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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

BBC National Orchestra of Wales 🎡
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

PaweΕ‚ KapuΕ‚a conductor
Sterling Elliott cello

Marta PtaszyΕ„ska
A Winter’s Tale

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – overture

**Ludwig van Beethoven **
Symphony No. 2 in D major

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music 🏷 Wales

Cardiff Bay

A pint of beer sits on a table overlooking a waterfront view with trees and a distant building.
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography

Location check in β€” The Mount Stuart, Cardiff Bay - a nice strong ale, Wobbly Bob 🍺
πŸ—Ί Map of area

Google satellite map showing location pin

πŸ”Ž Zoom in

πŸ“† | 🏷 Location 🏷 Beer

Tuesday 26th May 2026, 9:00am

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Kitchen, lounge, bedroom

Have had these thermometers for a couple of years and yesterday all recorded new maximum temperatures 🌞

πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Weather

Finished reading: The Medici Secret by Michael White πŸ“š

πŸ“† | 🏷 Books

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Bertrand Chamayou (48 plays), Bob Dylan (18), Amelia Cuni (15), Alexei Lubimov (14), Handley, RLPO, Little (6)

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Black Box Recorder (18 plays), Shovel Dance Collective (14), John Francis Flynn (8), Handley, RLPO, Little (6), Harding, BPO, Zimmermann (6)

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff 🎡

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Alexandre Bloch conductor
Veronika Eberle violin

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major

Sir George Benjamin
Concerto for Orchestra

Richard Strauss
Tod und VerklΓ€rung (Death and Transfiguration)

An orchestra is performing in a large concert hall filled with an audience.
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Music 🏷 Wales

Watched: Greenland 2: Migration, 2026 - β˜…β˜…Β½ πŸŽ₯

πŸ“† | 🏷 FilmTV

Watched: Greenland, 2020 - β˜…β˜…β˜… πŸŽ₯

Watching for a second time after more than 5 years. A little better than I remembered.

πŸ“† | 🏷 FilmTV

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Joseph Szigeti, Benny Goodman & BΓ©la BartΓ³k (38 plays), Home Counties (20), Shovel Dance Collective (10), Vladimir Verbitsky, St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (8), Ed O’Brien (7)

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music

Thatchers Pavilion 🏏

A sports stadium features a seating area in front of a modern building, with a lush green field in the foreground and a cloudy sky above.
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Cricket

Sunny and very warm at Aberdare Station this morning. Setting out for Sophia Gardens again for Day 2 of Glamorgan v Somerset πŸπŸš†

A sleek, modern train is parked at a sunlit station platform with a few people standing nearby.
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Cricket

Just looking at some Italian beers:

  • Moretti (owned by Heineken)
  • Peroni (owned by Asahi)
  • Poretti (owned by Carlsberg)

All old Italian breweries but this is the way of the 🍺 world.

πŸ“† | 🏷 Beer

Not that busy here. Under 1,000 spectators in a 15,000 capacity ground 😞

A bearded man wearing a cap and sunglasses sits in a stadium with rows of blue seats under a partly cloudy sky.
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography
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