Anna O'Connor

Music lover. Avid reader. Traveller. Retired(ish) railway inspector. Proud lesbian. Horseracing enthusiast. Passionate about landscape and wildlife.

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@CarlBovisNature water rail?

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

Annie Kenney lost a finger in a cotton mill before she turned twenty.  Her file from Holloway prison records her starving herself to the edge of death to get votes for women.  As she said to the judge: "if it means I will have to die to get the vote, then I will die.'
On behalf of all of us: thank you, Annie! Read more below 👇

[Sarah Lancashire @SarahLancsUK]

Congratulations to Annie Reid who received her CBE yesterday 🎖️

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@risamante 🤣🤣

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

Excellent decision!!

[Scotsman Arts @scotsman_arts]

Phones banned from EIF events after 'every single' Queen's Hall concert disrupted last summer

https://t.co/SN8tZzQJub

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

Today's NYT Spelling Bee 🐝 Must be a sign of a sheltered upbringing that the very last word I found was the pangram...🤣

[Network Rail @networkrail]

#Bedford

We've begun the complex operation of removing damaged trains and carriages from the railway, to allow engineers to assess the damage and complete necessary repairs.

Mark Budden, East Midlands route director, explains the work involved:

https://t.co/opscqF4Nrd

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@LucasRosemary Definitely worth having a look 😀 Thanks!

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

Hey @LucasRosemary sorry we didn't spot you at Serse. Wasn't it good? 😍 Do you have any Buxton plans?

[Il merito delle donne @risamante]

Still grinning from ear to ear after last night’s Serse. Such a pity that it was a one-off event, I could see it more times than Caroline of Ansbach went to Orlando! Despite being a concert performance, the singers, especially the 5 fabulous women, were very much in character.

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

I think this is spot on, from Rachel Sylvester:
"I think the real problem was more profound. Starmer could never properly explain why he wanted to be prime minister. In fact it was always unclear whether he really knew himself."
https://t.co/8TzFz9RTZd

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@LucasRosemary 👍

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@jk_rowling @LoinDuTribu 😘

[Opera Today @operatoday]

Serse, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - Handel royalty https://t.co/nuOI9UkM3i

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

Loved this Serse last night 😍 Our third consecutive weekend Handel, after Orlando at Longborough and Agrippina at Rouen. All confirming that Handel was a bloody genius!! 👏👏👏

[Robert Hugill @RobertHugill]

Light & shade: Laurence Cummings, Academy of Ancient Music & a terrific cast make Handel's Serse into a captivating & engaging evening in the theatre with Paula Murrihy, Louise Alder, Rebecca Leggett. My opera review:
https://t.co/KOwhlvGFir

[Il merito delle donne @risamante]

👏 Let whoever dare offend the king of kings be cut asunder and placed on both sides of the great road so that the army may march out between the two halves. 🤭

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@TfL well. That's the second 214 bus that we have been chucked off TFL! We boarded at St Pancras and have only got as far as Angel Islington in almost an hour. 214 at bus stop did not wait for us who were alighting the terminating service 😡 Pitiful customer service 🙄

[Matthew Rose @roseandfriends]

A beautiful send off for one of the most special people.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://t.co/JM73OorKHT

[Anna O'Connor @21oconnor]

@LucasRosemary 👍

[Hugh Canning’s Operalogue @hugh_canning]

My review (£€$) of @lfotweet’s beautiful production of Handel’s Orlando is now online: https://t.co/XNgPrWRiV8 Photo by Craig Fuller.