Well that’s surprising….

Donald Macleod You're a lumberjack and you're ok...

#workingfromhome catching up with the 1st episode of CPE Bach as composer of the week on BBC Radio 3 presented by Donald Macleod I know little about CPE's music and this series is a great opportunity for me to hear more of it.

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Exquisite!

Just about to cut into this amazing chunk of #LignumVitae which has been hiding under a friend's bench for the last 25years! Watch this space! #woodturning #woodworking #TheBeautyOfWood

In attempting to restore a measure of order out of chaos, a certain amount of lumberjackery is necessary…

Giant Sequoias with human for scale.

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David Attenborough is 98 today. What a man!
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
Are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

Not everything looks quite so priapic…

This, our statement, signed by 176 figures from the UK and beyond. ⬇️

Welsh National Opera has a unique bi-national funding agreement, as the majority of their mainscale work takes place in theatres across England, alongside copious education, health & community projects. 2/5 #SaveWNO

The garden in the north has gone weirdly phallic this spring…

The great pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva b 100 years ago today!
'The art of music...can help human beings to cope with the tragic losses in life, and bring happiness into their life... Life is limited, but art is eternal.  Music enriches human life and makes people better.'

Towering red sandstone cliffs of Rackwick this afternoon.

And here is the restored ornemental cross, only piece of #NotreDame ’s roof that survived the fire, ready to travel from Normandy to Paris and be fixed on the apse!

Glad we’re making you happy Andrew!

Evening stroll soundtrack: more of Debussy’s jewelled music and tarnished life on Composer of the Week presented by ⁦Donald Macleod⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Review2-ing listening live to Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 - Debussy - presented by Donald Macleod
' The Scottish soprano Mary Garden said of him, “I honestly don’t know if he ever loved anybody really. He loved his music – and perhaps himself.” '
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So pleased you’re enjoying the way we’re telling the Debussy story this time round. Quite a character our Claude…..

A rare colour photograph of legendary French sculptor Rodin (1840-1917) - famous for 'The Thinker' & 'The Kiss'. He's pictured here 117 years ago with his sculpture 'Eve', taken by Edward Steichen in 1907. It has a beautiful dream-like quality & is original colour, not colourised

Late afternoon listening: the wonderful Debussy on Composer of the Week presented by ⁦Donald Macleod⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…