❤️ Back where it all started (in spite of the university starting to renovate the rooms we had booked the day before it started...).

I pretended to be Brian Clough and got the whole team to lay into her.

Shostakovich: a programme marking 50 years since his death. There is, for understandable reasons, a small group with Ukrainian flags outside the hall.

Episode 4, which I think will air this Friday -- we watched all episodes on streaming.

Always a satisfying feeling. Incidentally, the new Mitchell and Webb series on Channel 4, though very, very hit and miss, contains one gem of a sketch in which E. M. Forster discusses writing Howards End with members of a writers' workshop, who attempt to offer him advice on how to make it better.