Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 1hA very Four Clubby Four Club for me. Wordle 1,937 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 120
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 4hVery true. I wonder how many exoplanetary equivalents of @imcmillan.bsky.social there are pondering exoplanetary leaves as they stroll…? 110
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 7hThere are very roughly as many trees on earth as there are galaxies in the universe (estimates of both are around 2-3 trillion), but each galaxy has millions of stars and trees don’t normally have that many leaves. So the stars have it! 200
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 16hSorry. It was a silly pun (gee-gee is slang for horse) which doesn’t a moment’s attention. 210
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 17hThe music was very beautiful. (Also the church is the wrong way round - the chancel is at the west end, which I found quite disconcerting) 000
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 17hIf you…don’t know what side your bread’s buttered…? (sorry) 010
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 19hTo St James's, Spanish Place for a not-at-Wigmore-Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk concert featuring The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christopher’s singing Lassus, Brunel, Des Prez and de Chatelet. Expecting great and ethereal sounds. 🎶 240
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lucky third guess left me with only one likely option. Four Club. Wordle 1,936 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 110
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We need to stay vigilant though as night could yet fall again 010
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Early surrealstroll. Vans drizzles vanly. The confidence of a new leaf. Bread autumnfalls on my back. Three trucks on a wall’s head. A man unloads hi-vis autumn from a ladder. 010
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It was in the dim distant past of first thing this morning, but apparently this is what I did, so I’ve been in Four Club today too. Wordle 1,935 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 010
Reposted by Jeremy BensonAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me 321352324
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Here is the rather magnificent Birmingham Town Hall, which features heavily in the programme, a few Christmases ago. 020
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Both my kids studied music in Birmingham, so I enjoyed this Key Changes, looking at music in the city, & more generally at Victorian music-making & the influence of the industrial revolution. Good to have a piece from (Birmingham-born) Dorothy Howell to finish things off (cc @leahbroad.bsky.social).bbc.co.ukKey Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music - 1846: A Birmingham Oratorio - BBC Sounds1846, Birmingham. The premiere of Mendelssohn's Elijah puts the city on the musical map. 152
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Late stroll. A bin solemnly guards a lampost. The lopsided moon in the sky ponders the perfectly round moon on a stick, which looms over a traffic island. In the windless streetlight the path through the park is an intriguing corridor. Leaves show off their greenness. @imcmillan.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Jeremy BensonJeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Did we need another #Mahler 2 from Simon Rattle? Emphatically yes - this is stunning. Crucially the 1st movement is c2 minutes faster than his previous two recordings - I don’t know if that’s because it’s live or whether he’s rethought, but it gives it a sense of impetus sometimes missing before. 🎶 171
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I sauntered into Four Club on the back of my second word. Wordle 1,934 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 110
Reposted by Jeremy BensonJonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social · 04/10/2026City should be stripped of titles and the roll of honour left blank. www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comLet there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan WilsonThe spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice 158329
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Richard Ayoade notably channelling Baldrick there. 000
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Reminds me of a game I played with my work team during Covid to find the most out-of-date thing we could in our kitchens: one of my colleagues found something that was best before sometime in 1998, and then cheerfully announced that she hadn’t been born then… 150
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026static.klipy.comThe Internet Box: IT Crowd TechnologyAlt: The Internet Box: IT Crowd Technology 120
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah the sky’s rippling a bit though 🤣 Hope you feel better tomorrow 110
Reposted by Jeremy BensonRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/10/2026Conference chat. "My parents don't really understand the internet. My mum was born in, like, 1975." 5020518
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s quite a subtle change. It’s an idea I borrowed, I think, from @mirandakeeling.com. 120
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Did we need another #Mahler 2 from Simon Rattle? Emphatically yes - this is stunning. Crucially the 1st movement is c2 minutes faster than his previous two recordings - I don’t know if that’s because it’s live or whether he’s rethought, but it gives it a sense of impetus sometimes missing before. 🎶 171
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The 2015 UKIP manifesto, meanwhile, wanted to reintroduce three tiers into GCSE maths, which must be a contender for the most absurdly niche manifesto commitment ever made. 160
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I commuted on these trains for many years. Here’s one in 2019 (I was actually taking a picture of the station - this was the last train I got before it was modernised). 010
Reposted by Jeremy BensonJustin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026On this day 50 years ago, the revolutionary British Rail Inter-City 125 entered service. Fantastic to see a set restored into 1980s livery arrive at Manchester Piccadilly this afternoon. #TheJourneyShrinker 824034
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Btw if you hadn’t noticed the picture is (deliberately) upside down. 120
Reposted by Jeremy BensonJeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A year ago I left the civil service after thirty years. I wrote this about the walk through Green Park as part of a commute I must have done thousands of times.🚶🏻jembenson.substack.comThe best commute in London?If you need to get to Westminster from the north, my advice is to get off the London Underground at Green Park and walk. 384
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Do you want to know if I saw a stile on my walk today @lakesstiles.bsky.social…? 1140
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It wasn’t really a Faustian pact given they didn’t have a say over it: even those who were uneasy couldn’t do anything about it, and it would be harsh to expect lifelong fans to walk away from their club because of concerns about the ethics/financial practices of the owners (though maybe some did). 000
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of my personal walking challenges is to see how many villages I can walk to (and back) from home. Today I added a 21st, Theddingworth to the west (I’ve been there before, but not starting from home). Ideal walking weather: sunny but not too warm. 160
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I saw 6 at the Proms in the summer, hammer and all… 110
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I also wrote this about being a civil servant in Parliament, including the passage of legislation: along with the people, the thing I perhaps miss most having left the service of the Crown.jembenson.substack.comIn the BoxI recently left the civil service after thirty years, and while I have no regrets, one thing I do miss - not least as a former politics student and an unapologetic constitutional geek - is the opportu... 140