Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Wonderful afternoon at Royal Academy of Dance watching a fund raiser for Dance for Ukraine. I've know Ivan for many years now through work, and what he has been doing to help dancers in his home country is amazing. Oh and one of my favorite dancers was taking part - Ed Watson. 010
Reposted by BarbaraCapucine @capucinep.bsky.social · 15/03/2026#IdesOfMarch #EtTuBrute #HistoryNerd #HistoryLessons 1435
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I've been off for weeks recovering from surgery. So it was great to get back today to find the Coli abuzz with the Kinky Boots get-in. Patrick had to give things the once over obvs and pick out his opening night outfit. Then on to inspect the revamped canteen & meeting pods. Sound proof you say? 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Brian has decided to sleep in the basket again - after many many years. There's not quite as much room in it as he remembers... Lotte-aka-Dave has yet to notice. It may not end well for Brian. #caturday 050
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Dear America, is there a grown up we can call? This is beyond a joke now 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Dress rehearsal of Akram Khan's Giselle which finally comes to the Coli! Lamagna's score is so powerful. As my office is next to the auditorium I was able to listen to it twice today. Once for the orchestral rehearsal & then again for the full dress. Definitely one of my favourite ballets now 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 11/01/2026#lotteakadave hates ALL cats. I don't think she realises how close she accidentaly got to #MrStanleyGibbons. I'm not sure they have ever been this close without claws flying. 030
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 06/01/2026snow is falling in zone 2. That's it. London will cease to function. Thank goodness I decided to work from home 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 03/01/2026FIFA are calling - they'd like the medal back please. 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 26/12/2025For the first time in over 30yrs it was just the 2 of us. Rather liberating. But I will be happy to see the girls back this weekend 😜 030
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Current situation in a fridge on a hill in SE London... 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 24/12/2025t'was the night before etc etc. We finally got the tree sorted 030
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 21/12/2025And a late Caturdsy from #themyrtlemountmob sees #bertiewholivesupstairs giving the tree a quick once over. 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Each day a bit better and each improvement sees another decoration go up. At this rate I’ll be done by 12th night 😜 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 21/12/2025been reading a book set in York in 1500s. My home town. I lived right in the centre and yet a pivotal location turns out to be somewhere I never visited even though it was about 2 streets from my house! I'd no idea it was there! I guess because it is part of the Univ. It just wasn't on my radar 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I honestly wasn't sure I'd make it to Friday. Lowest ebb in about 20yrs. But here I am starting to recover, deo gratias. I've even made inroads into a book a friend kept telling me I would love if I just gave it a chance. 020
Reposted by BarbaraMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 18/12/2025On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world. 0494149
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025It's been a difficult week. Quietly, I am a prayer person. And one of those I asked to intercede was Pope Francis. Things are improving. He, and others have heard. I might even get back to work tomorrow. Happy 89th birthday el Papa. 000
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Happy Caterday from Mr Stanley Gibbons - a good companion in hard times 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 13/12/2025And… The Dog & Bell for good measure. I’m struggling with my anxiety and other health issues at the moment. It was good to escape it all for the night. 000
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Wonderful evening with the daughters watching the annual panto at the Master Shipwrights House in Deptford. And we bagged a sausage roll which is notoriously difficult 😜 hysterical, political and smutty. What more do you need. 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 07/12/2025well that's that. Observer now behind a paywall. 000
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 06/12/2025More from the saunter. Fortnum and Masons always wonderful 030
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I slept through several alarms, a belligerent cat and a flurry of emergency whatsapps about Cloudflare. I'm begining to wonder if I'M powered by Cloudflare - would explain a lot!! 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 04/12/2025an evening saunter round the West End Christmas lights with daughter the younger. Here we have the tree outside the Connaught and the front of Cartier in Bond Street. How the other half live etc etc 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I put the paper christmas decorations somewhere very safe. If only I could remember where that somewhere was... 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Yesterday? Beethoven's Eroica at St Martin in the Fields - which was nice. Today? Until the heating comes on I'm not stirring! 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Utterly brilliant evening at work! Last night of ENO’s Dead Man Walking. Those 5 star reviews totally justified. 040
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Brian doesn't like to use his voice. If he wants to be let out he just stares at me.Sometimes it takes me a while to notice . Lotte-aka-Dave screams like a banshee. But for food. She won't go outside. Mr Stanley Gibbons is already outside killing things. #tmyrtlemountmob#thecatsofmyrtlemount 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The #myrtlemountmob nw with honorary new member as daughter the younger welcomes Mooli to her enclave. #thecatsofmyrtlemount 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 16/11/2025HUZZAH. Obsever have admitted they have problems with the Everyman Crossword (yes of course all my answers from last week have disappeared!) Time to rev up the printer I think 000
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Passed this on the way to work. most names were female politicians (of all eras) but not all. There were notable historical women such as Frida Kahlo and Anne Boleyn too. No idea what it was all about. I should have asked but as usual I was running late... 120
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Much excitement in the office this week. 1) new coffee machine in canteen (excellent hot chocolate too) 2) new M&S food shop in Covent Garden. Our lives are truly transformed. 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 08/11/2025a rare #Caturday appeance by the grumpy geriatric #lotteakadave. The heating being on has met with her approval. 050
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 08/11/2025wtf Everyman Crosword. Now last but one week's answers I did are there (having disappeared) but everything I did on last week's has disappeared. At this rate I'm going to have to get Mr J to fire up the printer for me (don't ask!) 000
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It’s November! I mean yes I bought it but seriously it’s only the start of November 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Now the Everyman Crossword appears to have post hoc checking the following week- whoop. Except, yet again all my previous completed puzzles are blank. At this rate I'm going to have to buy the...ah... I see what you are doing there Tortoise Media. 000
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 02/11/2025in this week's #Caturday moment #MrStanleyGibbons eyes up the new-to-us shelving and makes initial approving noises. But wonders how long it will take us to put them up! (He knows us too well). #myrtlemountmob #thecatsofmyrtlemount 040
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Calvert St and St St Leonard’s. Many of my forebears hatched matched and dispatched there 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Over to Columbia Road for a Day of The Dead moment. Sadly I had to go to work so didn’t see all of it 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 20/10/2025oh #MrStanleygibbons... caught in the act by Mr J as he tried to half-in daughter-the-elder's roast lamb. Still, nice to be back in roast dinner season. ~~ #myrtlemountmob #thecatsofmyrtlemount 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Laugh out loud fun -Fanny at the Kings Head. Excellent script and cast. The audience weren’t bad either. Thank you @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Lazarus at the rich man's gate. The two very different entrances to St Pancras. That pink Maclaren is always there, as are the homeless... such is the wealth disparity in our city. 020
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 13/10/2025That’ll be me wfh and now no internet. Thanks Vodafone 😥 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I know it's AI generated but it did make me laugh. And not much does at the moment 010
Barbara @myrtle-intheskies.bsky.social · 11/10/2025#thelifeofbrianthecat wishes you all a happy #caturday. In his own surly way. #myrtlemountmob #thecatsofmyrtlemount 030