning Dave
Dave Green@artist-in-a-shed.bsky.social · yesterdayFlush stump January: A rumbling slab frontage Rolls in Easterly and eagerly Ripping swans and seals Rolling in a vast tree slice April: We have a table With log chairs I paint on it September: Gyroscopic moons Swirl time and tides Until it is subsumed Morning @imcmillan.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Early listening: this excellent drama of a possible future @bbcsounds.bsky.social
Drama on 4 - Bad Ark by Matt Hartley - BBC Sounds
Four random people on a superyacht try to survive the apocalypse. It's bad.
bbc.co.uk
This is like the ones featured in "Perfect Days" Japan seems to have a passion for distinctive high end toilet blocks
Philip Oldfield@sustainabletall.bsky.social · 2mo agoPublic toilet in a Japanese forest, built from rammed earth and timber frame. The foundation is made of crushed stone instead of concrete. The hand wash and toilet bowls are also made of recycled wood chips. Tono Mirai Architects
I met Milo the Holiday Inn Express doggy and we became firm friends
@imcmillan.bsky.social in case you missed it Ian.
Justin on eurostar@eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 2d agoOn this day 50 years ago, the revolutionary British Rail Inter-City 125 entered service. Fantastic to see a set restored into 1980s livery arrive at Manchester Piccadilly this afternoon. #TheJourneyShrinker
Early river stroll, my last for a few weeks. Clouds tinged with gold as the sun rises. A light mist lingering over the trees. That family of ducks have decided to walk today. Overhead a heron flaps slowly downstream. Two swans guard their cygnet by the far bank.
Early guided stroll in Krakow. Incredible knowledge sharing, surviving Synagogues, Helena Rubinstein, humour where it fits but often gravitas is more appropriate. Spielberg stories, Jewish Quarter, over the bridge & ending in the Guetto. 70 empty chairs.
Thank you @kbrookes42.bsky.social !
Ken Brookes@kbrookes42.bsky.social · 2d ago@imcmillan.bsky.social @r4TheVerb Keats was born 169 years before the day I got married. A great start to The Verb. A great romantic poet, just like myself. Autumn, "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever". Many great descriptions of autumn.
The first violin Waits a little bit longer Where's the conductor.
