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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@bylinetimes.bsky.social Just got yr email about this event. I'm still trying to understand how and why this happened to Jason Arday. But is this in-person only – no way to watch a livestream/be in a zoom audience? Can you live-post? Publish a transcript? www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's a neat illustration of 'will' vs 'would' from @theguardian.com .

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My sister and I doing a spot of late-night sanding and diy. Those are Prada sunglasses I’m wearing. 💪

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The colour is Climate Change Pink and Apocalypse Yellow. Farrow & Ball also bringing out a sophisticated Parched Lawn and Enshittification Brown in their new End Times range.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why is the resignation of Jason Arday main news? Sure, it’s an awfully sad thing and pulls in so many directions. But the only reason it’s the @theguardian.com top story is prurience. I worry for this man’s wellbeing.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tactical error on my part when dealing with GenZ.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Funny – I just came in after returning my regular VDB (visiting driveway bunny) to my neighbour, sat down, looked at Bluesky, saw your Follow, and saw this! I'm screenshotting my photo so you can see the date and time I took this.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My coat sleeve is evil. What is happening today?

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Have Andy Burnham and Kyle Chandler ever been seen in the same room? I think not.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Typical message from my mum. 😂

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

What an unexpected delight: Mr Angry Pants from Bear Behaving Badly is in an episode #twentytwelve. We *love* Mr Angry Pants. (That's a series reference.) #W1A #TwentyTwentySix etc

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I don’t know what they said because I had already blocked them. it is upsetting though, even when you know a troll is batshit. I hope you have emergency chocolate.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

is this a proofreading error – in which case🤣, or an obscure Americanism – in which case, 😠? Or my waning cognitive ability, in which case: 😨? #nytimesgames

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I love this painting by Winifred Nicholson of the pianist, Vera Moore. She's been describing as looking "as if she had just been told a lovely secret when she played".

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Sneakily playing a note with an unexpected finger is – says 11yo pianist Boris – a "Fake Rabona pass". He's right! I must add this to the Blog I'll Never Write: a new version of Dozen A Day exercises, but they're all types of football manoeuvre. #PianoTeaching #TheBlogIWillNeverWrite

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Okay, bye bye, little house on Rightmove.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Wow: my sister’s garden just now (in Devon) #NorthernLights

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wow: great paragraph on the British obsession with graded music exams. This is piano teacher Alice Pinto quoting from @jessicaduchen.bsky.social 's novel, Alicia's Gift, in an interview with @crosseyedpianist.bsky.social . Here's the whole article: crosseyedpianist.com/2014/09/22/a... #PianoTeaching

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Me, at a fascinating lecture. But I couldn't see the presentation.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

These are disgustingly delicious – and good for cramming into your mouth (greed isn't just about quantity: it's the quality of the mouthful). Once a corner shop staple, these are now rare and highly coveted.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Teenage pianist S's deeply-felt lyrics to help get the rhythm of a jazz piece. Other lyrics will involve Donald Trump, climate change, having to fill the dishwasher and fold her clothes. (I can't reveal her 1st name as that's apparently 'so cringe'.)

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In Peterborough Cathedral today, unexpectedly, I found heart-wrenching poetry by children from Gaza. Part of a project by (I think) @handsupproject.bsky.social. One is about (our) silence being worse than war so i thought I'd share, even tho' people may know about this @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Amazing light! Looks like a demented giant woodpecker is rapping its beak on the railway bridge.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Show a cartoon you will always love

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Oh no look what I did with my Like. #terrified

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

This elegant, autumnal thing is a Victorian 'stinkpipe' designed to mitigate foul sewer smells.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Edible theory. It goes down a treat. #PianoTeaching

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Essential Equipment of a Piano Teacher: Theory books; Brahms (always out); Basil plant (to ward off flies); Balloon pump (to clear dust off the strings), Teddy band & stickers (for little pianists), Tottering & Frankly Dangerous Pile of music on floor (research for the Blog I Will Never Write).

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Lolling at the perfunctory courtesy my nephew showed to Santa, when he was 6: 'Dear St Nicholous, I hope you are well, and nearly finished work'. 🤣

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My mum's 89th birthday today. She bought her peace-sign necklace on one of the Aldermaston marches in 1958, and has worn it every day since.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If you’re going mess up in publishing, go big!

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My sister's 1st composition, aged 9, 'Dedicated to Gran on her birthday, and dedicated to Gramps to listen to also'. (Played by moi.)

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I like encountering my granny (who died 40 years ago) in the pages of her music – just like I used to bump into her under the mulberry tree in her garden, each one of us obscured in its boughs sagging with fruit. Here is her scholarly comment on one of the Goldberg Variations. I agree.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

just found this, written by mum 70-ish years ago as an example of ‘using a tone row’ for her undergrad composition class - and it’s rather lovely.

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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The #CaptainKirk appreciation is incomplete without his singing Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (which must have inspired the Teletubbies opening sequence): www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...