The CricViz app has improved to become a great way to follow live cricket scores – I’m currently keeping an eye on the first match of the IPL and the opening matches of the English County Championship. 🔗🏏
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Posted on April 8, 2021
Ryley Walker: 'Going two days sober was impossible since I was a kid' 🔗 🎵
> … the first sound you hear on _Course in Fable_ is exalting major chords, before burrowing into fiddly prog shifts in time signatures.
Posted on March 30, 2021
Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and Keats-Shelley House. John Keats' Bright Star 1820: read by heart with analysis is one of the highlights for me. 📚🔗
Posted on March 27, 2021
Posted on February 27, 2021
Laundromat and on Bandcamp 🔗 — Three EPs. Blue, Green Red. Electronic and relaxed. Laundromat is Brighton based recording artist Toby Hayes. I know nothing more but am enjoying listening to the music. 🎵
Posted on February 25, 2021
Michael Rosen blog post on Reading for Pleasure 📚 🔗
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A child
A book
A read
A chat.
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This is the way
the mind grows.
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Not with a test
but a tale.
He’s writing for teachers and children but I think a lot of his points are applicable to all readers.
Posted on February 23, 2021
The Great British Art Tour: why is Keats at Guy's hospital? 🔗
The Romantic poet John Keats died 200 years ago today at the young age of 25. He has long since been celebrated for works such as Ode to a Nightingale and To…
Posted on February 23, 2021
John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death 🔗
Ode to a Nightingale (1819) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains…
Posted on February 20, 2021
For the Ishiguro household, 5 October 2017 was a big day. After weeks of discussion, the author’s wife, Lorna, had finally decided to change her hair colour.…
Posted on February 13, 2021
'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry 🔗
James Taylor: The singer-songwriter genre was named around 1970, give or take, and was said to apply to me and, among others Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and…