Martin Smith

@martinsmith.bsky.social

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Husband, father, violinist; leader of cirrusstringquartet.com; conductor of rorchestra.bsky.social, enfieldchamberorch.org.uk, Winchmore Strings and anyone else that'll have me. Member/Board member of londonmozartplayers.com. Makes decent coffee. He/him

A screenshot of the life webcam feed from the Dyfi Osprey Project. The nest is in the foreground, with (I think) one parent and chick. Behind is a perching post with two more osprey sitting on it. In the background is the broad expanse of the Dyfi estuary, looking upstream towards the Tarren hills. The whole is indescribably lovely.
A poster for a concert by Richmond Orchestra at 7.30 on 16 May at St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park, W London, In aid of the Mulberry Centre for cancer sufferers and their families. Programme includes Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Beethoven 3rd piano concerto with soloist Rachele Howes, and Brahms Symphony No. 2. There is a QR code for booking tickets.
A video of the stream that feeds the fall pictured in the previous post
A picture of a narrow waterfall at Dolgoch, central West Wales. The fall is surrounded by vividly green trees and there is a luminous sky overhead.
The picture shows a small lake, full of lily pads and surrounded by reeds. Around it lie the hills of southern Eryri.
A stony, uneven path leading north along the ridge of the Stiperstones in Shropshire towards the outcrop known as the Devil's Chair
Ribblehead viaduct, on the Settle-Carlisle railway
Three classic Triumph Stag sports cars lined up outside the Cricketers Inn in Sarratt, Hertfordshire
A carpet of bluebells in Heartwood Forest, north of St Albans. The trees are in soft green leaf and there is mild light through the branches
A picture of the cover of a recording of Bach's B Minor Mass conducxted by Georges Enescu
Nigel Hawthorne as Archdeacon Grantly
The window of a dental practice in west London in the 1970s. The blind is down. On the window in blue cursive lettering is printed the name "W. R. Phang" and below, in white block capitals on black, the words "Dental Surgeon".
A poster advertising Richmond Orchestra's concert on Sat 30 November at Duke Street Church, Richmond, at 7.30 pm. The programme includes Lalo's Cello Concerto with soloist Ellen Baumring-Gledhill, Franck's Symphony in D minor, Berlioz' Overture Les Francs-Juges and Lili Boulanger's D'un Matin de Printemps
Thunderbird 3, from the Gerry Anderson puppet TV series
Frederick Bridge, another English composer called Bridge (not the famous one, which perhaps is why he looks like that).
A sculpture of Jack-in-the-Green faces on a dead tree in the park of Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, UK.
A picture of the cover of the book, "Waving but Drowning", written by Lev Parikian.
A stalk of English bluebells in the woods near my home. They always hang on one side of the stem, and the colour and perfume are the loveliest things one can experience
A poster for Richmond Orchestra's Autumn concert tonight in All Saints Church East Sheen, London, featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian and Nielsen