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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nice to be able to pick some sweet corn from your own garden, despite the hosepipe ban in Hampshire…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Cropped some parsley from the garden before the sun becomes too hot. Such a beautiful green…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Fresh blueberries from the garden. Raspberries doing less well in the heat…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The fleeting beauty of a poppy - here today, gone tomorrow…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The bees are busy in Hampshire today…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Zurbaran exhibition at the National Gallery is superb. Definitely worth visiting…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It’s too hot for me in the garden but the flowers seem to love it…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Great to be asked to review four fascinating books on nuclear history for the current issue of @thetls.bsky.social. www.the-tls.com/history/twen...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A few more glimpses of heaven in Rome. Then it’s ciao and back to Blighty…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wonderful to be back in Rome. Such a beautiful city, full of colour and light, narrow alleys and grand public spaces…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Wintry Winchester this morning…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The last rose of the year from the garden…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A great year for sweet corn - today’s lunch fresh from the garden. Delicious!

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Fresh from the garden this morning

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Nice haul of French beans from the garden today.

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Loved the Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road exhibition at the British Museum. Worth seeing! www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Little Lion. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Golden Sun. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

People-watching in the Orangerie Museum, Paris, the other day…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Notre-Dame today. Busy but beautiful…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Foxglove…such a lovely name

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The alliums are looking good this year…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The peonies are wonderful this year…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wonderful evening @TheRoyalOpera last night - three works by Balanchine. A visit inspired by Jennifer Homans’ splendid biography which I reviewed this time last year.

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Some pics from a few days in beautiful Bologna, a wonderfully friendly city of elegant porticoes, cobbled streets, delicious food (don’t miss the Tortellini in brodo at Sfoglia Rina), and sky-scraping towers built hundreds of years ago. More on my Flickr account...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The edgeworthia is beautiful in the sun this year. Amazing scent too…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

From Prague, we caught the train to Vienna, one of my favourite cities - walkable but with excellent public transport, beautiful buildings, and of course great coffee houses and cakes... More photos of both Prague and Vienna on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

A few days in Prague, which is a beautiful and friendly city, but crowded with people like me: tourists. Some pictures of a few things that caught my eye. More on Instagram...

The medieval Bethlehem Chapel, in the Old Town.

The Renaissance House at the Minute (Dům U Minuty) on the wonderful Old Town Square, where Kafka lived from 1889-96 with his parents.
Prague

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Nice haul of blueberries from the garden

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Very much enjoyed Nils Frahm’s Music for London at the Barbican on Saturday. Fascinated by his use of the glass harmonica - invented by Benjamin Franklin apparently! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_h...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Good to have some sun again after all the rain

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

A good year for clematis…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

The first peonies have opened…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Great book post: another tranche of titles from the revived Penguin Crime & Espionage series. Can't wait to start reading...

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Beautiful walk yesterday through the water meadows by the River Itchen to the Hospital of St Cross

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Some bluebells from yesterday’s walk

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Always nice to write for @thetls.bsky.social. In this week’s issue, my review of Dust by @jayowens.bsky.social who tells the Faustian story of modernity and “the disaster of its dream of domination over nature”.

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Guardian Books asked me to write about what I’ve been reading recently. I loved In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes, a surprisingly modern crime novel from the age of noir. It’s been republished in the wonderful new Penguin Crime series. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...

Photo of In a Lonely Place against the green spines of the Penguin Crime series

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Don’t forget to pack your boxing gloves…

Headline reads: New fights announced. It should say ‘flights’.

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I love this chrysanthemum. Its colour is so right for autumn…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

A beautiful red admiral butterfly on the window just now, sunning itself…

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PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Today’s book post and a beautiful cover on this from And Other Stories…

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