Would normally have ballet class at 5pm on a Tuesday, and this was also originally the night I had a ticket for the first cast of Lucia di Lammermoor. Instead, I’m off to Michael Volpe OBE’s book launch event 🤓🍾

Honestly never thought we would find ourselves picking fights over whether cleaner air in urban areas is a thing we want but here we are:

“I made my mind up back in Chelsea
When I go I’m going like Elsie”

Is not an anthem of survival

📣 English Touring Opera are pleased to announce that we'll be holding General Auditions this summer. Full details available here -> auditionoracle.com/english_tourin…

It’s a good job I didn’t want a PWC Previews ticket for The Constituent at The Old Vic (don’t like James Corden, and don’t have time in June anyway) - their “Tickets go on sale at 12 noon today!” email arrived at… 12:11 🤦🏻‍♀️

Turns out I did already know about this. It’s nice to forget things and get a lovely surprise though!

There are a couple of Amphitheatre tickets currently available for the sold-out Royal Ballet School Summer Performance, if any of you have been looking for one.

Normal people, receiving a schedule that says they’ll be spending five of a week’s seven days fully occupied working on a show: OK, that’s full-on but I can manage that.

Me: I wonder if I can fit in a day-trip to a matinee 200 miles away on the single day off in the middle? 🤔

Email from pub inviting me to make plans to watch the Euro 2024 championship there. I won’t, of course, but am delighted to note (a) their explicit acknowledgment that it’s the England *men’s* team that keep not winning, and (b) that there’s no match on my birthday 😀

Professor Annie Oakley Rides With Ukraine 🐎🇺🇦 Right Said Æthelfred.

Have stupidly made myself late this morning by not noticing the Bakerloo Line wasn’t working. But in the process of mitigating this I’ve discovered that the breakfast options at Ealing Broadway station at this time on a Sunday are weirdly better than at Paddington…

After a four-year gap since Siegfried: it’s the end of the world in six hours’ time. See you on the other side. #LPOGötterdämmerung

You know you’re at a Wagner opera when there’s a big queue for the gents’ but none for the ladies’!