Trip to the restored Crystal Palace Park and its dinosaurs. Joyful to see the decay reversed.
Tone was set for Spider-Man: Brand New Day tonight by three kids doing this in the foyer beforehand. Really enjoyed the film.
Everyone on here be like “oh yes I am a games designer with very strong opinions”, meanwhile here’s Anna age 12 out-designing all of you with her amazing pavement games. G’aun yersel, Anna.
Garden update. Can confirm the tomatoes were flavourful and delicious.
Guess what school librarian is going to be putting that quote up in the library tomorrow…
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · last mo.Your World Cup/library overlap. Erling Haaland donated a rare 16th-century manuscript of Viking sagas by Snorri Sturluson to his home library in Norway. 📚 “Books give so many more people the chance to dream big, see new possibilities and find their own path.” www.time.kommune.no/aktuelt/engl...
Following on from my last D&D hive mind request…session zero for the town that will be their base, the kids at school group asked for it to have a museum. What should a museum in a D&D town have in it?
Wondering about that West Ham away game on 1st Sep. I’ll be just up the road at school then.
Awards ceremony for @carnegiemedals.bsky.social today. Well-deserved winners. Great occasion.
🏆👏 Congratulations to the 2026 Winners of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadower's Choice Medals: Beth O' Brien, Kate Rolfe and Aimée de Jongh! #Carnegies2026 Read the press release here: https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-winners-announced/
School games club played D&D for the first time yesterday. I now get to draw a map of the region as provided by some helpful goblins. This should be fun. Any suggestions?
Mixed weather for Duke of Edinburgh silver training expedition. We’ve been lucky and not been walking or putting tents up in the heaviest rain.
Sketching baby owls is as mindful as you’d expect. Can recommend.
Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Barbican tonight was wonderful. And this is how close our seats were. If she walked a bit slower, it would have been a really good photo.
London FA Cup final. Dulwich Hamlet took an early lead but were worn down by a well-drilled QPR side of full-time professionals. Moral victory to the Hamlet, I say.
Just watched Louis Malle’s Viva Maria - first saw it on TV a long time ago. Barbarella meets Duck You Sucker meets Warner Bros cartoons - manages mood swings and genre-bends like a dancer. Some nice cinematography and use of landscape. And Lumiere Romford showed it in the original French.
“Yo! Mohamed’s found a landmark!” Been out with school’s Duke of Edinburgh Award students on their training day. Great kids, good attitude. We only had one hailstorm.
Getting to see another of the great ballerinas of our time dance live - marvellous!
Still thinking about Friedkin’s Sorcerer two months on. Scottish Ballet’s Mary Queen of Scots which we saw on Friday will likewise be with me a long time. Great art does that, whatever the medium.
Quick sketch from a poster to try out some cheap fineliner pens I bought yesterday.
In the Westow House, with this lovely piece of kit from @annewelsh.bsky.social - a thoughtful present for being invited into Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award. Late bookseller Jon’s mantra “keep fighting evil- read books!” immortalised on a notebook.
Great stuff. Nihilistic driving movie of the first order. Excellent restoration too.
Canberra WE139 in RAF museum. Winner of the 1953 UK-NZ air race. My father was ground crew on this aircraft for the Cocos Islands - NZ leg. It’s taken me a long time to make this pilgrimage, Dad. Thanks to my good friend @adbryanlegacyfan.bsky.social for coming along today.
Great awards event - good to be there with the school’s Carnegie shadowing book club students.
CILIP@cilip.bsky.social · last yr.🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Winners of the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals: Margaret McDonald, @natelessore, Theo Parish and Olivia Lomenech Gill! #Carnegies2025 Read the press release: carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners...
