Michael
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Michael
@Mob1967
All my own views - or dogs, cats and occasionally goats. Woke AF He/him
The peripheries of London Katılım Mart 2010
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@Mob1967 @annalapwood Good afternoon Michael, tonight's performance will definitely start at 6pm. The approximate schedule for this event is: 6pm Event starts, 7:05pm Interval (25 minutes), 8:50pm Approximate end. Thank you, -LS
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@RoyalAlbertHall your website says @annalapwood concert tonight starts at 6pm but our tickets say 7pm. Can you confirm which is correct please? Thank you
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Autonomy doesn’t make characters interesting. Pressure does.
Here’s a small Brawl Stars experiment where the Starr Park cast runs as autonomous agents inside an old-school chatroom. They have memory, goals, emotions, and react to world events.
Watching them revealed something simple: multi-agent worlds need stakes or they collapse into neutrality.
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@loupepper @prodnose You can make an egg & crispy bacon "sandwich" using small bits of actual bacon between two of these crisps. Amazingly/weirdly good
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@SlenderSherbet This is very misleading. Is that one of each or either one child or one elderly person but not both?
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@Bobby_Seagull Ordinary People. His directorial debut I believe and won an oscar for it. One of my favourite films ever.
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I just found out that Robert Redford has passed away. I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never seen many of his films, whether the ones he starred in or directed, so I don’t really have a strong sense of his work.
What are your must-see Redford movies - acting roles, directorial work, whatever you think shows him at his best? 🎬
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…


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Sculptural embroidery and textile art based on natural forms by contemporary Australian artist Meredith Woolnough #WomensArt

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In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

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*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*
**“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”**
My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
**I’m writing this to tell you something simple:**
**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.**
Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.
You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.
You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.
*With love and gentleness,*
— Patricia Routledge

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@GregRusedski1 I agree but Draper is much closer to Bublik than Sinner. Only Alcaraz is close to Sinner. I just think it's not surprising that people are surprised. You replying to me is more surprising though (and delightful - huge fan).
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@Mob1967 Nobody likes to play Bublik when he wants to play because of his weapons especially on grass. He beat Draper world number 5 at RG.
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@paullewismoney Anyway, I’m not sure I’m getting through and I’m no expert but please do take the time to speak to some people who are.
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I always set it to zero, which you can do though it is a bit fiddly. And it takes 5% of the taxpayer money which we call Gift Aid it collects. One estimate is it makes £7m a year from this.

Gerard McDermott KC@mcdermottkc_
The amount that @JustGiving “suggests” as a “tip” is so often so disappointing to see
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