Christian Halstead

Freelance London-based violinist. Crossword enthusiast. EUROPEAN.

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB:
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Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor?
Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve.
Got rubbish piling up? Email them.
Bus vanished from existence? Email them.
Streetlights dead? Email them.
Care package delayed? Email them.
Pavement like the Somme? Email them.
Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is.
Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes.
Welcome to local government.
The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward.
The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated.
Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

@elonmusk Get on with it then! The only person in the world who can afford it is.......you!

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Congress did its homework on Nigel Farage:

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Another juggler gives up on his dream.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*

**“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”**

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

**I’m writing this to tell you something simple:**

**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.**

Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

*With love and gentleness,*

— Patricia Routledge

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Ahead of his time.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

13. In 1972, Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song titled Prisencolinensinainciusol, featuring nonsensical lyrics designed to mimic the sound of English.

The song was created to prove that Italians would love any American song.

It was a hit.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

[Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍 @BWallArthur]

That's it. That's the tweet.
Sold by selfserving conmen for the good of our enemies to weaken us and our allies.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Simple Ideas, Big Impacts 🧵

1. Mesh drains in Australia prevent water bodies pollution. Should be a worldwide standard.

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Apparently at WH Smith station bookshop at Milton Keynes Central ...

Fine work, people. Fine work.

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

A photo from last Friday, performing the Barber concerto with the wonderful @stpaulssinfonia conducted by @Andrew_C_Morley

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

@ELNescio @RobinGreen04 @AledHall Absolute bullshit, and you know it. You really should learn to have some respect for those who are FAR more talented than you will ever be.

[The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 @jasemonkey]

Donald Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' transcribed for trombone.

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

@KarenAl44760966 @ELNescio A photo taken by @AledHall

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

@scbrown00 @ELNescio Don't ask this @ELNescio douche, ask the guy who actually took the photo? The photographer is @AledHall

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

@RobinGreen04 @ELNescio You should be asking the photographer, @AledHall

[Christian Halstead @ChristianHalst5]

@ccschreiner @ELNescio You could ask the photographer, @AledHall ?