Denise

Sometimes you take a photo but are so concentrated on the subject you don't realize what else is going on 😅 Love the couple in front of Puppy. 😁

Out and about walking in Bilbao so I had to pay Puppy a visit. 💚💚

Thank you!! x

It's not the Guggenheim but it's still great fun. El Peix d'Or by Frank Gehry near the Barceloneta beach in Barcelona.

Gaudi's Barcelona 2/2

Gaudi's Barcelona 1/2

Sad, chilly and grey evening but they're hard at work on the new mural in the plaza. 💙💙

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Bits and bobs from today's walk in Bilbao (after visiting the flower market). Such a beautiful day!! 1/3

Sunday flower market in Bilbao. And no, I didn't buy any as I didn't want to carry them while continuing my walk. Plus, though I tried not to show it on the photos, it was heaving with people. 💐🌻🌷⚘

Hahaha that's a wonderful name!! There was a little gang of them and they were very chirpy. Thank you!!

Statues ( and suitcase) to remember the Basque children who were evacuated from Santurce during the Spanish Civil War. Many of them went to the UK.

@wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social As you are the resident bird expert I need some help. Sorry the photos are so poor. I googled the first one so I know it's a Muscovy Duck but what is my little friend I met today on my way to Santurce??

Coming along nicely. The new mural in the plaza. #Romo #LasArenas #Getxo

What I love about this is how much it will piss Trump off!! 😂😂😂

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman.

2025 can just fuck right off.

Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

Yesterday on Twitter Jenny Eclair posted a photo of the coast from the London to Edinburgh train. I commented that I also loved the sudden appearance of the wonderful Angel of the North. ❤
Today some female I don't know is telling me you can't see it from the train. 🤦‍♀️
Maybe she was having 40 winks.

Absolute no-brainer which book I was going to read next. A JAM fan since the energy of "In The City" and the cheekiness of "Batman Theme". Lucky enough to see them live in Cardiff in 1980. And after the sad news of Rick's passing. #RIPRick
#NowReading #Book9 #BooksIn2025

Here we go again. #TeatroArriaga #ElCuartoDeAtrás #EmmaSuárez

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Anne Glenconner's "Lady In Waiting" is a tough act to follow. Let's see what you've got Phyllida Law!! 😉
#NowReading #Book7 #BooksIn2025

Personally I think that's a win!!!

9 hours for nothing. OMG. Getting so close for them to mess it up. God, you must have been furious. Did you throw things????

Were you 5,000th in the queue or did you get in and then the site collapsed??

I'd never heard of Tom Petty till that night and what a surprise - they were amazing! Though Tom didn't do a backflip off a mini trampoline while still playing his guitar like Nils did!!! 😁

...... enclosing a cheque for 2 tickets and a stamped self-addressed envelope and a few days later received the tickets at home. No fuss. No extra costs. Simple. 2/2

Seeing loads of people on Twitter complaining about Ticketmaster again reminds me of how things were back in the day.
In 1977 Nils Lofgren supported by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at Sheffield City Hall. I saw the advert in NME, wrote to the City Hall........ 1/2

Thank you. It's the interval and so far it's amazing. I'm going to have "I Will Survive" in my head all night!! 😂😂

Here we go!! Really looking forward to this. Think it's going to be great fun. #PriscillaQueenOfTheDesert #ArriagaTheatreBilbao