I'm All Right, Jack ! (1959) : A racist message, or a subversive one ?

This is a place-holder for I'm All Right, Jack ! (1959) : A racist message, or a subversive one ?

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4 May

This is a place-holder for I'm All Right, Jack ! (1959) : A racist message, or a subversive one ?

Not recently, but - quite seriously - I was watching him in I'm All Right, Jack (1959) to-night

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The Unhinged Tweets*

The Unhinged Tweets*

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12 May

The Unhinged Tweets*

Not only... :

The distributors wittily (?) probably intended both ?

The casualness of its #mh slur apart, an example of what would appear to be a pair of words, one of which we don't actually have

'That Crowe ? Yeah, he's well hinged, he is !'

Sadly, more at #UCFF :https://t.co/qvaIabXOns

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But also :

PS With 'that crazy N* thing', it's an attempt to turn us on, as it were, to type - as well as character-type ;)

* Which pixily connotes five-bar gates, as well as suggesting all the lack of promise that Bullhead (2011) was never really offering ?

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End-notes :

* Well, in these troubled times, we made the difficult decision - at #UCFF - to generate content, but with minimal effort...


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The 'Raindance' Tweets

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11 May

Interesting :

Both times that #UCFF watched True Romance* (1993), there was no bank-robbery... ;)

* I.e. Quentin Tarantino's screenplay under Tony Scott's direction - *that* True Romance ? https://t.co/n7zR2mbINT

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Meanwhile, others find a difference between :

'Make my day punk' [Jubilee (1978) - Derek Jarman (director)]

- and -

'Make my day, punk' [Dirty Harry (1971) - Clint Eastwood (as Harry Callahan)] https://t.co/eucvYZK9wd

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Some Tweets about the efficacy of employment law

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11 May

It all started with the certainty claimed by this Tweet :

If your workplace isn’t safe, you don’t have to work there. Section 44 of the 1996 Employment Rights Act is clear on this. Stay home, save lives.

— James Meadway (@meadwaj) May 10, 2020

And then casually looking up the statutory reference (s. 44 Employment Rights Act 1996 (as amended)) :

Even if it did help to invoke s. 44, it's hard to see why anyone would rely on this Act of Parliament, let alone this section, when enforcement of rights in Emloyment Tribunals is a costly and hardly easy remedy :

Is there some case-law that justifies referring to it at all ?

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Or this Tweet ? :

- If your workplace isn’t safe, you don’t have to work there.
- Read Section 44 of the 1996 Employment Rights Act. 👇https://t.co/3L5KTZAerJ pic.twitter.com/fSx2ELwsdD

— Novara Media (@novaramedia) May 10, 2020

And replying :

Or s. 230 [https://t.co/l81upd9weW] ?

The word 'employee' appears in s. 44 (not 'worker'), and is defined in s. 230(1) :

'In this Act "employee" means an individual who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, worked under) a contract of employment' https://t.co/VnZZyVgeAl

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In conclusion (of some sort) :

You're entirely correct to say that people must take advice on their individual circumstances before seeking to rely on sections 44/100. I am concerned about the various tweets flying around which suggest that these sections are a panacea - they are not, they are fact specific.

— Matt Sellwood (@MattSellwood) May 11, 2020

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Note of a dream (uncorrected proof) : Max Reinhardt¹, and maybe not Nick Luscombe (?), was part of it

Note of this afternoon's dream : Max Reinhardt¹, but maybe not Nick Luscombe², were part of it

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10 May

Note of this afternoon's dream (uncorrected proof) : Max Reinhardt¹, but maybe not Nick Luscombe², was part of it

The Agent was looking at a metal crown, fitting to it some sort of cake-skirt (and adjusting it to fit), and chatting to @imaxreinhardt¹ about the crown's place in the history of music. (The skirt was largely transparent, but with red designs on it, and, when finally in place, tightened and fastened perfectly.)


It was Max¹ in that way that, in a dream, people are. [Ideally, for the dream's own internal purposes, the other person² with me needed to be <@nickluscombe, but I think that I became aware - even as I wasn't aware whether Max, in the dream, actually resembled him - that he didn't look like Nick (at all).]

Max was busy with something else in an amiable Blue Peter way (at some point, we were definitely 'on air', and the group of three, maybe four², of us tittered at a double entendre that we had managed not to get noticed).


In talking about the crown, the three of us - it was definitely just Max, 'Nick' and The Agent, by then - concluded that the required proof of something to do with it, or its musical connection, was missing.

'Nick' asked if I had read Hidden Proof by Mr Nerd, and apparently wasn't joking. Did we just linger on that question (which I didn't (couldn't ?) answer), and that caused the propitious dream-air to dissipate (Or it just did dissipate ?), since it clearly wasn't Nick after all ?


End-notes :

¹ He of the funky Twitter banner-images, no less.

² One of us had gone somewhere, off set, and didn't return before the dream ended (because I awoke - that got him !).


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Two Tweets on trying to watch James Ivory's The Europeans (1979)

Two Tweets on trying to watch James Ivory's The Europeans (1979)

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13 March

Two Tweets on trying to watch James Ivory's The Europeans (1979)

Maybe Henry James is as unsubtle in The Europeans : A Sketch, an early novel¹, as James Ivory's direction and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screen-adaptation suggest ? :https://t.co/nikb3qOq8R

In any event, #UCFF quickly gave up watching what Ebert then seems to have disesteemed²...

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The Verb, the haiku, The McMillan ?

You're buying doublers ? Gotta be The Macmillan !

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11 March

You're buying doublers ? Gotta be The Macmillan !

Ian Fleming has a lot to answer for ! ;)

As does Edward Lear ? :

There was a McMillan called Ian -
McMillan called Ian, he was :
Because, oh because,
McMillan he was,
McMillan, with first name of Ian.

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First line, of haiku,
Precedes a yet longer line,
Menacing - perhaps ? https://t.co/ssqYleuZrG

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Slàinte !


Post-script :

Cheers, @IMcMillan - thanks for the Retweet :)

PS Maybe not even of the standard of my recent Catrin Finch poem, but hey !

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For no better reason than that #UCFF's interlocutor had also heard Catrin Finch play :

There once was a person called Finch -
A harpist, who looked ev'ry inch :
When she plucked on the strings,
One heard glorious things
That gave one's sweet conscience a pinch.

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What a treat, what a surprise ! : Pembroke Festival of Voice, with Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton (work in progress)

This is a review of Pembroke Festival of Voice, with Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton

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This is a review (work in progress) of Pembroke Festival of Voice,
with Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton, in a recital given in The Old Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on Friday 29 February 2020 at 8.00 p.m.

When one had paid on the door, expecting Kitty Whately (accompanied by Joseph Middleton), but put right by known others there who were in the know, how could one possibly not be delighted - with no disrespect whatever to Whately ! - to find that Ruby Hughes was performing in her stead (with Middleton) ? !

Love them or loathe them, but the wonted place - though there is also The Cambridge Concert Calendar for every term - to find a music-event is 'the railings : Middleton and Whately, with Mahler's Rückertlieder (in The Old Library at Pembroke), had fitted the bill, so Middleton with Hughes was certainly no disappointment.

The directness of Ruby Hughes, and the concomitant sincerity that it expresses, is palpable - it is through the former that we feel and read the latter

[...]


With Frauenliebe und -leben (i.e. Frauenliebe und Frauenleben), Schumann's Opus 47 song-cycle on the bill of fare, however, who could be dissatisfied at the thoughtful arc with which Hughes and Middleton traversed these eight numbers, from the - very much as it were - infatuation of 'Seit ich ihn gesehen' to the stark realizations of 'Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan' : not in any way even needing (as some do) to be apologetic for the milieu and import of Chamisso's poems, let alone limit them by or to their time. As the Purcell texts should have shown us, human-beings are and have been over the centuries, for all their differing trappings, creatures with and moulded by the same needs, desires and weaknesses as the heroines of Shakespearean drama, or the novels of The Brontës.

[...]



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Pixiedust joins Good Rain : Solveig Slettahjell and The Slow Motion Quintet

A first-blush mini-review of Solveig Slettahjell and The Slow Motion Quintet in Pixiedust

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28 February

A first-blush mini-review by Tweet of Solveig Slettahjell and The Slow Motion Quintet in Pixiedust

Pixiedust by Solveig Slettahjell and The Slow Motion Quintet¹ has arrived and is having a first play (as pair to Good Rain, the other album then known²):

Still lullabye that's also half to an adult, but even more Gospel (e.g. 'Have a Little faith in Me'), and much more free :) pic.twitter.com/GuII34r2rd

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¹ I.e. #solveigslettahjell plus Sjur Miltjeteig (tpt), Morten Qvenild (pf), Mats Eilertsen (db), Per Oddvar Johansen (dr).

² *Could* it have been heard, played / reviewed on one of @BBCRadio3's jazz programmes of the time (Jazz on 3, or Jazz Line-Up), and bought so long ago ? pic.twitter.com/Z2VwqWtFlm

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¹ I.e. #solveigslettahjell plus Sjur Miltjeteig (tpt), Morten Qvenild (pf), Mats Eilertsen (db), Per Oddvar Johansen (dr).

² *Could* it have been heard, played / reviewed on one of @BBCRadio3's jazz programmes of the time (Jazz on 3, or Jazz Line-Up), and bought so long ago ? pic.twitter.com/Z2VwqWtFlm

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The 13 Rules, perhaps, of Making Documentary Films* (work in progress)

The 13 Rules*, perhaps, of Making Documentary Films (work in progress)

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24 February

The 13 Rules*, perhaps, of Making Documentary Films (work in progress)

1. If some fact or experience is extraneous to the film, but the audience is expected to know it, it should have been in the film itself (not a Q&A, DVD extras, etc.)
2. Picking and choosing to whom to give a name (using a caption), when that person starts speaking from archive material or in interview, need not be defensible as such, but a discernible rationale might be beneficial

3. By all means let some viewers believe that all the ills of the world (or all its goodness) are located in some place, practice or person, but you could ‘nod’, a little, to others who will watch more sceptically (please see Rule 5 (below) et seq.)?

4. Equally, some viewers will - surreptitiously - drown under an undifferentiated mix of : (illustrative) clips from feature films of the time ; home ciné and / or video ; generic archival footage ; date-specific footage and / or capture of t.v., etc., broadcasts ; other documentary material ; any re-enactments / re-creations, etc., etc.

5. Again, those viewers who happily absorb a message such as hinted at in Rule 3 (above) will not notice, but, even if you are determined just to tell a story that ‘enough’ people will buy wholesale (especially if only adding detail to an accepted narrative), watch out for ‘flak’, from some who expect more

6. Such flak will necessarily come from those who ask what similarities there are to other countries in the territory in which the film (if only in a specific edit or version) is targeted, and which your film largely serves some viewers as a convenient emotional and / or intellectual distraction from acknowledging (or maybe as little more than self-satisying entertainment that such things happen elsewhere ?)

7. Art can hold up the mirror to life, but it can also do us a dis-service, if it does not truthfully answer the Snow White Question asked by those who could, and should, see all that the mirror reflects

8. Some see film as having a pedagogic purpose, whereas some see documentary - when it more closely resembles 'an essay**' - as more free :

Well, there are those who teach who claim that they should tell their students what they are going to teach them, teach it, and tell them that they were taught it, and, although cinema really does not need to be that ‘heavy-handed’, film-makers might pay regard, when they have somehow decided on an intended story (or one of its 'strands'), and know it so well, that – in the edit, etc. – the film omits to tell all of its essential parts


More to come...


End-notes :

* So, for #UCFF (at least), it 'does it', if adherence is made to more than seven or eight of them…

** Though who says where, say, Tarkovsky’s Mirror (Zerkalo [Зеркало]) (1975) begins and Godard’s The Image Book (Le Livre d'image) (2018) ends ?


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Blake at Tate : Some musings

Blake at Tate : Some musings

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1 February

Blake at Tate : Some musings

* Whether Blake shifted ground from propounding 'There is no Natural Religion' (1788) [https://t.co/Z25nDELJN3], itself in [a] and [b] editions

* At the end, illustrating his Jerusalem (1804 - 1820) and texts as diverse as Bunyan's PP and Dante, what Blake believed about souls

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For 31 January [2020]¹ : Collecting² The #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweeets³

For 31 January [2020]¹ ~ Collecting² The #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweeets

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31 January 2020

For 31 January [2020]¹ ~ Collecting² The #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweeets

Yes, thanks to https://t.co/GAFif2xAje* ! :)

* Which assured me, and it was accepted, that there was a word to link the words of eight and five letters (in the middle).#OneLovelyThingToDay

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An exercise in listening anew on @BBCRadio3 with @DrMatthewSweet in Sound of Cinema :https://t.co/mQLSJtxXZ1#OneLovelyThingToDay

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The current Letter Boxed (at https://t.co/bKSeQHTWyp) says 'Try to solve in 4 words' :

Very pleasing, in ten to fifteen minutes, to have found one in two ! pic.twitter.com/G3R8xVgyoy

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From here, a small leap to extending the second one (by turning it into a verb) and adding a pleasing word to cover the remaining letters ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/DwV2Ik3g9L

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#UCFF seems to be onto a good thing - solved, in a very similar way and again in two words, the current Letter Boxed. :) pic.twitter.com/xR2TFZMkuk

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Happy Birthday, Late Junction, @fionatalkington !

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Touching details of Anton Bruckner's rich devotional life given by @DonaldMacleod01 on Monday of this week's @BBCRadio3 #COTW :https://t.co/2OpbE0DcQT#OneLovelyThingToDay

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'Vim Motors slurs scan' is it, and it seems to speak of a despicable practice in the motor trade.

Two three-word solutions also made themselves known, as follow. pic.twitter.com/aA7nG6eVug

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The local-government perspective apparently given by 'Civic claims surmount' :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/DxnDi0gQ4U

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Walrus Squid Dock :

Some sort of elaborate port-arrangement for an interesting hybrid. pic.twitter.com/hSlUXPBclc

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After a little more wrangling*, on a different browser - yes, it is. :)

* Nothing of the scale of yesterday's wrestle / tussle !#OneLovelyThingToDay

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#OneLovelyThingToDay :

On this afternoon's Sound of Cinema, @DrMatthewSweet talking to Kiefer Sutherland about his father's (Donald Sutherland's) 60-year-long career as a film-actorhttps://t.co/8nL7DYts2j

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Definitely #OneLovelyThingToDay :) https://t.co/LW8Ga2yBTt

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#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/wFnu3Bllvw

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It doesn't answer the question, but a pretty graph nevertheless from https://t.co/1PWFoVrjEk ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/vhepJFNQq5

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'"Chemical recycling" : 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules' :https://t.co/NOMkr6nZ71#OneHopefulThingToDay

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On this still and fairly clear night, The Moon – always lovely, of course – is glorious, and full of promise !

[One hesitates, a moment, since are promises necessarily of good things ?]#OneLovelyThingToDay

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Thank you, Lady C. - on a quieter day, so far, that's a nicely cheery hello !#OneLovelyThingToDay

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Such a delight and a comfort, when feeling weary and headachy, to have this album to listen quitely to !

[Followed by, a kind gift from a good friend, Book I of Das wohltemperierte Klavier, BWV 846-869, played by Bernard Roberts]#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/bPCleKuPvn

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There, for all to hear, on @BBCSounds, too :https://t.co/uNFqf9MTaf pic.twitter.com/KSFa2OfpA6

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Schön !

🎵 ❤️🎵#OneLovelyThingToDay

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Lovely to hear the sensitivity of @AdeSerenissima's playing (soloist & director of @LaSerenissimaUK) in to-day's Composer of The Week with @DonaldMacleod01- Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV15 ! :https://t.co/tnNXEsgAJ6

[Summer - Further Fields]#OneLovelyThingToDay#COTW pic.twitter.com/pLSeVVrJbi

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² More at :https://t.co/P4RXmQxdbuhttps://t.co/DPVlDLriOr

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Love life, love Tippett !

❤️ ❤️

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Managing to dodge both Ira Siff and the synopsis being read (by Debra Lew Harder), rejoining Opera on 3 for The Hours - Live from the Met on @BBCRadio3 ! :https://t.co/rw3AOQsRDm

[Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato as Virginia Woolf]#OneLovelyThingToDay

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From @BBCSounds, a list of cast and crew is here pic.twitter.com/zIWeTlpy7g

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As ever, grand to hear the stirring main title from Superman (1978) - this time closing this afternoon's @BBCInTune, hosted by the very effervescent Sean Rafferty ! :https://t.co/eilv6GQQ6L

Good work, John Williams and the stupendous @londonsymphony :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

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pic.twitter.com/6Je36X5rox

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Meanwhile, suffering for what's been wrought on Planet Earth by stupidly senseless ways of living as if there's no to-morrow, no accountability... :

'South-East Asia "in a frying pan" as extreme heat "rewrites climatic history"'https://t.co/N0S79bd7Sf#OneLessLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/gq1wXt0ACv

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'Violent attacks against environmental journalists on the rise, report finds' - a UNESCO report, covered in @guardian :https://t.co/1JR2lbmTDj#OneLessLovelyThingToDay #WorldPressFreedomDay

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This is a @guardian story, headed '"On every roof something is possible" : how sponge cities could change the way we handle rain' :https://t.co/4gz5kqCHwo

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Without - life gets 'in the way' - being able to hear everything on @BBCRadio3's #NevilleMarrinerDay, feelings of warmth and respect expressed and repertoire such as the Vaughan Williams / Tallis Fantasia brought back good memories :https://t.co/hOrmaHoZzR#OneLovelyThingToDay

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Me, I *like* that Composer of The Week's now on at 4.00 p.m., that @KateMolleson's bringing - and bringing off ! - a very contemporary idiomatic language for talking about Brahms and his life, and that she loves his music as much as does Th'Agent :https://t.co/sYLHTVqEqW#COTW

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Just finished, talking to Sean about how the repertoire from Georg Philipp Telemann's works and those of Johann Sebastian were chosen for the ensemble's new recording with @FreiburgBaroque [starts at around 5.36 till now-ish] :https://t.co/fP5RGnCMtc#OneLovelyThingToDay

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One of those characteristically infectiously cheerful Music Planets, this afternoon on @BBCRadio3 - @kathryntickell reporting, as ever, from @ccfest and with a sample of its great live music ! :https://t.co/1RGacjlRiE#OneLovelyThingToDay

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Super shots, Paul - thanks !#OneLovelyThingToDay

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The trees need xylem *and* phloem - pesky stuff ! :(#OneLessLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/ALh9XQnHkS

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 17, 2024

As ever, on a day of lower energies (and, therefore, of 'small things'), very welcome to have the warm affect and the company of @Ianskellyradio3 on @BBCRadio3's Afternoon Concert ! :https://t.co/QxprfuBU7L#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 16, 2024

On a day of trying to preserve, for days ahead, what one might call stamina or 'personal energies' (though words that evoked swift flashbacks to recent viewing), pleasurable domestic observations - bees having pollinated the mahonia, and hyacinths emerging !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/L3VVNawheb

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 18, 2024

So far, top Tweet of 2024 !#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/I7nRY4dpQo

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 15, 2024

#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/jFDtg5tZYh

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 13, 2024

Though the sound-quality's not ideal, it's always a pleasure to be reminded of The Messengers and their main man ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay#ArtBlakey

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 1, 2024

In the second half, Jaime Martín's carefully not rushed, and kept hushed, the very opening of Symphony No. 2 by that Brahms guy - time to breathe, space for those flute, clarinet, horn tendrils to feel their way into the light. :)https://t.co/L7a1gU96qo#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/IIMGRuZZ5G

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2024

Not having or hearing anyone knocking the present postal deliveries or the worth of using 1st-class stamps* :

A card arrived to-day, posted / collected yesterday afternoon, to wish someone well ! :)

* NB *Shove* yr 'Would've been same with 2nd' tosh !#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 30, 2024

I spent part of last year working on this church.
The largest roof I've thatched, and I think one of my favourites.

It's stood for 600 years and still forms the heart of the community. I met many different people while there, and the church meant something to each of them. pic.twitter.com/sh6lnuD9mI

— Nick Walker (@TheMasterThatch) January 22, 2024

#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/eri1J0JR1o

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 23, 2024

And very proud, the lot of them, of their shirt-cuffs ! :)

😋🔆#SnappyDressers#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 23, 2024

Nice little cameo, from the ever-lovely Charles Hazlewood, chatting with Sean Rafferty on @BBCInTune ! :https://t.co/PqMPgpQ9L2

Hear, if you will, on @BBCSounds [from circa 40 mins in].#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 22, 2024

#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 7, 2024

Movies where the final scene is widely regarded as the best scene in the entire film?

— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) January 6, 2024

= The end-credits of La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) (2013) :)#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/f2SLdbuVl0

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 6, 2024

#NewYearNewMusic#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/ShH3Rzl7kK

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 6, 2024

* It was around 10.50 p.m. when the DAB was turned on to fill the room with @BBCRadio3, and this fascinating and powerful work - which asks us to face reality and think ! - then *seemed* to be announced and start at the eleventh hour...

[Sure no coincidence !]#NewYearNewMusic

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 6, 2024

Sounds amazing - and, though I don't fully follow the image or the description, the sky behind's gorgeous ! :)#FreeLightShow#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 6, 2024

Thank you - lovely mover (Ern), lovely gestures* (Eric), lovely message ! :)

[Also with half an ear to @thekatiederham, bringing us the first @BBCInTune of 2024 : https://t.co/Ibr5WwNpk8]

* Pointing at Ern ('your troubles'), looking behind him, etc.#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 3, 2024

Now on @BBCRadio3, a reflective, light-filled and challenging Choral Evensong, from the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham :https://t.co/myFJoWe80Z#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 3, 2024

That's #OneLovelyThingToDay, Jackabuss ! :)

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 1, 2024

Lovely ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 27, 2023

'Carols and War : A reflection from the Dean of Chapel' :https://t.co/BSHQVu36f0

A tearfully difficult read, but an open and honest one#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 29, 2023

Huge, cheered thanks to @BBCRadio3 and @thekatiederham and @emmagafielding, plus all other guests and crew, for what was heard in the last hour of Christmas Eve Live with Katie Derham ! :https://t.co/zCLQUUYKy4

Life's for the living, and there's nothing like Live's frisson ! !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 24, 2023

Beautiful playing, so it's very definitely#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 19, 2023

In one second short of 4 mins 30, such compassion, wisdom and understanding ! :)

Nerina Pallot - Cold Places - Lyric Video : https://t.co/w5dYgAgekz

'Be the light in the dark'#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 16, 2023

There weren't a few clues as to why it couldn't have been so meant - and even the occasional #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweet intends no such thing, too...#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/ZC8OiRvYAc

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 16, 2023

Isn't it so good to see - or get to* - the film that had been recommended *just when it's needed* ? ! :)

* In the case of mine, this evening, bought for me on DVD, and received a few weeks ago in person, by a very dear friend.#PeopleAreCinema#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 6, 2023

#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/gXUwlWSJhD

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 24, 2023

It's been a while since hearing this or any other recording, so what Sir Michael brought to conducting his own work could be to the fore - especially in the soaringly heart-searching central movement.

And such a snappy dresser :)

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 13, 2023

https://t.co/AZ5prJ4Lbs#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 28, 2023

Evidence, from a few weeks back, that the gall-wasp's 'back in town'...

More at (no . 5) : https://t.co/IYxp4Mhxw8#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/5MhWoM07Gy

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 28, 2023

Being at a film-festival's one thing, but time at home afterwards is another - view from my bedroom !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/ltywWUXuSG

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 28, 2023

c) Noting the opening of a letter, or when a damaged shoe expired on a cross-field path.

¹ As usually, the least vulnerable approached first, but all were very friendly.

² The top rail had broken and fallen nearby in several places.

³ Helpful, with ploughed-up paths ahead.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 7, 2023

The Moon looks serene and unchanging, and that makes me happy !

Yes, it's nice that it's full now, but it looked gorgeous on Monday night anyway :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 31, 2023

It's free fruit time !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/l96x2EgWwx

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 23, 2023

A cheery face, even if it's but a chimæra of one's own construing, can still be a comfort ~ Peter Lorre#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/CbnuZDxial

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 23, 2023

The gorgeous coloration of what's presently visible at this latitude on Earth, a sublime and pale shade of tangerine, seen low, not much above the horizon, when a sudden break in the hedge to my left revealed the vista and the welcome shape.

* Within the first hour of this day.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2023

I had to zoom in to 146% to make sense of what appeared to be in the pub-sign in the first image :

Nice view, of the duck, having a dabble ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 30, 2023

The crop of berries*, this year around, has gladdened my heart !

* Fruit ?#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/afvONsG3Ln

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 21, 2023

The musicality of the song of these birds is exquisite ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 14, 2023

Don't take it from me, but see that The Moon's purely beautiful* to-night, as was - on my outward journey - an intensely dense clump of poppies !

* Just gorgeous, as well as a clear light on a cross-field path first of barley, then of less-developed wheat.#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/f2GtXywpOg

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 3, 2023

Always look on the bright side of cake !https://t.co/iBcGf9UKRb#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/HsDwbnDpoo

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 30, 2023

Since awakening, I'd had the very agreeable accompaniment of the song of a blackbird - probably the same one that harvests berries from the shrub outside my window :

The end of that song does not leave me lonely, but ever more appreciative of the next time.#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 24, 2023

[The biblical or literary references are not unintentional]

2 / 2

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 14, 2023

pic.twitter.com/Vt2V2AGBCO

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 13, 2023

'My' blackbird*, deftly harvesting some more of its dusty-blue berries, has just brightened my morning :)

* Not for any proprietorial reason, but because I feel blessed to be able to see him re-visit the mahonia.#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 7, 2023

A lovely spot that, on the walking route, links the bottom of Hawksworth Wood* and the Leeds-to-Liverpool canal !

* Itself a delightfully tranquil and open space.#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/F1qsLn6Que

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 30, 2023

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/sdXh2FfGOP

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 19, 2023

This has been lovely to listen to, but, as with so many lovely things, it will disappear...

Available till 11.00 p.m. GMT#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/ptJ298seX6

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 19, 2023

They are certainly very vivid* and elaborate blooms !#OneLovelyThingToDay

* Almost too much of a contrast with the green of the foliage for a digital-image to cope with... ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 15, 2023

'Paul O'Grady tribute fund sees Battersea Dogs Home inundated with £100k in donations'

Story at :https://t.co/h3XbiRsVbZ

2 / 2

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 1, 2023

Looks a gorgeous time for all !

Funnily enough, just listened to Katy Rose Bennett during @BBCInTune, talking about her piece 'When I Close My Eyes' before we heard it, and how special and different getting away to the sea is :https://t.co/9fG1aB6L4A#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 30, 2023

But also this evening's @BBCFreeThinking on the insightful topic of 'The wicked ? stepmother' - @DrMatthewSweet, on sparkling form and enabling his guests in sparking insights from each other's thoughts, as if from a flint ! :https://t.co/1b5m3wFo9D

2 / 2#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 16, 2023

As Satchmo neatly says...https://t.co/iBcGf9ViGJ#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/7z4uPUCAxQ

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 15, 2023

Good reason for another fun double-bill - surprisingly, both featured megaphones :

In 'Old Grey Whistle Theft', Benson used it in an artful cinematic take-off, plus Dougal fell under a rebellious priest's influence, whereas Sebastian and Steve needed remedial training ('Birl'). pic.twitter.com/F90qCYJ0K1

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 14, 2023

Just beautiful, as I chatted by phone with a good friend about being out for a long walk and the colours of the sunset, to spot an orange disc through a small group of trees and realize that it was The Moon, huge on the horizon and tinged by The Sun's rays !#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2023

11 February was always going to be far twirly for bluebells at the wonted wood, and there were no snowdrops* :

Yet to take one of its paths, and in all be out on foot for 7h to get there and back, was a good first visit for 2023 ! :)

* Too sheltered ?#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 11, 2023

A very good pint of Three Stars at the new local ; continuing to act on impulse, before returning, next discovering some new foot-paths, and ; near home, and with skies clearer, a very moonlit walk, plus another mix of familiar walking-routes and new ones !#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 9, 2023

#OneLovelyThingToDay

[A c. 1ft-square pizza-box] pic.twitter.com/UIHKsiWjPU

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 19, 2022

Produce had been plenty sampled of late, and included such delights as follows, but this was a proper intro, with Barry, to the garden ! :

* Apple and Elderflower Jelly

* Plum and Mulled WIne Jam

* Raspberry and Rhubarb (also a reduced-sugar version)

* Autumn Pear Chutney https://t.co/xUmu42YgUy

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 8, 2022

On arrival, Th'Agent was so enchanted by what was seen of The Lure of Crooning Water (1920) that it was just a crying shame not to have tried - in the 11 mins after waking - to dash out of the house, get parked, buy a Travelcard* and get that earlier train !#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 7, 2022

* Instead a super off-peak day-return to Blackfriars and a quietly puddly Sunday-morning walk, having unwisely assumed doing it that way and so not then searching https://t.co/IGWTwdMwkv for 'London - [All stations'], which Wm. Blake might have agreed were Mind-forg'd Manacles ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 7, 2022

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/VuB6BinUqG

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2022

Or, rather, comme ci ?#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/E9MlAYcgof

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 1, 2022

And another! https://t.co/bhXq8y1Xn7 pic.twitter.com/SxsX3999tJ

— Paul Joyce (@bergersmicer) September 28, 2022

#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2022

Seeing mention of Viscount* reminded Th'Agent of Those Biscuits :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

* As a title, regarding to-day at The Castle...

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 19, 2022

Is it as Billy Joel sang ? :

Don't go changing
To try to please me

Mebbe #OneLovelyThingToDay ? https://t.co/uScGNNWYxy

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 15, 2022

One for :#OneLovelyThingToDay ! https://t.co/O5lK9VvLnB

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 12, 2022

So, let's spin 'Let's Dance' instead !https://t.co/XXmsxzbuXz#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2022

Perhaps the future's green (not orange).

A friend's now seen #WalterSickert at Tate B. with me (I'd visited on Bank Holiday Monday), and took a look at #CorneliaParker (also seen then) - both shows have grown on me, but I won't see the former* again.

* And just skipped Room 6.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2022

As an adage of British justice* says [used to say ?] :

Justice not only has to be done, but be seen to be done.

* From, as I recall, case-law ? (The College of Law was, somehow, three decades ago.)

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2022

Now collating this in #UCFF's #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweets...https://t.co/sYvWs6GPgl#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2022

#TicketsAreMemories#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/8Dn7B61RIG

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 8, 2022

Even so, if the receipt simply wanted - after all this time - to urge reading about The Black Prince, it has certainly achieved that, and in-roads can next be made on the much more recent acquisition of this title !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/ONwHaA0DLm

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 19, 2022

#OneLessLovelyThingToDay ?

* Or a thicker band of dark cloud ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 16, 2022

First of the season ? :

They were a bit too pithy (or 'woody') to be very nice, but seeing a few blackberries on the edge of some woodland was a pleasant surprise.

Also, on the same local walk of 4h 45, the sweet taste of a fallen one of these plums !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/CL90pRdIyS

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 27, 2022

Does Science Twitter have any notion what mechanism would fail (if it was even trying...) to distinguish between the approach of a vehicle and a pedestrian (albeit wearing glasses with metal frames) ? https://t.co/SNHriUBN8I

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 27, 2022

Some beauties don't change. :)https://t.co/bOq0JsX99V#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 25, 2022

Bonus bird shot (from @EH_WrestPark last Friday) :

Without enhancement, the cygnets on the nest aren't visible here, but I saw them clearly enough, grey and 'fluffy' - and, later, ducklings !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/PfqHh1uuJ4

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 28, 2022

And some consolation in finding this instead, and spending a little time there - doubtless known to you, @PaulBrook76...#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/mRvcGIxdXR

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 28, 2022

Finding a flower by flash-light#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/MVqAK4lmVC

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 28, 2022

A day when things remind of other things...

'Best scene from science fiction movie, K-PAX [(2001)]' :https://t.co/t1aymuBxuI#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 16, 2022

Nice video !

For a fairly short time, it's such a special sight and unlike anything else*. :)

* Even, because of the effects of varying shade in a wood and sub-species of different hues, the visual intensity of a field of poppies. (Haven't seen one of those in a while... ?)

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 4, 2022

Hard to remember when - or exactly what - this was, but it was fun at the time !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/7dbyC9dqeC

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 2, 2022

❤️ pic.twitter.com/ciWKgsLZtx

— Ann Pugh 💙 (@annpugh) April 30, 2022

Some even appeared as cascades of bells. :) pic.twitter.com/0MGyYd51LB

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 30, 2022

Even so, and though scentless, they can't match the intensity of colour and effect of the main act ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/hOrUmcCudr pic.twitter.com/3PJSEhJSsI

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 26, 2022

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/E8BeFKK2mO

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 22, 2022

#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/ieSRS2EECJ

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 22, 2022

Amazing stuff, on Freeness on @BBCRadio3, with @coreymwamba ! :https://t.co/ajn3hzVjpM#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/dOjoD29TUv

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 6, 2022

* With, as a bonus, a lively play-out from their album Rubai.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 5, 2022

When one might have got out, earlier, it was bright, so it's now reassuring to have the brightness of @kathryntickell and her guests in the studio for @BBCRadio3 Music Planet's show from and during Celtic Connections [@ccfest] ! :https://t.co/SRadq510yF#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 22, 2022

Although, despite the frost,
The Night Sky was not
Crisply - not so sharply -
Defin'd, 'twas to me
Comfort to look - and see.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 5, 2022

That is pretty amazing ! :)

[Cosmic, even]#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 4, 2022

Before @BBCInTune resumes, a nice part of the year is these Winter Showcases of @BBCRadio3's NGA scheme - New Generation Artists ! :https://t.co/ySkAsF1A06#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 3, 2022

Not precisely as found, but they had been talkin' to each other...#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/xS0sZrAUFD

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 17, 2021

Paula Cole and Peter Gabriel in 'Don't Give Up !' :https://t.co/vg0l2if9Nh#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 11, 2021

If you dared watch, Peter, this was a terrifying film, about hope and loss, from #CameraCatalonia a couple of days ago :https://t.co/s9Gp5rqfDv

It also reminded me of this t.v. glory :https://t.co/SDjcA25GGH#BeautifulButFearful#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 27, 2021

April's review is here :https://t.co/Dt4ugN67ld#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/XsjVC7So1o

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 23, 2021

#TrueClass

When married, at least twice seen in concert at @CambridgeCornEx, and always a very good show, where @SophieEB kept on giving ! :)https://t.co/jcGAHFAQ8M#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/OnTLB2DBaB

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 18, 2021

It's a Reindeer Cake, Jim, when we didn't even know that :

(a) Such a thing existed, or

(b) In consequence, it needed to be bought.#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/v0i6RP2iXT

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 18, 2021

Coincidentally (?), the same cadence as that ABBA song with the line 'Honey, I'm still free'... ?

Added, anyway, to 'For 31 January [2020] : Collecting the #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweets' :https://t.co/sYvWs6GPglhttps://t.co/5YsfbSNVrZ https://t.co/pQeTGtPv2w

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 17, 2021

#TakeAStandOnSleaze !#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/7bi4dxtH9e

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 16, 2021

The wonderfully cranky over-specificity of signage on the railway for what *may* be (?) just a chunky box that has relatively little in it, but which leaves one in little doubt - even if it can't agree on the voltage ! - what it does ! :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/BolG51K3zB

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 4, 2021

Perhaps Martyn Lewis, certainly not when he first said it, was not taken as seriously as he should have been, when he suggested that the news should not be all dark, as it were, and that there needs to be some light ?#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/HA90YW8Imf

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2021

Found (re-found ?), to-night, what readers of Jorge Luis Borges will know instantly as The Sacred Latrine !

If you do not, then you have the treat in store of his short story (parable ? prophecy ?) 'The Lottery in Babylon' :https://t.co/fjIhMiMtuQ#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/0c2Uk77ii7

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 3, 2021

Looks like plenty to see there, for another visit.

Pleasure deferred, etc. ! :)

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 2, 2021

Or, differently presented ?#OneLovelyThingToDay https://t.co/56jB1Q2H1y pic.twitter.com/B36X85NBW5

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 2, 2021

In the village (?) whose Dunton Centre maybe still operates, but maybe no longer leaves the premises open when not operational (which kinda begs the question whether it is*), #OneLovelyThingToDay

* H'mm. That e-mail to them was a few months back... ? pic.twitter.com/m0AYIE4A4N

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 2, 2021

#TheCityOfActualSpires#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/aMbhg5vpyp

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 31, 2021

Without attempting a photograph :

The brightness of The Moon ! :)#MissSelene#Homophones#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2021

Rudbeckia at @EnglishHeritage's Wrest Park*

[Plus, when another visitor asked a member of staff what they were, remembering the name]

* https://t.co/nokL2n9Vlx#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2021

Somewhere, in a central chapter in The Ambassadors (or The Golden Bowl), one can be certain - because Henry James indicates as much - that, at some point, the principal characters had sex :

The wonder is that one is never sure where that point was / is ! !#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 13, 2021

pic.twitter.com/ffBUEC0UQo

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 2, 2021

For 31 January¹ ~ Collecting² the #OneLovelyThingToDay Tweets

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/3FC1OSeRim

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 7, 2021

Finally*, getting a shot of The Whirligig Monster Tree#OneLovelyThigToDay

* When by flash, at night - or by night, with flash ? - hadn't worked. pic.twitter.com/6wlESNqFJC

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 21, 2021

Which is to say pic.twitter.com/8dMq3qYVSm

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 2, 2021

Traces in the fees#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/nMVFakX4HD

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 31, 2021

@THEAGENTAPSLEY Did manage #OneLovelyThingToday

— Nicola Hardy (@coolearrings) March 30, 2021

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/h7TzHsK2IL

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 22, 2021

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/hhnOqd0RKp

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 4, 2021

Our animal companions' candour in this world !

Near the end of an absurdly long ramble*, the horse came over (leaving the foal inaccessible).

I quickly respond and remember to show my hand to be empty before stroking that long nose, but the lick on the palm is a total shock !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 27, 2021

#OneLovelyThingToDay

As were these, on a bank not seen before, and in a church, not entered before... https://t.co/cyqU74IT4S pic.twitter.com/LwBmQFsiIa

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 27, 2021

A genuinely lovely thing! https://t.co/hbc8deVnJu

— Sarah Parkin (@SarahParkin1) February 22, 2021

After a walk of some 3+ hours and a snack to break their fast, all good Mudbloods, and all credible Death-Eaters, alike crave the comfort of the soothing waters of Lethe - but a hot soak will do instead ! :)

And th'ilke Potter-themèd banter, withal...#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 20, 2021

They had *their* coats, and I sure needed mine, to-day !#OneLovelyThingToDay*

* In more ways than one, #AdjustedForExposure... pic.twitter.com/0O8vGaA8f7

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 11, 2021

As the song nearly goes :

'They've got accustomed to my face' pic.twitter.com/vhWM75UVMM

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 11, 2021

This month, people have been saying disparaging things about going for a walk in these times :

If that's 'not their thing', or they feel that there's nothing else, that's understandable, but mine - of 4h - was the best thing about to-day. :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/faduSe9lwO

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 9, 2021

My first sighting of snowdrops in 2021#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/APGQPKpBqd

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 2, 2021

Weiß, aber, gar nicht, zu welchem Zweck Doktor Twitter das zweite Bildnis auf solcher Weise zeigt... pic.twitter.com/QfVnPMzfe0

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 5, 2021

#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/9vj3XYyQBm

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 12, 2020

Despite the wet [let alone the intense few minutes of wind and sleet little later, which made yesterday's walk rather more marshy]#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/JThMPblbGZ

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 29, 2020

pic.twitter.com/dImY0zjbsY

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 26, 2020

Listening to this album again#OneLovelyThingToDay

[From 22 August] pic.twitter.com/rN0dDsCm8t

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 14, 2020

The wonder, as ever, that is The Moon (which, in fulness, had probably backlit a small cloud earlier on in the walk), and of (via a previously unexplored timer setting) attempting some (always unrepresentative) images :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/qBLEfttrbk

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 4, 2020

A local walk of nearly 2h this evening*, in which knowledge of foot-paths was consolidated (and even a new set of foot-paths tried), was #OneLovelyThingToDay - as was talking to the very helpful person at @bt_uk !

* Rather than when it was cooler earlier, but energy lacked...

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 12, 2020

#OneLovelyThingToDay

* Et aussi @ARTEen ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 27, 2020

A well-paced walk, of little more than 2h and largely on foot-paths, in the #GreatBritishCountryside is already a good walk :

When, in passing, one hears the plashing of the River Cam (or Rhee), it's an even better one :)#OneLovelyThingToDay

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 28, 2020

[Although actually from Sunday's lockjaw walk]https://t.co/thENujhP0E#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/PRtwGidOVM

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 22, 2020

To-day's Herts / Beds walk - perhaps caught in another border-line, that of air and water ?#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/RVZSjIB2sZ

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 24, 2020

Very, very easy to say or think this, but good to be reminded of it... :)#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/3xrYOkYLEs

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 31, 2020

Meanwhile, at the farm-buildings implausibly constructed from osmium...#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/AeoAHQxsgx

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2019

Meanwhile, at the farm-buildings implausibly constructed from osmium...#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/AeoAHQxsgx

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2019

[...]

The leaf is still doing well... :

One shot is with flash* (accidentally), one without.#OneLovelyThingToDay

* Both images have been adjusted for brightness, contrast, etc., and to sharpen, and to reduce noise (but not for colour). pic.twitter.com/hcuVcHBz28

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 31, 2020

End-notes :

¹ Also artist Philip Hartigan's natal day.

² Started on, as an assemblage, at any rate.

³ Also, occasionally, the #OneLessLovelyThingToday Tweets ?


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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)