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@fesshole There is a real neurological condition called musical anhedonia, which means you derive no pleasure from music. As a professional musician myself, I kind-of understand it. It's a pity, but it happens.

I don't like music. I find it amazingly distracting, and, if I listen to it, I just can't think about anything else. So I don't. You may think this isn't a big deal, but if you tell people you don't like music, they treat you like you have no soul.

With Biden stepping down, last of Pamela Harriman’s protégés leaves the stage. Her political influence spanned 1940 to 2024. Incredible woman, incredible reach. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue & power tells all. Out in September!

Just checking in to announce the release of my second single ... If you like it, please Like it. ditto.fm/three-moody-ba…

Sorry for the long absence folks. Have been concentrating on other things - like this: ditto.fm/three-tunes-fr… The link will take you to a range of platforms for listening and download. Let me know what you think, and please share if you like it.

@N8Holder But then that's my answer to pretty much everything ...

@theboymarks Ahhhhh 🤦🏾‍♂️

I've been working on a small music ed resource, giving examples of intervals up to an octave, but only using the music of Black women. One more interval to find, but will hopefully publish on the blog later today 👍🏾

@Nigella_Lawson @FelicityCloake Thank you! I've been putting parsley in all my cooking - it's no hardship because this particular plant is so glossy and tasty. Baked potatoes for dinner tonight with, of course, parsley butter!

@theboymarks @FelicityCloake My recipe blitzes up 40g grated parmesan, 25g parsley leaves, a clove of garlic, 50g walnuts and 250ml olive oil – though I’ve started making it with my beloved Mellow Yellow cold-pressed rapeseed oil. I fear it’s not going to make much of a dent in your parsley glut!

@FelicityCloake @Nigella_Lawson I have a massive surfeit of wonderful flatleaf parsley! There's a limit to how much I can use on a daily basis. Is there anything I can make with it to put in the freezer to preserve its amazing taste? (Not a big lover of parsley sauce ...)

@DonBreithaupt That's "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"

@JamesHarrisNow Tick!

The EU should let the UK back into the EU only on condition that each British citizen passes a B2 test in a modern European language

@yearsofreading With very good reason. They're astonishing. I have them "on a loop" on my Kindle so I'm always *somewhere* in the cycle.

@theboymarks Thank you Anthony - they are really popular!

My friend has read the Cazalet Chronicles and The Forsyte Saga, and is looking for novels about a family or families (has to be 20th century onwards apparently!). I’ve recommended a few - before I’m the only one left here, has anyone got any ideas for me to pass on? Thank you x

@Cullin_Aria @yearsofreading Those Jane Gardam books are wonderful.

@yearsofreading Gardam’s Old Filth trilogy, already recommended. Putting in a good word for Family and Friends by Anita Brookner. It’s a family saga of sorts, in a remarkably compressed form (guessing it’s around 230 pages?.).

@Alistair_King @ZoeJardiniere Maybe Coutts could start doing special accounts for disadvantaged migrants to ... you know, redress the balance and make amends.

Hilarious that Farage has a campaign to ensure *everyone* in the country has equal access to banking services… I bet he definitely includes migrants with insecure status who are denied banking - leaving them often all the more under the financial control of traffickers #r4today

@DonBreithaupt Sketches of Spain?

@dejonpiere @ATabOfLucy @joshyfront Ditto. I'm curious to know how the subject arose.

just another day in the life of a practicing homo - a tradesperson outright refusing to do some painting/decorating for me because of my sexuality 🫶🏻

@ATabOfLucy @dejonpiere @joshyfront They are indeed. Maybe we've just been lucky. The people who have done work for us recently have all just turned up, done the work, chatted to us - obviously two men in a relationship - and gone away again. Anything else would be bloody awful, I grant.

@theboymarks @dejonpiere @joshyfront It's pretty normal for your sexuality to come up. "My boyfriend will be there and let you in" for example. Or just having a rainbow flag or something. Who you love and what your gender is are large parts of your life.

@CalltoActivism I wonder where they intend to go. Their options are limited.

Trump supporters are threatening to leave the United States if Trump is convicted. What do you say to them?

@FelicityCloake @Nigella_Lawson Not sure it's embarrassing really. Thanks for the reply. Here's wishing you a parsley epiphany but ... sounds unlikely, I feel.

@Nigella_Lawson @FelicityCloake That sounds fab. I have several of your books but not that one - may have to remedy that! I was in need of a treat anyway! Thanks for the suggestion.

@theboymarks @FelicityCloake I’ve got a parsley and walnut pesto in my book Kitchen that might help with some of it, but I’m afraid the recipe isn’t on my site