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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🌱 Our camellia has been flowering since early December (Malvern UK)

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Not yet, as far as I know. Rather disappointing, but I don’t spend much time on Blue Sky or Threads now. There is just a CBSO Alumni group on Facebook, but the Chorus doesn’t post to social media- only CBSO does.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Yes, thanks. Next rehearsal 20th Aug and I ‘retire’ after Gerontius on 17th Sept (after 27 years).

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🌱 Many plants have stopped flowering, but our agapanthus and hibiscus syriacus ‘Bluebird’ are wonderful.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🌱 My favourite season - cow parsley in bloom

Close up of white blossoms on one head of cow parley against a dark green leafy background

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It certainly was! Sorry to miss you, Patrick.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Back in my favourite place at CBSO Symphony Hall Birmingham - Dvorak, Still, Rachmaninoff conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. Choir rehearsal later - Poulenc Stabat Mater🎶🎵

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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Patrick McDermott @sibelian62.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Guy Verhofstadt 🇪🇺 A historic, shameful moment in US history as it votes with Belarus, Russia at the UN. The gamekeeper has become the poacher. Churchill & Roosevelt turn in their graves.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Oh America, this is not the USA I taught in as an Exchange Teacher 1978-79. I’m so sad for the downfall caused by your President 😢

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Such a wise man, in every sense.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Very glad you’ve migrated the tradition here. We’re lucky to be in our own cottage and our own bed, but love seeing everyone’s alternative and creative arrangements!

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’m one of the women affected but knew about the changes well in advance via workplace and reading financial pages. I don’t agree with universal compensation but do accept that some women were never told. I hoped there’d be a way to compensate those most badly affected but I guess that’s “too hard”

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Choir of the Earth @choiroftheearth.com · 15/12/2024

Have you heard this? 👇 Thousands of voices recorded over four and a half years come together with cello by Laura Peribañez Artero to perform Quanta Qualia by Patrick Hawes. It's the perfect soundtrack if you just need 5 minutes quiet time as a new, busy week approaches. Enjoy! youtu.be/acZx_FJlSrI

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Quanta Qualia - Patrick Hawes | performed by Choir of the Earth & Laura Peribañez Artero

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I miss Valentina & her kiosk. I miss her positivity & warm-heartedness. Valentina has been undergoing cancer treatment. To cheer her up I turned the Valentina’s Kiosk theme into a song & the legendary BBC Singers have recorded it for her. Here is Valentina’s Song. Conducted by David Hill.

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Valentina's Song (Tomorrow Will Be Better Than Today).

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Choir of the Earth @choiroftheearth.com · 01/12/2024

🎄🎶 It's officially Advent, which means it's time to break out the Festive Favourites playlist on #RadioChoral! Enjoy gorgeous music by @bobchilcott.bsky.social, @johnrutter.bsky.social, Britten, Vaughan-Williams and more, performed by our amazing global singers. Enjoy! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Festive Favourites - YouTube

A playlist of festive favourites - the perfect background music as you prepare for and celebrate Christmas.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

130 singers made a joyous sound @choiroftheearth.com at St Gabriel’s Church Pimlico (Haydn’s Nelson Mass). Thanks to our conductor @benenglandbem.bsky.social, pianist Richard Gowers, our Fieri Consort soloists & all volunteer helpers.

A view looking down from the rear gallery into the church nave, pews filled with singers surrounded by stone columns and arches.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And get some more musicians over here - please!🙏

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The Malvern Hills yesterday (all credit to C Bright for walking up there)

Snow covered ridge with blue sky, wispy white clouds and a solitary wooden bench

View of the snow-covered Worcestershire Beacon with bare-leaved trees in the foreground

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yes I left X/Twitter 3 months ago

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We must get CBSO over here!

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oh you’re here too 😀 🎶 hello!

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We definitely need far more musicians and music lovers to migrate here.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m working on CBSO to get over here!

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This gave me a much broader picture of the issues facing farmers - thank you.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This will be good! Come and listen if you can…

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Should I be worried about sunburn?!

Blue sky seen through a window with a variety of garden shrubs and a bright yellow ginkgo tree

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Utterly depressing news. Going to spend my time today on gardening and music.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I don’t follow people who’ve never posted anything and follow hundreds of others. Getting quite a few on here now.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Beautiful liquid amber trees in our local supermarket car park 🌱

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Fabulous displays of vegetables at the Malvern Autumn Show! 🌱

Gigantic melons, weirdly-shaped radishes, beetroot, swedes and onions carefully displayed on dark cloths with prize labels

Two prizewinning trugs (baskets), each containing a colourful assortment of homegrown vegetables

Four pumpkins with expressive carved faces having a tug-of-war with the three pumpkins in the next photo

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Very proud to sing Mahler3 in Monaco last Sunday as a member of CBSO Chorus with Kazuki Yamada, Gerhild Romberger, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo and children from Academie Rainier III - to remember their musician Franck Lavogez who died suddenly in August. A very atmospheric season opener.

The orchestra is seated, with children’s choir on the right and female chorus behind

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Please credit the photographers!

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Was summer missing in Canada too? It feels here as if we’re going from spring directly to autumn!

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Happy last day of August! 🌱

View from above of white marguerite, pink echinacea and purple/blue verbena

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Many moons ago I used to teach with Vernon - great teacher and great fun!

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

BlueSkience Alert! 🧪🌍🛰️ NASA's Earth Observatory has a page where you can generate your name (or any word) using Landsat images. Of course, I chose to generate ✨SCIENCE✨ landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

A series of images with physical features seen from space that look like letters of the English alphabet. The photos spell the word "science"

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Looking forward to our first CBSO Chorus rehearsal since summer break - Beethoven 9, ready for concert on 19th Sept. Might be around the 20th time now but I love it 🎶🎵

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Bit too early to comment really - I like the ability to have Feeds and messaging here. Threads supports video but doesn’t enable topic-based feeds. Give it time and we may get more musicians migrating - I hope so.

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

I was wondering where they would put the bells (they were backstage at Symphony Hall in May).

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Barbara @bjhulse.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Look at all these free events next week in and around Birmingham! I’m proud to be a member of the CBSO family and hope you find something to enjoy - come to a concert for £1 on 1st Sept or look out for the full orchestra at New St station on 30th Aug 😍 cbso.co.uk/cbso-in-the-...

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CBSO in the City | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

A free week-long festival in Birmingham! For a whole week in August, the CBSO and Music Director Kazuki Yamada will be out and about in Birmingham with a h

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