Matthew Sherrington

@msherrington.bsky.social

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Charity consultant/coach (strategy, comms & leadership stuff). People Power, Quirks, Wows & Bitter Irony. It's all personal.

An ‘on this day’ feature for 9 Oct, featuring Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, with a huge pic of him.
Book covers, Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale and The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe
Book covers: The Trees by Percival Everett, and The Unfolding by A.M. Homes
Book cover, The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Book cover, On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Book cover, The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Book cover, The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Cover of History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
View out of a back oblong ship’s window of the wake, and the line of France below cloud.
Arched bridge at Montmorillon
Book cover, Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Street scene, Hanoi, red flags with gold star
Forested steep river bank seen from the river; still water reflecting trees. Boat bow in lower foreground
Book cover, Black Boy by Richard Wright
Book cover, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
Camera pans from garden table to tree where the nightingale is warbling. Can’t see it tho.
Old Charles Atlas ad, strip cartoon of man being bullied on the beach, getting ripped and going back to pinch the bully. A New Man!
Chart showing the Tesla share price up and down over 6 months, green line. $250 then, $500 at Xmas, $280 now.
Flowering pink magnolia on the right half of the picture, against a bright blue sky; leafless trees on the left.
Reform party leaflet with a pic of that racist Farage
A battered cardboard box printed with “CARE USA”, behind a range of tinned goods, coffee, eggs, milk.
An African woman (sorry not to be more specific) in a white top and yellow skirt, arms folded, and smiling into the camera, stands in front of a market stall. Made of wooden posts with a corrugated iron roof
The deck of a ship sloping towards viewer, Hamlet stands centre, other people are sliding down the deck, Titanic-style.
Black and white cat looking through white bannisters from the stairs, looking to the right
Book cover, How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith. Pink text over b/w photo of Black boy in coat and cap, leaning against a bronze of Abraham Lincoln’s head.
Projection of “PROTECT WOMEN & GIRLS” on to Houses of Parliament, lit up at night.
Cover of How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith. Pink text over b/w photo of young Black boy in coat and cap, standing next to a large bronze head of Abraham Lincoln.
Cover of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward. Black text over a yellow/red profile of a woman looking upwards and to the right.
Red sunset behind trees. Top of the pic is Venus. Mercury’s there too, but hard to see.
Book cover: Sweet Taste of Liberty. A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel
Cover of The Wrath to Come by Sarah Churchwell
Coloured post-its on glass window, opposite red brick wall with brown windows and white sills.
Text telling me my blood “has now been issued to Kettering General Hospital. Every donation counts.”
Monet painting of London Bridge lurking behind heavy grey smog, a golden ball of sun top centre-right reflecting in some golden ripples of the river.
Reading pile, top to bottom: Sarah Churchwell, the Wrath to Come Isobel Wilkerson, the Warmth of Other Suns Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty Richard Rothstein, the Color of Law
RSC promo banner. A man with reddish hair and beard, grinning with eyes shut, is making a heart shape with his hands at chest height; wearing a white Elizabethan ruff. Dark green background.
Red blood drop shaped prop with wording “I gave blood and helped save up to 3 lives”
Cover of A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cover of The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano Da Empoli
Two cats, black/white to the left, grey/white to the right, splayed out on a brown rug in front of a glowing wood burner.
Stained glass bluebird against cloudy blue sky
Screen grab of inbox saying ‘No Mail”
Two piles of books, 24 in total. Sorry, too many to list them all.
Full moon in a pinkish sky at dawn, above the covered steps on the station platform, glass panels between red uprights.
Christmas cake in large square tin to the right, with rows of decorative nut. On the left, a smaller ‘taster’ loaf.
Elvis Presley, looking ahead and smiling, sleeve rolled up, getting his vaccination.
Poster for Oedipus, featuring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.
The Sower, split horizontally between purple fields and a yellow sky with a large orb of sun behind the man; a tree trunk reaches bottom right to top centre, with some pink blossom.
Guardian pic and headline about the Parthenon Marbles: “talks over return are well advanced”
The Parthenon marbles in Athens, plaster casts in the places where the stolen ones in London need to be returned to.
The Parthenon marbles in Athens, plaster casts in the places where the stolen ones in London need to be returned to.
BlueSkyRoasts suggests I need a podcast called Matthew Rants, ‘where every episode ends with a sigh and a call for change’.
Waiting for Godot banner poster
Thank you email from charity shop for dropping off some stuff. “Your donations ensure we can continue to provide vital care to local terminally ill children.”
Georgian buildings in the sun against a blue sky, reflected in the river.
Me squatting on a golden sand dune in massive black baggy pants.
Twinned toilet certificate, featuring a photo of a mud toilet hut, with a goat in front.
A 13-storey cruise ship towering over and blocking the view of Malta’s historic fortifications.
High golden-stone walls either side, narrow paved alley, blue sky under an arch.
Fort St Angelo, high stone walls rising from the harbour water on the foreground, a tumble of buildings behind it.