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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Thomas Dunford, Jupiter Ensemble & Lea Desandre (54 plays), Big Special (26), Neil Young (11), Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble (7), CMAT (3)

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Xmas dinner from start to end today πŸŽ…

A lot for two but with visitors tonight and tomorrow in mind 😊

Prawn moilee, matter paneer, black daal, rice and roti.

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Seventh straight Premiership win for Aston Villa - against Manchester United. Two great goals for Morgan Rogers 🦁⚽️

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🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Unthanks (10 plays)

A bit of a lack of scrobbled music πŸ˜„

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Watched: Troy, 2004 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… πŸŽ₯

The Director’s Cut 🎬

πŸ“† | 🏷 FilmTV

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14)

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BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎡

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Jaime MartΓ­n, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Elizaveta Ivanova, flute

Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto 

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)

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Auto-generated description: Two glasses of red wine are on a table next to a smartphone displaying a sports game.

Watching my nephew (red skull cap) playing rugby in the Principality Stadium - Road to Principality: Schools and Dewar Shield Finals Day πŸ‰

Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷

πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Wine 🏷 Rugby

Watched: The Roses, 2025 - β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½ πŸŽ₯

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Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… πŸŽ₯

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Jalfrezi 🌢️

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Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns

πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Cricket

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), The Utopia Strong (14), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (12), Petrenko, Vasily (3)

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Now going to listen to a couple of cricket podcasts, which is going to depress the mood. The episode title of the first is Darkness Descends πŸ™‰

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Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game πŸ‘βš½οΈ

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Watching the second half after catching up with an hour’s sleep. At least Villa v Arsenal is a good, competitive game. A goal apiece at the moment ⚽️

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