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My neuro surgery ward, where I await life changing decisions, has four other male patients in it. I have just noticed this football beside my bedside and realised I am a member of the shittest 5 a side team ever.

Arts University Bournemouth @aub.ac.uk has successfully completed its Elective Quality Review by QAA 🎉

The review found AUB meets ESG standards, highlighting 7 areas of good practice 👏

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After recently completing our Elective Quality Review (EQR), we've received commendations in seven areas for good practice.

Thank you to all staff and professionals who make up our award-winning creative community!

We’re excited to share that we’ve been listed by the Complete University Guide 2026 as a top five university in the South West alongside Bristol, Bath, Exeter and UWE. This also makes us the top specialist Art and Design university in the South West.

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Off to see a matinée of The Brutalist. I may be gone some time.

Ethan Parker only graduated last summer, but he's already seeing recognition for his street photography. Read more to find out about his process and essential advice for capturing the right moment.

#artsuniversitybournemouth #streetphotography #photographyadvice

Looking at the full/wolf moon tonight through my binoculars and telescope (admittedly purposed for birding), I see redness in its glow. Is this because Mars is alongside, or just my imagination?

Just after dusk on this last day of the year, ten cranes landed in reeds to roost, after flying noisily over our heads as we took the path to leave Hickling Reserve, Norfolk. A perfect outdoors end to the year.

Emmanuel House is a great charity and your donation will, I’m sure, be put to good use. Well done on supporting all three causes. We are lucky to have you as our constituency MP.

Beautiful nacreous sunrise over the disused Basford Gasworks and Shipstones Brewery. Weltschmerz, what Weltschmerz?

We know of Common Threads, and have just re-ordered all their books... but does anyone know of other books on radical quilting, sewing, embroidery? UK or US publishers. No straightforward craft please.

Serendipity at the Oxfam bookshop. Toibin’s House of Names next to Miller’s Song of Achilles. Bought both and am now in a literary bloodbath.

I’m migrating. Neither fully in one place, nor the other, yet.