Cracking on with my Yorkshire Dialect translation of The Marriage of Figaro for ⁦Bradford Opera Festival⁩ Oh aye!

On the BBC News site this morning 😊 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It’s hard to put into words what this felt like. A little overwhelming, emotional & still an edge of disbelief. A huge thanks once more to MCR Art Gallery and The Manchester Contemporary for this opportunity. 🙌🏻🥲

🖼️Jen Orpin, No War But Class War, 2003
On display in gallery 16.
#painting

Cudworth St Mary's Parish Church FC 1934-35. Mostly miners. By ex miner 'Joe' Short. Goalie and backs appear to have got on well! Joe a superb 'social history' and commercial photographer. Met him in Wombwell (Barnsley) several times. Ian McMillan Ken Brookes Paul Brookes

Right, time to get some work done before the alphabet goes out to sunbathe. To the keyboard!

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The tide is out and there’s no wind. Nothing to sea hear.

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second cup of tea
an alarming resemblance
to my early first

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Football, eh? Drives you daft.

I wish I’d recorded it

The sun shines through string lightbulbs like teardrops. Bluebells run riot through the graveyard as only they can.
Ian McMillan

Fern unfurling.

First cup of tea: my wake cup call.

Shop stroll soundtrack: the always fascinating Art Angle podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Ian McMillan Warm. Faint breeze. A man frantically searches a cardboard box for something he appears to have mislaid. A blackbird sings at the top of his lungs from the top of his tree. Sparrows feast furtively from vacated breakfast tables. Wild Iris add a regal hue to the hillsides...

Yes, I agree

Ian McMillan Harbour view. ⛴️

Early stroll soundtrack a stirring James Bond edition of Friday Night is Music Night played by ⁦BBC Concert Orchestra⁩ presented by ⁦Petroc Trelawny⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…