Ruth Elleson
@ruthelleson.bsky.social
Church/choral musician (alto), massive opera nerd, surtitle operator, and project planner working in public transport. Idiots not tolerated. She/her.
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Instead of Secret Santa, we're doing something similar but for colleagues' kids this year. I've been paired with a chap who always speaks over me. I'm getting his kids glitter and glue. I hope they love it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Instead of Secret Santa, we're doing something similar but for colleagues' kids this year. I've been paired with a chap who always speaks over me. I'm getting his kids glitter and glue. I hope they love it.
It’s today! Christmas starts here, apparently 🤣
I’ve just been booked for a carol singing gig on 17th November. Is this, recording sessions aside, a record?
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It’s today! Christmas starts here, apparently 🤣
It’s all very well that the Odeon is offering a discount to choral singers on tickets for The Choral (CHOIR25, valid until 20/11) but not so good that the only screenings of it seem to be in the middle of the working day. Happily it looks like I can catch it at PeckhamPlex which is ALWAYS cheap.
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s all very well that the Odeon is offering a discount to choral singers on tickets for The Choral (CHOIR25, valid until 20/11) but not so good that the only screenings of it seem to be in the middle of the working day. Happily it looks like I can catch it at PeckhamPlex which is ALWAYS cheap.
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Sultana might be a better fit with Polanski's new-vibe Greens than this group, tbh. The YP project is so dead now it has little chance of meaningful impact other than splitting the left vote.
I also sense we might see the first Labour-to-Greens MP defection over these disgusting asylum proposals.
I also sense we might see the first Labour-to-Greens MP defection over these disgusting asylum proposals.
What on earth is going on here? It looks like he fell out with Sultana and then fell out with Corbyn a few hours later?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MP quits Corbyn's new left-wing party amid infighting
Independent MP Adnan Hussain claims there is a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sultana might be a better fit with Polanski's new-vibe Greens than this group, tbh. The YP project is so dead now it has little chance of meaningful impact other than splitting the left vote.
I also sense we might see the first Labour-to-Greens MP defection over these disgusting asylum proposals.
I also sense we might see the first Labour-to-Greens MP defection over these disgusting asylum proposals.
I like Farmer J food, but I don’t think people are going to interpret this email subject line quite as they’ve intended it 😆
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I like Farmer J food, but I don’t think people are going to interpret this email subject line quite as they’ve intended it 😆
Just noticed: the Barbican has, after many years of high prices and unsold seats, moved the Met Live in HD relays from Cinema 1 into the much smaller Cinema 3 and halved the price of the tickets. Same price as Vue, but with a good returns policy, and no need to go to a Vue on a Saturday afternoon 👍
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just noticed: the Barbican has, after many years of high prices and unsold seats, moved the Met Live in HD relays from Cinema 1 into the much smaller Cinema 3 and halved the price of the tickets. Same price as Vue, but with a good returns policy, and no need to go to a Vue on a Saturday afternoon 👍
I imagine this qualifies as a “first world problem”… but why is it always when I’m halfway through a complicated evening commute home, hungry, having specifically chosen my route to pass a known and reliable M&S Food, that I discover that that M&S is the latest to have closed down for a refurb? 😭
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I imagine this qualifies as a “first world problem”… but why is it always when I’m halfway through a complicated evening commute home, hungry, having specifically chosen my route to pass a known and reliable M&S Food, that I discover that that M&S is the latest to have closed down for a refurb? 😭
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Inconvenient facts for malign (often foreign) influencers who try to portray my home city as a lethal no go zone.
After more than half a century living here, I’ve never felt safer
And kudos to Fraser Nelson for his work on this
After more than half a century living here, I’ve never felt safer
And kudos to Fraser Nelson for his work on this
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Inconvenient facts for malign (often foreign) influencers who try to portray my home city as a lethal no go zone.
After more than half a century living here, I’ve never felt safer
And kudos to Fraser Nelson for his work on this
After more than half a century living here, I’ve never felt safer
And kudos to Fraser Nelson for his work on this
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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"But we must compete with the oth-"
That's just it. You don't. You are THE public broadcaster. No other body shares your mission. Why add to the noise?
The BBC has an opportunity to say "you've heard all the breathless gossip - tune in at 6pm for the facts". To bring light rather than heat.
That's just it. You don't. You are THE public broadcaster. No other body shares your mission. Why add to the noise?
The BBC has an opportunity to say "you've heard all the breathless gossip - tune in at 6pm for the facts". To bring light rather than heat.
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"But we must compete with the oth-"
That's just it. You don't. You are THE public broadcaster. No other body shares your mission. Why add to the noise?
The BBC has an opportunity to say "you've heard all the breathless gossip - tune in at 6pm for the facts". To bring light rather than heat.
That's just it. You don't. You are THE public broadcaster. No other body shares your mission. Why add to the noise?
The BBC has an opportunity to say "you've heard all the breathless gossip - tune in at 6pm for the facts". To bring light rather than heat.
Deeply confused by tonight’s Stalls seating layout in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre, where my seat in row H is immediately behind row F and in front of row K (and has no easily-visible label to tell you it’s H…)
Here for the Royal Ballet In Rehearsal insight event, on The Nutcracker.
Here for the Royal Ballet In Rehearsal insight event, on The Nutcracker.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Deeply confused by tonight’s Stalls seating layout in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre, where my seat in row H is immediately behind row F and in front of row K (and has no easily-visible label to tell you it’s H…)
Here for the Royal Ballet In Rehearsal insight event, on The Nutcracker.
Here for the Royal Ballet In Rehearsal insight event, on The Nutcracker.
I’ve lurked a lot on Instagram in the last few months, because some of my favourite people ended up mostly there when Twitter went downhill. But why does it think I want to see such an overwhelming volume of a) pregnancy and birth content, and (b) tours of aspirational NYC apartments? 🤔🤷🏻♀️
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I’ve lurked a lot on Instagram in the last few months, because some of my favourite people ended up mostly there when Twitter went downhill. But why does it think I want to see such an overwhelming volume of a) pregnancy and birth content, and (b) tours of aspirational NYC apartments? 🤔🤷🏻♀️
I hate diary juggling 🤯 - not that I don’t like mapping out plans for the future (an activity that suits me so well that it’s literally my job) but there are always too many things I want to do, and too many clashes, and it’s always contrary to my burning desire to be a recluse 🤣
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I hate diary juggling 🤯 - not that I don’t like mapping out plans for the future (an activity that suits me so well that it’s literally my job) but there are always too many things I want to do, and too many clashes, and it’s always contrary to my burning desire to be a recluse 🤣
Join us at @stolavehartst.bsky.social this afternoon for Choral Evensong on a Remembrance theme.
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Join us at @stolavehartst.bsky.social this afternoon for Choral Evensong on a Remembrance theme.
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
Did I dep out Sunday’s service, when they were doing most of the rest of the Fauré Requiem which barely has an alto line, but hang onto this one because we’re doing the Offertorio? No comment 🤐
Tonight’s Lidl pasta. My Italian is not the best, but I think they meant “ripieni”…
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tonight’s Lidl pasta. My Italian is not the best, but I think they meant “ripieni”…
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Mega-niche programming shout-out: early Baroque-ish Christmassy things for not more than SSATB (or SSATTB at a pinch) plus instruments (quartet) which involve, or /could/ involve recorders? I have the Messe de Minuit, obviously...
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Mega-niche programming shout-out: early Baroque-ish Christmassy things for not more than SSATB (or SSATTB at a pinch) plus instruments (quartet) which involve, or /could/ involve recorders? I have the Messe de Minuit, obviously...
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Planning next year’s summer opera festival dates with my friends.
There’s a spreadsheet…
If anyone has any gen on dates there’s going to be an opera at the Proms so we don’t get double-booked, please tell me… (I don’t need details - not asking for embargoed secrets - just “keep this date free”).
There’s a spreadsheet…
If anyone has any gen on dates there’s going to be an opera at the Proms so we don’t get double-booked, please tell me… (I don’t need details - not asking for embargoed secrets - just “keep this date free”).
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Planning next year’s summer opera festival dates with my friends.
There’s a spreadsheet…
If anyone has any gen on dates there’s going to be an opera at the Proms so we don’t get double-booked, please tell me… (I don’t need details - not asking for embargoed secrets - just “keep this date free”).
There’s a spreadsheet…
If anyone has any gen on dates there’s going to be an opera at the Proms so we don’t get double-booked, please tell me… (I don’t need details - not asking for embargoed secrets - just “keep this date free”).
A foggy Remembrance Sunday morning on the shuttle train from Slough to Windsor. You’ll have to take my word for the fact that you can usually see Windsor Castle at this point…
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A foggy Remembrance Sunday morning on the shuttle train from Slough to Windsor. You’ll have to take my word for the fact that you can usually see Windsor Castle at this point…
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The government says it wants to achieve growth but then it doesn't want immigrants, doesn't want to electrify the railways, and doesn't want high-speed trains. It's like me saying I want to lose weight and then eating a full English every day for breakfast.
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The government says it wants to achieve growth but then it doesn't want immigrants, doesn't want to electrify the railways, and doesn't want high-speed trains. It's like me saying I want to lose weight and then eating a full English every day for breakfast.
In case this is useful to anyone who may not otherwise have seen it…
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In case this is useful to anyone who may not otherwise have seen it…
I’m off to the Guildhall to see their Smyth/Respighi opera double bill, and I see they’ve broken with recent frustrating convention among the London conservatoires by letting their students’ programme bios give away details of next term’s opera. Which is Owen Wingrave.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’m off to the Guildhall to see their Smyth/Respighi opera double bill, and I see they’ve broken with recent frustrating convention among the London conservatoires by letting their students’ programme bios give away details of next term’s opera. Which is Owen Wingrave.
When will I learn to check bridge lift times before trying to take a bus over Tower Bridge?
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When will I learn to check bridge lift times before trying to take a bus over Tower Bridge?
Had the most fabulous Turkish meal at this restaurant just off Upper Street (London N1) last night with some people from work. It even got our Turkish colleague’s seal of approval.
Kilis – Charcoal & Cocktails
www.kilis.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Had the most fabulous Turkish meal at this restaurant just off Upper Street (London N1) last night with some people from work. It even got our Turkish colleague’s seal of approval.