Peter Ross
@peteralanross.bsky.social
Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
I’ve reviewed Richard E Grant’s very lovely Very Modern Odyssey (and didn’t write the headline)
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoRichard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – far more thrilling than the Christopher Nolan borefest
Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – far more thrilling than the Christopher Nolan borefest
Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – far more thrilling than the Christopher Nolan borefest
The actor gobbles up food, roars with glee and finds himself deeply moved in this four-part travelogue inspired by the journey of Homer’s hero. It’s a real success of a show
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Visiting the set of M.R James' stalls of Barchester (Norwich cathedral) was very naughty and went behind the red rope to see more misericords lol found another woodwose!
No one but Jeffrey Lewis would tour the UK and take in such towns as Eaglescliffe, Stroud, Falmouth and Worcester Go see him and hope he plays Cannibal Monkeys, you’ll not regret it
On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt
'We are only custodians of this monument for the time that we're here to look after it... the archaeologists of the future can bring perhaps better techniques and technology, it's often the best policy to leave well alone.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The 5,000-year-old grave on a Manx front lawn
Alongside a quiet bungalow's driveway sits a Neolithic tomb believed to be around 5,000 years old.
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Tonight at Tannadice: The Men Who Tell You ‘Look, I Know You Miss Your Old Man Living Here, But I Really Like Your Mother And I Think Once You And I Get To Know Each Other We’ll Be Good Pals, Wee Man’ Derby
Note to guests on the website of the French apartment I just booked: "Due to the indelicacy of some masters, pets are not allowed."
Whitby's Whale Bone Arch to be replaced by bronze replica www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whitby's Whale Bone Arch to be replaced by bronze replica
North Yorkshire Council says the famous Whitby landmark, consisting of real bones, is deteriorating.
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I've put together a mix of what I'm somewhat grandiosely (but accurately) calling cinematic ambience - so mostly beatless ambient soundscapes for 90 mins, more intended as a soundtrack for doing something else than something to sit and listen to. I intend to play it in the background for working.
A Walk Across the Rooftops (July 2026 - Cinematic Ambience)
Something a bit different this month - a mix of ambient sounds by progressive & organic house and drum & bass producers: 1. Gai Barone - 'Clutchy (Ambient mix)' [Barra Uno] 2. Savvas - 'Eunoia (Ambi
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A Pisan art student bumped into Keith Haring in Manhattan one day and said: “Why don’t you come and paint a mural in my home town?” So he did. It’s called Tuttomondo, it symbolises peace and is the second last outdoor work he created before his death a few months later in 1990.
Mathew’s Writer’s Bookshelf is one of my favourite substack reads (I mean all of Mathew’s pieces are brilliant) so it was an honour to be asked to take part and a delight to have the chance to talk about books I love.
Mathew Lyons@mathewlyons.bsky.social · last wk.This week’s guest on the Writer’s Bookshelf is the wonderful @danigaravelli.bsky.social.
EM Forster's best work was of course his debut, Unbelievable.
Is she telling me she wants to see the Zubaran exhibit?
Goya rightly gets a lot of love for his Black Paintings, this slightly earlier work is another of my faves, The Burial of the Sardine (1812–1819). Love how it grows increasingly sinister the more details you pick out, the masked revellers surrounding the grinning 'King of the Carnival'...
I wonder if the Bayeux Tapestry Penis Count has lore like the Rollright stones : no one person can count the same amount of penises, but it you get the same number 3 times you can get your wish answered
A brilliant day giving a St Thomas Becket themed #churchcrawl tour to friends today of @cburycathedral.bsky.social! 🔔⚔️🎉
The mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, tear-jerking awesomeness that is Salisbury Cathedral. No wonder those Russian assassins were so keen on visiting it. Also love the By The Way-ness of the signage.
It's July 25, the anniversary of the fall of fascism in Italy, so, in town squares everywhere, people are gathering to eat "anti-fascist pasta", a tradition started by a family who fed their village to celebrate on the day. It's a lovely communal affair with partisan songs. The food was delicious!
It’s 9am and tickets are on sale! Fill your boots! Come to Scotland’s National Book Town. Fall in love with it, as I did almost 20 years ago! Fall in love with new writers. Meet writers you already admire. Be a reader, a writer, a filmgoer, a music lover. Lots here.
Lee Randall@leerandall.bsky.social · 2w agoOh and here's a PDF of the programme, which goes on sale tomorrow morning: www.wigtownbookfestival.com/uploads/file...
This is one of the dumbest & most bizarre Executive Orders we have ever read. This EO is a clear political overreach, driven by an ideological agenda to rewrite American history. Our Smithsonian institutions do not belong to the President, but to the American people & so does our nation’s history.
Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. On
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Can any readers recommend lesser-known novels with female protagonists / authors set in England / UK (rather than USA etc) in late Victorian period 1870-1890s? #booksky
That's beautiful. A band ageing gracefully and still producing great new music. Love them.
I was quite stressed earlier, but then I heard the new Teenage Fanclub album and now all is well. Here's the lead single, Day In The Sun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6d_...
Teenage Fanclub - Day In The Sun (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Teenage Fanclub
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David Byrne in Edinburgh tonight was the most visually stunning show I think I’ve seen since The Fall collaborated with Michael Clark’s ballet company at the festival in 1988. Marching musicians, creative dancers/vocalists and the great man himself, strong and thoughtful.
Went to see The Odyssey. I thought the Circe section had nicely horrible Company Of Wolves vibes.
Just remembered that one of my favourite details from my Damned feature was cut for space: that, during out interview, Captain Sensible was relaxing at the Portugal pile he bought 15 years ago “on advice from Les Gray from Mud, who’d moved here for his eczema and said it was bloody brilliant”.
Victoria Segal@victoriasegal.bsky.social · 2w agoNo point trying to play it cool - I was thrilled beyond all measure to interview the wonderful Robyn Hitchcock for this month's @mojomagazine.bsky.social. Also: don't miss Ian Harrison's Durutti Column piece, @steviechick.bsky.social on The Damned and @keithcameron2.bsky.social on REM's afterlife.