Mr. Bartholomew

Acquired taste - according to a Shaman. Very good at faking insincerity.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@MannGeorgia My experience with a young man on a train in London. Instead of asking ‘can you turn it down’ I played on my phone a screechy segment of Brunnhilde from the Ring. It was a tense moment before he cleared off.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@DAMendelsohnNYC But why?

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@hellothisisivan I remember a story (or invented it) that at Oxford Auden was caught in bed with Betjeman and paid the person £5 not to say anything about it. He later said, it wasn’t worth a fiver.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@Hull_Trains Thanks 🙏

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@Hull_Trains I’m travelling on the 16.03 Doncaster to KGX. I see other providers cancelling trains. I just want to check seat reservations are still valid on this service. Or are you planning to accommodate passengers from other companies and remove reservations?

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@xthemasterand “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

At the house of Jean Sibelius.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@Barthsnotes @SaucySeventies This is why I love this slew of dreck (X, Twitter, etc). Never in my wildest dreams could I conjure up a Bernard Bresslaw poem on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@nguyenhdi I’m sure you’re 40+ fan base are still delighted…

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@nguyenhdi You certainly brought all the boys to the yard.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@hairygit You are just too damn sensible for this hell site. More invective, please.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

Just walked past @AnnekaRice outside Tate Britain. Still lovely. Now feel a thousand years old. In a good way.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@Yorkshire_Tales @pkhillick1 I was there. Remember it as plain as day.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@timothy_stanley @RCrowcroft As Brecht famously wrote:

Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@monstroso My Dad hated Attenborough. Never did find out why.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@EastMidRailway I have a ticket for the 13.35 SHF to STP but it is standing room only - not even room in the vestibule. Can you confirm I can take alternative trains?

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@BenGoldsmith It’s trichomes not pollen. Check out the ‘Chelsea cough’. It seems to have started early this year.

[Mr. Bartholomew @bartacusthe1st]

@PhilipHensher If I enjoy this half as much as Martin Seymour-Smith’s Guide to Modern World Literature, I’ll be delighted. I suspect I will.