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Jeremy Benson

@jembenson.bsky.social

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Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words (no politics); husband, father, generally curious https://substack.com/@jembenson 📍 Leicestershire, UK

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 19h

A picture a week for 2025: 41

Traffic in the rain at night in Washington DC. The crossings and buildings create angles and lines, and the headlights and streetlights are reflected in the road.

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2h

There's a hashtag for that #existentialgates (good read and great pics btw)

Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 4d

I did the Brighton to Eastbourne coastal walk and took some photos along the way. Like of this gate, which doesn't ask you how good you are at your job.

A gate in the middle of a field, but you could just, you know, walk around it. Seven Sisters cliffs in the background, about to break you.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 3h

How rhyme works (and why): it seems instinctively obvious but it's not, as explained by @colingorrie.bsky.social.

How rhyme works (and why)

A lesson in the anatomy of the syllable

www.deadlanguagesociety.com

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Marika @trickysurname.bsky.social · 20h

This is just fantastic!

"I'm a Barbie girl" again, but in the style of 6 classical composers 🎹 🎤 - Josep Castanyer Alonso

YouTube video by Josep Castanyer Alonso

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 4h

Schadenfreude?

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 4h

With the extra jeopardy of being on a tube platform…

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 17h

Late stroll. A traffic cone has melted icing round its middle. The moon is a plughole sucking light from the sky. Every far park-lamppost illuminates its own tree-tableau. A glint of past snail on a kerb. Lights behind a grumbling dark goods-train blink in truck-time.

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 18h

As expected: Passmoor appointed as permanent #LCFC Women Manager. 🦊💙

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 19h

A picture a week for 2025: 41

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 23h

Not great, exactly, but I did get invited onto BBC Radio Leicester as the result of a Twitter thread. #LCFC

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 1d

Man working at Leicester Station (looking down at the tracks): I can’t see it.
His colleague: What?
Man: Her shoe.
His colleague: Whose shoe?
Man: The lawyer’s. It fell onto the tracks this morning. She had to go off to court wearing one shoe.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

#FingerpostFriday

A purple signpost with white writing on the campus of Manchester University, with Whitworth Hall - which is one of the places on the signpost - in the background. There are also directions to the Samuel Alexander Building, the Main Library, Student Services and Brunswick Park.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Wordle 1,574 6/6

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a man in a green shirt is sitting on a couch eating from a bag .

Alt: a man in a green shirt is sitting on a couch eating from a bag .

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Saka’s been inspired by Fatawu… 😉😂 #LCFC 🦊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Saka's goal vs Wales...Oh my word 🌟

YouTube video by ITV Sport

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?

Estragon. Yes, let's go.

[The band plays and they dance off the stage]

Curtain.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

I love that Beckett is still confounding people after all these years. It’s like “I went to see The Rite of Spring. I don’t know what the hell that was but it sure wasn’t music. I felt like rioting. One star”

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

“This concert promised me Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, but - would you believe it? - a choir and a group of soloists suddenly piped up in the last movement! Clearly Herr Ludwig doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘symphony’…”

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Late stroll. Cones have finished their latest job, and stand on the verge gossiping as they wait to be collected. Posts by the path watch their shadows dance-marched by my torch bobbing past. A streetlight bows its head, and sobs light down its neighbouring telegraph pole.

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you - I’d never come across this song before. You can listen to it here.

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Kirby Muxloe is the second station referred to in the evocative Flanders and Swann song ‘Slow Train’. It was a station on the line between Leicester and Burton upon Trent.

Flanders and Swann - The Slow Train

YouTube video by Alan Moores

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1d

Kirby Muxloe is the second station referred to in the evocative Flanders and Swann song ‘Slow Train’. It was a station on the line between Leicester and Burton upon Trent.

Flanders and Swann - The Slow Train

YouTube video by Alan Moores

www.youtube.com

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

There’s some context here, if you’re interested

Leicestershire Stories, part 2

The Wars of the Roses and the Tudors

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

#AdoorableThursday

A large, dark, imposing door to the Minshull Street Crown Court in central Manchester. It is decorated slightly forbiddingly with squares and rivets. It has a large stone arch above, intricately decorated columns on either side and steps leading up to it.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

It does…

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating talk this evening for the Market Harborough Historical Society by Helen Sharp, curator of archaeology for Leicestershire CC museums, about the recreations of the Hallaton helmet. It needed a huge amount of patience to decide what the pieces that had been dug up might have looked like.

Recreation of the Hallaton helmet, discovered in 2000, on display at Harborough museum.

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

There’s more about Helen Sharp and her work here.

Helen and the Hallaton Treasure

Hello everyone, my name is Helen Sharp, the Curator of Archaeology for Leicestershire County Council Museum Collections. I work across all of our Heritage sites, museums and collections stores. I star...

www.leicestershire.gov.uk

Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! (Being pedantic, the Duke of York was not - quite - Richard III yet when he had Hastings executed)

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 2d

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