John Brown
@johnbrown1325
Post-Brexit Brit, now also Belgian. Pianist, singer, percussionist & accordionist, occasional pretend Scotsman. Cats, music, gardening, science, birds, etc.
By using one of the several ID cards that Brits have (but never call ID cards)
My granny had this type of glory hole. I’ve never come across anyone else using it in this way. She had two long sea voyages in her life: maybe that’s where she picked up the usage
Brimstone in my garden. In fact there were two, and a load of cabbage whites and something else that I couldn’t identify but maybe a Painted Lady
A better view of Brussels now and 1777: the inner ring road follows the outline of the city ramparts.
This is fun: a new app allows you to compare modern maps of Belgium with historical ones going back to 1777. The two screenshots show Brussels Grand Place now/1777 and where I live now, as it was in 1777. The road layout in my village is quite similar but far fewer houses.
Pity the poor percussion players moving a *lot* of percussion in 30° heat
The is how big the orchestra is for The Planets, almost 100 players, and the choir isn’t even there yet
A beautiful church to sing in today: no idea why such a jig church exists in the small village of Chastre, particularly with such lovely stained glass windows.
Bizarre crisp flavours. Translations in alt text, but I don’t think you need them
I also have a folder called Productivity. I tried to move the Teams app into it, but it refuses to go in there. Clearly Teams in not a productivity app
Still a few tickets left for this: it’s quite an experience, both to play and to watch
This Dutch word (meaning whippable) always make me think of ‘Allo ‘Allo #niche
On my neighbour’s wall: “Dear Postie, please don’t put our mail in the letterbox: there is a nest with eggs. Please put it in the Leonidas bag” (bag is just out of the picture but how Belgian to use a chocolate bag)
I used to be the maintenance engineer for a plant that made this stuff. Now it’s illegal in that UK. Not sure how old this one is
One bonus of getting up very early is you get to see a lovely sunrise. Although red sky in the morning and all that …
Celebrating migrating my account to Eurosky with this incredibly useful Spanish phrase from Duolingo
That was cool: I got to play the snare drum part on Mars from The Planets