I love Mahler! Marvellous performance of Symphony 5 at the Proms. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra cond. by young Finn Klaus Mäkelä. On BBC4 now.

On this day in 1893, Beatrix Potter, writing from Eastwood in Dunkeld, sent a picture letter to Noel Moore, the son of her former governess Annie Moore. Noel was ill, and Beatrix hoped to cheer him with a story. Within that letter appeared, for the very first time, Peter Rabbit.

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 This! As you look at the videos of proud ‘Reform Youth’ i am reminded that the people breaking my Jewish Osnabrück grandparents’ windows, writing offensive grafitti and shouting ‘Go to Palestine’ were all school students. #reform are racists.

I like this a lot.

Elim Chan, who is conducting the last night of the #BBCProms, looks about twelve years old.

Is it me, or is this Last Night of the #BBCProms somewhat lacklustre?

🎼 Andava in scena oggi #14settembre nel 1954 in prima mondiale l’Opera “Il giro di vite” di Benjamin Britten al Teatro La Fenice. 📌 La locandina storica e uno scatto di questo evento indimenticabile. #VeneziaSerenissima❤️🦁

Who Remembers.

I do like old black and white films with steam trains. #BriefEncounter

Trump and the others look very chilly watching the goings-on at Windsor. It must be incredibly boring, too.

About to wallow in #BriefEncounter for the second time in a week. #BBC4 #NoelCoward

I can’t believe what I’m hearing. #Trump #UN

So frustrating hearing & seeing fruit & seed bearing hedges being cut ahead of winter. We have lost 50% of our hedgerows since the 1950’s, no wonder we are in a “”#BiodiversityEmergency in the UK.

Some of the surviving frescoes from the House of Livia, the wife of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The frescoes date to around 30 BC. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome

Dr. Calum Miller There is a Yes Minister clip to explain anything 😄 youtu.be/m2dNCw0hPLs?si…

How wonderful to see Joan Cross on Face the Music from 1973 on BBC Four. The original Ellen Orford in #PeterGrimes.

Medieval illustration of two owls. 13th century.

In case anyone is wondering what happened to the dinosaurs, here's a baby blue heron

The magic of autumn in the Lake District.