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Ruth Thorpe
@ruth.medsky.social
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European music-loving medic
🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk
🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law.
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Good dog, Noodle. Clever girl 🐾 Sleep tight from Bonnie
Close-up of a beautiful black Lab with big brown eyes.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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#PinacotecaAmbrosiana
#Milan
#LeonardoDaVinci
Leonardo da Vinci, portrait of a musician. Three-quarters head and shoulder portrait of a curly-haired young man looking to our right. He holds a slip of manuscript paper in his right hand. He has a calm, focused expression, as if he's in the middle of a task. He wears a red cap. The background is dark.
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Varenna ferry, from Bellagio
Ferry heading to Varenna, seen from Bellagio. Deep blue water of Lake Como, green wooded slopes on the Eastern shore of the lake, blue sky.
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Born With Teeth. It's so good, we had to go again.
#Theatre
#RSC
#London
#LizDuffyAdams
Side view of Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe, nose-to-nose with Edward Bluemel as Shakespeare, in rehearsal. Kit wears a rich silver doublet. He's cupping Will's face in both hands, looking up into his eyes as if earnestly trying to get a point across. Will is in a plain dark jumper. He's holding back, looking down with fists clenched.
October 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
😍
#NationalGallery
#London
Madonna and Child. The Virgin stands in an arched window, wearing a red dress and dark hooded cloak, with a fine veil just visible under it. She's looking down tenderly at the infant Jesus. He stands on her right, on a gold cushion on the sill in front of her. This also has a richly-coloured striped cloth over it. Jesus is looking back up at his mother. He rests his left arm on her shoulder and holds on to her dress with his left hand. He holds up a finger of his right hand as though he's preaching. Another veil is looped over the crook of his right elbow and she's holding the end of it with her left hand, while her right hand supports his chubby leg. The backs of their heads, the veil and the Virgin's left arm make an oval framing their faces. There's blue sky, hills and a lake behind them. Portrait of a young man: head and shoulders, 3/4 face Portrait of clean-shaven man looking off and upwards to the left with a thoughtful expression. He's wearing a redtunic with a small roustand-up collar and a simple black hat. He has collar-length curly brown hair. The background is a green hill with a few trees and there are blue mountains in the distance.
October 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Morning, Coniston shore path.
#LakeDistrictWalks
Looking east across a green field to the lake shore. The water, a few yachts, and the misty Eastern shore are visible between tall trees at the water's edge
August 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Lazy afternoon
#Dogs
Black Lab lying in a patch of sunlight at the back door, looking at the camera 🐾
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Renewing my credentials.
#ProofOfCat
Head and shoulders profile of a pretty little tabby cat with a white mask and bib. She's looking to the left, with ears pricked forward; light from the left falls on her face and chest. The sun picks up her whiskers against a dark background.
August 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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St Peter and St Paul Church, Salle
#NorfolkChurches
#MedievalWoodCarving
Painted roof beams: 15th century carved wooden angels at the crossbeams Wooden boss with carved relief of the Adoration of the Shepherds. Virgin and Child on the left, Shepherds and sheep on the right.
August 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Golden evening at Gresham's for the last night of Week One
#MusicSummerSchoolAndFestival
#Holt
Side of the chapel in the grounds of Gresham School, viewed in evening sunlight across the grass, with the trunks of four tall coniferous trees in the foreground and a wooden fence to the left.
August 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Walk, paddle, fish and chips
#Holkham
#Norfolk
Small boats, and a larger red yacht, moored in Wells harbour near Holkham beach. The sun is shining and there's a beautiful blue sky, with only a few small fluffy clouds in the distance.
August 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Sebastian Torkia plays 'That Bastard Puccini' with rascally charm.
#TheatreInLondon
#ParkTheatre
We're looking over the shoulders of Leoncavallo (right) and his wife (left) to a head and shoulders view of Torkia as Puccini, in the middle of saying something to them. He has a gleeful expression and is holding up his left index finger as if making a point. He wears a moustache, dark jacket and dark red silk cravat
July 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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***Tonight***
Follow the Path of Miracles to Santiago di Compostela with @nonsuchsingers.bsky.social
Tickets
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#ChoralMusic
#MusicInLondon
Poster for the concert Path of Miracles by Joby Talbot Nonsuch Singers, cond. Tom Bullard St James Sussex Gardens, Paddington London W2 3UD 12 July 7:30 pm Poster shows path leading away over green fields towards the horizon, against a sunset sky.
July 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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#Caturday
Little tabby cat looks over her left shoulder at the camera. She lies on the back of a dark green couch in front of cream curtains. She has huge ears, with a notch on the outer edge of the right one. She has a white mask and paw, long white whiskers and a regal expression.
July 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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@bridgetheatre.bsky.social wonderful to embrace this Dream again. Magical and human love weave in and out of each other. The text transpositions work brilliantly and the aerialists cast their own spells.
View from the gallery of the promenade audience dancing to Beyonce under disco lights at the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
July 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Tonight at Douai Abbey, Berkshire 🎶🎶
Concert Poster for Path for Miracles by Joby Talbot, tonight 38 June at Douai Abbey Berkshire and 12 July at St James Sussex Gardens. Picture shows a path leading towards the horizon over grassland against a sunset sky
June 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
Infant in swaddling bands, Andrea della Robbia. Ceramic relief of a baby against a circular blue glazed background. He's looking towards his right with a calm expression, holding his arms out from his sides with palms facing us. From the chest downwards he's wrapped in swaddling bands with a blue cloth showing through.
June 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Enjoyed 'Pygmalion' at the Stag Plaza in Sevenoaks, in a fresh but faithful adaptation by a new, young company 🎭
Theatre programme, a mock-up of an Edwardian newspaper called 'The Daily Doolittle', with adverts for 'safety bath cabinets', chocolate pralines, a 'Waverley' luxury electric limousine, and lessons in etiquette from Professor Higgins.
June 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Much Ado about Nothing, RSC at Stratford. Lots of fun with the football theme and an engaging love story at its heart ❤️❤️
#MuchAdoAboutNothing
#Shakespeare
Head and shoulders double portrait. Nick Blood as Benedick, bearded, in white t-shirt with a loose pink shirt over it, stands on the left of the photo behind the right shoulder of Beatrice, played by Freema Agyeman. He looks as though he's murmuring something in her ear. She faces the camera, looking up and to her left as though listening. She has dark plaits, big hoop earrings and a dark shirt. She's holding a champagne flute.
May 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Alexander McAllister, born 15 May 1925. Remembered with love. Here he is with me in 1955.
Black and white photo. A man in a short-sleeved shirt (my father) sits on the left, holding up a little baby of about 4 months (me) in a white vest. We both have dark hair and are smiling into each other's eyes. There are plain doors in the background and there's a shelf of books behind his head.
May 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Walk in Regent's Park after work
#London
#May
Close-up of deep pink rose, fully open, in bright sunlight against a background of bright green rose leaves with deep shadows below. Close-up of peach-coloureed rose, fully open in bright sunshine, facing a little to the right. The centre is a deeper tint, the outer petals are paler. It's surrounded by bright green rose leaves with a little of the rose bed showing through below.
May 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Small, intense exhibition in a beautiful place
#ArtemisiaGentileschi
#Art
#Paris
Street view of the Musée Jacquemart André from Hausmann. It's a white mansion with a large bay window on the ground and first floors. Yellow curtains show at the ground floor windows. A poster for the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition is fixed to the black railings. There's a leafy plane tree on either side of the photo framing the upper floor and there are shrubs at either end of the poster.
May 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Just confirming that you're right about this 🐾
Close-up of beautiful black Lab with big brown eyes
May 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Wonderful Hockney exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, with a grand immersive musical finale featuring his opera designs 🎶
#Paris
#Exhibition
#DavidHockney
Exterior of Frank Gehry's airy, curvaceous glass building against a bright blue sky. A prominent poster advertises the Hockney exhibition with his name in large print.
May 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I loved 'Ben and Imo'. Authentic portrayal of two wildly different personalities, brought together by an absolute devotion to making the best possible music. Brilliant writing by @Markravenhill.bsky.social, stunning performances from Samuel Barnett & Victoria Yeates
@orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates as Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst, on the programme of 'Ben and Imo' by Mark Ravenhill. Close-up of an affectionate embrace, her forehead to his left cheek. Both have their eyes closed, his left hand rests on her shoulder.
May 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM