As a Powell & Pressburger megafan, this was always going to be an interesting watch. It's a Scorsese passion project, detailing his love affair with the duo & the eventual direct payback he's able to give to Michael Powell. Loved it. youtube.com/watch?v=BcXCsE…

After-party (Caroline Collett)

Just finished series 3 of The Bear. So mixed. Did they drink their own Kool-Aid? Feels like the cocaine-fuelled 3rd album w/celeb cameos & endlessly-extended scenes. Fatally missing the punchy storylines that made it. Writers' strike or writers' block? youtube.com/watch?v=f_bhYF…

Please could I speak to an intelligent, helpful, informed & resourceful person who will resolve this matter? Computer says NO. Not now. Not ever again. We can, however, offer you baroque, fantastical & Kafkaesque levels of stress for even the simplest request #digitaldystopia

A few lines full of potent nostalgia in this scrap of paper newly rediscovered. My Paris bars of choice in 1984. Wonder what they all are now?

Mark McLaughlin Here we are en route for a night out at Le Piano Vache, followed by Le Temple nightclub...

Listening to my sarcastic-but-even-toned driving patter today, my eldest said 'You don't really do road rage, do you mum? It's more road scorn'.... 'Bout right I reckon! #roadscorn #harmlessbutsatisfying

One of my very favourite buttons from my collection for all you #buttonholders (a sub-sect of the #knotandtriangle crew!). An Edwardian gentleman's waistcoat button, featuring his beloved. I wonder who she was...

Re-watching Adam Curtis's extraordinary 'Hypernormalisation' this week. Am struck again by the wondrously strange details he unearths, like Bashar al-Assad being a fan of ELO. Totally available on YouTube btw. Blow your mind. youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07…

Friday tune Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem James Murphy is so on the money that it's hard to believe this 2007 track isn't actually vintage early 80s New Order / Human League / Fad Gadget / OMD.... youtube.com/watch?v=qwoLAC…

Sherwood series 2 was SO good! You did such a brilliant job clio barnard - shots, dialogue & the ACTING - wow! Episode 5 made me cry. Traces of Selfish Giant/Ali & Ava too in the nature/love stories. Serious TV - pure class in every sense. youtube.com/watch?v=vQKU36…

Another favourite all you #ButtonHolders from my collection.... This Arts & Crafts beauty. I like to imagine it on a Virginia Woolf dress, purchased at Liberty's of London....

Last rays of summer here in Southampton. New Holidays ‘Maybe So Maybe No’ one you might like CarolineCollettWriter Des PunkAndNewWave ? youtu.be/SEEvQVxFLzY?si…

Band prints British Culture Archive britishculturearchive.co.uk/product-tag/ba…

Well, the new transport police at Yeovil Junction are a bit of an upgrade…

Have only just discovered, and obviously this changes everything, that King Henry I died in 1135 from eating ‘a surfeit of lampreys’. Such a royal ending.

This Year’s Model. Off to see Declan with the fella.

In March 2020, we arrived at the New Theatre, Oxford, to see Elvis Costello, only to find a note pinned to the door. Cancelled. The pandemic had reached critical mass. September 2024, same venue, we finally completed that night’s mission.

Got a tricky conversation to have today and trying to get into the right frame of mind, but the only thing in my head since I woke up is ‘Remember you’re a womble’, which I don’t think is going to get me very far….