I was lucky enough to see this amazing medieval tiled pavement on a recent tour at Exeter Cathedral with the Devon Buildings Group. Uncovered in the room above the chapel of St Andrew and St Catherine during work on the roof. #TilesOnTuesday #medieval

Perfect story from Tom Stoppard obit: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

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St Enodoc’s church, Rock, Cornwall. Burial place of John Betjeman.

Thought you might like this. Have you ever been there Rosemary Griggs ?

Oh my goodness!! Mistress of Dartington Hall has been awarded a Silver Medal for books set in The Tudors & The Stuarts category in the Coffee Pot Book Club ‘Book of the Year Awards 2025’. 😊 #HistoricalFiction #mybook #womeninhistory

The Jubilee Pavement, Exeter Cathedral, newly installed tiled floor in the quire using Devon marble to echo Sir George Gilbert Scott’s 19th century design. Underfloor heating too! #TilesOnTuesday

Sunder Katwala Definitely on the train to Exeter !! 😉

"I'd rather take risks and get a bad surprise than relying on things I know l can do." __ Helen Frankenthaler

Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton in 1932

Candles „They are the last romantics, these candles: Upside-down hearts of light tipping wax fingers, And the fingers, taken in by their own haloes, Grown milky, almost clear, like the bodies of saints. …“ Sylvia Plath

Lines of jaunty lions march across a magnificent medieval tiled pavement recently uncovered at Exeter Cathedral. #TilesOnTuesday #medieval

The "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" is recognized as the oldest known piece of music, originating around 1300 BC. This piece was unearthed in Ugarit, an ancient Syrian city, and is inscribed in the Hurrian language on a clay tablet that also includes musical notation. Canadian musician

„This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath." Margaret Atwood

Steve Winwood 🎶'Can't Find My Way Home' (Blind Faith)

Merry Christmas from Thomas Hardy!

The holidays are a time of bringing people together. Here Steve Rosenberg (in Moscow) and me (in Umbria) are 2890 kilometres apart, but music brings us together. I hope you enjoy our Christmas offering (one of my favourite carols). Merry Christmas to all! BBC Radio 3

. . Helen Frankenthaler . .

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)