Suzanne Doyle

@chrissiddall1 This aged well.

@chrissiddall1 🤦🏼‍♀️

How many chances does Vestegaard get? Incredible #lcfc

@seckerson @philharmonia @southbankcentre It was quite something. One to remember forever.

Reflecting on the symbiosis between a conductor and orchestra that can elevate a performance into the realms of the eternal. 97 year old Herbert Blomstedt @philharmonia @southbankcentre took Mahler’s 9th Symphony to the edge of silence in ways that cannot be put into words.

@jayrayner1 The time Pollen St gave me food poisoning at my special 40th birthday meal back in March. 4/6 of us had severe food poisoning from their tasting menu and they denied any of it, no apology nothing. Found out they had poor food standards rating…

A big name chef called Jason Atherton opens a hot dog stand at Harrods. I go. It’s truly awful. An insult to the very notion of hot dogs. So that’s another reason not to go to Harrods. This week’s restaurant review. theguardian.com/food/2024/oct/…

@ArianeTodes Our soles. My bad. 🤣🤣🤣

@SuzanneDoyle Now, now! 😂

An emotional sausage? 😳

Not. A. Thing.

Beautiful sketch from last week’s concert with @marinalsop

@omid9 This is an amazing story.

Quick story about Sven-Goran Ericksson (RIP). Such a good man, open and easy to talk to. You needed humility being the first “foreign” England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 manager, but one night we realised just how humble (and witty) he was. At a charity dinner after the World Cup in 2006, when he was no longer England manager, I was lucky enough to be on his table. Finding my moment, I asked “why did you include a 17 year old Theo Walcott in the World Cup squad when he hadn’t played a single game in the Premier league?” I didn’t want to upset him because it was a controversial decision at the time - he took an injured Wayne Rooney and a struggling Michael Owen but left out a fit and well Jermaine Defoe. But he replied “no, it’s a good question. Many would like to know. I could not say then, but I can now…” and explained his thinking with a measured response: “You know, the countries that do well at World Cups always have a ‘secret weapon’. A player unknown to the other teams, to bring on as a substitute to help win a game in the latter stages. This was Theo. And we agreed to use him only in a semi-final or the final.” He and his assistant Tord Grip had seen Walcott in a reserve game at Arsenal and said Theo had “lightening pace” and was “extremely skilful.” Theo was “the perfect unknown quantity to surprise teams and steal a goal and win a championship. That’s why we took him, not Jermaine” he concluded. I then offered “but Sven, in the quarter final v Portugal we lost on penalties. After Rooney got sent off, surely that was the time to bring on Walcott - not Peter Crouch as you did - to use Theo’s pace and score an extra time winner when we were down to 10 men?” He looked at me as if it was the first time anyone had ever suggested the idea. He looked ruefully at all of us on the table and said “well now that you say it, yes maybe I should have. In retrospect, this was a mistake.” The table went silent. We all seemed to be contemplating what could have been, for England and for Theo Walcott. Sven broke the silence with “Omid. Tell us a joke.” I laughed coz it was a delightfully off beat way to deflect, and without thinking, I did. A really inappropriate joke that got absolutely nothing. With a wink and a smile Sven then said “you see, it’s not always easy to think of the right thing to do in the moment, as Mr. Djalili just showed us, and so well.” Cue big laugh. We understood at that moment, sometimes even the best laid plans can go to cock. And that’s life. It was new information and no one judged him. Personally I was just thrilled he knew my name. #SvenGoranEriksson

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Very excited to be back in Edinburgh this week for the Orchestra’s residency: 3 concerts, 1 family concert with my good friend @NickyBenedetti, lots of community engagement and our VR headsets in abundance. Phew!

@StringerSport Anxious, worried and not looking forward to it at all I’m afraid. Not enough signings, more tweets and posts about shirt reveals than player content!!

How are Leicester City fans feeling about the coming season then? Genuine question, no shade intended.

Loving the gymnastics’ commentary trio of Matt Baker, Christine Still and Jonny Vegas

A true legend. I’ll always remember in 2005 being in the crowds at the US Open, watching him throw up(!) to all those incredible Wimbledon memories. Brilliant sense of humour and tennis advocate megastar 💜💚

@andy_murray Brilliant

Never even liked tennis anyway.

@frasercontra I was biting my nails! ABRSM violin exam flashbacks!

It’s quite clear why sport is referenced so much when talking about anxiety of performance in music. Particularly gymnastics this morning, what pressure , what artistry.

And there we go “we reach the crescendo” 🤯

@scottygb *shit Eurovision

This #OpeningCeremony is just an expensive Eurovision discuss

@ArianeTodes Not anything in the rain…. London 2012 it ‘ain’t 😱

Oh no, not a live string quartet in the rain??! 😳

Jeux d'eau tempting fate. But surely they could give him a canopy?

Trying to understand the significance of an erm burning piano… 😐 #OlympicGames