Like an invitation to a crime scene.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Like an invitation to a crime scene.
Today the #ciudaddelrunning is very much the city of hobbling. #Valencia
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Today the #ciudaddelrunning is very much the city of hobbling. #Valencia
And god is good.
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
And god is good.
It’s easy to forget the hospitality and openness of then Spanish, but I shouldn’t, it’s marvellous and revelatory. Always happy to be here. 🇪🇸
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It’s easy to forget the hospitality and openness of then Spanish, but I shouldn’t, it’s marvellous and revelatory. Always happy to be here. 🇪🇸
Marvellous morning in Valencia watching Tilly and Ben run the marathon. What a lovely city.
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Marvellous morning in Valencia watching Tilly and Ben run the marathon. What a lovely city.
Absolutely brainless cricket from Will Jacks.
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Absolutely brainless cricket from Will Jacks.
Few thriller writers have managed to marry great plot with incredible style quite as exuberantly as Philip Kerr. His Bernie Gunther stories are explosive dramas whose themes Kerr explores echoing loudly through the increasingly frightening world we live in. bennotinspain.substack.com/p/bernie-gun...
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Few thriller writers have managed to marry great plot with incredible style quite as exuberantly as Philip Kerr. His Bernie Gunther stories are explosive dramas whose themes Kerr explores echoing loudly through the increasingly frightening world we live in. bennotinspain.substack.com/p/bernie-gun...
This is very sad. Billy Bonds is written into my earliest football memories. A West Ham icon almost without parallel. It was great to see him embraced again by the club in recent years. RIP Billy.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is very sad. Billy Bonds is written into my earliest football memories. A West Ham icon almost without parallel. It was great to see him embraced again by the club in recent years. RIP Billy.
Fair play to the @walesrugbyunion.bsky.social fans who turned up today. Think I might have gone Christmas shopping instead.
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Fair play to the @walesrugbyunion.bsky.social fans who turned up today. Think I might have gone Christmas shopping instead.
A couple of weeks ago I went to see Hamlet for the first time in 35 years. Why I've been avoiding it for so long: bennotinspain.substack.com/p/to-watch-o...
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A couple of weeks ago I went to see Hamlet for the first time in 35 years. Why I've been avoiding it for so long: bennotinspain.substack.com/p/to-watch-o...
Othello is a nasty play. This was a terrific production. And Toby Jones a most devilish Iago, surely the greatest of all Shakespeare’s villains.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Othello is a nasty play. This was a terrific production. And Toby Jones a most devilish Iago, surely the greatest of all Shakespeare’s villains.
This is a lovely book. The first I’ve read in which a fig tree is a leading character. Also had no idea just how bloody and brutal Cyprus was. Seeing human lives and all our self-inflicted misery, our conceits, as well as our love, through the perspective of a tree is very clever and also moving.
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is a lovely book. The first I’ve read in which a fig tree is a leading character. Also had no idea just how bloody and brutal Cyprus was. Seeing human lives and all our self-inflicted misery, our conceits, as well as our love, through the perspective of a tree is very clever and also moving.
Japan have been by the far the more dangerous side in this game, Wales getting the rub of the ref. (Does LRZ not have a ‘duty of care?’) #WALvJAP
November 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Japan have been by the far the more dangerous side in this game, Wales getting the rub of the ref. (Does LRZ not have a ‘duty of care?’) #WALvJAP
I can feel a new war coming on.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I can feel a new war coming on.
Remembering last summer, when I went to see the same musical three times in eight weeks. bennotinspain.substack.com/p/kiss-me-ka...
'Kiss Me, Kate' and the power of nostalgia
Or 'why I saw the same play three times in eight weeks'
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November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Remembering last summer, when I went to see the same musical three times in eight weeks. bennotinspain.substack.com/p/kiss-me-ka...
Poignant two minute silence at the people of London memorial on the south side of St Paul’s.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Poignant two minute silence at the people of London memorial on the south side of St Paul’s.
Does this boy love a stick. When they’re big like this he tends to growl at them. Beautiful day.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Does this boy love a stick. When they’re big like this he tends to growl at them. Beautiful day.
There are a surprising number of vintage weapons available every week in our local country auction house. This week things have escalated a little.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
There are a surprising number of vintage weapons available every week in our local country auction house. This week things have escalated a little.
97. James Watson must have had pretty good 🧬 What a life, what an incredible achievement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
97. James Watson must have had pretty good 🧬 What a life, what an incredible achievement.
Goodness me, but Blue Lights is the highest quality television. Quite brilliant.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Goodness me, but Blue Lights is the highest quality television. Quite brilliant.
I am sorry to report that my favourite shop in Liverpool St has closed. I never actually bought. Anything from them, but always enjoyed looking. Which may hint at the problem.
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am sorry to report that my favourite shop in Liverpool St has closed. I never actually bought. Anything from them, but always enjoyed looking. Which may hint at the problem.
Grateful tonight that our otherwise wildly anxious dog isn’t scared of fireworks. The rest of you: hang in there champs. It’ll be over soon.
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Grateful tonight that our otherwise wildly anxious dog isn’t scared of fireworks. The rest of you: hang in there champs. It’ll be over soon.
A bit blowy on the east coast but a beautiful sunset.
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A bit blowy on the east coast but a beautiful sunset.