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Watched: Tenet, 2020 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Running a little late, but finally starting to cook our Xmas Dinner.
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Watched: Coco, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Robby Krieger (20), Robert Wyatt (5), Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra (4), Solti, LSO (4) & Haitink, Concertgebouw (3) via tweekly.fm
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Xmas day. Eggs make me angry 😡
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (19), Janet Baker, Raimund Herincx, ECO, Lewis (18), Glenn Gould (6), Haitink, Concertgebouw (5) & Krček, Capella Istropolitana (5) via tweekly.fm
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ivor Cutler (92), Janácek Quartet (7), Robert Wyatt (7), Furtwängler, VPO (5) & Plastics (3) via tweekly.fm
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Kevin Morby (10), Haitink, Concertgebouw (6), Herman Dune (5), Robert Wyatt (5) & Gwenifer Raymond (2) via tweekly.fm
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Published 32 photos on my Flickr account — Cardiff Before Christmas 📷
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Check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes. Bilidowcar Single Hop from Tenby Harbwr Brewery. Pan fried hake. 🍺 🐟
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Check in 🗺 — Barker Coffee. Cappuccino and smoked salmon, cream cheese and rocket bagel. Great idea to add the rocket to this classic! 🥯 ☕️
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Fairly quiet at 9:30pm on Monday night in Cardiff.
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Check in 🗺 — Back to Revolucion de Cuba for wine after Bar 44. 🍷
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Chocolate truffles and sherry.
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Tapas at Bar 44 in Cardiff.
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Check in 🗺 — Bar 44 for tapas and wine 🍷
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Having Monday Margaritas at Revolucion de Cuba before Wales’ Friday alcohol restrictions…
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Check in 🗺 — Revolucion de Cuba. Margaritas🍸
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Check in 🗺 — Duke of Wellington. Malbec 🍷
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Currently reading: The Ruins by Mat Osman 📚
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Check in 🗺 — Two nights in the Hilton, Cardiff.
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Enclosing their lives
Old castle walls reinforce
The rule of the few✏️ #mbnov
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Check in 🗺 — The Gwaelod y Garth Inn . Sunday lunch. Hereford Pale Ale 🍺
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I’m gazing downwards
A tiny pedestrian
Fights against the flow✏️ #mbnov
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Gwenifer Raymond (45), Robert Wyatt (27), Haitink, Concertgebouw (23), Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom (2) & Herman Dune (1) via tweekly.fm
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Behind a dark mask
Punchinello imagines
Time of Carnival✏️ #mbnov
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Nice to have the return of some international cricket. South Africa v England T20 at Newlands, Cape Town is underway. 🏏
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What can be certain?
No dilemma for Descartes -
I am, I exist✏️ #mbnov
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Adjust the colour
Wait for something to happen
But nothing was changed✏️ #mbnov
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Watched: Time Trap, 2017 - ★½ 🎥
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A call through the mist
Angry noisy chattering
Tiding of magpies✏️ #mbnov
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ believe, flickrfriday
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Ancient monument
Provision of memory
On featureless plains✏️ #mbnov
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Books quickly devoured
But to capture the meaning
Is more of an art✏️ #mbnov
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Gwenifer Raymond (17), Glenn Gould (7), Robert Wyatt (6), Il Giardino Armonico (3) & La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (3) via tweekly.fm
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Check in 🗺 — Rhoswenallt Inn. Jemina’s Pitchfork and Santa’s Little Belter 🍺
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Seeking a refuge
Lands of milk and honey lie
Beyond the border✏️ #mbnov
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A winter journey
Departing warmth and shelter
Towards the unknown✏️ #mbnov
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Why are the Labour party turning their back on the Green Industrial Revolution? … 🔗
Labour’s ‘Green Recovery’ report actually represents a quivering withdrawal from Labour’s bold 2019 manifesto pledge to deliver a Green Industrial Revolution.
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The piles of books I posted a photo of yesterday have been re-housed upstairs. According to Apple Health on my phone, in moving them I did 4752 steps, covered 2.8km and climbed 41 flights of stairs (I think this is an underestimate!). A literary workout. 📚
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Old photographs fade
Our history in albums
Dusty from neglect✏️ #mbnov
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Moving four large bookcases. Trying to prevent our books from descending into chaos. 😊 📚
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ melting, flickrfriday
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End of a rainbow in the Dare Valley Country Park.
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Check in 🗺 — Dare Valley Country Park.
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Possible worlds spin
Planets around their orbits
Peopled by strangers✏️ #mbnov
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Covering the tree -
Dependence on an other -
Lichen spreads slowly✏️ #mbnov
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My train of thought lost
Interruptions disturb me
Or are they welcome?✏️ #mbnov
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Sunrise this morning.
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Pale marble headstone
Memory of young poet -
A broken Greek lyre✏️ #mbnov
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Herman Dune (29), Ivor Cutler (9), Robert Wyatt (8), Plastics (4) & James Dean Bradfield (3) via tweekly.fm
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Rumbling thunder sounds
Far away lightning flashes
Rain in the valleys✏️ #mbnov
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Trees disturbed by breeze
Shadows beyond the window
Spooky gloominess✏️ #mbnov
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Difficult to guess
The story of an image
Caught in an instant✏️ #mbnov
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Hard and unyielding
All things will slowly wear down
Given enough time✏️ #mbnov
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Watched: American Beauty, 1999 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Mary on the Green
I’d say the bright statue speaks
In true memory✏️ #mbnov
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Check in 🗺 — Pukka Tucka. Cheese toastie and latte ☕️
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Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years. 🔗
It shows a silvery naked everywoman figure emerging free and defiantly from a swirling mingle of female forms and, thanks to a 10-year slog of fundraising, is the world’s only memorial sculpture to a woman known as the “mother of feminism”
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Elderly pathways
Straight lines through an empty town
Lost destinations✏️ #mbnov
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Force me to select
One highlight of the autumn -
Abundance of squash✏️ #mbnov
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Trying to bind us
Ivy creeps slowly over
The cracks in our walls✏️ #mbnov
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Earlier fears were well founded. Difficult to get above 250°C with the wood we had available. Tried a couple of wood fired pizzas but now switched to gas for higher temperatures. 🍕
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Trying our pizza oven with its wood burner for the first time. It’s brilliant when gas fired but I’m not convinced by the size of the wood burner. We’ll see… 🍕
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To inflate one’s worth
Beyond the reality -
Mistake of many✏️ #mbnov
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Beginning of day
Puzzling over breakfast tea
Wondering what next?✏️ #mbnov
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Green changed to amber
Pine needles are covering
Red tiles on the stoop✏️ #mbnov
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Near neighbours entwine
Branches and tendrils twisted
Broken in the fall✏️ #mbnov
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A fake persona
Wane into obscurity
Astonish me now✏️ #mbnov
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Concentrate on sleep
Losing thoughts and ideas
Mislaid in the mist✏️ #mbnov
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An autumn morning
Dreary days of wind and rain
Sweeping sodden leaves✏️ #mbnov
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Plastics (25), Glenn Gould (11), Itzhak Perlman (4), Krček, Capella Istropolitana (4) & La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (4) via tweekly.fm
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John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795. And on 31st October 1820 the 25 year old poet also first set foot on Italian soil after 35 days at sea and 10 in quarantine. Keats-Shelley Memorial Association podcast 🔗
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Jeremy Corbyn has been a champion of decency and an ally to all movements fighting racism, colonialism, and exploitation.
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The Weaponisation of Labour Antisemitism 🔗 — David Graeber
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Published 30 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ Paris 1997
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Without Trace - George Monbiot 🔗
If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the scale of what has been done to us.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ivor Cutler (18), Glenn Gould (17), Robert Wyatt (13), Kevin Morby (10) & Doves (6) via tweekly.fm
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Very weird that Six Nations rugby is on in October. But watching Ireland v Italy 🏉
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Watched: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, 2006 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes for lunch and Grey Trees’ Mosaic Pale Ale 🍺
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The State of It – George Monbiot 🔗
The Conservative promise to shrink the state was always a con. But it has seldom been as big a lie as it is today. Johnson grabs powers back from Parliament with both fists …
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Watched: The Greatest Showman, 2017 - ★★★ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (94), Waxahatchee (23), Kevin Morby (21), Real Estate (21) & Ivor Cutler (5) via tweekly.fm
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Watched: The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Inspired by seeing the Eastern European Jewish sweet bread babka on The Great British Bake Off I tried making a savoury pesto-filled version. Quite pleased with the appearance and taste. 🍞
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14 Oct 2020 at 10:09 - Walking Track - Check out my @viewranger track (#walking) - total distance 6.32 miles. View it here. (To give some context to my A Day in the Life photo posted earlier).
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Walking through the Ynys Recreation Ground — Aberdare Cricket Club winding down for the winter. 🏏
📍 — Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
🕰️ — Wednesday October 14th, 11:27 BST#adayinthelife
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (32), Jonathan Wilson (26), Pet Shimmers (24), Garcia Peoples (12) & Bob Dylan (11) via tweekly.fm
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Worrying. I have become that elderly person with a blanket on their lap. It’s getting chilly …
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Whitebait, mackerel with black garlic braised lentils and a coffee crème brûlée - a brilliant Sunday lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd today. Accompanied by a few pints of a Salopian Brewery New England IPA. 🍺 🐟
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Check in 🗺 — Sunday dinner at the Bunch of Grapes 🍺
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Crete, 2004
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Watched: The Fly, 1958 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Akira, 1988 - ★★★ 🎥
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Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James 📚
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Currently reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 📚
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Watched: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, 2009 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Earliest frescoes in Venice found during mosaic restoration 🔗
They also offer a rare glimpse into the artistic development of the lagoon before it was completely dominated by Venice.
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What has been made into a commodity cannot easily be brought back to being a luxury. That’s the luxury trap. And it’s not the first time we’ve fallen for it.
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Continuing the saga - Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Ugandan rolex. Superb! Far exceeded my expectations; can’t imagine the egg-based version would be better.
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From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner’s terrific guide to poetry 🔗
Now embarking on its second series, the podcast is a terrific listen: bursting with enthusiasm for its chosen poems and constantly amusing about Skinner’s relationship with them.
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Aston Villa - Liverpool finishes 7-2. Outstanding night for Villa! ⚽️
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Aston Villa v Liverpool. Villa leading 4-1 at half-time! Hat-trick for Ollie Watkins 😃 ⚽️
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Juliette Gréco (80), Michael Kiwanuka (34), Glenn Gould (28), Pet Shimmers (22) & Doves (10) via tweekly.fm
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Watched: Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 - ★★½ 🎥
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Bread today turned out surprisingly cat-like. Tasted good but not sure what made the loaf collapse. 🍞
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How the Indian Premier League clean bowled English T20 cricket 🔗🏏
Two hundred million people watched the IPL season opener in Abu Dhabi … more than the Super Bowl audience and not too far off the Champions League final.
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Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times 🔗
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
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Baking won’t get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might 🔗
In Our Time, I often think, is like going to an amazing free university at the top of Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree
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For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes I’ve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with broccoli. And baked black-eyed beans.
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Watched: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 1993 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Cooking Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi. And sticky jasmine rice.
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Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
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France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthéon 🔗
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Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ 🔗 — Excerpt: What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚
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‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — Excerpt: Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail – he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade – afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.
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Every time I read Meera Sodha’s column in The Guardian I find things I must cook. My latest quick reminder list:
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (4), Krček, Capella Istropolitana (3), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (2), Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (2) & Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (1) via tweekly.fm
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ lazy, flickrfriday
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Aperol Spritzing our way through a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon. 😎
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A Pizza Express Neptune Pizza 🔗 — Excerpt: I’m sure Pizza Express won’t mind my singing their praises. I watch my cheese intake, so despite my liking a nice chunk of Cheshire, I very rarely have any. I also like a pizza but again don’t have too many.
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David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 🔗 — Excerpt: David Graeber, anthropologist and anarchist author of bestselling books on bureaucracy and economics including Bullshit Jobs: A Theory and Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has died aged 59.
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Why Can’t My Camera Capture the Wildfire Sky? 🔗 — Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ industrial, flickrfriday
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Big bread - Turkish bread from a Cardiff bakery. 🥖
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Watched: Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Kevin Morby (35), David Bowie (17), Cornershop (15), Laura Marling (15) & John Martyn (13) via tweekly.fm
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Check in 🗺 — Pembroke Castle. 🏰
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Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling’s Justification For Transphobia 🔗 — Excerpt: Recently JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter, tweeted some transphobic statements and dogwhistles on Twitter that I have addressed here. After a few days silence she wrote a lengthy post trying to justify her position on her website.
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Check in 🗺 — Pembroke Rugby Football Club. Old Speckled Hen.🍺
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Breakfast on Manorbier beach this morning.
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Check in 🗺 — The Dial Inn, Lamphey. Bilidowcar Single Hop Pale Ale (Tenby Harbour Brewery). 🍺
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Never cooked on a gas barbecue before this week. Never thought I’d close a lid on a barbecue whilst cooking. Never had barbecued vegetables three days in a row. But here I am.
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Bethesda Baptist Church, Narberth.
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Glenn Maxwell gets his century and looks like he and Carey will win the match and the ODI series for Australia . As I type this Carey also gets 100. 🏏
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Pleased that Test Match Special is still broadcast on 198 kHz Radio 4 Long Wave and not just on digital/DAB channels. Enjoying tense finish to the 3rd England v Australia ODI on an old radio. Maxwell impressive! 🏏
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Sprilly Maid by Caffle Brewery. Ale infused with rosemary. Very good, even when drunk out of a plastic cup.🍺
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Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ horizon, flickrfriday
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BBQ time.
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Check in 🗺 — Florence Springs Eco Glamping. Woodstock Hobbit House.
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Check in 🗺 — Lillies Coffee Shop, Narberth. Cappuccino ☕️.
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Hobbit facilities.
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Now moved into a Hobbit House.
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Spent a few hours on South Beach, Tenby today.
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Check in 🗺 — Harbwr Tap & Kitchen. Caldey Lollipop 🍺.
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Currently reading: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
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Tenby Harbour. Round and about Tenby for a few days.
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Check in 🗺 — Broadmead Hotel, Tenby.
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Check in 🗺 — Coach & Horses, Tenby.
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Yanis Varoufakis: capitalism isn’t working. Here’s an alternative 🔗 — Excerpt: When Margaret Thatcher coined “Tina” – her 1980s dictum that “There is no alternative” – I was incensed because, deep down, I felt she had a point: the left had neither a credible nor a desirable alternative to capitalism.
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Watched: The Legend of Hell House, 1973 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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England beat Australia by 6 wickets and win the T20 series by taking a 2-0 lead. Not as entertaining as Friday’s match but enjoyable to watch. 🏏
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Australia finish on 157-7. 🏏
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Today’s England v Australia Second International T20 is live on BBC One. And Australia are 3-2 after 2 overs. 😀 🏏
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Watched: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016 - ★★ 🎥
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Currently reading: Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson 📚
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Wow! That was a surprise, Australia collapse and England win the 1st Vitality T20 International. Fantastic cricket. 🏏
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England 162-7 in their T20 innings. Reachable for Australia. 🏏
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Some great batting from Dawid Malan in the 1st England v Australia T20. England don’t look like setting a high enough score to win though. 🏏
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ pentaxk100d, flickrfriday, magnetic
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How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s like one of those optical illusions: it looks like one face at first, but it’s actually two. Once you see the second face, you can never unsee it. In this case, the illusion is how we view migration – it’s the maps we see so frequently that visualise migration for us.
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Bakewell Tart. ☕️
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Check in 🗺 — Costa Coffee, Strensham Services.
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Watched: Joker, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Delicious breakfast this morning, bookmarked for cooking again - 🔗 Vegan Mushroom Bacon Breakfast Toast
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 31: Love — Honeymoon, 1996 📷
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Greece is the word for white wines 🔗 — Excerpt: Diamantakis Diamantopetra White, Crete, Greece 2019 (from £16.95, nywines.co.uk; mrandmrsfinewine.co.uk; woodwinters.com) There are some beautiful red wines made in Greece. Some great sweet wines, too. Even retsina can have its pine-scented moment.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: Discovery — Finding jellyfish on Llansteffan Beach 📷
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Check in 🗺 — Llansteffan Beach
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Just Joans (41), LCP, Norrington (17), Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (7), Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn (2) & Atoms for Peace (1) via tweekly.fm
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Flake — December 2010 was probably the heaviest snowfall I have experienced. 📷
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England v Pakistan first T20 match is underway at Old Trafford. Really surprised that the weather has stayed good enough - there was no hope for the Glamorgan v Worcestershire Rapids Vitality Blast T20 here last night. 🏏
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: Emotions — Overexcitement 📷
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Watched: Prospect, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb 🔗 — Excerpt: There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the IndieWeb. Build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: Overcome — I did not overcome the opposition tonight. I came last. 🎮 📷
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Watched: The Edge, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: Relentless — Yesterday the wind was relentless here. Some plants have suffered. 🌱 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: (Abandon) Hope — London, January 2020 📷
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Italy in a bowl: 10 simple, delicious summer pasta recipes – chosen by chefs 🔗 — Excerpt: Pasta with pesto alla Genovese is definitely a favourite dish of mine. I really enjoy the simplicity of using just a few ingredients but it is still so tasty and has a deep flavour.
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Lunch 🐟
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ vanishingpoint, flickrfriday
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: Frosty — Cool chillies 🌶 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: Graceful — Ballet Seren, 2009 📷 (late entry because I missed posting yesterday ☹️)
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jacobs, Concerto Vocale, Nederlands Kamerkoor (51), Tan, LCP, Norrington (9), Cavina, La Venexiana (8), Krček, Capella Istropolitana (7) & Glenn Gould (5) via tweekly.fm
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: Home — Streaming Green Man Festival in the garden at home 🎵📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: Crunch 📷
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ countryside, flickrfriday
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: Change — Just noticed that this roughly circular ring of mushrooms has suddenly emerged in our garden 🌱📷
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Watched: The Dark Knight Rises, 2012 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Ribbon — My Grandfather’s France and Germany Star 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: Grid — Bridge grids - Prince of Wales (Second Severn Crossing) and Clifton Suspension 📷
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Check in 🗺 — Giggling Squid.
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Check in 🗺 — Clifton Suspension Bridge.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: Cuddly 📷
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Glamorgan’s first home game of the recently started cricket season - Glamorgan v Gloucestershire at Sophia Gardens in the Bob Willis Trophy. No spectators, but at least there’s live streaming on YouTube. 🏏
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Stationary — Almost… 📷
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (28), Tame Impala (24), Another Sky (12), LCP, Norrington (11) & Furtwängler, BPO (10) via tweekly.fm
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: Silhouette — Cardiff Bay, January 2020 📷
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Check in 🗺 — Cwrw Gorslas in a Pod at the Rhoswenallt. 🍺
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: Among — Among the undergrowth… 📷
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Watched: The Dark Knight, 2008 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Field of Streams - Green Man Festival 🔗 — Summary: Green Man has announced plans for a virtual festival this month to replace this year’s edition of the event. Eels, Pictish Trail, Stella Donelly, Father John Misty, and Adwaith will all play exclusive sets. 🎵
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Sir Roger Norrington Interview with Bruce Duffie 🔗 — Excerpt: Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington was born in Oxford March 16, 1934, and comes from a musical University family. He was a talented boy soprano, studying the violin from the age of ten and singing from the age of seventeen.
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, splash
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Watched: Batman Begins, 2005 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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The weather was a little unpredictable today ☔️
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: Filter 📷
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Paella de verduras 🥘
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: Sound — Garden chimes 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: Transport — Aberdare Bus Station 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Windows 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: Black and White — Nasturtium 📷
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Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher 📚
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Another Sky (36), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (15), Bernstein, Columbia SO, Gould (3), James Dean Bradfield (3) & Furtwängler, VPO via tweekly.fm
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How to make the most of past-their-best aubergines – recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: India is a country that’s close to my heart, and I feel fortunate to have been able to spend more than a year of my life there, travelling, surfing, learning yoga, meditating and, most recently, fundraising for the charity Action Against Hunger.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: View — Looking over Aberdare
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: Day tripping — My in-laws took a day trip to our garden today 😉 📷
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Debut album from Another Sky - I Slept on the Floor - just arrived in this morning’s post. 👏 🎵
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Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd
Went to the Bunch of Grapes in Pontypridd for a meal last night - pubs and restaurants in Wales were allowed to open for indoor dining from Monday this week. Our first meal out near home in Wales since the beginning of March.
The food was really good, especially the Roasted Cod Loin, so I can’t resist posting some details. 😀
Menu Board
Sweetcorn Soup - Charred sweetcorn, butterbean and radicchio soup, garlic and rosemary sourdough crouton
Pan Fried Cockles - Pan fried cockles, leeks and laverbread on fried sourdough bread, charred lemon
Beetroot Pie - Beetroot, mushroom, black bean and spinach pie, sautéed garlic greens and roasted red onions
Roasted Cod Loin - Ancho chilli roasted cod loin, sautéed mussels, cockles, laverbread and saffron, roasted fennel mash
Grapes in the Bunch
To accompany the meal I had my first proper cask beers since March - two from Salopian Brewery, a pint of Shropshire Gold bitter and a pint of Dewdrops New England IPA. 🍺
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Pakistan’s bowling attack is looking sharp. England 12-3 after 5.3 overs. 🏴 v 🇵🇰 1st Test, Day 2 🏏
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Bisect 📷
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, 90degrees
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: Flow — Afon Cynon, Aberdâr
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Wasn’t expecting Ireland to beat England in the One Day International 🏏 today - close ending to an exciting match. Now looking forward to the Test Match against Pakistan starting tomorrow.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Peace — A Crass badge from the early 1980s. 🎵📷
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Why Autonomy News? – Autonomy News 🔗 — Excerpt: The Autonomy News collective plans to produce original articles like this one on a fairly regular basis, as well as reposting content from elsewhere. In our first article we examine the current historical moment, and why there is a need for a site like this.
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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay, 4th August 1792.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Bug 📷
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Casa do Frango’s Portuguese summer spread – recipes 🔗 — Excerpt: Chargrilled spicy cauliflower with coriander yoghurt.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Floating 📷
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (36), Itzhak Perlman (32), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (21), Glenn Gould (17) & Nadine Shah (11) via tweekly.fm
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Up 📷
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A waste-free Middle Eastern runner bean meze recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: At 14, I worked on a pig farm for £1.50 an hour. Although my main role was mucking out the pig pens, I’d also tend to the farmer’s crops of potatoes, pumpkins and runner beans. The quantity of beans, in particular, that we harvested each season seemed almost magical.
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New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge Stones 🔗 — Excerpt: A new study has revealed the origins of Stonehenge’s sarsen stones, solving a mystery that has been speculated on for centuries.
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Currently reading: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 📚
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Watched: Blindness, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Algiers (65), Blake Mills (55), Mitropoulos, NYPO (54), Kikagaku Moyo (22) & Mitropoulos, International Society for Contemporary Music Concert Group (14) via tweekly.fm
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Saturday night pizza 🍕
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Basil and wine - in the midst of making pizza 🍕 🍷
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The scramble for Edtech — just another data mining operation? 🔗 — Excerpt: …students aren’t really the customers, they are the product.
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Published 5 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, italy, ilford, xp2
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ canoneos300d, flickrfriday, polished
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Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion — Excerpt: Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right. 🎵
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Chris Frantz: Remain in Love 🔗 — Excerpt: David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With his herky-jerky mannerisms, loopy persona and arch lyrics – not to mention his command of the songwriting credits through much of their catalogue – he eclipsed the efforts of every other member of the band. 🎵📚
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Watched: Annihilation, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Looper, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Check in 🗺 — Tinto Lounge. First meal out since the beginning of March. Very good vegan Beyond Cheese Burger with a glass of Malbec 🍔 🍷 😃
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
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Goan Fish Curry with Fragrant Rice 🔗 — Excerpt: Method Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 30 min Step 1 Put a saucepan with 500ml of salted water on to boil. Wash the rice in a sieve under cold running water. Lightly crush the cardamom pods, just enough to reveal the seeds.
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Watched: Weekend, 1967 - ★★★½ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Algiers (27), Nadine Shah (11), Abbado, BPO (1), Furtwängler, BPO (1) & Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1) via tweekly.fm
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Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Sri Lankan cucumber cashew curry 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s possible that I could count on my fingers and toes how many Brits have cooked a cucumber before.
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Watched: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, 2020 - ½ 🎥
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Watched: Greyhound, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Aniara, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
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The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Paul Weller (61), Mitropoulos, NYPO (23), Algiers (9) & David Bowie (9) via tweekly.fm
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Watched: Zombieland: Double Tap, 2019 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Published 2 photos on my Flickr account 📷
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (10) via tweekly.fm
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Currently reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚
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Watched: Coherence, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Sena Jurinac & Franz Holletschek (20), Mitropoulos, Minneapolis SO (8), Mitropoulos, NYPO (7), Dimitri Mitropoulos, Metropolitan Opera Orch (2) & Jan Peerce, Zinka Milanov, Mitropoulos, Metropolitan Opera Orch via tweekly.fm
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Watched: All the Money in the World, 2017 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: What We Do in the Shadows, 2014 - ★★★★ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Young’Uns (17), Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger (10), Park Jiha (7), Blake Mills (2) & M83 (2) via tweekly.fm
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Tried making sushi for the first time today - avocado and cucumber rolls.
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Flickr Blog - Why today’s Explore is important. 🔗 — Excerpt: Today we’re populating Flickr’s Explore page with a curated selection of photos of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for equality.
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Watched: The Vast of Night, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: Get Out, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Days of the Bagnold Summer, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Linguine with carrot top pesto 🥕
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Vegetables: Riverford Organic Farmers 🌱
Using my submission to this week’s Flickr FlickrFriday theme #Vegetables in praise of Riverford Organic Farmers. Photo is of our vegetable box delivered at 6:30am this morning, as it is every Monday. We’ve been Riverford customers for over 10 years but their deliveries during the current COVID-19 lockdown have been invaluable. They have maintained high quality service and continued to provide excellent produce throughout this period.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl (80), A.L. Lloyd (26), Ewan MacColl (23), Dead Kennedys (17) & Park Jiha (10) via tweekly.fm
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Watched: Justice League, 2017 - ★★ 🎥
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Currently reading: My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson 📚
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
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Watched: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Snowpiercer, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Audition, 1999 - ★★★½ 🎥
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A historic walk around Aberdare town centre 🔗 — Excerpt: Many of us visit Aberdare to shop and for social purposes, but how well do we know it and observe as we walk around? This post reveals some of the history of Aberdare Town Centre, including relics and buildings you can still see today.
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Further Delay to Cricket Season Announced 🔗 — Excerpt: The England & Wales Cricket Board have today confirmed a further delay to the start of the professional domestic cricket season. 🏏
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Garden plant identification. Does anyone know what these purple flowers are? 🌱
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Rosa canina, commonly known as the dog rose. 🌱
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Watched: A Quiet Place, 2018 - ★★★ 🎥
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Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 25th May 2020
After years of neglect we’ve been trying to improve and actually make use of the area of garden behind our house.
I should really have taken some ‘before’ photographs but here are a few details in pictures of progress so far.
Sun terrace 😀
Oregano bed and compost bin
Thyme planted in a rusty wheelbarrow!
Small raised beds cleared and dug over ready for planting
Greenhouse, which still definitely needs some repair, semi-tidied and an attempt at seed germination started - including basil, coriander, dill, rosemary, sage and tarragon
Rampant mint alongside the greenhouse
Chives and bay in two of the raised beds
Garage newly painted and starting to get some decoration
Buttercups flourishing alongside the garage
Meanwhile, for some rest and relaxation time, at the front of the house the weather has now been good enough to string up the hammock.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (19), Marian Anderson & Franz Rupp (18), Marian Anderson & Kosti Vehanen (17), Marian Anderson (11) & Rudolf Firkusny via tweekly.fm
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Sister Seren popped round for tea this evening. ✝️
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I’m an NHS doctor – and I’ve had enough of people clapping for me 🔗 — Excerpt: I work for the NHS as a doctor. I don’t work “on the frontline” because there isn’t one; I’m not in the army and we aren’t engaged in military combat. But I do work as a consultant on a ward where we have had Covid-19, and colleagues of mine have been very unwell.
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Currently reading: The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich 📚
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This week’s Flickr Friday theme of Childhood Memories gave me the opportunity to do this. Luckily nobody saw me playing with Action Man in the garden. 😳
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Track 18 May 2020 at 14:30 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – 5 mile circular route.
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The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s a foolish endeavour to try to determine the best film, year by year, of any filmmaking nation, let alone one with so extraordinary a cinematic history as Japan. 🎥
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Track 14 May 2020 at 14:45 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – afternoon walk.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Einstürzende Neubauten (43), Florestan Trio (18), Busch String Quartet (17) & David Bowie (14) via tweekly.fm
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Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — Excerpt: Governments across the world face the same dilemma: how to contain the spread of Covid-19 while at the same time re-opening their shuttered societies. The stakes are immense. Open up too early and the death toll could sky-rocket, putting health systems under enormous strain.
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Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — Excerpt: Right now, more than ever, we need a hopeful view of human nature. While we’re right to keep our physical distance from those around us to stop the spread of the virus, we also need to believe that it’s these same people who will get us through it. We need to trust them.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Mark Padmore; Paul Lewis (2), Michael Riesman & Philip Glass Ensemble (2), Rudolf Firkusny (2), Abbado, VPO, Norman (1) & Bartok Quartet (1) via tweekly.fm
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Watched: Suicide Squad, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Game, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: EOB (28), Radiohead (14), Kavus Torabi (10), Laura Marling (10) & Sigmatropic (9) via tweekly.fm
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Intense Santorini 🇬🇷
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Evening games.
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Lockdown just got serious - teaching my wife and daughter to play chess - their first game… ♟
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Watched: The Wandering Earth, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
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Currently reading: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq 📚
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ECB announces further delay to the professional cricket season. No professional cricket will be played in England and Wales until at least 1 July – ECB 🔗 🏏
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Watched: Things to Come, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for piadina flatbread 🔗 — Excerpt: No 17 on my plan of things to do when things change: take the 7.25am train from Roma Termini to Ravenna, walk out of the station in search of the first place that will serve me a piadina romagnola, then eat the warm fold as I walk towards Piazza Del Popolo. Until then, I will make them at home.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: EOB (49), Julian Cope (13), Au Pairs (10), Kavus Torabi (3) & Soul II Soul (1) via tweekly.fm
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Currently reading: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer 📚
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Easy as 1,2,3: chefs on the 50 most simple, delicious three-ingredient recipes 🔗 — Excerpt: Most easy recipes are not easy. Achieving simplicity is never actually that simple, but in the kitchen it is usually also contingent on a well-trained hand and a very well-stocked pantry. This makes the genuinely easy three-ingredient recipe a holy grail of sorts.
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…and this is the card we got her 😸
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My daughter’s 19th lockdown birthday celebration this morning. 🎉
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Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — Excerpt: In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Nether Stowey in Somerset.
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Regressing back to medieval times today and drinking mead with hops from Wye Valley Meadery.
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Chard dressed with lemon and Parmesan 🔗 — Excerpt: Method Prep time: 15 min Cooking time: 10 min The leaves and stalks generally need to be cooked separately, so to prepare, wash the chard thoroughly and strip the leaves away from the stalks. Slice the stalks into ½ cm long pieces.
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Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien: ‘Humanity has only really learned from disaster’ 🔗 — Excerpt: Ed O’Brien believed Radiohead’s turbulent years were behind him. It was 2001 and the guitarist and “band mum” had tamed egos, anchored stressful tours and clung tight as his bandmates swerved into electronic music. Now, the five-piece had nothing to prove, and he had slipped underwater.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (22), Kavus Torabi (20), Laura Marling (13), Julian Cope (11) & Lang Lang (11) via tweekly.fm
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Copycats 🐈
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Watched: Riverworld, 2003 ★ 🎥
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Currently reading: Ascension by Gregory Dowling 📚
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William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: David Bowie (2), Another Sky (1), Caravan (1), Echo & the Bunnymen (1) & Herman Dune (1) via tweekly.fm
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Kimchi Miso Hotpot
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In the process of cooking a Kimchi Miso Hotpot from Tim Anderson’s Vegan Japaneasy
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Dark Sky Blog 🔗 – Dark Sky has joined Apple.
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Watched: 2 Days in Paris, 2007 - ★★★★ 🎥
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Fall (56), Julian Cope (21), Bernstein, NYPO (10), Neil Young (10) & Andreas Scholl, Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli (7) via tweekly.fm
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Cooked pizzas. Scary daughter included! 🍕
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Watched: Zombieland, 2009 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Saturday night pizzas about to go into the oven 🍕
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Watched: Vivarium, 2019 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Currently reading: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo 📚
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Coronavirus in context: a guide to help you understand the pandemic 🔗 — Excerpt: The coronavirus has grown into a pandemic with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. We see it as our task to help you understand this worldwide development by providing context for the news in a carefully considered, factual and constructive way.
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Just received Tim Anderson’s Vegan JapanEasy in today’s post. Still awaiting delivery of some required ingredients though… 📚
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Cricket has lost the role it had in 1939 but it’s still far more than a game 🔗 — Excerpt: Sport means nothing if it is not about passion and connection and nowhere is that more sharply defined than in football, as we have witnessed since coronavirus ripped it from our lives in recent weeks and days.
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We’ve got no shortage of coffee making options. ☕️
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Julian Cope (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Bernstein, NYPO (10), Cornershop (10) & Abbado, BPO, Argerich (6) via tweekly.fm
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Sunny spring day in the garden, if a little breezy.
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Made a loaf using khorasan flour for the first time. Rise was a bit peculiar but I really like the taste and texture.
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My walk across desolate Venice 🔗 — Excerpt: Gregory Dowling: So, as I anticipated in my last post, yesterday I had the opportunity to take a long walk across Venice, since I had to go to the university to act as Chairman of a “commissione di laurea”, sitting in front of a computer and connecting telematically with the students…
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: Cornershop (70), Soul II Soul (35) & Pet Shimmers (24) via tweekly.fm
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Rushden Transport Museum. Check in 🗺 🍺 - drinking Black Country Bitter by Holdens Brewery
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Poet’s corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites 🔗 — Excerpt: William Wordsworth was born in Cumbria 250 years ago, on 7 April 1770. Inspired by nature and a sense of place, he was an environmentalist as well as a poet, so it’s fitting to visit the places he celebrated in as eco-friendly a way as possible.
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Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - cappuccino and vegan steak bake. ☕️
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Anna Jones’ squash and crispy kale pizza recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: Pizza is a big part of my life. It’s both my and my four-year-old’s favourite food, so a lot of our meals revolve around it, and happily so. We are lucky enough to live in a part of London where there are good sourdough pizza places every 10 steps. In pizza terms, we are spoilt rotten.
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Whipped feta, potato stew: Anna Jones’ recipes from Greece 🔗 — Excerpt: One of the things I need to remedy is is not having spent enough time in Greece. I’ve been there only twice (both times to the islands), but I find myself daydreaming about being there more than any other place. I think that’s why I cook so much Greek food.
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Currently reading: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan 📚
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Australia certainly dominated the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final to win their fifth title. Not as competitive a match as their game with India earlier in the tournament suggested it would be, but impressive to watch. 🏏
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🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Just Joans (46), Finley Quaye (31), Cornershop (30), Anaïs Mitchell (15) & Finley Quaye & Beth Orton (1) via tweekly.fm
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Early Sunday morning (UK) watching and listening - coverage of India v Australia in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. 🏏
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England beat Wales 33-30 in a thrilling Six Nations encounter 🔗 🏉
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Twickenham Stadium. England v Wales, Six Nations 🏉
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Prince Blucher. Drinking a London Pride by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺 🍺
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Comptoir Libanais. Check in 🗺 - breakfast.
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Cornershop’s England is a Garden - 5* review in _The Times_today. Ample Play 🎵
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Premier Inn London Kingston Upon Thames. Check in 🗺
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The Bishop. Check in 🗺 🍺 - drinking a Young’s London Special by Eagle Brewery (formerly Charles Wells)
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A Quietus Interview 🎵 🔗 — Excerpt: Duncan Seaman talks to Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres of Cornershop about keeping busy, Brexit and their ace new album England Is A Garden.
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I was looking forward to watching the India v England 🏏 semi-final this morning but … Women’s T20 World Cup: England out but India into final after washout 🔗
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Bar 44. Check in 🗺 - brilliant tapas, as usual!
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: Vision - Hawk-eyed. Fresco by Giandomenico Tiepolo. (Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, 2019) 📷
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Florentino’s Ristorante & Pizzeria. Check in 🗺
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England playing West Indies in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup - a victory for England will send them through to the semi-finals. 🏏
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♫ My Top weekly artists: Berlin Philharmonic, Jonas Kaufmann, Magdalena Kožená & Sir Simon Rattle (9), Berlin Philharmonic, Jonas Kaufmann, Kostas Smoriginas & Sir Simon Rattle (5), Berlin Philharmonic & Sir Simon Rattle (4), Berlin Philharmonic.. via tweekly.fm
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Leap - Water still leaping out of the ground in Mountain Ash today - a lot more rain over the last couple of days. 📷
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“Que sais-je?” - Michel de Montaigne, philosopher, was born #onthisday 1533 bbc.in/2uDemjc 🔗
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: Below - At the WNO performance of Carmen last night we literally had back row seats. Everything was below us. 📷
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Wales Millennium Centre. Check in 🗺 - Carmen, Welsh National Opera.
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Las Iguanas. Check in 🗺 - cocktails, wine and bar snacks in Cardiff Bay. Weather is gorgeous. ☀️
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Hotel Indigo Cardiff. Check in 🗺
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: Together - Birch & Ivy 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: Escape 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: Hurdle - Panathenaic Stadium, Athens, 2018. There have definitely been hurdles here in the past… 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: Double - Lift (photo from January 2018) 📷
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Porto Lounge. Check in 🗺 - for a Beyond burger and Malbec 🍷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: Station - Aberdare station this afternoon. Deserted because the line is still closed due to Storm Dennis flooding in the Cynon Valley. 📷
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Rhoswenallt Inn. Check in 🗺 🍺 — Drinking a Try Time by Glamorgan Brewing Co
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♫ My Top weekly artists: Suede (34), The Just Joans (24), Marika Hackman (22), Goldfrapp (20) & Laetitia Sadier (19) via tweekly.fm
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: Spectacle - Watching Wales v France in the Six Nations 🏉 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: Progress - Progress up an escalator. There’s been a lot more progress since this was taken with my first digital camera in April 2004, when my daughter wasn’t quite even 3 years old. 📷
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ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 🏏 starts today - good to see full TV coverage in the UK (Sky), plus BBC TMS commentaries. Most matches on at a reasonable UK time too - watching Australia Women v India Women with breakfast this morning.
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: Scale - Home in the South Wales Valleys (courtesy of a trip to Legoland in 2008) 📷
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Klaus Thomsen, Coffee Collective on The Idealists podcast 🔗 — Excerpt: To evade the so-called coffee paradox, four coffee enthusiasts set out to form the Coffee Collective in 2007 in Copenhagen. Hear how co-founder Klaus Thomsen built a sustainable business with a mission to create the best coffee experiences in the world while bringing better returns to the farmers.
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Space - Sal, Cape Verde, April 2016 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: Oppose 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: Cool - Commercial Street, Aberdare 📷
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3rd T20I between South Africa and England - Superb performance by Eoin Morgan to win the game for England. Good game. 🏏
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3rd T20I between South Africa and England - South Africa set a total of 222, some spectacular hitting by the South African batsmen and a difficult total to chase down. 🏏
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Watching the 3rd T20I 🏏 between South Africa and England, the final and decisive T20 match of England’s tour of South Africa. I have really enjoyed this series, the Test matches, ODIs and T20 games have all been competitive and entertaining to follow, both on TV and radio (unexpectedly because coverage was on TalkSport rather than BBC TMS).
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Rest 📷
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♫ My Top 5 weekly artists: Michael Kiwanuka (14), Pet Shimmers (13), The Just Joans (10), Caitlin Rose (9) & Goldfrapp (3) via tweekly.fm
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: Balance - Taking today’s prompt literally… 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: Warmth - Picante! Spanish pimentón is one of my favourite flavours and I’m always reluctant to throw the decorative tins away 📷
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Watched: Ad Astra, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: Rise - Breakfast coffee rising through a Moka pot 📷
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Nant Ddu Hotel and Spa. Check in 🗺 - lunch.
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: Attachment 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: Plain 📷
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I’ve been reading articles at The Correspondent for a few months now. Episode 13 of The Idealists podcast has an interview with the founding editor – Rob Wijnberg, The Correspondent. Some refreshing views on news and journalism. 🔗
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Sign 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: Lull - Need a lull in Storm Ciara to deal with a tree that’s blown down into our garden 📷
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♫ My Top 5 weekly artists: David Bowie (37), Goldfrapp (28), Anaïs Mitchell (20), Pet Shimmers (12) & Michael Kiwanuka (11) via tweekly.fm
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While We’re Young, 2014 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday February 9, 2020.
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: Contrast - Some of my 2 Tone vinyl from the late 1970s 📷 🎵
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: Above - Wind turbines on the hills above Aberdare 📷
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Currently reading: The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel 📚
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Plant - Winter morning herbs: frozen oregano and rosemary 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: Hide - I cannot claim credit for this photo, but I am the subject (concealed in a farmhouse in the St Fagans National Museum of History). My daughter took and post-processed the photograph for an A-Level Photography project. 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Spot - In honour of Day 4, my attempt at a vegan Spotted Dick using a slight variation on this recipe. It will look better with custard! 📷
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Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Reflect - Cardiff Bay, Saturday 18th January 2020 📷
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♫ My Top 5 weekly artists: Pascal Rogé (17), Xylouris White (11), Abbado, BPO, Argerich (3), Martha Argerich (3) & Bernstein, NYPO (1) via tweekly.fm
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Andy Gill: Gang of Four’s genius guitarist who burned a route out of punk 🔗 — Excerpt: Britain’s late 70s provincial punk scenes were seldom places for the faint-hearted, but few were as starkly polarised as that in Leeds.
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Sight - An old Philip Harris microscope 📷
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The Discover tab in Micro.blog’s Sunlit app is a brilliant way to browse February Photoblogging Challenge contributions. The timeline grid there goes a long way back. // @macgenie
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Cooked Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fried potatoes and eggs for Sunday brunch. Very comforting! Had to use a wok because I didn’t have a lidded frying pan with enough room for nearly 1.5kg of potatoes.
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The Mad Bishop & Bear. ESB, watching Wales v. Italy Six Nations rugby, waiting for a train to Cardiff. 🏉 🍺 — Drinking an ESB by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
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Pisqu. Peruvian restaurant, very fresh and tasty food! Check in 🗺
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Open - Books on display in the William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain 📷
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The Parthenon Rooms. At the British Museum to see the ‘Troy: myth and reality’ exhibition. Check in 🗺
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Café In The Crypt. Check in 🗺. Coffee in a crypt - tables are on gravestones. A little strange…
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National Gallery. Check in 🗺
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Tate Britain. Tate Britain, mainly to see the William Blake exhibition. Check in 🗺
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The Jack Horner. Brilliant beer! — Drinking an ESB by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
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Tate Modern. Check in 🗺
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Tate Modern - Kara Walker: Fons Americanus - review 🔗
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Keats Bar at the Globe. Drinking a London Pride by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
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Keats House, Hampstead
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Keats House. Check in 🗺
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Pret A Manger. Mornington Crescent. Check in 🗺 - veggie New Yorker sandwich and flat white ☕️
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St Pancras Old Church - memorial stone to Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and The Hardy Tree.
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St Pancras Old Church. Check in 🗺
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Royal Festival Hall. Check in 🗺
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Margarita, wine and Brazilian dough balls by the Thames in winter 🥶
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The Wheatsheaf. Drinking a Landlord by Timothy Taylor. Check in 🗺
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Shelley in London: Poland Street 🔗 — Excerpt: Soho is my favourite part of London. I love walking from Oxford Circus to Leicester Square, dipping into Covent Garden.
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A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue 🔗 — Excerpt: Although I visit the British Library from time to time I always find myself too exhausted or too worried about getting stuck with rush hour crowds to spend an hour or so at St Pancras Old Church.
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Mary in St Pancras 🔗 — Excerpt: And then outside, to try to find Mary’s memorial. It is doubtful how much she would have recognised: some items (especially gravestones) have moved, and many (especially tombs) post-date her death, viz the Burdett-Coutts memorial sundial, the image to the left.
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Mary in Somers Town 🔗 — Excerpt: A few days ago I went exploring, with Chihiro Umegaki, the Japanese historian mentioned earlier, and the Swedish performance designer Asa Norling. (Åsa had read the Scandinavian letters, and commented that Mary hadn’t much liked the Swedes.
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Cardiff Bay to Penarth - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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Weekly ♫ My Top 3 artists: Donovan (31), David Bowie (15)
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Nant Ddu Hotel and Spa. Check in 🗺 - katsu cauliflower curry.
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In Fabric, 2018 - ★★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2020.
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2020.
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Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - vegan steak bake and espresso ☕️
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Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Drinking a Plastered Pheasant by Quantock Brewery. Check in 🗺
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Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: The Just Joans (32), David Bowie (25), Andreas Staier (9), Glenn Gould (5)
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Lezzet. Fantastic Turkish restaurant!. Check in 🗺
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Duke Of Wellington. Drinking SA Gold by Brains. Check in 🗺
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The Waterguard. Keg not cask :( — Drinking an Old Brewery Bitter by Samuel Smith. Check in 🗺
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McDonald’s. Check in 🗺 - Egg McMuffin and latte ☕️
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Revolucion de Cuba. Check in 🗺 - Malbec & Mojito 🍷
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Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: The Just Joans (48), Walter, Columbia SO (10), Grateful Dead (9), Dorati, Royal Concertgebouw O., Schiff (6)
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Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - double espresso and toast. ☕️
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, 2019 - ★★★★½
Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2020.
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Doors drummer, John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’ 🔗 — Excerpt: It took the Doors’ drummer, John Densmore, three years to visit the grave of his bandmate Jim Morrison after he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971. He didn’t even go to the funeral. “Did I hate Jim?” Densmore pauses, although he is not obviously alarmed by the question. “No.
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How to make the perfect broccoli and stilton soup 🔗 — Excerpt: So entrenched is broccoli and stilton in my canon of classic soups – well up there with the likes of tomato, minestrone and chicken broth – that I’m slightly taken aback not to find it in Lindsey Bareham’s comprehensive collection A Celebration of Soup, or indeed in any of the other books I
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In Bristol, dropping my daughter back off at university after the Xmas break.
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Porto Lounge. Check in 🗺 - Malbec 🍷
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For the sake of balance, 🍷 … (sitting outside a pub in Bristol with LOTS of ‘vintage’ signs)
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Masons Arms. Drinking a Henry’s IPA by Wadworth
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Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Claude Debussy (36), The Smiths (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Sigmatropic (6)
