Did me a 5K run this morning, courtesy of the fabulous #InkubusSukkubus "The Goat" album - always good to find music that is ideally paced for my running!
Paul Devlin
@paul-bimltd.bsky.social
Director of Because It Matters Ltd development consultancy. Recent Chair, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS FT. Foodie & music fan. He/Him
Donated, and looking forward to being with you at #nottinghampride!
NottsLGBT+ Network@nottslgbt.bsky.social · 3w agoWe’ve been here for 50 years, supporting Nottinghamshire’s LGBT+ community. And now, more than ever, we need your help to keep going. Every pound counts. Thank you for your kind donations and continued support 🙏🏾 #nottslgbtnetwork #proudandloud #lgbtq #nottinghampride www.nottslgbt.com/support/
Did a 5k run before it gets too hot, & now sitting in the sun with @silviapark.bsky.social’s “Luminous” - a fascinating & gripping piece of sci-fi writing & story telling
On my way to a steaming London to chair a 2-day Non-Exec Directors’ Induction for #NHSAlliance (formerly @nhsconfed.org & @nhsproviders.bsky.social).
Sad to be missing the first Pride in Matlock - so pleased our local community stood up to anti-LGBT+ voices www.bbc.com/news/article...
Matlock to host Pride event year on from flag row
Matlock is to host its first Pride event at the weekend following a rainbow flag row in 2025.
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1/2 Just found a recording of the 2013 London perf of #FrankZappa’s “200 Motels Suites”. Whilst lovely to revisit, it brings sadness in that my dear New Yorker friend John (as big a Zappa freak as me) was due to be there, but died a few months before it. The empty seat next to me was important…
Sorry to read of the death of #IkeWillis, vocalist and guitarist with #FrankZappa. Not only a key element in so much of Zappa’s studio output, he was a foil and compadre to Zappa live, including on the 1988 tour I was privileged to see.
Re-reading John Heron’s "The Facilitator’s Handbook", I saw how influential it had been on me, including as an NHS Trust Chair, so have written as blog about how Heron’s approach may be helpful for a Chair: becauseitmattersltd.co.uk/facilitation...
Facilitation as a chairing skill in the Boardroom
Before I became an NHS Trust Chair, I spent many years in the world of third sector group facilitation and training. Working with national charities I was supported to develop my own skills through academic and practical learning. As a result, I became a provider of “training the trainer” courses, as well as group and
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Interregnum interviews @jacobengelberg.bsky.social on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules. interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerou... #bisexual
1/2 Just finished “Cinemas Of Bisexual Transgression” - a challenging, informative, and ultimately rewarding three-weekend read. For a non-cinephile like me, I enjoyed the fact that I knew far more of the referenced movies than I anticipated, particularly in the chapter on les(bi)an vampires!...
Time to start a new book - going for “Cinemas Of Bisexual Transgression” by @jacobengelberg.bsky.social
I remember the days when home heating working was not dependent on not having a wifi outage in the night that stops an app connecting to the boiler and then seeming to be incapable of resetting... Fixed now (by wife replacing the fancy app unit with a manky old one) Leaves me feeling #old
Did my first #5K run of 2026 this morning - very grateful for having an indoor treadmill to run on!
So here's 2026! I'm on day two of not being Chair at Nottinghamshire Healthcare, having completed the end of my second three-year term at the end of 2025. It's been a real wrench, especially from so many wonderful people delivering care. We'll see what the year ahead brings!
If you're not fed up with my gig tickets posts, here's a link to a blog I wrote a while ago reflecting on my gig history: becauseitmattersltd.co.uk/music-is-moo...
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life – Jean Paul Richter
As part of my way of getting through the stay-at-home requirements of covid-19, I am playing through all my classical music. It's a way for me to connect to some music I've not listened to in a while, but also to get reminders of great concerts as I listen. (I have just been reminiscing about
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1/n A while ago I rediscovered some of my old concert tickets and did a sort through. Many gigs not represented, of course, but here's a few highlights:
The importance of this book seems so much greater now even than it was when first published a few years ago, despite it being so needed then.
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖@christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 8mo agoPleased to say Trans Britain is now back in stock at Amazon, although my new publisher seems to still be struggling to get the Kindle edition back up. Having a publisher go bust certainly makes a lot of work to repair. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trans-Britain-Christine-Burns/dp/1783528443
UK & EU people! you can enjoy a 30% discount off my forthcoming book CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, using the discount code FFS26 on the @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social website: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803298...
Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression
In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinemat...
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1/2 Making @jamieoliveroffical.bsky.social Baked pasta dish, with an #ipod soundtrack by #ManicStreetPreachers, #Nirvana, #Phish, #DaveBrubeck, #AlbanBerg, #ArtPepper, #TheKills, #Hair!, #LeonardCohen, #BobDylan, #RevGaryDavis, #ShirleyCollins, #JethroTull, #VanMorrison, #TheStrokes…
I’m away at @nhsproviders.bsky.social annual conference. My cat is not impressed at being deprioritised….
My cat’s feedback about me not controlling the pouring rain…. “I’m not angry. Just disappointed.”
Did my first full 5K run in the last year this morning. Yay me!
a cartoon of daffy duck running on a track with the tumblr.com website in the background
Alt: a cartoon of daffy duck running on a track with the tumblr.com website in the background
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I have a particular affinity for string quartets as a form of musical expression. Currently working my way through the Buchberger box set of complete Haydn ones - 23 CDs' worth! #classicalmusic
