It’s been over a week since it snowed. Everything lower down in the valley has completely melted but it’s still a different (cold!) world when you enter our garden.
Strictly Ballroom, 1992 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday January 22, 2023.
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (18), Sleaford Mods (14), Kae Tempest (12), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (9) & London Symphony Chorus, Leonard Bernstein & London Symphony Orchestra (5) via tweekly.fm
Spritzes and crosswords in the snow.
📺 Inspector Morse : Deceived by Flight
De-icing again, still can’t get the car to the top of our drive.
Snowy morning
Ian Mason
Snowy morning
Location check in 🗺 — Sonny Stores, Bristol
🔎 Zoom in
🕦 🙏 Time Machine
The Last Samurai, 2003 - ★★★
Watched on Monday January 16, 2023.
🛒 Sadly in Merthyr Retail Park
Sunday morning. I don’t usually let our cat sleep next to my desk - the shed hair becomes an annoyance 🙄
This morning she persisted, probably because nobody else is up and the bedroom doors are shut. I gave up trying to discourage her. Won’t be for long though 🐈 💤
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jake Blount (63), The Animals (14), Raffaele Grimaldi (8), Anna Friederike Potengowski (1) & Anna Friederike Potengowski & Georg Wieland Wagner (1) via tweekly.fm
Finished reading: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza edited by John Daido Loori 📚
Finished reading: Ten Poems about Music: The Blue Album introduced by Cerys Matthews 📚
Additional fact from the book 🙂🎵 :
John Cage’s composition As Slow as Possible began being played in St Burchardi’s Church, Germany in 2001 and is scheduled to end in the year 2640.
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jake Thackray (55), Fontaines D.C. (49), Slow Club (18), PJ Harvey (14) & Georges Brassens (13) via tweekly.fm
Bar 44, Clifton, Bristol. Excellent tapas 🍷
Location check in 🗺 — The Quadrant, Clifton. Tribute 🍺
🔎 Zoom in
Traffic delays and rainbows 🌈
🛣️ Motorwaying to Bristol to pick up my daughter and have a late lunch in Clifton.
🛠 Tinkering with web design (again) 🕸️
Finished reading: On Connection by Kae Tempest 📚
Grey and rainy day in Aberdare ☔️
🍞 Preparing bread
⏰ Early morning Bank Holiday of course