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July 2025
: England 🏴 v 🇪🇸 Spain UEFA Women’s Euro Final underway ⚽️
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Neschling, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, …
: More from Joe Root 🏏 He’s now gone past Ricky Ponting to be the second all-time Test run scorer, …
: Roooot! Century for Joe Root! His 38th Test hundred 🏏 He’s also up to third in the all-time Test run …
: UEFA Women’s Euro - Semi-finals - England 🏴 2-1 🇮🇹 Italy after extra time with another …
: UEFA Women’s Euro - Semi-finals - England equalise 5 minutes into added time to make it England …
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Glamorgan now batting. Kent all out for 155 🌼🏏
Wes Agar bowling to Asa Tribe.
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
Sophia Gardens for County Championship, Day 1 of Glamorgan v Kent 🏏
Asitha …
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Film log - watched: The Time Travelers, 1964 - ★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: Quintet, 1979 - ★★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: On the Beach, 1959 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Four parts tomato juice, not five ✅
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Böhm, Prague National Theatre Orchestra, …
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Trying to support our local pub, which is under new management. Good beer - plus they even serve …
: Finished reading: Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed With the End of the World by Dorian …
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Reading on a quiet beach 📖
Llantwit Major 🏴
: Location check in — Llantwit Major beach 🌊 🗺 Map of area
: Sweden 🇸🇪 2-2 🏴 England after extra time. Penalties ⚽️
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Coco’s Coffee & Candles, Aberdare
Americano, Alex Gooch sourdough toast, marmalade ☕️
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Film log - watched: A Complete Unknown, 2024 - ★★★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥
: Bashir takes the final wicket to give England a 22 run victory. Fascinating and dramatic Test match …
: Final session at Lord’s then. I wasn’t expecting the match to last this long, still with the outcome …
: Jofra Archer bowls Pant! Great delivery, vital wicket 🏏
: Day 5 of the 3rd Test England 🏴 v 🇮🇳 India at Lord’s. Unpredictable! 🏏
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra (43 plays), Furtwängler, …
: And another superb ball from Bumrah to dismiss Root. Plenty happening this morning on the second day …
: Great delivery by Bumrah to dismiss Stokes 🏏
: First ball 4 for a Joe Root century at Lord’s 👏 🏏
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Not an advert, but this pizza was surprisingly good for a supermarket pizza 🍕
: ☀️ 📻 🏏 🌱 Heatwave, TMS, garden
: Currently reading: L.A.Baby! by Tim Key 📚
: England 🏴 v 🇳🇱 Netherlands about to start ⚽️
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Film log - watched: These Final Hours, 2013 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: 28 Weeks Later, 2007 - ★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: 28 Days Later, 2002 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: Deep Impact, 1998 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Bonney, Kirchschlager, …
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Wales Millennium Centre for The Book of Mormon 🎵
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First time I’ve seen official merch stores set up and open outside the stadium more than two days …
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New hat for Glamorgan v Gloucestershire #OhGlammyGlammy 🏏😊
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Couldn’t make it for County Cricket Day on Sunday, but I am at Sophia Gardens today for Day 4 of …
June 2025
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solitude — day 30 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Manorbier, September 2021
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winding — day 29 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Porto, April 2025
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Franz Ferdinand (34 plays), Stanley Brinks (25), …
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ephemeral — day 28 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
: The Eternaut, Netflix 2025 - ★★★★★ 📺
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collective — day 27 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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bridge — day 26 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Bath, March 2023
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Film log - watched: Warfare, 2025 - ★★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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decay — day 25 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Thasos 🇬🇷, 2022
: England 🏴 v 🇮🇳 India, First Test, day five, Headingley 📺🏏 So glad the rain has held off …
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bloom — day 24 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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fracture — day 23 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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hometown — day 22 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Aberdare, Wales 🏴
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: David Bowie (39 plays), Stanley Brinks (25), Jackson …
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silhouette — day 21 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Of course I had to try the relaunched Double Diamond 🍺
It’s not too bad, a fairly light and …
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gather — day 20 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
London, 2015
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equal — day 19 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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texture — day 18 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Alfred Brendel obituary 🎵 Alfred Brendel, pianist, born 5 January 1931; died 17 June 2025
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warmth — day 17 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Film log - watched: I Am Legend, 2007 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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blur — day 16 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Wine tasting in Cardiff City Stadium 🍷
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tie — day 15 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Porthleven, Cornwall, February …
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Thee Oh Sees (18 plays), Los Thuthanaka (8), Elbow …
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twilight — day 14 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Cardiff Central 🚉
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Elbow, The Coral and Billie Marten at Cardiff Castle last night 🏰 🎵
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pathway — day 13 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Igreja do Carmo, Porto, April …
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hidden — day 12 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
King’s Quoit, Neolithic burial …
: Location check in — Heraklion Airport. Cheese and spinach pie. Red wine 🛫 🍷 🗺 Map of area
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brick — day 11 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Bruegel House, Brussels, 2024
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Final night’s retsina! Probably the best of the ones I’ve tried on this trip.
: Location check in — Kyknos Taverna, Gouves 🇬🇷 🗺 Map of area
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Early evening retsina. Not a lot of info on the label but it’s marked 1895 on the crown cap so I …
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rail — day 10 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Athens, 2018
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Tonight’s retsina, from Peza Agricultural Union, Crete 🇬🇷
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wood — day 9 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Currently reading: Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed With the End of the World by Dorian …
: Finished reading: Second Place by Rachel Cusk 📚
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travel — day 8 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Heraklion International Airport …
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Kato Gouves Beach. 📍
Capturing the sunset 🌅
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Tonight’s retsina - Mihalis Georgiadis. From the label the winery appears to be based in …
: Currently reading: Second Place by Rachel Cusk 📚 A female narrator, M, invites a famous painter, L, …
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Jacques Brel (40 plays), Paul Simon (40), The Who …
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We have a sea view from our balcony. Just need to zoom in a little 🔭😄
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switch — day 7 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Location check in — Artemis Apartments, Kato Gouves, Crete 🇬🇷 🗺 Map of area
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contrast — day 6 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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reflection — day 5 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Lord Merthyr, Aberdare Park
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nostalgia — day 4 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Feeding the pigeons in …
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Film log - watched: The Two Faces of January, 2014 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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shadow — day 3 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Porto, April 2025
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curve — day 2 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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tree — day 1 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Rectory Park, Sutton Coldfield. I …
: That was quite close! Joe Root saved the day 👏🏏 Joe Root became England’s leading run-scorer in …
: Location check in — Sophia Gardens, England v West Indies ODI 🏏 🗺 Map of area
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Who (42 plays), The Beautiful South (20), …
May 2025
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Film log - watched: Captain America: Brave New World, 2025 - ★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: The Doors: Live at the Bowl ‘68, 1987 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
: Finished reading: Cricket in Poetry: Run-Stealers, Gatlings and Graces by Bob Doran 📚
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Metallica (25 plays), Peter Doherty (22), Carolyn …
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Northeast and Carlson go on to both get their centuries 👏🏏
Glamorgan 266-3
: Northeast and Carlson steadying the innings - both getting their half centuries. Glamorgan 174-3 🏏
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
Clouds starting to clear, should be another sunny day!
Glamorgan batting first on …
: Location check in — Aberdare Station 🚉 🗺 Map of area
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Film log - watched: Infinity Pool, 2023 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Roger Waters (15 plays), Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke …
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Had to move to a higher viewpoint - it was getting a little hot in the sun low down in the stands …
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
County Cricket day again - Day 1 of Glamorgan v Northamptonshire at Sophia Gardens …
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Franz Ferdinand (45 plays), Blur (31), Pink Floyd …
: Currently reading: Cricket in Poetry: Run-Stealers, Gatlings and Graces by Bob Doran 🏏📚
: Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚
: Currently reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Blur (69 plays), Carolyn Sampson; Bach Collegium Japan …
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Film log - watched: The Commitments, 1991 - ★★★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
Drinking a pint of Glamorgan Brewing Co 1888 Pale Ale whilst watching Glamorgan v …
: Finished reading: Scarpia by Piers Paul Read 📚
April 2025
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Film log - watched: Flintoff, 2025 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: Living, 2022 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
: Currently reading: Scarpia by Piers Paul Read 📚
: Finished reading: What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt 📚
: 🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Kinks (36 plays), Jeremy Pelt (17), Stacey Kent …
: Aston Villa last won the FA Cup in 1957 ⚽️
: Saturday afternoon - a prawn curry, a pint of Old Peculier 🍺 and watching 📺 Crystal Palace v Aston …
: Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Leif Ove Andsnes (24 plays), Roger Waters (22), Lankum …
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Film log - watched: Gladiator II, 2024 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Birthday lunch at The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd - oven roasted miso cod, wild rice, red pepper & …
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Film log - watched: Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity, 2025 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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My daughter’s birthday today. We were with a mixed clientele in the pub.
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The Grace. 📍
Some wax clearance needed 🕯️
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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. 📍
A Ton of Tea
Ai Weiwei
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Harding, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa …
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The Grace. 📍
Blue Sky Drinking by Arbor Brewery 🍺
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Mercado Bom Sucesso. 📍
Today’s itinerary:
: O Manel’s. 📍 Brilliant food!
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Three days in Porto 🇵🇹
Tourist and selfie poses 😁
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: KT Tunstall (14 plays), The Loft (10), Goose (5), …
: Location check in — HF Fénix, Porto 🏨 🗺 Map of area
: Glamorgan 1st innings, all out for 229 🏏
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Teatime repairs - Glamorgan 181-8 🏏
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And this afternoon I’ve had to put sun cream on 🌞🏏
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
The wicket at lunch - Glamorgan 90-3 🏏
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Gray and slightly chilly start to the day at Sophia Gardens for the first day of the County …
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First time on one of the new South Wales Metro electric trains 🚊
: Film log - watched: Hammer Films - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: A Real Pain, 2024 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
: Location check in — a brisk morning walk in Rectory Park, Sutton Coldfield🚶♂️ 🗺 Map of area
March 2025
: Second goal for Rashford within five minutes ⚽️
: Goal for Marcus Rashford - his first for Villa 👏 ⚽️
: Looking forward to the FA Cup Quarter-final - Preston North End v Aston Villa, kicking off at 13:30 …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (72 plays), Julian Cope …
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Early morning spring walk through town.
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Location check in — ABBA Voyage 🎵
🗺 Map of area
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Location check in — Greenwich Market
🗺 Map of area
: Currently reading: What Remains by Hannah Arendt 📚
: Location check in — Premier Inn, Greenwich 🏨 🗺 Map of area
: Finished reading: The Red Hollow by Natalie Marlow 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: clipping. (27 plays), The Specials (26), Field Music …
: 🎥 The Electric State (2025) ★★
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Bonk (31 plays), Goose (22), Pet Shimmers (21), …
: Wow! First half of France 🇫🇷 v 🏴 Scotland was incident (penalty!) packed and close. Don’t know …
: Wales 🏴 14 - 68 🏴 England 🏉 England superb today. Wales' heaviest defeat in Cardiff in …
: 🔗 Sophia Gardens in Washington DC? Glamorgan thrilled with their new Welsh Fire partners 🏏 Sanjay …
: 📺 Small Town, Big Story (2025)
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Micro Bar, Bike Repairs, Brushes, Burgers - in Monmouth.
: Listening to (and hopefully watching some of) the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy Final - India 🇮🇳 vs 🇳🇿 …
: Currently reading: The Red Hollow by Natalie Marlow 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Flora Hibberd (18 plays), Manic Street Preachers (12), …
: After the first twenty minutes France have been relentless 🇫🇷 🏉 👏
: Watching Ireland 🇮🇪 v 🇫🇷 France 🏉, having some Torres Black Truffle Potato Crisps (which are superb …
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I must down to the seas again
Sea-Fever
John Masefield, born 1878, Ledbury
: Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚
: Been having a few days holiday in gorgeous weather but it’s raining tonight. So we’re confined in a …
: Currently reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚
: Location check in — Aconbury Camp Iron Age Hill Fort 🗺 Map of area
: Finished reading: The Witcher: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 📚
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Hot tub as the sun goes down 🌅
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Having a margarita at sunset in a hot tub 🌅🍸
: Currently reading: Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape by Carwyn Graves 📚
: Finished reading: Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini 📚
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Ewes’ Retreat, Wye Valley. In a shepherd’s hut for a few days 😁
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Prêtre, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, …
February 2025
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The day’s produce, created whilst watching and listening to Afghanistan v England 😊
: Afghanistan’s highest score in ICC ODI tournaments 325-7. Ibrahim Zadran hits 177 - the highest ever …
: Over bowled by Joe Root just hit for 23 🫣🏏
: So far so good in today’s Champions Trophy match 🏴 🏏
: Finished reading: Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 📚
: 🔗 Champions Trophy 2025: Australia-South Africa abandoned in Rawalpindi 🌧️ 🏏
: 🔗 Seven planets align in UK skies this week for last time until 2040 Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, …
: Went for a walk because it’s raining in Rawalpindi and the cricket hasn’t started. Photographing …
: 🎥 Asteroid City (2023) ★★★★★
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This package from Finland worried me slightly 😀💿🎵
According to Google Translate the text by the …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Gui, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, …
: England giving Australia some catching practice 😞 🏏
: Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴 England 🏏, Wales 🏴 v 🇮🇪 Ireland 🏉, England 🏴 v 🏴 Scotland …
: ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 starts today with Pakistan 🇵🇰 v 🇳🇿 New Zealand in Karachi. Then it’s …
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Maria by Callas, 2017 - ★★★★★
Fascinating sequence of archive footage - including performances, interviews and home movies. No …
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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, 2024 - ★★½
Less enjoyable and less interesting than Part One.
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Bridget Jones's Baby, 2016 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Böhm, Prague National Theatre Orchestra, …
: Currently reading: Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini 📚
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Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, 2023 - ★★★½
Despite reading a number of very bad reviews of this film I quite enjoyed it as a sci-fi/fantasy …
: Yesterday I cooked the recipe for slow cooked Sifnos Chickpeas shared by Jeremy Cherfas …
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Trying a white stout for the first time.
Nethergate Brewery White Stout 🍺
This new hazy beer is …
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I haven’t used Flickr too much recently but I am now trying their 21st birthday 21 Day Flickr …
: Blocked pathways I encountered fallen trees on my walk, prompting me to explore Micro.blog photo collections.
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Location check in — One night stay at Hotel du Vin, The Sugar House, Bristol.
🗺 Map of area
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Klemperer, Philharmonia, Gedda, Janowitz, Schwarzkopf, …
: What a dramatic finish! 🏴 🏉
: Halftime in England 🏴 v 🇫🇷 France, last half hour has been good to watch. Definitely looking …
: Pre-match beer is a Fuller’s London Porter. Italy 🇮🇹 v 🏴 Wales shortly 🏉🍺
: Severance S2E4 Woe’s Hollow - that was a wild ride 📺
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Apollo 11, 2019 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.
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Gladiator, 2000 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.
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Following the red brick road
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Alien: Romulus, 2024 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.
: Question about Tapestry @manton - I can get posts from Mastodon opening in Ivory and posts from …
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Detour required on my walk today 🌳🚶♂️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Franz Ferdinand (28 plays), Flora Hibberd (11), …
January 2025
: Some brilliant play by France but would have liked to see Wales score some points 😞 🏉
: Plans for tonight: cook a paella 🥘 then watch the opening Six Nations 🏉 match, France 🇫🇷 v 🏴 …
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Civil War, 2024 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.
: Location check in — Pint of Butty Bach 🍺 and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps at the Old Kings …
: Pint of Felinfoel Double Dragon 🍺 and a packet of Scampi Fries at Pembroke Power Station Sports & …
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Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.
: 8 sixes and 5 fours in 25 balls. Extraordinary batting display by Mitch Owen for the Hobart …
: Storm Herminia. Yellow warnings in place for wind and heavy rain 🌧️ So staying in watching the Big …
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Fly Me to the Moon, 2024 - ★★★
Enjoyed as a Sunday afternoon film.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Phish (48 plays), OddLeaf (24), Hector Zazou (12), …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Anastasia Kobekina & Kammerorchester Basel (11 plays), …
: Currently reading: Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Phish (20 plays), Abbado, Orchestra del Teatro alla …
: Finished reading: Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young 📚🎵
: Snowy Sunday morning – fire lit, watching Hobart Hurricanes v Adelaide Strikers 🇦🇺🏏❄️🔥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Phish (50 plays), Kim Deal (22), Paul Clayton (19), …
December 2024
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Settling down for a quiet New Year’s Eve 🍸
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Love Actually, 2003 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw …
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Our family Christmas dinner this year was a Mexican themed menu 🌮 🇲🇽
Cooked from three cookbooks, …
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Happy Christmas! Not sure how long she’ll tolerate her #Catmas collar 🐈 🎁
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Julian Cope (11 plays), Arooj Aftab (9), Yannis & The …
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Having the first of my Xmas beers 🍺
: Watching 📺 my first match in the Big Bash League this year - Adelaide Strikers vs Melbourne Stars. …
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Redcliffe Bascule Bridge, Bristol
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Clarissa Connelly (11 plays), Julian Cope (11), David …
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Watching the Strictly Come Dancing Final with family & friends 💃🕺
Champagne 🥂 Beer 🍺 Port 🍷 Snacks …
: Location check in — El Diablo Tacos & Margs 🇲🇽 🗺 Map of area
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The Legend of Hell House, 1973 - ★★★★★
Still my favourite horror/haunted house film.
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First sighting of a jay (Garrulus glandarius) feeding in the garden this winter.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Kim Deal (22 plays), The Smile (15), Michael Kiwanuka …
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Emergency lighting evening. Will be attempting Trivial Pursuit by candlelight accompanied by cheese …
: Power out since 2pm due to the high winds. National Grid say it’s expected to be restored by midday …
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Storm Darragh 💨
Tree down in garden
Gate not happy 😢
Just missed greenhouse and shed
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1954 Pegaso Z-102
Originally posted on Glass
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1971 Matra 530 LX
Originally posted on Glass
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Between bouts of heavy rain and wind I managed about 10 miles of morning walks this week 🚶♂️
Dare …
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Misty morning walk in Dare Valley Country Park 🚶♂️
Originally posted on Glass
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Foals (15 plays), Stornoway (14), Yannis & The Yaw …
November 2024
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The Hunt, 2020 - ★★
Watched on Saturday November 30, 2024.
: Apologies for lots of duplicate posts in the last half hour - an automated service I was using went …
: ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale & …
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Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday November 23, 2024.
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Deadpool 2, 2018 - ★★★
Watched on Friday November 22, 2024.
: Finished reading: Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon 📚
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Wolfs, 2024 - ★★★
Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.
: ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: David Bowie (46) clipping. (20) Celeste (13) Jackson Browne (10) …
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Blade Runner 2049, 2017 - ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Blade Runner, 1982 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday November 15, 2024.
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The Velvet Underground, 2021 - ★★★★★
Watched on Thursday November 14, 2024.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Originally posted on Glass
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Originally posted on Glass
: ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (20) Christy Moore (13) Karajan, BPO (6) …
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Wild God Tour - Cardiff Utilita Arena, Wednesday 6th November 2024 🎵 …
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Utilita Arena, Cardiff to see Nick Cave with Black Country, New Road as support 🎵
: Location check in — Negroni at The Alchemist, Cardiff 🍸 🗺 Map of area
: ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Cure (32) Billie Marten (18) Furtwängler, VPO (18) …
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Autumn walk
Originally posted on Glass
October 2024
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The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday October 31, 2024.
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Slightly inspired by last night’s Great British Bake Off, my autumnal-ish bake today is a mushroom, …
: ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Nico (23) The Smile (20) The Cure (17) Billie Marten (13) Laura …
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Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert, 1981 - ★★★★★
Watched on YouTube - youtu.be/edXvLGqLtmM - superb 🎵
: Currently reading: Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young 📚
: ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Smile (25) Claire Booth & Ensemble 360 (20) Elbow (16) Holly …
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Red Admiral basking in today’s sun ☀️🦋
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The First Omen, 2024 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday October 17, 2024.
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Moonlit view over Lindos on our way to our final evening meal in Rhodes at Agostinos Restaurant.
: Finished reading: The Fury by Alex Michaelides 📚
: Currently reading: The Fury by Alex Michaelides 📚
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Retsina and Hive on the beach 🏖️🍷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Paul Heaton (13 plays) The Smile (10) Field Music (5) …
: On this day 28 years ago, at roughly the time I’m posting this, my wife and I were dancing to Neil …
: Finished reading: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton 📚
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🐈 #Caturday poolside attack 😁
: Letterboxd besties 🎥 🔗 Zero people share 4 or 3 of my favourite films. A surprising number share 2 …
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Sailing into the olive grove
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Sailing into the olive grove
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: Record breaking 🏏 Some runs being scored and records set in the Pakistan 🇵🇰 v 🏴 England 1st Test 🏏 England’s …
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The Acropolis of Lindos
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The Acropolis of Lindos
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The Acropolis of Lindos
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Quite a warm walk up to the Acropolis of Lindos this afternoon 🏛️
: Finished reading: Reflections on a Marine Venus by Lawrence Durrell 📚
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Thank goodness for the tiny St Paul’s Beach, the only beach in Lindos not packed with sunbeds 🏝️ …
: Currently reading: Reflections on a Marine Venus by Lawrence Durrell 📚
: Late afternoon break from the sun to watch Villa v Man Utd in the bar ⚽️🍺
: Currently reading: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton 📚
: Finished reading: Magritte by Alex Danchev 📚 Superb book. Very informative and very well illustrated …
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Starting my vowel collection
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Demanding entry
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Alien landscape 🇬🇷
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: Currently reading: Magritte by Alex Danchev 📚
: Finished reading: Death’s End by Cixin Liu 📚
: Location check in — Lambis Studios, Lindos, Rhodes 🇬🇷 🗺 Map of area
September 2024
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin (22 plays) The Cure (16) …
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Succisa pratensis, also known as devil’s-bit or devil’s-bit scabious, is a flowering plant in the …
: Favourite Museums After a recent trip to Brussels I’ve been thinking of museums I’ve visited. My top five at the …
: Alone - The Cure Alone On Thursday 26th September 2024 The Cure released the single Alone 🎵 Birds fall from the sky, …
: Just been given 3.5kg of green tomatoes. Think I’ll be making green tomato chutney tomorrow 🍅
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, 2024 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday September 24, 2024.
: Location check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Sampling their Otley beers: Boss, Retrograde and …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Paul Simon (28 plays) Peter Alexander Jobson (4) …
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Northern Soul, 2014 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday September 22, 2024.
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The Mummy, 1959 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday September 20, 2024.
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Antiques. Rue Blaes, Brussels
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Brussels Beer Project Bailli
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La Fleur en Papier Doré, Brussels
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Window next door to La Fleur en Papier Doré, Brussels. With reflection of the windows of the building opposite 😄
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The Revenge of Frankenstein, 1958 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 15, 2024.
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Bird bath ⛲️
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Back in the UK and having margaritas at San Marino in Brixton 🍸
: Location check in 🗺 — San Marino, Brixton for margaritas 🍸
: Location check in 🗺 — Eurostar, Gare du Midi, Brussels 🚆
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Moules frites at Ploegmans, Rue Haute 148, Bruxelles, Belgium 🇧🇪
: Location check in 🗺 — Ploegmans for moules marinière 🇧🇪
: Location check in 🗺 — Le Petit Lion 🍺
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Favourite bar of yesterday - Le Coq. And Nick Cave was in the Gents 😊🍺
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Favourite bar of yesterday - La Fleur en Papier Doré 🍺
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Elbow at Cirque Royal, Koninklijk Circus, Brussels tonight. Brilliant! 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Cirque Royal Koninklijk Circus to see Elbow 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — La Fleur en Papier Doré 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Musée Magritte 🖼️
: Location check in 🗺 — B&B Hotel Brussels Centre Louise 🏨
: Location check in 🗺 — BBP Bailli. Triple Bertha wheat beer 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — St Pancras, Eurostar 🚆
: Location check in 🗺 — Premier Inn London Tower Bridge hotel 🏨
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Raised bridge. Arrived in London yesterday for the start of six day mini-break - travelling onwards …
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Three Thousand Years of Longing, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 8, 2024.
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The Water Lilies
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Dracula, 1958 - ★★★★½
Watched on Friday September 6, 2024.
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The Abominable Snowman, 1957 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday September 6, 2024.
: Finished reading: Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
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Guardian of the Grape
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White
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Red
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Vines & Poplars
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Llanerch Vineyard
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Very interesting and enjoyable visit to and tour of Llanerch Vineyard, Vale of Glamorgan yesterday …
: Location check in 🗺 — Llanerch Vineyard 🍷
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Quatermass 2, 1957 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 1, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (20 plays) Furtwängler, VPO …
August 2024
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Levels of processing.
Halide’s Process Zero
and NordStudio’s Wes Anderson - Inspired
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Summer walk
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: Joe Root hits a record 34th Test century for England. A century in both innings. England v Sri …
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I may have made some dodgy choices. Sitting in the garden on a warm but cloudy afternoon, listening …
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Seat taken
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The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday August 30, 2024.
: Hammer Films Building a list of Hammer Film Productions as I watch them 📽️ Inspired by the Hammer House of …
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X the Unknown, 1956 - ★★½
Watched on Thursday August 29, 2024.
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The Quatermass Xperiment, 1955 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday August 29, 2024.
: Currently reading: Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
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Thursday night tapas at Bar 44, Cardiff
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Laf (22 plays) Lotte Betts-Dean & James Girling (13) …
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Cardiff gull
Originally posted on Glass
: England in a tense run-chase against Sri Lanka in the first Test of the three match series 🏏 and …
: Currently reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 📚
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The Village Inn, Pontprennau. An hour or so of time to kill 🍺
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Barbarian, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday August 22, 2024.
: The weather strikes again. We were meant to be seeing New Order and The Charlatans in an outdoor …
: Location check in 🗺 — Bar 44, Cardiff for tapas 🇪🇸
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Lotte Betts-Dean & James Girling (26 plays) …
: Currently reading: Death’s End by Cixin Liu 📚
: Finished reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚
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Tetris, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday August 16, 2024.
: 🔗 Ajax beat Panathinaikos after 34-penalty shootout ⚽ Ajax beat Panathinaikos 13-12 on penalties …
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I’m not expecting too much help with the decorating this morning 🐈⬛ 💤
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Papillon, 2017 - ★★★
Watched on Wednesday August 14, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Rosie Frater-Taylor (10 plays) Lankum (9) Sean Khan & …
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Jamaican Dragon Stout in a half pint bottle. Should have bought more than one 😞🍺
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Color Out of Space, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday August 8, 2024.
: Finished reading: Don’t Be a Jerk by Brad Warner 📚
: Finished reading: Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Kinks (34 plays) Järvi, Frankfurt Radio Symphony …
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Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★½
Watched on Saturday August 3, 2024.
: Mini-barbecue for burgers time 🍔
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The Batman, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Friday August 2, 2024.
July 2024
: Watching both of the Olympic Triathlons this morning. Women’s event underway now. The swim in the …
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Weather yesterday was good enough for garden pizza 😄
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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½
Second time rewatching in a fortnight. Still impressive. Ready for Part Two now.
: Finished reading: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis 📚
: Location check in 🗺 — Aeroport de Menorca ✈️
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Hot and rocky! My phone kept overheating. But guided by Google Maps I walked to and found the site …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: PFM Premiata Forneria Marconi (34 plays) Jorge Bolet …
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Morning coffee in Menorca ☕️🇪🇸
: Currently reading: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis 📚
: Finished reading: The Box Man by Abe Kōbō 📚
: Currently reading: The Box Man by Abe Kōbō 📚
: Location check in 🗺 — Carema Beach Menorca 🇪🇸
: Abney Park - one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ garden cemeteries of London
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Andrei Rublev, 1966 - ★★★★
I’ve seen Tarkovsky’s other six films, some more than once. Now I’ve come to Andrei Rublev and of …
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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½
Watched on Monday July 15, 2024.
: I’ll probably watch some tennis and some football today 🎾⚽📺
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Secret Affair (35 plays) The Who (23) Järvi, Frankfurt …
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Ticket to Paradise, 2022 - ★★½
Watched on Saturday July 13, 2024.
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The Zone of Interest, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Saturday July 13, 2024.
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Performance, 1970 - ★★★★
Surprisingly modern. Surprisingly brutal. Quite weird.
: Brilliant. So pleased Ollie Watkins scored the winning goal #AVFC 👏⚽️ So England meet Spain on …
: Euro 24 semi-final. Netherlands 🇳🇱 v 🏴 England. 10 minutes until kickoff 😬⚽️
: Final Test for Jimmy Anderson 🏏 So wrapped up in Euro 24 football that I forgot about cricket. Today is the start of the England v …
: Euro 24. Spain 🇪🇸 v 🇫🇷 France. Half-time. That was an exceptional half of football, really looking …
: I was meant to be going to a concert at Chepstow Racecourse this evening to see Hozier and Brittany …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Scott Ross (15 plays) Evanescence (12) Paul Weller (9) …
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Election night. I’m not sure why but I’m staying up. Dual screening. Having a whisky 🥃
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Today’s kitchen experiment: Lacto-fermented green beans. Results will be known in about a fortnight …
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New premises in Aberdare for our local independent craft brewery Grey Trees Brewery 🍺
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UK General Election
Vote! 🗳️
: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for …
: Live election results watch-along: July 4th from 9:45pm - Freedom News We will chart the winners …
June 2024
: Having an oak aged gin to celebrate 🏴⚽️
: Huge sigh of relief 🏴⚽️
: FFS. Cutting it fine. Nervous wreck 🏴 ⚽️
: Euro 2024. England 🏴 v 🇸🇰 Slovakia. Half time. 0-1. Worrying ⚽️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Mishka Rushdie Momen (18 plays) The Who (17) Glenn …
: That catch by Suryakumar Yadav! 👏👏👏 Very tense last couple of overs. But South Africa just fail in …
: 4 overs to go, only 26 runs needed. South Africa impressively attacking the spin bowling. But as I …
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Also keeping an eye on the football ⚽️
: South Africa 🇿🇦 v 🇮🇳 India 🏏 Interval. India recovered that well! Going to need some good batting by …
: South Africa having a good start 🏏
: Settling down on a Saturday afternoon to watch the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Final South Africa 🇿🇦 v …
: My first viewing of the live broadcasts from Glastonbury this year. Paul Heaton with Rianne Downey …
: India 🇮🇳 v 🏴 England T20 World Cup semi-final now underway 👏🏏
: Currently reading: Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Lankum (12 plays) Mitropoulos, International Society …
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Jake Blount at St. George’s, Bristol on Friday 21st June 2024.
Jake Blount (banjo, fiddle), Gus …
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Instead of the usual one 1¼ hrs it took us over 2½ hrs to drive to Bristol last night - delays …
: Location check in 🗺 — St George’s, Bristol to see Jake Blount 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Hatchet Inn, Bristol. Proper Job 🍺
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Calvados Old Ale - 2022 Vintage
Beer choice for this evening’s Serbia 🇷🇸 v 🏴 England Euro 2024 …
: St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol
: St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol
: St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Furtwängler, BPO (12 plays) Jake Blount (12) …
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Hit Man, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday June 14, 2024.
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American Fiction, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday June 13, 2024.
: Finished reading: The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs 📚
: Currently reading: The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Ainsley, Quasthoff, …
: T20 World Cup. England 🏴 v 🇦🇺 Australia. Some rampant Australian batting, England facing a …
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Morning book, coffee & cat 📖☕️🐈
#Caturday
: USA having a fantastic start bowling against Pakistan 🏏
: England v Scotland - match abandoned. Scotland batted well and had a defendable total 🤔🌧️🏏
: England v Scotland underway now. First ever T20 match between the two countries 🏏
: England v Scotland in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup about to begin - and it’s started raining in …
: European Hornet 🦟 (Vespa crabro)
: Lankum: If microphones are put in front of us, we are going to talk about Gaza “I think that if you …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque (55 plays) Rachel …
May 2024
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Gandhi, 1982 - ★★★★★
Watched on Thursday May 30, 2024.
: Post-apocalyptic films (cloned from a BFI list 🙂) Things to Come La Jetée The War Game Planet of the Apes The …
: England v Pakistan match now abandoned 😢 On the plus side had nice samosas and bhajis at the ground …
: At Sophia Gardens for England v Pakistan T20. Constant drizzle, no play yet ☔️🏏
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A grey, rainy morning in Cardiff ☔️🏴
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Wales Millennium Centre for Nye, starring Michael Sheen 🎭
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Kavus Torabi (24 plays) Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque …
: Saturday afternoon sports viewing. England playing Pakistan at Edgbaston in the 2nd T20I. And …
: Unfortunately I missed the live Microcamp last Friday because I was away for a long weekend 🙂 Back …
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Bunch of Grapes’ vegan starters and mains. Recommended! 😋
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At the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd to try their Vegan Grill Week menu.
: 2 Tone 🎵 Exhibition at the Barbican
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Purple Hibiscus at the Barbican Centre
A new artwork by Ibrahim Mahama transforms our Lakeside …
: Location check in 🗺 — Founder’s Arms. Young’s Special beer 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Barbican Centre
: Location check in 🗺 — Hackney Empire to see Lankum perform their album False Lankum 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Abney Park Cemetery
: Stoke Newington has changed a lot since I lived there in 1982/3.
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Very continental! Made in France wine merchant on Church Street, Stoke Newington. Sparkling burgundy …
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Sunny afternoon in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. Small picnic of beer, olives and crisps 🌞
: Location check in 🗺 — Clissold Park, Stoke Newington 🌞
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I’ve been dipping my toes into the Hipstamstic world again. The app has improved a lot since the …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Paul Weller (24 plays) Kavus Torabi (8) MC5 (6) Dmitri …
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Hotel rooftop bar serving a microbrewery IPA 🍺😊
: Location check in 🗺 — Kingsland Locke, Dalston
: Location check in 🗺 — National Express coach, Cardiff to London 🚌
: Finished reading: Buried by Alice Roberts 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Maurizio Pollini (10 plays) Hozier (9) MC5 (8) Ozawa, …
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Bristol. Walking back to my daughter’s flat in the early morning.
: Looking back. Cape Verde 2016. A very old Samsung phone was used 😞
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The Killing Fields, 1984 - ★★★★½
Watched on Thursday May 9, 2024.
: 7th May 🎵 Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was first performed in Vienna on 7th May 1824. Today …
: Location check in 🗺 — Beer and cooked breakfast at Yr Ieuan Ap Iago, Aberdare 🍺
: Currently reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚
: Finished reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚
: Location check in 🗺 — Six by Nico, New York Menu and matching wines 🍷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Thom Yorke (28 plays) Roger Waters (14) Maurizio …
: Yesterday’s local election voting 🗳️ 😔 … there were low turnouts across Wales. The highest was in …
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Suspiria, 2018 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday May 2, 2024.
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Local elections today - just for the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales in our area. …
April 2024
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hometown — day 30 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon …
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drift — day 29 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Severn at Worcester
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community — day 28 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Tewkesbury Abbey
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: de Sabata, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, …
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Crossed the old Severn Bridge for a change
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surprise — day 27 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Unusual places to find a …
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critter — day 26 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Tate Modern Turbine Hall, …
: Books in Fernando Pessoa’s library, Lisbon, April 2023
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spine — day 25 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Books in Fernando Pessoa’s …
: Currently reading: Buried by Alice Roberts 📚
: Edinburgh, November 2023 🏴
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light — day 24 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Edinburgh, November 2023 …
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dreamy — day 23 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Pet Shimmers, 2019 🎵
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blue — day 22 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Thasos, July 2022 🇬🇷
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mountain — day 21 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
The Sugar Loaf, …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog (24 plays) pregoblin (16) Oscar …
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ice — day 20 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Sunny Saturday Aperol Spritz 🌞
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birthday — day 19 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
My daughter and I both had …
: Finished reading: The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris 📚
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mood — day 18 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Black Lion, Aberaeron. Quiet little beer garden (yard?) overlooked by a chapel 🍺💒
: Location check in 🗺 — Black Lion, Aberaeron - Sunny Dai by Cardigan Brewery 🍺
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Clear skies last night means there’s a little frost this morning. Sitting outside with a hot coffee …
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After a birthday day of beach, beer and pizza will be finishing with cheese (Perl Wen and Perl Las) …
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Another breezy beach walk today
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transcendence — day 17 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Saint Carannog …
: Location check in 🗺 — The Grosvenor, Cardigan - Cardigan Brewery Dai IPA 🍺
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It’s my birthday today 🎂
Got a fortune cookie to open with my cards 🥠
Better to be lucky than clever
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flâneur — day 16 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Is a beach flâneur possible? …
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Had a fantastic weekend in Bristol celebrating my daughter’s birthday - Japanese restaurant, board …
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small — day 15 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
St Thomas' Hospital, London, …
: Location check in 🗺 — The Social, Bristol for veggie breakfast and a Bloody Mary
: Prickly pears in front of olives. Kalamata, Greece, 2015
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo (12 plays) The Libertines …
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cactus — day 14 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Prickly pears in front of …
: Location check in 🗺 — Beercosm. Cheddar Ales Totty Pot Dark Porter 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Izakaya Japanese Bar, Bristol 🇯🇵
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page — day 13 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Beer festivals past. When we …
: Dare Valley Country Park, above Tarren y Bwllfa, January 2021
: Edinburgh Waverley Station, November 2023
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magic — day 12 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
A little hidden magic in …
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sky — day 11 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Edinburgh, November 2023
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train — day 10 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Edinburgh Waverley Station, …
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crispy — day 09 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
: At the Donald Gordon Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre for Death Trap, two short pieces by Rambert …
: Location check in 🗺 — Wales Millennnium Centre 🎭
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prevention — day 08 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Tate Modern, 2008
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Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday April 7, 2024.
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Ivan's Childhood, 1962 - ★★★★½
Watched on Sunday April 7, 2024.
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wellbeing — day 07 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
National Museum of …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Ainsley, Quasthoff, …
: Glamorgan declared for 620. Sam Northeast not out on 335, setting a new record run-score for a …
: Double century at Lord’s for Sam Northeast, Glamorgan captain, in his first innings of the season 👏🏏
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windy — day 06 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Dare Valley Country Park, …
: My brother has made the news! 👏🔗: ‘Once in a lifetime’ comet spotted from Derbyshire garage roof - …
: It’s the start of the County Cricket season today 🏏 A number of rain delays but Middlesex v …
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serene — day 05 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Cardiff Bay, October 2013
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foliage — day 04 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Willow
: Finished reading: Turning Over the Pebbles by Mike Brearley 📚
: Just been watching Sunil Narine opening the batting for KKR in the IPL. A brilliant 85 off 39 balls, …
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card — day 03 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
I appreciated the recent …
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flowers — day 02 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Garden primroses and heather …
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toy — day 01 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
TOY at the Green Man Festival …
March 2024
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo (29 plays) Elbow (25) …
: Finished reading: Outline by Rachel Cusk 📚
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View from the bedroom window. Woke up to a little unexpected snow this morning ❄️
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Napoleon, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday March 25, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Krček, Capella Istropolitana (39 plays) Mary Lou …
: Currently reading: Turning Over the Pebbles by Mike Brearley 📚
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Dark Encounter, 2019 - ★★★½
Strange film. Not sure what to make of it. Combination of child disappearance and alien encounter. …
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The Highwaymen, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday March 21, 2024.
: Finished reading: Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay 📚
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My bread is trying to escape! ⚠️🍞
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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday March 17, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Handley, RLPO (13 plays) Arab Strap (2) Gong (1)
: Wordle 1,000 🎉 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
: Gong at The Globe, Sunday 10th March 2024 🎵
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Gong and Ozric Tentacles at the sold out and very crowded Globe, Cardiff, Sunday 10th March 2024 📷 🎵 …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Bessie Smith (44 plays) Kendrick Lamar (19) Bessie …
: Two very close, exciting games of Six Nations rugby today. Two unexpected results for Italy 🇮🇹 and …
: Watching rugby - Italy 🇮🇹 v 🏴 Scotland - and drinking a Dead Canary 🍺🏉
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Hay-on-Wye bookshops 📚📸
Documenting in photographs some of the current bookshops in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, the world’s first …
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Now listening: Any Woman’s Blues - Bessie Smith
Playlist:
🔗 Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith 📚🎵
: 🔗 Some thoughts on International Women’s Day Speaking truth to the power of the patriarchy is …
: Currently reading: Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay 📚
: 🔗 The Long Wait Implement a genuine progress index in place of GDP At the moment, every attempt to …
: 🔗 Outrage Farming Sunak leads a government that has introduced the most draconian anti-protest laws …
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Lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd 🍺
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Sharper, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday March 4, 2024.
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The Hunger Games, 2012 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday March 3, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Nadine Shah (16 plays) Brittany Howard (12) Portishead …
February 2024
: Location check in 🗺 — Hay Distillery, sampling gins
:
Staying at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. They do excellent Wye Valley Smokery kippers for …
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Starter
Main course
Dessert
(I got distracted midway 😊)
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Captain on deck 🫡
(A little upset that AI alt text generator didn’t recognise Kirk or Picard 😆🖖)
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Someone spent too much time sorting books by spine colour 😡📚
: Now listening to Nadine Shah’s new album Filthy Underneath. It’s very good 🎵
: Woke up at quarter to seven to hear Bashir take 2 wickets in 2 balls. Will now be glued to the radio …
:
Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★★
Watched on Sunday February 25, 2024.
: Dramatic and slightly disappointing morning of cricket. Hoping for more drama in the final half an …
: BBC Hoddinott Hall Wales Millennium Centre
:
Cardiff Bay last night 📷 🎵
Senedd Cymru
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff Bay
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Suede (17 plays) Ozawa, Boston SO, Zimerman (12) …
: Wales Millennium Centre for 🎵 Folk Fusions – Japan meets Eastern Europe Takemitsu - Three Film …
: Location check in 🗺 — Cardiff Bay
: Cooking some burgers to have during Ireland 🇮🇪 v 🏴 Wales 🍔🏉
: Today’s plan: Morning 🏏 Afternoon 🏉 Evening 🎵
: England survive the first day to reach 302-7. A patient Joe Root worked hard to get a well-deserved …
: Lots of wickets in the morning session of the first day of the fourth Test. This isn’t going to be a …
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800, 2023 - ★★★★
As a sports biopic I really enjoyed this; 2h40m went by quickly! Interesting content - I learnt a …
:
Nomadland, 2020 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 20, 2024.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023 - ★★★
Watched on Monday February 19, 2024.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Grails (18 plays) Bob Marley & The Wailers (10) The …
: Location check in 🗺 — The Social, Bristol. Bloody Mary and vegan breakfast.
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Had a Sharon last night - manzanilla, sweet vermouth and Campari 🍸
: Chase of 557. Easy, plenty of time 🤣 😳 🏏
: Some brilliant batting by India now 🏏
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Preparing my new album cover 😉
: Location check in 🗺 — Root, Bristol
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Eternals, 2021 - ★★★★
A slightly different but fun Marvel spectacle. I thought the performances and the characters were …
: 🇮🇳 🏴 Ravichandran Ashwin dismisses Zak Crawley to reach 500 Test wickets. Rapid century for …
: TIL 🔗 Why mead is made for Valentine’s Day mead, a drink that newlyweds used to be given for a …
: 🏏 May need to wake up earlier. Up at 5am, only an hour’s play, and India already 39-3 🇮🇳 🏴 😳
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Wednesday February 14, 2024.
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Home screen status update!
I use the first two screens of my phone as easily accessible ‘Home’ …
: It poured with rain all day yesterday. But it was a good, lazy day. My wife had the rare day off …
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Triangle of Sadness, 2022 - ★★★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 13, 2024.
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Bird Box Barcelona, 2023 - ★★★★
In contrast to most opinions and reviews I think I preferred this to the original.
:
Italian theme tonight - spaghetti with (vegan) meatballs and Chianti Classico 🍷 🇮🇹
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Hozier (43 plays) Leon McCawley (42) Ola Szmidt (29) …
:
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday February 9, 2024.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday February 8, 2024.
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New coffee shop in town. Coco’s. Alex Gooch almond croissant and americano ☕️
: Location check in 🗺 — Coco’s, Aberdare ☕️
: Some fantastic wildlife images here: Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award winner …
: Linkblog 🔗: John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord 🎵 The longest - and slowest …
: ‘Every piece of filth that comes out of my mouth – that’s mine’: inside Curb Your Enthusiasm’s final …
: Awake at 4:30am so of course I decide to get up to watch day 4 of the India v England second Test. …
: Location check in 🗺 — Mud Dock Cafe, Bristol. Bristol Beer Factory Independence Pale Ale plus a …
: Travelling to Bristol to help my son move flat. Cricket on the radio 🚘🏏
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Radiohead (25 plays) Philip Selway (19) Claude Debussy …
:
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday February 2, 2024. 🎵
: Experimenting with the Beluga.social app 🐳 I’m still playing around with Beluga and I quite like the way it works. I’m sharing my Beluga posts …
:
From ESPN CricInfo 🔗🏏
Neither Rehan nor Bashir was born when Anderson made his Test debut at Lord's …
: Mossy path on a route from home locally described as “up the mountain” 🚶♂️
: Jimmy Anderson with blonde highlights - 😮 - takes a wicket! 🏏
: Second Test between India 🇮🇳 and England 🏴, day one. Missed the 4am start but did get up at …
:
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday February 1, 2024.
January 2024
:
This is the first time I’ve encountered a YouTube My Mix. I don’t usually use or like the playlists …
: A lot to like about that First Test between India and England, enjoyed it immensely. Twists and …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Philip Selway (21 plays) Portishead (14) Sarah …
: Now there should be some play on Day four of the Test 🏏
: At least there was something worth waking up ridiculously early for. A brilliant century for Ollie …
: Linkblog 🔗: Colin Ward: Everyday Anarchy - a Community crowdfunding project in Norwich by Patrick …
: Time for a small Lagavulin. Just realised it’s Burns Night 🥃
:
The Creator, 2023 - ★★½
Watched on Thursday January 25, 2024.
: Currently reading: The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris 📚
: Finished reading: Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller 📚
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Mirror, 1975 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 23, 2024.
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Had to buy a new kettle. Our drinks preparation area now looking quite high tech ☕️😊
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Christy Moore (21 plays) Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (15) …
:
The Sacrifice, 1986 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 16, 2024.
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Nostalgia, 1983 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday January 15, 2024.
: Gateway and door on a misty morning walk
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Choices. On a slightly misty walk this morning 🚶♂️
: Gate on the path of the old Abernant to Cwmbach railway line
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Phish (20 plays) George Harrison (13) Fidetzis, Athens …
: Watching the SA20 League for the first time - Paarl Royals v Pretoria Capitals. Some England …
: These three have been some of my favourite players to watch - good news if they can coach as well as …
:
Well, this will account for a large part of my day now 🕰️
:
The soup turned out to have quite an attractive colour when blended 😊
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Well, this is vibrant! The beginnings of a carrot, butternut squash, sweet potato and beetroot soup, …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Benji Merrison (24 plays) Uri Caine Ensemble (9) Dhruv …
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The Beatles and India, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday January 5, 2024.
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Prey, 2022 - ★★★
A slightly novel direction for the Predator franchise. Very watchable if you don’t expect anything …
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St John the Baptist Parish Church, Aberdare
: St John the Baptist Parish Church, Aberdare
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Time for a New Year’s Day Bloody Mary 🍹
December 2023
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The party’s really kicking off here now. A Happy New Year to everyone 🥳
:
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, 2023 - ★★★★½
Enjoyed that far more than I expected to. Thought Phoebe Waller-Bridge was really good, as, of …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Lankum (12 plays) Natalie Merchant (10) NAÏSSAM JALAL …
:
Saltburn, 2023 - ★★★★
Very darkly entertaining!
: Watching Bernard Levin interviewing Leonard Bernstein from 1982. Making me appreciate how impressive …
:
Predators, 2010 - ★★★½
Definitely in the same vein as the 1987 Predator. Not too bad as a sci-fi survival action film.
: Finished reading: Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht 📚
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, 2007 - ★
Definitely the poorest of the Alien/Predator/AvP films I’ve seen so far. Very poor and very dark …
:
AVP: Alien vs. Predator, 2004 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday December 24, 2023.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Coe, Peters & Smyth (16 plays) Lankum (12) Ozric …
:
Maestro, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday December 22, 2023.
: Lankum, Roundhouse, 13th December 2023
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Peterloo, 2018 - ★★★★★
This is my second viewing of Peterloo and I've rated it more highly this time - 5★ instead of 4★. On …
:
… and Xmas essentials #2 just arrived 🍷🎄
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Traditional Xmas essentials 📖 📺
: I like the blue connection in today’s NYT Connections Puzzle #193 🟩🟨🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Bought some mince pies from an Ottolenghi deli during my recent visit to London. Now trying them …
:
Bright Star, 2009 - ★★★★★
Watched on Wednesday December 20, 2023.
: Location check in 🗺 — Koocha Vegan Mezze Bar
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sawallisch, LPO, Kovacevich (2 plays) Walter, Columbia …
:
Watching the Strictly Come Dancing final with my wife and daughter 🥂
: Location check in 🗺 — Keats House, Hampstead 🪶⚱️
: Location check in 🗺 — Tai Pan Alley, Camden - nasi lemak with prawn sambal, crispy tofu filled bao …
: Location check in 🗺 — Camden Coffee, Camden Market. Flat white and feta borek ☕️
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Lankum and Rachael Lavelle at Roundhouse, London 🎵
Wednesday 13th December 2023
: Location check in 🗺 — Roundhouse, Chalk Farm for Lankum 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Hampstead Premier Inn 🏨
: Location check in 🗺 — Membury Services, M4 ☕️ 🥐 🚗
:
Venom: Let There Be Carnage, 2021 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday December 12, 2023.
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Uncharted, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Monday December 11, 2023.
: Finished reading: Doppelganger by Naomi Klein 📚
:
Venom, 2018 - ★★½
Watched on Sunday December 10, 2023.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Lankum (23 plays) Mackerras, VPO, Popp (23) John …
: Great week for Villa. Arsenal had a lot of chances in that game but some fantastic defending ⚽️
: I’m being spoilt with watching Aston Villa games on TV this week - on Wednesday the Manchester City …
:
Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday December 8, 2023.
: The National Monument of Scotland, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh
: Linkblog 🔗: X isn’t an airport, but we’re announcing our departure - Freedom News
: Currently reading: Doppelganger by Naomi Klein 📚
: Finished reading: Julian of Norwich by Janina Ramirez 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Furtwängler, BPO (12 plays) Paul Simon (11) The Coral …
November 2023
:
A Haunting in Venice, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday November 30, 2023.
:
Flight of beers at the Halfway House, Fleshmarket Close 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Edinburgh Castle 🏰
:
Tapas at Casa Andaluz, Edinburgh last night
:
Rubbing the toe of David Hume 😀
: Location check in 🗺 — National Museum of Scotland 🏴
: Frosty morning. On my way to Cardiff for an Escape Room followed by a bottomless prosecco brunch …
:
1917, 2019 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday November 24, 2023.
: 🚶♂️ Walking some of the Cynon Trail
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Fish and chip supper with my father-in-law and a Pembrokeshire Henry VII cider 🍺
:
Crossing Cleddau Bridge, view towards Milford Haven.
: 🏏 Watching Australia 🇦🇺 v 🇮🇳 India playing the ICC Men's World Cup Final 🏆 📺
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: PJ Harvey (25 plays) Longpigs (24) Ozric Tentacles …
: PJ Harvey: Tiny Desk Concert 🔗🎵
:
John Wick: Chapter 4, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday November 14, 2023.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Gong (16 plays) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (12)
: An incident packed Australia 🇦🇺 v 🇦🇫 Afghanistan match in the Cricket World Cup 🏏
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Roger Waters (23 plays) Stornoway (23) Burning Spear …
: Stornoway at Tramshed, Cardiff, Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Tramshed, Cardiff, Tuesday 31st October 2023 🎵
Stornoway
I’m aglow
October 2023
: Location check in 🗺 — Tramshed, Cardiff for Stornoway 🎵
: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot From Dante, a 1929 essay. The …
:
Haunted Mansion, 2023 - ★★½
Watched on Monday October 30, 2023.
: Tarkovsky Stalker Nostalgia Ivan's Childhood Boris Godunov Mirror Andrei Rublev The Sacrifice …
: Toyah & Robert at Swansea Grand Theatre, Saturday 28th October 2023
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Very entertaining and amusing show by Toyah Wilcox and Robert Fripp at Swansea Grand Theatre last …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Miloš Karadaglić (12), Orchestral Manoeuvres in the …
: Location check in 🗺 — Swansea Grand Theatre for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Live! 🎭 🎵
: Just finished watching the Pakistan 🇵🇰 v 🇿🇦 South Africa match. Probably the most exciting game of …
: View from Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taf
:
Squash, sage & maple soda bread 🍞
from a Riverford recipe
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A Welsh - Portuguese - Italian breakfast today ☕️
: Sail Bridge, River Take, Swansea
: Location check in 🗺 — The Grace, Bristol, Timothy Taylor’s Landlord 🍺
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Abbado, VPO, Norman (24), Jennifer Gentle (17), Eric …
: 🏴🇿🇦🏏 That was no contest. South Africa dominated.
: 🏆 It’s an ENG 🏴 v 🇿🇦 RSA World Cup day today. At 09:30 BST it’s a cricket group stage match 🏏 …
: Captain Cat The sleepers are rung out of sleep with his loud get-out-of-bed bell - Under Milk Wood
: The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
: Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea
: Dylan Thomas Square, Swansea
: Linkblog 🔗: Seaweed was common food in Europe for thousands of years, researchers find Study …
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Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday October 16, 2023.
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Top Gun, 1986 - ★★★
Watched on Monday October 16, 2023.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Roger Waters (53), Allison Russell (32), Simon Rattle & …
:
I watched The Great British Bake Off’s Bread Week on Tuesday so of course I’ve had to attempt a …
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Stalker, 1979 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday October 13, 2023.
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Dylan Thomas around Swansea Marina
Dylan Thomas Square
Dylan Thomas Theatre
Captain Cat
The …
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Ships in Tawe Basin
Canning Tugboat
Trinity House Lightship 91 Helwick
:
Swansea Marina
Pump House
Shallow water
Slipway
Garden
Blocked, Prince of Wales Dock
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Waterstones bookshop in Swansea. Very nice building but a real shame the upper two floors do not …
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What We Did on Our Holiday, 2014 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday October 12, 2023.
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Avatar: The Way of Water, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday October 12, 2023.
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Breakfast today for our 27th wedding anniversary 💍
:
Star Trek Beyond, 2016 - ★★★★★
Watched on Wednesday October 11, 2023.
:
A morning of kimchi production 🇰🇷
: Currently reading: Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller 📚
: Finished reading: Star Trek Picard - The Dark Veil by James Swallow 📚
: Well, that was certainly a decisive victory for New Zealand 🏏
: New Zealand 🇳🇿 v 🏴 England underway 🏏
: 🏏 Cricket World Cup starts today
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Star Trek Into Darkness, 2013 - ★★★★
Watched on Wednesday October 4, 2023.
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Star Trek, 2009 - ★★★★★
Watched on Monday October 2, 2023.
: Linkblog 🔗: James Webb telescope makes ‘JuMBO’ discovery of planet-like objects in Orion Some …
:
Boiling Point, 2021 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday October 1, 2023.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Kitty Whately & Simon Lepper (30), Abbado, VPO, Norman …
September 2023
: Aston Villa 6-1 Brighton, hat-trick for Ollie Watkins 👏 ⚽
: thedimpau.se now furnished with Tinylytics webring and countries. Very nice @vincent 🙏
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treasure — day 30 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Gold death-mask, known …
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contrast — day 29 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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workout — day 28 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Side, Turkey, 2009
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embrace — day 27 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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WNO Ainadamar curtain call 🎵
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At the Wales Millennium Centre
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Should have waited until my second beverage before posting my daily photoblogging image - I prefer …
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beverage — day 26 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
: At the Wales Millennium Centre for a production of Ainadamar by the Welsh National Opera 🎵
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flare — day 25 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Green Man Festival, 2013
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belt — day 24 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Bristol Airport
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Final evening in Greece so it will be retsina 🍷 followed by an ouzo nightcap
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Away from home, so it’s a Greek #Caturday 🇬🇷 🐈
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a day in the life — day 23 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
reading on …
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road — day 22 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Chrysogiali 🇬🇷
: Currently reading: Star Trek Picard - The Dark Veil by James Swallow 📚 🖖
: Finished reading: Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack 📚 🖖
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Live music at the restaurant we went to tonight was fantastic (as was the food) - all Greek music …
: Currently reading: Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack 📚🖖
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Wandering near Mylos watermill
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I am going to have to attempt to recreate these at home 😋
: Location check in 🗺 — Mylos Watermill - frappe, baklava and Greek pancakes with feta
:
fall — day 21 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Anthousa Waterfall
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Morning walk into the hills to find waterfalls and water mills. 10am, cloudy but still hot, …
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disruption — day 20 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
London, 2015
: Location check in 🗺 — Taverna Stefanos, Parga 🐟
: Finished reading: Radicalized by Cory Doctorow 📚
: Currently reading: Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht 📚
: Currently reading: Radicalized by Cory Doctorow 📚
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edge — day 19 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Parga, Greece
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fabric — day 18 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Venice, 2019
: Finished reading: Every House is Haunted by Ian Rogers 📚
: Currently reading: Every House is Haunted by Ian Rogers 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Black Country, New Road (22), Kubelik, Bavarian RSO (22), …
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intense — day 17 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Parga, Greece
: Location check in 🗺 — Preveza Airport ✈️
: Location check in 🗺 — Bristol Airport ✈️
: 🔗 ‘I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt’: Melvyn Bragg on breakdowns, bust ups and 1,000 episodes of …
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oof! — day 16 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Finished reading: Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson 📚
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red — day 15 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil
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The Commuter, 2018 - ★★★
Watched on Friday September 15, 2023.
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statue — day 14 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Paris, 1997
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glowing — day 13 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Werfa, Abernant, …
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Late summer greenhouse tomatoes. I’m currently roasting them for a pasta sauce 🌱🍅
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panic — day 12 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Ravello, 2014
: Finished reading: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚
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retrospect — day 11 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Hay-on-Wye, 2023
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Rattle, Bavarian RSO (11), Ezra Collective (10), …
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cycle — day 10 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Berlin, 2022
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Preparing for a hot #Caturday 🐈
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language — day 09 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Wales Millennium …
: Watching the England v New Zealand 🏏 ODI on TV. It’s being played at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff, …
: Currently reading: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚
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yonder — day 08 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Halkidiki, 2010
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panorama — day 07 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Manorbier, …
: Finished reading: Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs by D.D. Johnston 📚
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well — day 06 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Venice, 2019
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forest — day 05 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
: 🚶♂️ Early morning walk whilst it’s cool
: Currently reading: Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs by D.D. Johnston 📚
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orange — day 04 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Nice weather so trying out cooking flatbreads over a fire pit. Will later be barbecuing salmon and …
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precious — day 03 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Karajan, BPO (16), Stars of the Lid (15), Kikagaku Moyo …
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About to try Norwegian brown cheese, brunost, for the first time. Pictured alongside a piece of …
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buildup — day 02 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Location check in 🗺 — Margham Park for a food festival
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abstract — day 01 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
August 2023
:
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday August 28, 2023.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan (15), Thee Oh …
: Puzzling message Every day my wife and I exchange messages. The problem is that these messages are growing ever …
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Dirty fries - sauerkraut, cheese, aioli, ketchup - and sticky tempura aubergine, coriander and …
: Location check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Otley Gorllewin 🍺
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Barbie, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday August 22, 2023.
: Location check in 🗺 — Vue Cinema, Merthyr Tydfil for Barbie 🎥
:
Spider-Man: Far from Home, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday August 21, 2023.
: May as well continue with a football themed day - Villa v Everton ⚽️
: World Cup Final. Spain played some very precise and clever football and deserved to win the match. …
: 🏆 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final 2023 ⚽ - Spain 🇪🇸 v 🏴 England
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: The Kinks (27), Howlin' Wolf (14), Blur (10), Lyr (9), …
: Watching Wales 🏴 v 🇿🇦 South Africa Rugby World Cup warm-up match. South Africa dominating and …
: Finished reading: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (33⅓ series) by Andy Miller …
: 🏴 World Cup Final it is then ⚽️🏆👏
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Muffins on a cast iron griddle - today’s baking experiment 🥯
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Kikagaku Moyo (30), The Kinks (13), Blur (10), Stornoway …
:
Rainy outside so staying in this #Caturday 🐈
: Plenty of football today. World Cup Quarter Finals - Australia 🇦🇺 v 🇫🇷 France on now, followed by …
:
Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2017 - ★★★
Watched on Friday August 11, 2023.
: Finished reading: Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow 📚
: Currently reading: Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow 📚
: 🏉 Wales 🏴 v 🏴 England - Rugby World Cup warm-up match.
: Saturday morning. Pouring with rain outside. Watching Japan 🇯🇵 v 🇳🇴 Norway. Japan have just taken …
: 🔗📸 Best of the iPhone photography awards 2023 – in pictures Some interesting photographs, almost all …
: Linkblog 🔗: Don’t Network: The Avant-Garde after Networks [2018]
: Superb, confident start and fantastic goals from England. Think I’m going to relax ⚽️🏆
: ⚽️ China 🇨🇳 v 🏴 England very soon. Still a possibility England won’t progress 😬 🏆
July 2023
: Ashes cricket. Capture of a TV screen which has a strange, almost negative effect. Camera post-processing was just a simple conversion to monochrome.
: Linkblog 🔗: At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts 🎵
: Linkblog 🔗: The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
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An old loaf tin has made a re-appearance since my bread maker broke down. Handmade bread which is …
: 🏏 England win the Test 🙂 And draw the Ashes Series 2-2 🙁 Stuart Broad’s final game before retirement …
: 🏏 Ashes coming to a tense conclusion
: ⏲️ Cricket delayed, watching Canada 🇨🇦 v 🇦🇺 Australia World Cup match ⚽️ 🏆
: Location check in 🗺 — Tinto Lounge, Gloucester Road, Bristol for vegan Beyond Meat Cheeseburger and …
:
Great selection delivered from The Tinned Fish Market 🐟
: Linkblog 🔗: David Harewood on Blackface - a shocking, deeply moving piece of television A little …
: Great catch by Ben Stokes to end the day and Australia’s innings 🏏
: Ashes cricket has livened up a little since the lunch interval. After this morning’s session I …
: Not a fantastic game for the most part and England not entirely convincing towards the end but they …
: Sensational early goal by Lauren James 🏴 ⚽️ 🏆
: The final group matches in the FIFA Women’s World Cup are looking very interesting. Some crucial …
: ⚽️ Raining very heavily during the Canada v Ireland match in Perth 🌧️
: 🏆 Breakfast while watching the second half of Japan v Costa Rica ⚽️
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008 - ★★★★½
Saw this at the cinema when it was released, don't think I've re-watched it until now, after …
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 - ★★★★½
Watched on Monday July 24, 2023.
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Spinach and onion frittata 🥚
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday July 24, 2023.
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I very rarely share meme-type images but this took my fancy … 🏏
England’s first drawn Test under …
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, 2023 - ★★★★
Enjoyed a lot as a late Sunday afternoon film 😊 More humour than I’d anticipated - I’d say they were …
: A bad day for bread. My Panasonic SD-2501WXC bread maker appears to have given up the ghost today …
: Love detonates this distance between us to ash holds your flooded heart in the fire of night Robert Montgomery
: All palaces are temporary palaces Robert Montgomery
: ☔ Looks like I’ll be watching some of the France v Jamaica FIFAWWC match whilst the weather makes …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Jackson Browne (20), XTC (14), Phish (13), Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood …
:
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 - ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday July 22, 2023.
: 🏆 Haiti came close to earning a draw in that entertaining match 🏴🇭🇹⚽️
: Linkblog 🔗: ‘I’ve played for 60 years. That’s long enough’: guitar hero Vini Reilly on PTSD, life on …
: 🏏 😄 Live pictures from Old Trafford pic.twitter.com/RFHXOyb1Fo — Henry Moeran (@henrymoeranBBC) July …
:
This is our weather forecast this fine July day ☔️
If Old Trafford is experiencing anything similar …
: VAR is being used a lot in the World Cup matches I’ve seen so far ⚽️
: ⚽ 🏴 England v Haiti 🇭🇹
:
Gateway
Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye
: I find myself having a bagel and coffee for breakfast and watching football. At just after 2am. My …
: 🏏 189 for Zak Crawley on Day 2 of the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford, SR 104 👏
: The Ashes 2023: After victory by England Women in the ODI yesterday, inflicting Australia’s first …
: Linkblog 🔗: Earth review – Chris Packham steps confidently into David Attenborough’s shoes
: 🥧 Pie, baked potato and peas for tea 😋
: Finished reading: Tales From The Loop by Simon Stålenhag 📚 Curious to see the book after I had …
: Finished reading: The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells 📚
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Bird Box, 2018 - ★★★½
Re-watching because I plan to see the sequel (?) Bird Box Barcelona soon. A little better than I …
: 🏏 Women’s Ashes Series match - Australia bat first against England in crucial second ODI
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque (16), XTC (16), Jackson Browne (11), …
: It’s Saint Swithun’s Day. It’s raining heavily. It’s very windy. We’ve had two power cuts already. …
: 🎾 Anyone for tennis? Ons Jabeur v Marketa Vondrousova in the Wimbledon women's singles final.
: Linkblog 🔗: Here comes the next phase of Brexit – and it will be bad for our diet, health and wealth
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: PJ Harvey (48), Jake Blount (21), Grian Chatten (18), The Kinks (15) & …
:
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday July 8, 2023.
: 8th July, 1822 – The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died on this day when his boat went down in a sudden …
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Ant-Man and the Wasp, 2018 - ★★★
Watched on Saturday July 8, 2023.
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This morning’s improved photograph of the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸 🌱
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Sometimes I cave in …
Egg & Cheese McMuffin meal with latte for breakfast ☕
: 7/7 12:30am - First listen to I Inside the Old Year Dying 🎵
: 🔗 Hard act to swallow: gull caught on film eating squirrel whole It is a jaw-dropping scene worthy …
:
View through our letterbox on returning home after an evening doing a quiz in our local pub 🐈
(photo …
: First over: Stuart Broad removes David Warner - for the 16th time in Tests - for 4 🏏
: 🏏 Ashes: Day one, third Test, Headingley
:
This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸
Seems like a very strange (sometimes very hot) place …
:
Book 📚 and Butty Bach 🍺 in Hay
: Location check in 🗺 — one night at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. Superb Wye Valley Smokery kippers …
: Location check in 🗺 — Blue Boar, Hay-on-Wye for a pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, one of my …
:
South Wales Fire Service helicopter carrying water has been repeatedly flying back and forth over …
: Very dramatic final day in the 2nd Ashes Test 🏏
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (15), Jonathan Wilson (3), Sparks (3), Jonathan Russell (2) & …
: 🔗 ‘Am I still any good? Have I still got it?’: PJ Harvey on doubt, desire and deepest, darkest …
:
Burger buns baked. Unusually uniform shape and size for my baking 🍔
: Location check in 🗺 — Delico Deli, Aberdare for tuna melt panini and cappuccino ☕️
June 2023
: 🔗 ‘A nuclear reactor of music’: the story of Simple Minds’ classic album Empires and Dance 🎵 …
: 🔗 Pompeii fresco depicts what might be the precursor of pizza Archaeologists have discovered a …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (30), The Wedding Present (3), William The Conqueror (3), …
: Location check in 🗺 — Wales Millennium Centre for the WNO production of Bernstein’s Candide 🎵
:
2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation 🏴
National Eisteddfod of Wales
2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation, Aberdare, Saturday 24th June 2023 …
: Location check in 🗺 — Darren Fawr Round Cairns
: Linkblog 🔗: Pagan Fires Burning: The New Wave of Dark Folk from the UK and Ireland 🎵
: ☕️ Asher’s Whisky Fruit Cake and coffee
: Too much cricket but I can’t stop myself. Women’s Ashes Test about to start. Australia batting first …
: June 21st 2023, the summer solstice, was the sixth annual #ShowYourStripes day. showyourstripes.info
:
Good morning from the greenhouse. I’m watering the tomatoes 🌱
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A Quiet Passion, 2016 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday June 21, 2023.
: 🏏 1st Ashes Test approaching an end. Outcome still very uncertain.
: 🔗 Multicultural Man: On technology As regular readers of this column know, I don’t think there is …
: Linkblog 🔗: Upcoming anarchist books in 2023
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Sparks (12), The Wedding Present (7), Grian Chatten (6), Tracy Chapman …
: My radio just switched from cricket to The Shipping Forecast 🌧️ 🚢 🏏
: 🔗 Tim Dowling: is this a hangover – or just what being 60 feels like? Is this what it’s like from …
: Currently reading: Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket by Stefan Szymanski 📚🏏
: 🏏 England declare half an hour before the end of play on day one of the first Ashes Test. Ambitious …
: 🏏 The sun rises at Edgbaston ahead of the opening day of the #Ashes. #BBCCricket …
: 🔗 Extreme websites peddle conspiracies, but what about the mainstream outlets that do it too? …
: Finished reading: The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer 📚
: 🍺 Rhoswenallt Inn for a pint of Glamorgan Bitter
:
Synchronic, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Monday June 12, 2023.
:
Just the two of us for dinner tonight. Not sure which two. 🐈
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lankum (12), Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood (6), Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik …
:
Nephew and son, nephew and daughter
: 🎉 On our way to my nephew’s 18th birthday party
:
Saturday shopping for celebration barbecue 🍺🍷 🛒
: Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood - Taq ou-Dub (feat. Nour Freteikh) (Live At The Hamam) 🎵
:
🪑 📚 📻 🍺
And the concrete path is too hot to stand on barefoot 🌞
: As well as (and for some of the time whilst) walking I’ve been listening to the World Test …
:
Morning walk through local forestry to a nearby scheduled monument, the Carn Castell y Meibion …
: Location check in 🗺 — Carn Castell y Meibion ring cairn
: Finished reading: Tomorrow by Chris Beckett 📚
: 4 mile walk to collect a package that should have been delivered to my address on Friday. Thanks DPD …
:
Now being summoned for supper 🐈
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Late #Caturday (OK, so it’s Sunday)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lankum (8), Bernstein, Orchestra National de France (4), Kavus Torabi & …
:
Wiper and True Mild in Bristol 🍺
: 🍺 Wiper and True Heading Home Mild at the Hatchet Inn, Bristol
: 🚗 Lots of car travelling this evening being saved by the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC …
: 🏆 Watching the FA Cup Final with Titanic Brewery Plum Porter 🍺⚽️
: 🍺 Butty Bach at the Boot Inn, Sutton Coldfield
: Linkblog 🔗: Kavus Torabi and Richard Wileman – Heaven’s Sun 🎵 From the shimmering guitars that …
: 🏏 Double century for Ollie Pope just after tea. Then he’s out stumped for 205. And England declare …
: 🏏 Pope has reached his century and Duckett out on 182 at Lord’s today. Brilliant partnership 👏
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Another walk with my daughter this morning - 6.5 miles, we’re upping the ante 🙂
Panoramic view over …
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After watching/listening to the England v Ireland Test throughout today I’m now following the …
: 🏏 England v Ireland Test match. Now the summer has started.
May 2023
:
Some views over the Cynon Valley yesterday morning whilst walking with my daughter.
The ground is …
: Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s fast-ageing beach horror is top notch hokum 🎥 🔗 Old is a bit like …
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Old, 2021 - ★★★★★
Watched on Tuesday May 30, 2023.
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Getting warm outside 🔥
(Lunchtime approaching 😊)
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The Suicide Squad, 2021 - ★★★
Watched on Monday May 29, 2023.
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Bank Holiday start - been making a vegan soda bread loaf. Then ate half of it for breakfast - tasted …
: Where Have I Been @Manton started this … I see something, I have to join in 🤣 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇼 Botswana 🇮🇨 Canary Islands …
: Just had to post my weekly music stats manually. I fear that Tweekly.fm may have reached the end of …
: ♫ My Top 4 #lastfm artists: Lankum (28), George Harrison (9), Ozric Tentacles (8) & William The …
: Villa beat Brighton 2-1 and get their Europa Conference League place. Phew 👏
:
Huyghe Delirium 🍺
Bottle is superb but on first taste the beer is a little too florally scented. It …
: Following some of the final matches of this season’s Premier League. Not so bothered about the …
: Trying the Vivaldi browser beta on iOS and so far it’s looking really good. I’ve been using Vivaldi …
:
Browsing a charity shop in town today and found this weighty 500 page book on Greek food - Culinaria …
: Breakfast in Wetherspoons with a pint of Frothingham Best 🍺
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Early #Caturday morning garden coffee 🪴🐈☕️
: Currently reading: Tomorrow by Chris Beckett 📚
: Have been finding Mastodon List Manager by @acbeers@hachyderm.io very useful in tidying up and …
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, 2016 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday May 24, 2023.
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Ithaka, 2021 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday May 22, 2023.
: Finished reading: Two-Way Mirror by Fiona Sampson 📚
:
Carmarthen Golf Club (I’m just dining and drinking, not playing ⛳️😀).
: Location check in 🗺 — Carmarthen Golf Club for Sunday lunch
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Julian Cope (26), Prefab Sprout (19), Ozric Tentacles (16), Lankum (13) …
:
Had some Japanese whisky for World Whisky Day, courtesy of my daughter’s boyfriend. But then my …
: Afraid I won’t be able to join Micro Camp live today - my sister-in-law’s 50th birthday celebrations …
: Oh no! It’s World Whisky Day. I can foresee consequences 🥃
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Avengers: Endgame, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday May 16, 2023.
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A generous half pint of Cwrw Otley Diafol. Delicious and brewed at The Bunch of Grapes. 7.4% ABV. …
: ♫ My Top 4 #lastfm artists: William The Conqueror (23), Prefab Sprout (19), Mary Lou Williams (12) & …
:
From #Caturday sun …
… to #Caturday shade
Some cats just can’t take the heat 🐈
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Avengers: Infinity War, 2018 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday May 12, 2023.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★★½
Watched on Thursday May 11, 2023.
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Inside the One Cup Sake. I have not been warming mine on a camping stove 😟
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Beatles (14), The Smile (13), Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo (12), …
: Currently reading: Two-Way Mirror by Fiona Sampson 📚
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Can’t be comfortable #Caturday 🐈
: Obligatory anti-monarchy rant - Freedom News 🔗
:
Doctor Strange, 2016 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday May 5, 2023.
: Location check in 🗺 — new venue – The Vegan Coffi House, Aberdare for coffee, crisps and cake ☕️
: Had it all this morning - instant coffee followed by a double espresso and now a drip filter coffee …
: Drinking a Belgian beer watching a Belgian (Luca Brecel) play stunning snooker 🎱🍺
April 2023
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Beatles (29), Lou Reed (26), Steve Mason (12), Lou Reed & Antony (1) …
: 🎱 Haven’t really watched snooker since the Steve Davis era of the 1980s but am finding this year’s …
: Looks like we won’t be seeing any sun or blue skies for the next ten days of April/May 😞 ☁️
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Chaos Walking, 2021 - ★★
Watched on Tuesday April 25, 2023.
: 🖖 Picard - The Last Generation S3, E10 📺
: Linkblog 🔗: Mark Stewart, Pop Group frontman and revered countercultural musician, dies aged 62 🎵
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Babyshambles (16), Ozawa, Boston SO, Silverstein (12), Stornoway (11), …
: 🎵 Just booked tickets to see Stornoway in October. Their first tour in over 6 years.
: Hemispheric Views 082: A Hacker Has Entered the Chat! made my flight home pass far more pleasantly. …
:
An airport corner for final Nata - not the same ✈️
: 🛌 Early night 😞 Up at 6 to get to airport asap 😢
: Location check in 🗺 — Cervejaria Trindade. IPA and cockles 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Praça das Amoreiras
: ☕️ Espresso at Leitaria Académica
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Casa Fernando Pessoa impressed me. Small museum but we spent a couple of hours there today.
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Lovely evening on a road behind Rossio Square. Plate of sardines, plate of cheese, bread, two …
: 🥵 Very hot in the TimeOut Market Hall. Not staying!
: Location check in 🗺 — Noobai. Wine and dips with a view of the river.
: Location check in 🗺 — Casa Fernando Pessoa 📖
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An empanada in the Jardin da Estrela
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Who’s responsible for this !?
: Location check in 🗺 — da Prata 52. Tapas.
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Floors are looking a bit psychedelic
Could be
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Joining the Lisbon sticker spotter club @maique @stickerspotter
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Petisqueira Conqvistador, beer and bolinhos de bacalhau
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Looking at the real life map of Lisbon 🗺️
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Breakfast ☕️ - Confeitaria National
: Location check in 🗺 — Lisboa Prata Boutique Hotel 🇵🇹
: Location check in 🗺 — Rooftop Terrace at Bristol Airport ✈️
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Got to Bristol Airport early (as usual), through security then had notification that flight to …
: Location check in 🗺 — Hotel du Vin & Bistro, Bristol City Centre
: 🛣️ Travelling from London to Bristol
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Pre-dinner cocktails outside Shiro Japanese restaurant last night. Food later was stunning. …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lankum (28), Dry Cleaning (26), Jean Ritchie (16), Tom Rosenthal (8) & …
: Location check in 🗺 — Shiro Japanese Restaurant
: Location check in 🗺 — Merchant & Weaver, Old Spitalfields Market, Salt Jute IPA 🍺
: 🧳 Departing for a week of travels
: 🦤 Importing my Twitter archive into my Micro.blog
: I’ve certainly been enjoying the Spring weather in the garden this morning 😖
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Visited Lamphey, Pembrokeshire for lunch yesterday and included a short detour to the (in parts) …
: Location check in 🗺 — Lamphey Hall Hotel - Butty Bach 🍺
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo (24), Scott Ross (12), Altin Gün (8), Pink …
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Walls on a walk. Hoping the first has got something to do with Easter, otherwise it’s just plain …
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My choice of walking route wasn’t fully appreciated by everybody this afternoon 😊
: Linkblog 🔗: Jason deCaires Taylor Museums are places of conservation, education, and about …
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Just installed a dartboard in our kitchen 🎯🙃
: 🍺 Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd
: Location check in 🗺 — St Fagans National Museum of History 🏴
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Late morning veggie breakfast in Wetherspoons. They’ve sold out of mushrooms and tomatoes 😞
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lana Del Rey (23), The Libertines (19), Peter Doherty (17), Peter …
: ⚽ Chelsea v Aston Villa, Watkins scores after 18’ 👏
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Been on a short walk, just destroying the benefits of it 🍺🫤
: 🍺 The Rhoswenallt Inn, pint of Glamorgan Brewing Co Thunderbird IPA
March 2023
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practice — day 31 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday March 30, 2023.
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mirror — day 30 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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slice — day 29 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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prompt — day 28 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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support — day 27 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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instrument — day 26 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Suede (27), Altin Gün (15), THUS LOVE (10), Evgeny Kissin (5) & …
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spice — day 25 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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court — day 24 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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Suede were absolutely sensational at St David’s Hall in Cardiff last night 🎵
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chance — day 23 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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St David’s Hall, ready for Suede 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — St David’s Hall, Cardiff to see Suede 🎵
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insect — day 22 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: Finished reading: Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami & Seiji Ozawa 📚
: Location check in 🗺 — Wales Millennium Centre for Rambert Dance’s Peaky Blinders
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tiny — day 21 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: Finished reading: Meru by S. B. Divya 📚
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houseplant — day 20 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday March 19, 2023.
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analog — day 19 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Desperate Journalist (22), Suede (15), Sleaford Mods (14), Lang Lang …
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Black Heart – tastes great but not a fan of an in-can widget 🍺
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New cat bed gets the begrudging seal of approval #caturday 🐈
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portico — day 18 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: 🖖 Picard - Imposters S3, E5 📺
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early — day 17 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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Trying the alcohol free Tropical IPA by Drop Bear Beer Co.
Quite impressed. Surprised it’s rated so …
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road — day 16 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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patience — day 15 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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Fall, 2022 - ★★★
Some definitely dizzying visual effects and a real sense of jeopardy and suspense at times.
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horizon — day 14 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: 🍃 It is very windy this morning. Have been re-attaching some roofing felt to our garage roof.
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connection — day 13 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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shiny — day 12 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Philip Selway (13), Steve Mason (13), KT Tunstall (10), The Doors (10) & …
: 🖖 Picard - No Win Scenario S3, E4 📺
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gimcrack — day 11 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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Luther: The Fallen Sun, 2023 - ★★★
Watched on Friday March 10, 2023.
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ritual — day 10 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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together — day 09 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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walk — day 08 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: Location check in 🗺 — The Roman Baths, Bath
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View from our hotel room window in Bath this morning ❄️
: Location check in 🗺 — The Francis Hotel, Bath
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whole — day 07 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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The Joy of Sesh IPA 🍺 and a flight of Bath gins at The Black Fox, Bath
: 🥑 Breakfast at Hotel Indigo, Cardiff
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KT Tunstall at St David’s Hall 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — St David’s Hall for KT Tunstall 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Franco Manca Pizza, Cardiff 🍕
: Location check in 🗺 — Bute & Co Coffee House for a flat white ☕️
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engineering — day 06 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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The result of my Sunday trim. I definitely needed to wear a hat on today’s walk ❄️
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tile — day 05 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: ✂️ Time for a trim. Hair and beard.
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Dry Cleaning (40), Abbado, VPO, Norman (17), Dehd (13), THUS LOVE (10) & …
: Location check in 🗺 — The Rhoswenallt Inn 🍺
: 🚊 Saturday night train back to Aberdare. Never quiet 😊
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Leszet Turkish Kitchen. Enjoyed a really good meal for Denise’s birthday 🎂
: Location check in 🗺 — Leszet Turkish Kitchen, Cardiff
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Drinking a Smoked & Spicy 🍸
Dangerous Don Mezcal, Smoky Ginger Ale, Angostura Bitters, Chilli, Lime, …
: ⚖️ Escaped an Escape Room with 38 seconds to spare
: Location check in 🗺 — Barker Rum & Fizz, Cardiff 🍸
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zip — day 04 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: 🖖 Picard - Seventeen Seconds S3, E3. I’m enjoying the way this series is unfolding 📺
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solitude — day 03 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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I’ve been inspired by Rachel Roddy this week. Some delicious results.
On Tuesday I cooked her recipe …
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The X Files: I Want to Believe, 2008 - ★★½
Watched on Thursday March 2, 2023.
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weather — day 02 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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Dry Cleaning at Tramshed Cardiff last night supported by THUS LOVE and Dehd 🎵
THUS LOVE
Dehd
Dry …
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secure — day 01 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
: 🚶 Morning walk round Dare Valley Country Park. It’s starting to rain 😔
February 2023
: 🎵 Dry Cleaning at Tramshed Cardiff
: Location check in 🗺 — Tramshed, Cardiff
: 🏏 Australia win the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final by 19 runs
: 🏏 Innings interval - run chase for South Africa is definitely not out of reach
: 🏏 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final is underway - Australia v South Africa, Australia batting first
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Karajan, BPO (11), Algiers (8), Sleaford Mods (8), Steve Mason (4) & …
: ☕ Cappuccino and panini at Delico Deli
: Everton v Aston Villa this afternoon - This is the 210th staging of the most-played fixture in …
: Felt this earthquake last night. Epicentre was less than 20 miles from us. My first thought was that …
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1408, 2007 - ★★★★
Impressed. Surprised that I hadn’t come across this film before - released in 2007 but for me a …
: 🏏 Dramatic and close semi-final. South Africa win by 6 runs and get to the World Cup final for the …
: 🏏 Some great batting by South Africa. Not an easy target for England to chase
: 🏏 Women’s T20 World Cup - second semi-final starting in about 20 minutes, England v South Africa, …
: 🖖 Picard - Disengage S3, E2 📺
: 🏏 Women’s T20 World Cup - semi-final about to start, Australia v India, Australia batting first
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Boston Tea Party flat white ☕️
Cheltenham Road, Bristol
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St Elvan's Church, Aberdare
Visited the recently renovated St Elvan’s Church this morning. Very impressive, with the benefit of …
: ☕ Flat white at St Elvan’s Church
: Location check in 🗺 — Spires Coffee Shop at St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare. Flat white and toast ☕️
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday February 19, 2023.
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (27), Cleobury, ECO, Choir Of …
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Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Saturday February 18, 2023.
: Women’s T20 World Cup: England v India. India bowling first have made a good start, taking 2 wickets …
: 🖖 Beginning Picard - Season 3 📺
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The X Files, 1998 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday February 17, 2023.
: Linkblog 🔗: Athens museum unveils design for major renovation
: Australia v Sri Lanka in the Women’s T20 World Cup. Chamari Athapaththu is a great batter to watch. …
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Slightly rusty handlebars and slighty rusty cycling ability but I’ve completed an easy 8 mile ride 🚲
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Pumped up the tyres on my aged bike for the first time in about 3 years. They seem to be holding …
: Finished reading: Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka 📚
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Arctic Monkeys (10), Jake Blount (10), Handley, RLPO (8), Kae Tempest …
: Sports weekend. England T20 World Cup 🏏 match is (successfully) over, can now focus on Six Nations …
: 🏏 England scoring quickly chasing down 135
: 🍺 Cake Cartel, a hazelnut stout by BrewDog
: 🏏 Women’s T20 World Cup - West Indies v England
: 🏏 Opening match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is just starting - SA v SL at Newlands, Cape Town
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Delighted to be able to repeat yesterday’s outdoor reading in the afternoon sun ☀️
Tomorrow looks …
: 🚘 De-icing. Frosty again. That’s what clear skies do.
: Finished reading: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell 📚
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Final pint of beer in London before heading for home - Fuller’s ESB at The Old Pack Horse, Chiswick …
: Location check in 🗺 — Tate Modern
: Location check in 🗺 — The British Museum
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Smile (13), Crosby, Stills & Nash (10), Tears for Fears (10), …
: The Old Ship, Hammersmith. Drinking Young’s Special 🍺 overlooking the Thames.
: Location check in 🗺 — The Old Ship, Hammersmith
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George & Devonshire, Chiswick
: Location check in 🗺 — George & Devonshire, Chiswick. Fullers pub, in Chiswick, so London Pride 🍺
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Citizen Kane, 1941 - ★★★★½
Recently listened to the BBC radio In Our Time episode on Citizen Kane so thought I’d rewatch the …
: 🏏 South Africa v England (3rd ODI). England innings complete - that was a great recovery from losing …
: 🏏 South Africa v England (3rd ODI) in Kimberley. England batting first, not off to an auspicious …
January 2023
: 🚶 On a slightly breezy walk.
: 🏏 Impressive run chase by South Africa to beat England’s 342 in the ODI. Good match.
: 🏏 South Africa v England (2nd ODI) is my Sunday afternoon viewing 📺
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Scott Ross (91), Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane (23), Algiers (18), …
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Wild Beer Co Beyond Modus 8 🍺
Very wine-like beer - a “strong, wild and sour Flanders Red”. …
: 🏏 South Africa v England (1st ODI) coming to a close finish
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It’s been over a week since it snowed. Everything lower down in the valley has completely melted but …
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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 …
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Spritzes and crosswords in the snow.
: 📺 Inspector Morse : Deceived by Flight
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De-icing again, still can’t get the car to the top of our drive.
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Snowy morning
Ian Mason
Snowy morning
: Location check in 🗺 — Sonny Stores, Bristol
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The Last Samurai, 2003 - ★★★
Watched on Monday January 16, 2023.
: 🛒 Sadly in Merthyr Retail Park
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Sunday morning. I don’t usually let our cat sleep next to my desk - the shed hair becomes an …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jake Blount (63), The Animals (14), Raffaele Grimaldi (8), Anna Friederike …
: Finished reading: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza …
: Finished reading: Ten Poems about Music: The Blue Album introduced by Cerys Matthews 📚 Additional …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jake Thackray (55), Fontaines D.C. (49), Slow Club (18), PJ Harvey (14) & …
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Bar 44, Clifton, Bristol. Excellent tapas 🍷
: Location check in 🗺 — The Quadrant, Clifton. Tribute 🍺
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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 📚
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Grey and rainy day in Aberdare ☔️
: ⏰ Early morning Bank Holiday of course
: ⚽ Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Aston Villa. I enjoyed that.
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Trappistes Rochefort 10
by Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy
Belgian Quadrupel, 11.3% ABV 🍺
Dark and …
: ⚽ New Year’s Day football Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Fontaines D.C. (21), LCD Soundsystem (15), alt-J (12), Arctic Monkeys (10) …
December 2022
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Really!? Pub Wifi password … but I’ve typed it and it works … got a feeling it’s the default and …
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Otley Oxymoron stout and O-Ho-Ho ESB brewed at the Bunch of Grapes 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Otley beers being brewed here again 🍺
: Came up in my Readwise Daily Review today. Hadn’t realised that the phrase We live, as we dream — …
: Inspired and informed by The Monitor by @maique 🙏 I’ve got @neatnik’s Web Monitor set up and working …
: Cookery Books: Afro Vegan by Zoe Alakija 📚 Used for our Christmas meal this year 🎄
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Xmas Dinner 2022
I know I’m composing this post a few days late, on the morning of New Year’s Eve, 31st December …
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Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 - ★★★★
I also enjoyed Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 version but this more dramatic, star-studded production is a …
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🔗 Gravestone-encircled ‘Hardy Tree’ falls in London
Couple of my photos from January 2020 📸
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Walking my in-laws’ dog at 3am this morning after a long and indulgent Boxing Day. Dog is the blur …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (18), Dry Cleaning (11), Kae Tempest …
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Winter Wonderland Wheel, Cardiff
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Cardiff City Hall and Winter Wonderland
: Location check in 🗺 — Duke of Wellington, Cardiff. Pint of Brains SA 🍺
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First mince pie of the season
: 🎅 Mince pie and flat white for breakfast. Preparing for Xmas shopping ☕️
: Linkblog 🔗: Terry Hall: lead singer of the Specials dies aged 63
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Andreas Staier (23), Kae Tempest (15), Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra (15), …
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Surge, 2020 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday December 15, 2022.
: Linkblog 🔗: The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare
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The Matrix Resurrections, 2021 - ★★★★½
Watched on Tuesday December 13, 2022.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Schäfer, Fink, Arnold Schoenberg Choir …
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Hitting some snow flurries as we head north …
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Some light snow in Bristol this morning ❄️
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23% possession, great defending and goalkeeping, well deserved 🇲🇦 ⚽️
: ⚽ Morocco 🇲🇦 - superb, the first team from Africa to reach the World Cup semi-finals.
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Eighth floor Bristol near sunset 🌇
Pretty heavily filtered because it’s through a pretty dirty …
: Location check in 🗺 — Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 🏛️
: ⚽ Incident packed World Cup quarter-final between Netherlands and Argentina. Going to penalties.
: Currently reading: Orlam by PJ Harvey 📚
: Currently reading: Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa 📚
: Finished reading: The Whistleblower by Robert Peston 📚
: 🎻 Trying out the Vivaldi browser
: ⚽ Wow! Morocco 🇲🇦 into the quarter-finals. Impressive penalty shootout.
: ⚽ World Cup extra time. Morocco 🇲🇦 getting some good chances against Spain 🇪🇸
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Temperatures dropping, time to find a warm spot, preferably with a friend 🐈 🐑
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Pickpocket, 1959 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday December 4, 2022.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jack White (18), Sleaford Mods (11), The Mysterines (9), Muse (4) & Ezra …
: Linkblog 🔗: Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space What is crucial to understand is that …
November 2022
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Squash and leek lasagne turned out to be very good. Bookmarking idea for future use 🤤
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Experimenting. This will be a butternut squash and leek lasagne.
: Ready for the final World Cup 2022 Group B games – Wales 🏴 v England 🏴 – always a …
: Of course I’m trying - and liking the look of - Album Whale. HT to all who’ve mentioned it on …
: Brilliant goal by Alphonso Davies for Canada 🇨🇦 against Croatia 🇭🇷 in under two minutes. I thought …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: PJ Harvey (29), Cleobury, ECO, Choir Of King’s College Cambridge (19), …
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Had some heavy rain in the last week 🌧
: 🐢 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published OnThisDay, 24th November 1859 📚
: Brilliant second half of football by Japan 🇯🇵 against Germany 🇩🇪 ⚽️
: Support from the Mexican fans in the stadium for the Mexico 🇲🇽 v Poland 🇵🇱 World Cup match seems …
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St Stephen’s Church, Bristol
Clare Street, Bristol
Leonard Lane, Bristol
: 🍺 Banks’s Mild in The Commercial Rooms, Bristol
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Striding through St Nicholas Markets, Bristol
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Excursion into sticker territory…
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: PJ Harvey (26), John Coltrane (7), Richard Dawson (3), The Smashing …
: 🍺 Joyful Day by Wiper And True microbrewery at The Hatchet Inn, Bristol
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Escaped the Séance Escape Room 😀
: 🙀 About to start my first Escape Room
: Three Lions (It’s Coming Home for Christmas) ⚽🎵
: Linkblog 🔗: The country’s going to the dogs, but at least the police have cleared the M25
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Vaults Dark 🍺 and crisps. Heaven.
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Drinking Reverend 🍺 at The Spirit Vaults, Melbourne. Lovely little microbrewery and pub.
: Location check in 🗺 — The Thomas Leaper, Derby – Little John Bitter by Milestone Brewery 🍺
: It didn’t rain in Melbourne! Good match 🏏
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Rudolf Firkušný (31), Low (11), The Smashing Pumpkins (11), Fischer, …
: 🏏 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Final – England 🏴 v Pakistan 🇵🇰
: There’s a lot of World Cups happening around now. Watching the Women’s Rugby Union World Cup final …
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Ikiru, 1952 - ★★★★½
Watched on Friday November 11, 2022.
: I get a box of vegetables delivered weekly from Riverford Organic Farmers. Included with each box is …
: 🏏 Superb bowling by Adil Rashid in the World Cup semi-final: 1-20 from his 4 overs
: 🏏 India v England under way - ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi-final, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide 🇮🇳 🏴 …
: Linkblog 🔗: Oldest known written sentence discovered – on a head-lice comb
: Linkblog 🔗: Low’s Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock 🎵
: Linkblog 🔗: What is Mastodon, and will it replace Twitter? - New Statesman Mastodon is not …
: 🍺 Thunderbird IPA at the Rhoswenallt Inn
: 🍰 Cherry Bakewell and Americano at Delico Deli
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Death on the Nile, 2022 - ★★★★
Branagh makes a stylish Poirot and a stylish, enjoyable Christie adaptation. Would rank Death on the …
: Linkblog 🔗: Philologist Irene Vallejo: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Aphrodite’s Child (22), The Umlauts (12), Thelonious Monk (12), Dry …
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Broke all the rules tonight, made (and ate) a vegan Hawaiian pizza. I’m not vegan or Hawaiian 🍕
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Rugby on #Caturday … Wales trailing, cat sleeping through it 🐈 🏉
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Murder on the Orient Express, 2017 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday November 2, 2022.
: 🏏 England v New Zealand - game on, it’s not raining in Brisbane, it definitely is here in Wales this …
October 2022
: India v South Africa definitely a dramatic match with a lot of twists and turns. Outcome still not …
: After the disappointment of the abandoned Australia v England T20 World Cup match on Friday I’m now …
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Viewing autumn wind and rain through our bedroom window 🍂
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Aphrodite’s Child (17), Jacobs, Concerto Vocale, Nederlands Kamerkoor (11), …
: Linkblog 🔗: Feeding Of The Five Thousand 29-10-2022 🎵
: Linkblog 🔗: TS Eliot’s Waste Land was a barren place. But at least a spirit of optimism still …
: 💉 Received my COVID-19 vaccination booster at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon - over my four doses I’ve now had the …
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Pastrami style cured salmon followed by a vegan burger
: Location check in 🗺 — The Bunch of Grapes, Manchester Bitter 🍺
: Ireland off to a flying start in their World Cup match against England 🏏
: ☕ Delico Deli for jacket potato with salad and a cappuccino
: 🚶♂️Morning walk in Dare Valley
: Linkblog 🔗: Dry Cleaning: ‘We bond over food a lot. It’s a big part of the band’
: 📻 Listening to Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar - one of my favourite BBC Radio 4 comedy shows …
: MCG looks absolutely packed for India v Pakistan 🏏 🙂
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Arctic Monkeys (30), Dry Cleaning (25), Aphrodite’s Child (15), Paul Lewis, …
: 🏏 Time for England v Afghanistan in the T20 World Cup
: Linkblog 🔗: Arctic Monkeys: The Car review | The Guardian 🎵 aching songs of soured dreams […] It’s …
: Linkblog 🔗: Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork review | The Guardian 🎵 deadpan chat, funk and hypnotic …
: Finished reading: Lessons by Ian McEwan 📚
: 🏏 And Zimbabwe beat Scotland. Now looking forward to England's opening World Cup game against …
: 🏏 Ireland knock West Indies out of the Men's T20 World Cup and proceed to the Super 12 stage.
: Hand grinding coffee ☕ … my Apple watch has decided that I’ve started an Elliptical Workout. Didn’t …
: ⚽️ Watching Aston Villa v Chelsea 📺
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: John Coltrane (24), Future Islands (21), Miles Davis Quintet (21), The …
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Elvis, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Saturday October 15, 2022.
: 💃 Autumn Saturday night so there's no option in our household … Strictly Come Dancing 📺
: Linkblog 🔗: The Umlauts - Another Fact - review at The Quietus 🎵 the multilingual group unleash a …
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This Isn’t Bacon roll. My sub rolls turned out a little plump but very tasty 🤤
: 🥖 Baking bread rolls for breakfast/brunch
: 🎵 Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
: 🚲 10 mile indoor cycle workout
: 📸 Browsing the Micro.blog A Day in the Life 2022 timeline
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Micro.blog A Day in the Life Photo Challenge 📸
Thursday 13th October 2022, 6:07pm BST
Self-portrait …
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Pale tussock moth caterpillar 🐛
: 💒 Denise and I celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary today 🥰
: Linkblog 🔗: Why DH Lawrence still gets under our skin
: Linkblog 🔗: The Rise of the Pawns - Existential Comics I’m telling you man, they are just using us …
: 🍝 Sunday dinner: spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino. Followed Rachel Roddy's guidance from 'Five …
: Linkblog 🔗: The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Beatles (27), Suede (19), Medici Quartet (12), Fidetzis, Athens State …
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Good to eat outside in October. Spontaneous, quick barbecue fare but the result was delicious 😋
: 🔥 Weather is so good, have decided to BBQ in the garden.
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Just discovered why we’ve got so many wasps flying around the front of our house – they’re nesting …
: 🧹 Sweeping leaves (and acorns) 🍂
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Coffee, book and cat in the early morning Autumn sun ☕️
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Atonement, 2007 - ★★★★★
Excellent film of a very good book.
: ☕ Americano and cherry bakewell at Delico Deli, Aberdare.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Suede (26), Borodin Quartet (15), The Beatles (15), clipping. (14) & John …
September 2022
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Justine, 1969 - ★★★★
Don’t view with the expectation that the film will fairly represent the books of the Alexandria …
: 🏏 More Pakistan v England T20 cricket. This series is coming thick and fast.
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The Iceman, 2012 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday September 29, 2022.
: Linkblog 🔗: The vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams
: 🏏 Watching England play Pakistan in the fifth of seven T20 matches.
: 📺 The Great British Bake Off
: 👽 First contact from status.lol
: Linkblog 🔗: Hilary Mantel knew how corrosive deference to monarchy can be – and why we must resist | …
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Cosmopolis, 2012 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday September 25, 2022.
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Pizza. Olives, capers and green chilli 🍕
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Lebanese wine with our pizza tonight 🍕 🍷 🇱🇧
: Film log - watched: Cosmopolis, 2012 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Suede (41), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (9), Madeleine Cocolas (8) & Dry …
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The Fly, 1986 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday September 23, 2022.
: Film log - watched: The Fly, 1986 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Linkblog 🔗: Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE via …
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A History of Violence, 2005 - ★★★★★
Watched on Thursday September 22, 2022.
: Film log - watched: A History of Violence, 2005 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Yesterday at Abergavenny Food Festival
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (32), Walter, Columbia SO (18), Dry Cleaning (10) & Solti, LPO, …
: Linkblog 🔗: Ian McEwan’s long look back British politics does not offer much more cause for …
: Linkblog 🔗: Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
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One of my favourite beers: Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, at The Gloucester Old Spot, Bristol 🍺
: Linkblog 🔗: There’s more to spritz than Aperol
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Baked polenta with melted gorgonzola – Polenta Pasticciata con Gorgonzola
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I’ve been stirring polenta for nearly 40 minutes. My arm is aching.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Evgeny Kissin (19), Lou Reed (14), Ezra Furman (13), Dry Cleaning (10) & …
: Linkblog 🔗: Exposed by Caroline Vout review – the real Greek and Roman body
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 4, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Boult, LPO, Tortelier (7) & Dactyl Terra (6) via tweekly.fm
: Currently reading: Tales From The Loop by Simon Stålenhag 📚
: Currently reading: Endless Forms by Seirian Sumner 📚
August 2022
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jenny Hval (13), Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (11), Ezra Furman (3), The …
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It’s been a hard Caturday 💤 🐈
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Beyond burgers and mushrooms 🍔🍄
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Abbot Ale and long wave radio in the garden for today’s cricket - TMS & England v South Africa 🏏
: Linkblog 🔗: Lawns: Are they worth it anymore? - The Washington Post
: Linkblog 🔗: An ode to the Great British music festival - New Statesman From Green Man to …
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Camp from Thursday to Monday at the Green Man Festival 🎵
Five days with virtually no internet access …
: Location check in 🗺 — Arriving at Green Man Festival 2022, near Crickhowell, Powys 🎵
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Lunch at Junjira Thai Restaurant
Today we decided it was about time we had lunch at the tiny Thai restaurant in our local market hall …
: Location check in 🗺 — Junjira Thai restaurant in Aberdare Market 🍜
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Greek Village Salad – Horiatiki Salata
Looks like today is going to be the last hot day of our …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Low (13), Dactyl Terra (11), Morcheeba (10), Christian Curnyn (7) & …
: Finished reading: The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚
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Shaded garden spots reserved for the next few days of hot weather.
For me:
For Duffy:
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Went to my first Hundred cricket match yesterday, Welsh Fire v Oval Invincibles at Sophia Gardens in …
: Location check in 🗺 — Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 🏏
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Low (25), Walter Gieseking (15), alt-J (12), Retribution Gospel Choir (10) …
: Muse’s Matt Bellamy 🔗 🎵 I think my brain’s been manipulated by Stranger Things and that’s what I …
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Summer. Wales. Raining. At least it’s warm so I can sit in the garden with a beer 🍺
July 2022
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Kirill Kozlovski (32), Jack White (24), Sleaford Mods (24), Nigel Kennedy, …
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Walk the Line, 2005 - ★★★
Watched on Saturday July 30, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Walk the Line, 2005 - ★★★ 🎥
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Amulet, 2020 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday July 29, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Amulet, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Really special and enjoyable day in Bristol, my daughter’s graduation ceremony – BSc Psychology with …
: Location check in 🗺 — Bristol Cathedral. UWE Bristol graduation ceremony.
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The Olde Hatchet Inn, Bristol.
: Location check in 🗺 — The Olde Hatchet Inn, Bristol. Good Chemistry Brewing Full Circle 🍺
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Dimentia 13 (19), The Mysterines (13), Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets …
: Sam Northeast: Glamorgan batter hits 410 - third highest score in County Championship history 🏏🔗 …
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Jurassic World, 2015 - ★★★
Watched on Friday July 22, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Jurassic World, 2015 - ★★★ 🎥
: Currently reading: The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚
: Location check in 🗺 — Kavala Airport, time for one last spinach pie and Alfa 🍺
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Final nightcap – Isalos ouzo
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Impressive seafood spaghetti tonight at Taverna Pirofani on our last evening on Thasos 🇬🇷
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Spending the last few days of our holiday relaxing on the beach by (and swimming through) Tripiti …
: Currently reading: Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton 📚 Whizzing through and really enjoying The …
: Currently reading: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Doors (23), Kevin Morby (12), Ryley Walker (10), James Rhodes (9) & …
: Finished reading: Three Philosophies and One Reality & NHK Radio Talks by Gudo Wafu Nishijima 📚
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Lazy, simple evening meal in our apartment tonight – dolmades, Throumba olives, tzatziki and bread.
: Linkblog 🔗: Oldest house in Wales found in Cardiff
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Strangely we had Italian food tonight - seafood linguine and gnocchi alla Sorrentina. The owners of …
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Mount Athos from Limenaria, just before sunset
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Empty beds view a moonrise 🌙
: From the comments to that last linked article on wasps: Bees were once wasps but diverged from them …
: Linkblog 🔗: Country diary: We should open our eyes to the wonder of wasps
: Never seen anything like this before: How a fake ‘IPL’ cricket league ran for Russian punters 🏏🔗
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Late lunch in the bar 🍺
Anchovies 🐟
Games 🎲
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Image of the Harpie, 1497
I’m struck by some images on a Kindle 🫤
from The Burning Man by Frances …
: Linkblog 🔗: Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes (12), James Taylor (8), Derrick Harriott …
: Currently reading: Don’t be a Jerk by Brad Warner 📚
: Currently reading: Z by Vassilis Vassilokos 📚
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Drinks in a bar with my daughter. She finds my conversation stimulating 😉 📕 🍺
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Breakfast after a night of storms, thunder and lightning ⛈
: Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden …
: A little Thasos rain this morning 🌧
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Morning coffee at Limenaria harbour ☕️
: Location check in 🗺 — Rodon House, Limenaria, Thasos 🇬🇷
: Location check in 🗺 — North Terminal, Gatwick Airport ✈️
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La Chouffe 🍺
India building a substantial lead 🏏
: Location check in 🗺 — Yr Ieuan Ap Iago, Aberdare - Purity Mad Goose 🍺
: Just watched an incredible over for India, the record for the most runs in a Test over! Stuart Broad …
June 2022
: Location check in 🗺 — Burrows Cottage, Cwm Ivy, Llanmadoc
: Linkblog 🔗: Portable Magic by Emma Smith review – a love letter to reading
: Linkblog 🔗: ‘It’s dopamine’: why we love to track our watching and reading habits
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Sleaford Mods (25), The Utopia Strong (18) & Nina Simone (11) via …
: Location check in 🗺 — National Museum Cardiff - Destination masterpiece: 75 great artworks to see …
: Location check in 🗺 — Brodies Coffee Co - flat white & toastie ☕️
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods, 2017 - ★★★★
Watched on Wednesday June 22, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Bunch of Kunst, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Assimilate, 2019 - ★½
Watched on Sunday June 19, 2022.
: Location check in 🗺 — Ye Olde Butchers Arms, Rhiwbina – pints of Abbot Ale and Sharp’s Atlantic 🍺
: Film log - watched: Assimilate, 2019 - ★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Mysterines (13), Sleaford Mods (12) & Molchat Doma (3) via tweekly.fm
: Location check in 🗺 — Koocha, Bristol – Persian inspired vegan cuisine.
: Just arrived home from nearly a week’s break in Berlin. I’d forgotten how much I like visiting big …
: Location check in 🗺 — Berlin-Brandenburg Airport ✈️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artist: The Utopia Strong (9) via tweekly.fm
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Tempelhof Airport for the Tempelhof Sounds festival 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Tempelhof Airport for the Tempelhof Sounds festival 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — Taverna Athene. Ouzo, retsina, anchovies, moussaka, white bean soup and Greek …
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Mozart and Beethoven. Haydn is on the far side 🎵
: Location check in 🗺 — DDR Museum
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Craft beer in Berlin - BRLO Brwhouse beer garden 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — BRLO Brewhouse microbrewery - Helles and Berliner Weisse 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Holiday Inn Express, Berlin City Centre 🇩🇪
: Location check in 🗺 — Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5 ✈️
: Location check in 🗺 — Ostrich Inn, Colnbrook. Pint of Spitfire 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — Ye Olde George, Colnbrook. Pint of Amstel 🍺
: 64 years ago - 1958. Last time Wales reached the World Cup Finals. Incredible 🏴 ⚽️
: Outstanding 🏏 stats by Andrew Samson @AWSStats: Youngest to reach 10 000 Test runs: AN Cook 11479 …
: Day 4 of England v New Zealand 🏏 Joe Root hits his 26th Test century to also reach 10,000 Test runs. …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Davis, Staatskapelle Dresden (7) & Solti, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, …
: OtD 4 Jun 1913 socialist suffragette Emily Davison was seriously injured while trying to grab the …
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My only Jubilee celebration - Pact Coffee’s Remera Tugirekawanziza Rwandan coffee, their Platinum …
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Bank holidays. Yesterday was small barbecue day, today is pizza day.
May 2022
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On review I somehow missed posting Day 4 😊
So for the sake of completeness …
thorny — day 04 of the …
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endurance — day 31 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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fish — day 30 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Linkblog 🔗: The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen
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stripes — day 29 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Kirill Kozlovski (16), Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes (15), Bernstein, …
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fair — day 28 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Finished reading: Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk by DBC Pierre 📚
: Finished reading: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture by Matt Goulding 📚
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written — day 27 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. design by william blake: thomas …
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Call Me by Your Name, 2017 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday May 26, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Call Me by Your Name, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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schedule — day 26 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Sticker on lamppost in Hay-on-Wye.
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mountain — day 25 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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intricate — day 24 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Alien, 1979 - ★★★★★
Re-watching the 2003 Director’s Cut. Superb, even better than I remember 😊
: Film log - watched: Alien, 1979 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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plain — day 23 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. plain foreground athens 2018 📸
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textile — day 22 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. tapestry night sky 📸
: Location check in 🗺 — Mansion House, Llansteffan for Sunday lunch of shellfish ravioli 🦐
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Maazel, Orchestre National De France, Migenes, Domingo, Choeurs De Radio …
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Midjourney AI-powered generative art project
My beta invite from Midjourney, the AI-powered generative art project, arrived today.
First attempt …
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symmetry — day 21 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Location check in 🗺 — Delico Deli, Aberdare for Saturday breakfast and coffee ☕️
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beverage — day 20 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. moroccan mint 📸
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Acoustic sets at Clwb Ifor Bach last night - James Walsh 🎵
supported by Ellie Thomas
and Pay the Man …
: Location check in 🗺 — Clwb Ifor Bach for James Walsh 🎵
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indulgence — day 19 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. baklava 📸
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random — day 18 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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hold — day 17 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Fantasy Island, 2020 - ★★★½
A lot darker than I remember the 1970s/1980s TV series 😊 And I thought it was a lot better than all …
: Film log - watched: Fantasy Island, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
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time — day 16 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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clouds — day 15 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Location check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Ukrainian Golden Ale 🍺
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: clipping. (29), Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets (27), James Walsh (26), …
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fence — day 14 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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community — day 13 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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tranquility — day 12 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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maroon — day 11 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Haven’t watched many football games live this season but I am watching Aston Villa v Liverpool this …
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pot — day 10 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: 🟥🔙🟩 Stupid 129 2/1/2 stupidwordgame.com
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bloom — day 09 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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union — day 08 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. NALGO 📸
: DBC Pierre: ‘You can be shut down from life because of one mistake’ 🔗
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park — day 07 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. dare valley country park 📸
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silhouette — day 06 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Home with the second-hand spoils of Hay-on-Wye 📚
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Earth — day 05 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: Location check in 🗺 — tomatitos tapas bar, hay-on-wye. good rioja! 🍷
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Bought a chair in Hay-on-Wye!
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experimental — day 03 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge - worryingly experimental …
: Location check in 🗺 — Blue Boar, Hay-on-Wye. Pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord 🍺
: Location check in 🗺 — The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye
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photo — day 02 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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switch — day 01 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ryley Walker (18), Muse (7), Altin Gün (6), Sting (6) & Gong (4) via …
April 2022
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Finch, 2021 - ★★
Watched on Friday April 29, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Finch, 2021 - ★★ 🎥
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 Try Time at the Rhoswenallt Inn. — Drinking a Try Time by Glamorgan …
: Finished reading: One Language by Anastasia Taylor-Lind 📚
: Best so far 😊 I solved today’s Redactle (#20) in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 85.71%. Played at …
: Poem of the week: Welcome to Donetsk by Anastasia Taylor-Lind 🔗
: Check in 🗺 — Delico Deli for tuna melt panini and Americano ☕️
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Looking into some One Cup sake
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Infinitum: Subject Unknown, 2021 - ★★★
Low-key, low budget and quite stylish and well filmed. Wanted to like it more but narrative wasn’t …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ryley Walker (8), The Utopia Strong (6), Arcade Fire (2) & Kevin Morby (2) …
: Film log - watched: Infinitum: Subject Unknown, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
: Well, I was planning to go to my first cricket match of the season tomorrow but… Middlesex are on …
: IPES food report: The Politics of Protein 🔗
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The Invisible Man, 2020 - ★★★
OK but didn’t really engross me; not a version of The Invisible Man I’d like to revisit.
: Film log - watched: The Invisible Man, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥
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Mainly trees 🚶♂️🌲 📷
Walking today - view of Aberdare, a mine entrance and (mainly) trees.
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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½
Watched on Sunday April 17, 2022.
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Birthday board game. I lost.
: Film log - watched: Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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My birthday today. Also my 100th consecutive day of playing Wordle. As a gift to myself I’m going to …
: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times 🔗
: Plague poems, defiant wit and penis puns: why John Donne is a poet for our times 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: James Walsh (14), Throwing Muses (13), Handley, RLPO (8), Holst, LSO (7) & …
: Cloudalists: Our New Cloud-based Ruling Class - Project Syndicate op-ed 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Norrington, LCP, Tan (75), Karajan, VPO, Price, Corelli, Merrill, Freni …
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Shazam!, 2019 - ★★½
Watched on Wednesday April 6, 2022.
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The Postcard Killings, 2020 - ★★
Watched on Monday April 4, 2022.
: Film log - watched: The Postcard Killings, 2020 - ★★ 🎥
: 641 runs in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 Final! Australia were impressive. 🏏
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Muse (21), John Nelson & Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg (9), Ryley …
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 Brew Monster, Cardiff — Drinking a Leviathan by Brew Monster
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The Bubble, 2022 - ★★½
Watched on Friday April 1, 2022.
: Film log - watched: The Bubble, 2022 - ★★½ 🎥
: Cricket World Cup: England-Australia final to be shown free to air on Sunday 🏏 England’s Women’s …
March 2022
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Alita: Battle Angel, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday March 30, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Alita: Battle Angel, 2019 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Muse (14), Laundromat (11), Handley, RLPO, Tasmin Little (6), Bernstein, …
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Daffodils. St John the Baptist churchyard, Aberdare. 🌼
: Currently reading: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Muse (13), Matt Bellamy (10), Furtwängler, BPO (9), Petrenko, RLPO (4) & …
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Homeward bound from Bristol, becoming a familiar route.
: Check in 🗺 — Hatchet Inn, Bristol 🍺
: Finished reading: Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin 📚
: Finished reading: Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment …
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Primer, 2004 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday March 16, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Primer, 2004 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Muse (15), Walter, Columbia SO (3) & Rattle, CBSO (1) via tweekly.fm
: Mentioned on the BBC today: Ukraine: Spam website set up to reach millions of Russians - but they …
: England v Ireland in the Six Nations rugby. England down to 14 with a red card after 82s. Can’t see …
: Roman boat that sank in Mediterranean 1,700 years ago gives up its treasures 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: NEU! (12), Gong (9), Kevin Morby (8), Baudo, LPO (5) & John Coltrane (5) …
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd — Drinking a Sierra Nevad-o
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Escape from Pretoria, 2020 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday March 3, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Escape from Pretoria, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥
February 2022
: Beat Poet Elise Cowen’s Time-Traveling Love Letters to Emily Dickinson 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Muse (11), Gong (9), Nigel Kennedy (9) & Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music, …
: Finished reading: Homo Irrealis by André Aciman 📚
: Check in 🗺 — Pho. Vietnamese prawn curry, lemon and Thai basil martini 🍸
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Gary Kemp (11), Muse (11), Yard Act (11), Dry Cleaning (10) & Karajan, BPO …
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No Time to Die, 2021 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday February 13, 2022.
: Film log - watched: No Time to Die, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Spectre, 2015 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday February 12, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Spectre, 2015 - ★★★½ 🎥
: The Paris Review - Cavafy’s Bed 🔗
: Neolithic chalk drum hailed as most important prehistoric art found in 100 years 🔗
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Interesting poster combinations.
: Check in 🗺 — Tinto Lounge, Gloucester Road, Bristol for a Beyond burger plus tapas. Delicious. …
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Skyfall, 2012 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday February 10, 2022.
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 Drinking a Jail Ale by Dartmoor Brewery at the Post Inn
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Flat white and a pasty on a bench in Padstow harbour. Final harbour coffee break of our stay in …
: Film log - watched: Skyfall, 2012 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Second flat white of the day on a bench at Porthleven Harbour ☕️
: Check in 🗺 — The Harbourside Refuge, Porthleven. Great fish dishes. 🐟
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Flat white and croissant on the beach overlooking St Michael’s Mount. A little grey and breezy. 🥐 ☕️
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Quantum of Solace, 2008 - ★★½
Watched on Wednesday February 9, 2022.
: Don’t Network: The Avant-Garde after Networks [2018] 🔗
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Casino Royale, 2006 - ★★★★
Re-watching for the first time after about 15 years. Quite enjoyed it! Will be carrying on with the …
: Film log - watched: Quantum of Solace, 2008 - ★★½ 🎥
: Film log - watched: Casino Royale, 2006 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Kemyel A - standing stone (menhir)
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Flat white on a bench overlooking Mousehole harbour ☕️
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Sky, sea and ruins - view from the front of the cottage we’re staying in.
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Today I learned blue skies in St Ives do not mean good weather at Land’s End. It got very drizzly …
: Beer check in via Untappd. Sharp’s Sea Fury at the Farmers Arms, Penzance 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Sea Fury …
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Flat white on a bench overlooking St Ives harbour ☕️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Andy Summers & Robert Fripp (10), Gregory Porter (8), LCP, Norrington (8), …
: Sitting in a pub in Exeter watching Six Nations rugby - France v Italy. It’s only a Beefeater but …
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Proper Job by St Austell Brewery
: ICC Under-19 Men’s World Cup Final, England v India. Alex Horton from Glamorgan keeping wicket. …
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Inside Delico Deli with an Americano, looking out. ☕️
: More than 18,000 pot sherds document life in ancient Egypt 🔗
: Three ladies dancing, two couples cuddling, one piper piping in ancient feast mosaic 🔗
: Family owners put Blackwell’s bookshops up for sale 🔗 This is a shame. Blackwell’s is usually my …
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Hemingway & Gellhorn, 2012 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 1, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Hemingway & Gellhorn, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥
January 2022
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Oxford Camerata, Summerly (9), Solti, CSO (2) & Conlon, Rotterdam PO (1) …
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Kangaroo, 1986 - ★★★½
Interesting enough. A little slow paced, not hugely charismatic performances (and Colin Friels’ …
: Film log - watched: Kangaroo, 1986 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Pastéis de nata added to my coffee morning ☕️
: Check in 🗺 — Delico Deli for Americano and toastie ☕️
: Currently reading: Hear Me Out by Armando Iannucci 📚
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Misty and muddy walk this morning but at least I got above the clouds. Now to clean my boots … 🚶♂️
: Update to my Micro.blog Navigation List plug-in I have just updated my Micro.blog Navigation List plug-in to version 1.0.6 Prior to this version a …
: Why We Must Challenge Zuckerberg’s Ring of Power 🔗
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Cactus boot, prehistoric jungle and glasshouse at Bristol Botanic Garden 🌱
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺. Landlord at The Gloucester Old Spot, Bristol. — Drinking a Landlord by …
: Check in 🗺 — Bristol Botanic Garden 🌱
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Some intense leafleting in Bristol.
: Oldest brewed tea leaves found in royal tomb 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Police (11), Andy Summers (10), Muse (9), Furtwängler, BPO (8) & Neil …
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 2017 - ★★★½
Hypnotically addictive. Definitely a spectacle.
: Film log - watched: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Finished reading: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 📚
: Nellie Bly: The woman who blew Fogg away 🔗
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Rhubarb chard at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
: Check in 🗺 — The National Botanic Garden of Wales
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Out of Time, 2021 - ★½
Watched on Monday January 17, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Out Of Time, 2021 - ★½ 🎥
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The Green Knight, 2021 - ★★★★
Very dark. Very dramatic. Not what I expected - better than that. Unusually I wish I’d read a …
: Film log - watched: The Green Knight, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺. Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout at the Bunch of Grapes.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields (12), The Ronettes (12), Neil …
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First try of a plastic Holga lens on my old Pentax K100D. A Holga HL-P, 60 mm f/8 for Pentax DSLR …
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Cherry, 2021 - ★★½
Watched on Tuesday January 11, 2022.
: Film log - watched: Cherry, 2021 - ★★½ 🎥
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Twin Town, 1997 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday January 8, 2022.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Police (31), Lana Del Rey (17), Coldplay (10), Elbow (9) & Giannis …
: Film log - watched: Twin Town, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥
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A visit to King’s Quoit, the Neolithic burial chamber overlooking Manorbier beach, Pembrokeshire. …
: Check in 🗺 — Delico Deli, large Americano ☕️
: A morning walk. Snow and Moss on Flickr 📷
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Spent a long time preparing sushi maki with my daughter last night. Fillings of shiitake, smoked …
: Just watched the New Year’s Day Doctor Who. That was a good episode, I always like a time loop and …
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First visit of the year to my favourite pub. Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd🍺
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Kashmir by Salopian Brewery
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Sigmatropic (25), Lana Del Rey (14), Gomez (11), The Police (11) & Andy …
: How did Welsh cricket fare in 2021? 🔗
December 2021
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Don't Look Up, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday December 30, 2021.
: Film log - watched: Don’t Look Up, 2021 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (27), Nubya Garcia (18), Andy …
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Quiet family Xmas dinner of
Spanakopita
Gigantes plaki
Harissa roasted sprouts, broccoli, halloumi …
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Will be feeling really strong today - cooking nearly a kilogram of spinach for Xmas dinner 🎅💪
: Finished reading: Pandemonium by Armando Iannucci 📚
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Army of Thieves, 2021 - ★★½
Watched on Wednesday December 22, 2021.
: Film log - watched: Army of Thieves, 2021 - ★★½ 🎥
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Coma, 2019 - ★★½
Average random sci-fi movie pick on Amazon Prime. A video game of a film, visually quite impressive …
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Wild at Heart, 1990 - ★★★½
Suitably surreal.
: Film log - watched: Coma, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
: Film log - watched: Wild at Heart, 1990 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Finished reading: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell 📚
: Handwriting my Website with a Digital Amanuensis - Chris Aldrich 🔗
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Short Sunday afternoon walk🚶♂️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Police (40), Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano (17), Andy Summers (13), …
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The crowds are in for the early morning cricket 🏏 🐈
: The Ashes 2nd Test in Adelaide is a day-night match, so starts at 4am in the UK. At least I can get …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: L’Orfeo Barockorchester & Michi Gaigg (24), Elbow (12) & Mary Ann Tedstone …
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Paper Planes by Salopian Brewery
: Check in 🗺 — The Coal Exchange, Cardiff 🏨
: Check in 🗺 — Bar One, Wales Millennium Centre 🍷
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Army of the Dead, 2021 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday December 9, 2021.
: Film log - watched: Army of the Dead, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
: Fromage fictions: the 14 biggest cheese myths – debunked! 🔗
: Watching 1st Ashes Test. Apparently that was only the fourth time a wicket has fallen to the first …
: Quote used by Ruth Ozeki in A Tale for the Time Being 📚 — In reality, every reader, while he is …
: Doors guitarist Robby Krieger: ‘The music will outlast the crazy Jim stuff’ 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Andy Summers (22), Andy Summers & Robert Fripp (13), Furtwängler, BPO (11), …
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2019 - ★★
Uninspiring monster fayre.
: Japanese Films That Will Blow Your Mind And Make You Reevaluate The Possibilities Of The Cinematic Artform The World of Kanako Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets Confession Love & Pop …
: Film log - watched: Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
: Disrupt Texts’ assault on Shakespeare and other classics: Money, ignorance and social backwardness 🔗
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A new novelty - first train journey in almost two years - Mountain Ash Station 🚊
: Check in 🗺 — Mountain Ash Railway Station 🚊
November 2021
: Josephine Baker: a timely addition to the Panthéon 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Mary Ann Tedstone Glover (45), Itzhak Perlman (16), Andy Summers (12), Andy …
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Cinema Paradiso, 1988 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday November 27, 2021.
: Just found out about and starting to populate my profile at @dave’s BingeWorthy. Struggling trying …
: Film log - watched: Cinema Paradiso, 1988 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Walking through Aberdare 📷
A short sequence of B&W photos of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
View from the footbridge
Aberdare …
: Check in 🗺 — Bradleys Coffee Shop. Tuna sandwich, cappuccino and mince pie ☕️
: The art that restores faith in Palermo 🔗
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Changes! Severed my ponytail and shaved my hair and beard short 💇♂️
: Been raking and sweeping up autumn leaves. Now drinking a Pimm’s and tonic sitting outside in the …
: Rescued from obscurity: UK archaeologist who restored Sicily’s glories 🔗
: Mice and elephants - what really matters in the decarbonisation of transport 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Diasonics (9), Another Sky (6), Boy Azooga (5), Furtwängler, VPO (5) & …
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Drunken Angel, 1948 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday November 19, 2021.
: Film log - watched: Drunken Angel, 1948 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Pulse, 2001 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday November 17, 2021.
: How Ancient Rome hit the charts 🔗🎵 Composer and academic Mary Ann Tedstone Glover has brought the …
: Film log - watched: Pulse, 2001 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Montale’s Lemons by Ishion Hutchinson 🔗
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Morning view over Camden Lock from hotel room window.
: Manton Reece - Micro.blog via AppleScript. 🔗
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Stereolab and Kynsy at the Roundhouse, London, Sunday 14th November 🎵
: Check in 🗺 — Holiday Inn, Camden Lock for one night.
: Check in 🗺 — The Roundhouse for the Pitchfork Music Festival with Stereolab headlining 🎵
: Check in 🗺 — Tai Pan Alley street food collective. Nasi lembak with jackfruit rendang and an oni …
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺. Camden Lock — Drinking a London Porter by Twickenham Fine Ales
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Take out beer! Two pints of Grey Trees Brewery’s Mosaic Pale Ale fits in this carton from the Bunch …
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Tiger’s “Eye” P.A. by Bluestone Brewing Co.
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Seven Samurai, 1954 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday November 12, 2021.
: Film log - watched: Seven Samurai, 1954 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: Steven Gerrard: Aston Villa name Rangers boss as new manager ⚽ 🔗 The former Liverpool captain, 41, …
: First T20 World Cup semifinal is underway. England v New Zealand cricket. England, batting first, …
: Atlas maps Hogwarts, Jurassic Park & made-up places 🔗 So where actually is Batman’s Gotham City? Or …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Le Consort (31), La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (22) & Le …
: Well, South Africa best England in the T20 cricket but fail to qualify for the World Cup …
: England v South Africa 🏏 in the T20 World Cup - South Africa, batting first, making a great effort …
: Check in 🗺 — Delico Deli. Tuna melt panini and cappuccino ☕️
: Currently reading: The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust Volume 2) by Philip Pullman 📚
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The Death of Stalin, 2017 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday November 5, 2021.
: Film log - watched: The Death of Stalin, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
October 2021
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John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father worked in a …
: The Gravestone of John Keats: Romancing the Stone 🔗
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Neil Young & Crazy Horse (9), Dirty Three (8), Neil Young (1) & Sun Green & …
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home — day 31 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Ready for Strictly Come Dancing Hallowe’en special - pumpkin courtesy of Thomas Mason 🎃 💃
: Astonishing from England. Buttler was amazing 🏏
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Not a satisfactory solution. Also trying to make pizza at the same time 🏏 🏉 🍕
: Saturday sports stress. ICC T20 World Cup Australia v England 🏏 overlapping with Wales v New Zealand …
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Lounging in late October sun 🐈⬛ ☀️
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red — day 30 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 🍷 📷
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cycle — day 29 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge. Flashback to a birthday in …
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underneath — day 28 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge. King’s Quoit, a …
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Boss Level, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday October 27, 2021.
: Film log - watched: Boss Level, 2021 - ★★★½ 🎥
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chaos — day 27 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: The Great British Bake Off. Usually bread week is my favourite, but tonight’s pastry week is great! …
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bliss — day 26 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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gravity — day 25 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge. A specific gravity balance …
: Enjoying Sri Lanka v Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup - good, competitive cricket after yesterday’s …
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connection — day 24 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Robert Tear, Philip Ledger (23), Walter, Columbia SO (12), Coldplay (10), …
: Bowling by Ali, Rashid and Mills was impressive, England took some great catches … but would have …
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Scenes from our local coffee shop, Delico Deli, this morning. They have entered Hallowe’en mode 🎃 ☕️ …
: Starting shortly - England v West Indies in their opening match in the ICC T20 World Cup Super 12 …
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meaning — day 23 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Check in 🗺 — Delico Deli for tuna panini and Americano ☕️
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rest — day 22 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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space — day 21 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Currently reading: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman 📚
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sports — day 20 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge. T20 World Cup is underway! 🏏 …
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mirror — day 19 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Linking Drummer to Micro.blog
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finished — day 18 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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compass — day 17 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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rotation — day 16 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Field Music were brilliant at The Fleece in Bristol tonight 🎵
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ethereal — day 15 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Check in 🗺 — The Fleece, Bristol to see Field Music 🎵
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Just had delicious spinach pies at Sotiris Bakery 🇬🇷
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Subtropic by Bristol Beer Factory
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Proper Job by St Austell Brewery
: Check in 🗺 — Hotel du Vin, Bristol for two nights.
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WINEYBEEST 10.5%
WILD BEER CO 1/3 IMPERIAL STOUT + WINE BARRELS + TIME
All the decadence of an …
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wheels — day 14 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a POGO by The Wild Beer Co
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Hungarian Soproni IPA and delicious beetroot cake 🍺
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Soproni Óvatos Duhaj IPA by Soproni Sörgyár (Heineken …
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Laura Marling at Tramshed, Cardiff, 13th October 2021 🎵
: Check in 🗺 — Tramshed, Cardiff to see Laura Marling 🎵
: Check in 🗺 — Bar 44, Cardiff for tapas and wine 🍷
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking a Nastro Azzurro by Birra Peroni
: Check in 🗺 — Hotel Indigo, Cardiff for one night.
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animals — day 13 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Check in 🗺 — Hanoi 1991 for Vietnamese coffee and tofu banh mi ☕️
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legend — day 12 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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hygge — day 11 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: I haven’t watched much of the second part of this year’s Indian Premier League but am enjoying the …
: Dipping my toes back into Dave Winer’s world by trying out Drummer.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Field Music (21), The Specials (16) & Furtwängler, VPO (8) via tweekly.fm
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bridges — day 10 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge — Clifton Suspension Bridge …
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safe — day 9 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Infinite, 2021 - ★½
Watched on Friday October 8, 2021.
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twilight — day 8 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Film log - watched: Infinite, 2021 - ★½ 🎥
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The Babadook, 2014 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday October 7, 2021.
: Film log - watched: The Babadook, 2014 - ★★★½ 🎥
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spice — day 7 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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street — day 6 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge — Commercial Street, Aberdare …
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toy — day 5 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: Check in 🗺 — Delico Deli for latte and panini ☕️
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sharp — day 4 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge — St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare 📷
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Cooked with tempeh for the first time tonight - it made a very good noodle dish 🍜
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majority — day 3 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge — Keir Hardie, founder of …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: James Rhodes (10), Il Giardino Armonico (9) & Nigel Kennedy (9) via …
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dark — day 2 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
: I’m quite enjoying browsing through some of the Project Apollo Archive albums on Flickr. 🔗
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touch — day 1 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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ARQ, 2016 - ★★★½
I do like time loop tales. This one’s not too shabby.
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The Dark Tower, 2017 - ★★
Watched on Thursday September 30, 2021.
September 2021
: Film log - watched: ARQ, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Film log - watched: The Dark Tower, 2017 - ★★ 🎥
: The Concert by Edna St Vincent Millay 🔗 Poem of the week in The Guardian
: Check in 🗺 — Tinto Lounge, Beyond vegan cheeseburger and Malbec 🍷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (31), Nigel Kennedy, BPO (6), Nigel Kennedy, BPO, Albrecht …
: Aston Villa have beaten Manchester United (by a goal to nil) for the first time in the Premier …
: Spirited Away 🔗 – by George Monbiot How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy …
: Film log - watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - ★★ 🎥
: Film log - watched: Sicario, 2015 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Elbow (26), HMS Morris (13), Mary Lou Williams (11), Nadine Shah (11) & …
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Abergavenny Food Festival - The Market Hall
: Walking around Manorbier beach yesterday morning we encountered this ridiculously confident robin. …
: Check in 🗺 — Rum & Fizz for coffee, not rum at 10am 😉☕️
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Couple of quick photos at the start of Elbow’s gig at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff last night 🎵
: Check in 🗺 — Elbow at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 🎵
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Sitting outside Cafe Citta, Cardiff. Double espressos ☕️
: Check in 🗺 — linguine alla puttanesca at Cafe Citta 🇮🇹
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Arrived in Cardiff. Aperol Spritz time.
: Check in 🗺 — Slug & Lettuce for an Aperol Spritz 🍸
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A squirrel broke into our peanut butter while we were out! 🐿
: Currently reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚
: Got to say @samgrover, Mimi is so good - I use it for most of my Micro.blog image uploads now, …
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Sitting by a fire in the dark listening to Oscar Peterson’s Night Train. 🎵
Argentum B&W vs Apple …
: Finished reading: Do Earth by Tamsin Omond 📚
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Don’t know how well this will photograph (it’s on a slighy crumpled crisp packet) but I think this …
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Seaweed Ale made with Pembrokeshire foraged kelp by Caffle Craft Brewery 🍺
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Woodstock in the morning sun.
: Beer check in via Untappd 🗺🍺 — Drinking an Orme Best Bitter by Great Orme Brewery
: Currently reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚
: Currently reading: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories by Ernest Hemingway 📚
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Such a good album! Kitchen Sink by Nadine Shah 🎵
On Apple Music…
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Cooler with a little rain today so it’s an evening for a log fire with cheese and wine.
: Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚
: Very impressive by Emma Raducanu. I don’t often listen to tennis on the radio but that was exciting! …
: Disappointed by the cancellation of the England v India Test match yesterday, which I was hoping to …
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Tynt Meadow, the only English Trappist beer 🍺
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Shopping trip to Narberth ended up with a 1965 Phaidon edition of a book reviewing Parisian art by …
: Check in 🗺 — latte & Welsh cake ☕️
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Arrived at a Hobbit House called Woodstock for a week away from it all. No power, no running water, …
: Check in 🗺 — Florence Springs Eco Glamping.
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A beer at the Parsonage Inn, St. Florence 🍺
: Check in 🗺 — Brown’s Cafe for fish and chips.
: Currently reading: Introducing Buddha by Jane Hope & Borin Van Loon 📚
: Beer check in 🗺🍺 — Drinking an Atlantic Pale Ale by Sharp’s Brewery
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Sri Lankan street food and drink at The Coconut Tree in Cardiff last night. If I hadn’t committed …
: Check in 🗺 — Clwb Ifor Bach to see Another Sky 🎵
: Check in 🗺 — Coconut Tree. Sri Lankan street food. And more rum cocktails 🍸
: Check in 🗺 — Barker Rum & Fizz. Lemongrass and passion fruit daiquiri 🍸
: Drinking a Doom Bar by Sharp’s Brewery 🍺
: Check in 🗺 — The Brewhouse, Melbourne Hall Courtyard, Burnt Mill Pintle 🍺
: Check in 🗺 — Premier Inn, Derby South
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields (16), Kremer, Kremerata Baltica …
: Drinking a Vaults Dark by Morgan Brew Masters 🍺
: Check in 🗺 — M5 Strensham Services Costa latte ☕️
: Film log - watched: Hemingway, 2021 - ★★★★½ 🎥
: Hemingway Original list cloned from Nicole Passage A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls To Have …
: I’ve just successfully exported 4453 posts from my Micro.blog hosted blog and imported them into a …
: 🔗 Star Trek versus Imperialist Doctrine by Yanis Varoufakis America’s liberal imperialist doctrine …
August 2021
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Wood firing pizza tonight 🍕 😃
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bent Knee (12), Gruff Rhys (12), Emma-Jean Thackray (8) & Big Star (1) via …
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Just sorted out my deckchair and radio to settle down for a sunny afternoon listening to the cricket …
: At the start of play today CricViz gave England a 97% chance of winning the 3rd Test against India. …
: Currently reading: How Did We Get into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot 📚
: Currently reading: Sissy by Ben Borek 📚
: Green Man Festival 2021 Photographs 📷 🎵 – a Flickr album of photos straight from my old Pentax K100D …
: So good to see both English openers bat for more than half a day and both reach their half …
: India in England - the 3rd Test at Headingley. Another great morning and early afternoon of cricket …
: At the Green Man Festival. Thursday and Friday excellent. Saturday: it’s raining with rain forecast …
: Green Man 2021 🎵 Off to Green Man Festival 2021 this morning. I’ve been going to this festival since 2008. The only …
: Great day of cricket 🏏 Stunning victory by India over England in a gripping 2nd Test and Glamorgan …
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Graffiti in Athens, February 2018
Describing my relationship with the increasing number of social …
: 🏏 stats: 2021 England v India at Lord’s - the first time in a home test that both England openers …
: Film log - watched: Colette, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
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A gap in today’s relentless August (!) drizzle 🌧
Let’s BBQ Beyond Burgers!
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Emma-Jean Thackray (14), Gary Kemp (11), Furtwängler, BPO (2) & José …
: First time I’ve noticed an animated album cover in Apple Music 🎵
: The women redefining the sound of UK Jazz 🔗 I’m looking forward to seeing Emma-Jean Thackray at the …
: 🏏 stats: We have a new record. Haseeb Hameed’s nought is the 14th duck by a top-three England …
: Barely a week after I started to try out Gala I’ve just posted my first photograph to Glass. The …
: Looking forward to seeing Haseem Hameed bat for England again. Probably tomorrow. 🏏
: In defence of Extinction Rebellion 🔗 The pundits of the various leftist movements have spent …
: Watched: The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 - ★★★ 🎥
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Just learned that this is called a Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes.
A living woodland crest, the …
: Distracted from distraction by distraction I’ve just read this article in by Oliver Burkeman The Guardian: At best, we’re on Earth for around …
: Watched: Night Moves, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: clipping. (31), Bob Dylan (14), Field Music (12), Gary Kemp (11) & …
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Like mother, like daughter 😉
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Open air dance performance by NDC Wales at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
: Check in 🗺 — Chapter Arts Centre 🍺 — Drinking a Young’s Bitter by Eagle Brewery (formerly Charles …
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Lenten Spaghetti with Tahini.
A success!
: You look around. A strong case could be made for it being heaven. A strong case could be made for it …
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Friday night dinner recipe from Vefa’s Kitchen:
Lenten Spaghetti with Tahini
: Gala - photography based social media I’ve been trying out the photography based social media platform Gala. It was brought to my …
: Published 6 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, gala
: England’s 1st innings (batting) not going too well in the 1st Test Match against India 🏏
: Check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Pint of Bilidowcar 🍺 — Drinking a Bilidowcar by Tenby …
: Published 9 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ aberdare
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Aberdare morning walk (link to Strava route details) 🔗 🚶♂️
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Morning coffee with some sheep ☕️ 🐑
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Emma-Jean Thackray (43), Glenn Gould (26), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Jörg …
July 2021
: Watched: The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 - ★★★★ 🎥
: The official #Mastodon app for iOS is now on the App Store. 🔗 Mastodon.social post First …
: Watched: The Matrix, 1999 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: A Woman Is a Woman, 1961 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: Seaspiracy, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
: Just watched my recording of yesterday’s British and Irish Lions First Test agains South Africa, …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: clipping. (28), Dirty Three (13), FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten) (11), …
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Purezza Bristol, vegan pizzeria. Seaspiracy pizza 🍕
: Check in 🗺 — Purezza Bristol, vegan pizzeria. 🍕
: Check in 🗺 — The Royal Oak, Gloucester Road, Bristol. Pint of Sharp’s Doom Bar 🍺
: Lockdown reawakened my childhood love of chess. Now I can’t do anything else 🔗 The alert I get when …
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Pizza sequence. Trying out the pizza oven in wood fired mode for the first time. 🍕
: Watched: The Tomorrow War, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
: Published 24 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ garden
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Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 22nd July 2021
Some garden flora:
Garden Meadow!
Common Poppy
Corn Marigold
Common Cat’s-ear
Ragwort
Orange …
: Clothes just undone—not that there were many, for an exquisite July was blazing. — Cavafy Bot …
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🐈 🐈 seeking shady spots today 🌞
: Check out some of best photos from today’s historic #NSFirstHumanFlight pic.twitter.com/aqQg0gzxi4 — …
: Launch, flight and touchdown of Blue Origin First Human Flight. Very impressive. Looking forward to …
: Watching the launch of Blue Origin First Human Flight 🚀
: Watched: 20,000 Days on Earth, 2014 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Adam Summerhayes, Catherine Summerhayes, Joseph Spooner (10), The Stan …
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Just created somewhere to sit. 🌱
: Euro 2020 Final: England v Italy. Tough ending. ⚽️
: Euro 2020 Final: England v Italy. Going to extra-time. Disappointing second half by England, Italy a …
: Euro 2020 Final: England v Italy. Half-time. Brilliant, confident start by England, just need more …
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Euro 2020 Final: England v Italy ⚽️
Pre-match feasting 😋
: Watched the Djokovic v Berrettini Wimbledon final, now waiting for the main event … 🎾⚽️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Beatles (22), Field Music (20), Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble (20), …
: Currently reading: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 📚
: Euro 2020: England v Denmark semi-final. Stressful. ⚽️
: Euro 2020: Italy 1-1 Spain. First semi-final. Extra-time. England v Denmark will be hard-pressed to …
: Watched: Yesterday, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
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Gin and tonic made with Japanese gin and homegrown kumquats.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Mary Lou Williams (17), Bartok Quartet (9), Cavina, La Venexiana (6), …
: Euro 2020: Ukraine 0-4 England. Full time. Really impressed with England, very composed and …
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Euro 2020: Ukraine 0-4 England. So far. Fantastic! Photo just before fourth goal. ⚽️
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Euro 2020: Ukraine v England. Delicious pre-match indoor picnic courtesy of Côte at Home ⚽️
: Euro 2020: Belgium 1-2 Italy. Gripping game, Italy played some lovely football, looking forward to …
: Watched: Together, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
June 2021
: Euro 2020: England 2-0 Germany. Things are looking up! ⚽️
: Euro 2020: France 3-3 Switzerland. Switzerland win the first penalty shootout of the tournament. …
: Euro 2020: A lot of goals today! France v Switzerland is a brilliant game: 3-3 and extra time is …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Beatles (14), Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Les Sacqueboutiers de …
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Bunch of Grapes - Pewin Ynfytyn ~ Crazy Peacock by The Trefforest Brewery 🍺
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Check in 🗺 — Sunday lunch at the Bunch of Grapes again 😀 🍺
: Ancestors by Alice Roberts review – a story of movement and migration 🔗 📚
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Nice change! London Pride in a dimpled pint glass 🍺
: Check in 🗺 — The Owain Glyndwr, pint of London Pride 🍺
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Revolucion de Cuba. Friday night in Cardiff.
: Check in 🗺 — Revolucion de Cuba. Go to drinks venue! Carafe of Malbec 🍷
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Food at Citta is so good, and all prepared in a tiny open kitchen. Have missed coming here 😊
: Check in 🗺 — Cafe Citta. Best Italian restaurant in Cardiff!
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Temple of Peace and Health, Cardiff.
: Check in 🗺 — The Dock, Cardiff Bay, a French Cabernet Sauvignon 🍷
: Check in 🗺 — Duke of Wellington, SA Gold 🍺
: Check in 🗺 — Hotel Indigo, Cardiff.
: England beat Sri Lanka by 5 wickets in the end, in 16.1 overs out of a possible 18. Thought Sri …
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Uh-oh rain has stopped play, England 69 for 4 with 8 overs left.
Hoping for a restart at 21:55, …
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England v Sri Lanka T20 🏏 England 10 for 2! Chameera bowling to Morgan.
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Attending my first cricket match since September 2019 - ready for England v Sri Lanka T20 at Sophia …
: Check in 🗺 — Sophia Gardens, England v Sri Lanka T20 🏏
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Afternoon Sherry and truffles.
: Check in 🗺 — Tapas lunch at Bar 44 🫒
: Watched: Beat, 2000 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Field Music (28), The Beatles (13), Alfred Brendel (6), Furtwängler (4) & …
: Watched: Meet Joe Black, 1998 - ★★½ 🎥
: Euro 2020: England v Scotland stays at 0-0. Disappointing and pedestrian by England, Scotland …
: Euro 2020: England 0-0 Scotland. Half-time. England a bit tame, Scotland playing well. ⚽️
: Watched: Pull My Daisy, 1959 - ★★★★ 🎥
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In the last few weeks we’ve been having a Great Spotted Woodpecker visiting our bird feeders. Not a …
: A Brazilian stew 🍲 I don’t usually make a record of improvised recipes I cook but this turned out particularly well and …
: Euro 2020: Turkey 0-2 Wales. Relax now! Great game, tense finish, outstanding performance by Wales …
: Euro 2020: Turkey 0-1 Wales. Half-time. Exciting 45 minutes! ⚽️
: Euro 2020: Turkey v Wales underway. Both teams looking a lot more lively and threatening than during …
: Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts 📚
: Sports weekend. Hope Wimbledon can offer everything Roland-Garros provided. Didn’t see all of it but …
: Euro 2020: England 1-0 Croatia. Impressively solid performance. ⚽️
: TIL England have never won their opening game in the European Championships. England v Croatia about …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Field Music (30), Charlie Parker (23), Gibson, RSNO (12), The Breeders (11) …
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Don’t know what they’re waiting for … 🐈⬛
: Euro 2020: Wales 1-1 Switzerland. Close run match, Wales lacklustre for 75 minutes. ⚽️
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Misty walk in the country park this morning 🌫
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Field Music (12), John Coltrane (2), Miles Davis (2), Tipographica (2) & …
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Squid ink linguine with grilled octopus. Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd.
: Check in 🗺 — Sunday lunch at the Bunch of Grapes. Smoked prawns for starter and octopus linguine for …
May 2021
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Joni Mitchell (74), Mary Lou Williams (13) & The Utopia Strong (4) via …
: Watched: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1982 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Persian inspired vegan mezze at Koocha, Gloucester Road, Bristol. Delicious!
: Check in 🗺 — Koocha, Persian inspired vegan mezze 🫒
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Joni Mitchell (32), Magdalena Kožená (30), Herman Dune (12), Holly Macve …
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Eurovision. Watched, scored, voted (Belgium & Ukraine for me). Drank wine. Waiting for results.
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Quite a grey day today.
Stackpole Quay in the morning.
Cleddau Bridge in the afternoon.
: Check in 🗺 — The Jolly Sailor, Burton Ferry. Pint of Reverend James 🍺
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Barbecued vegetables, pitta breads, hummus, taramasalata and sriracha sauce. Enjoying the good …
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Breezy morning at Manorbier.
: Currently reading: Jack Kerouac: King of The Beats by Barry Miles 📚
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Bit of rain, but we have HPA 🍺
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Henry’s Moat Hobbit House, St. Florence
: Check in 🗺 — Henry’s Moat Hobbit House, Florence Springs Eco Glamping, St. Florence, Pembrokeshire.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Joni Mitchell (11), Cardiacs (5), Glenn Gould (2), John Coltrane (2) & …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: John Coltrane (36), Bobby Lee (8), Thelonious Monk (8), Solti, Chamber …
: Watched: The Midnight Sky, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: Stowaway, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
: My Micro.blog anniversary My first post to Micro.blog was made four years ago today - on Tuesday 2nd May 2017. There are posts …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Cardiacs (47), Thom Yorke (18), Magma (16), National Health (7) & EOB (6) …
April 2021
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Planning a paella de verduras
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Smashing Pumpkins (61), Magma (32), Thom Yorke (25), Goblin (17) & Susanna …
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Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 23rd April 2021
In July 2011 my father-in-law built a treehouse for our children.
(Apologies for the quality of the …
: Currently reading: Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi 📚
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ food, dal
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Medical Grade Music 📚🎵
Received my signed copy of Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi.
Last week I joined a …
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I find myself eating 😃 for the first time in years.
: Compulsory worship of national symbols is the sure sign of a culture in decline - Article by Nesrine …
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Leaving Wales for a few hours. Prince of Wales Bridge across the River Severn, heading into England.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Abbado, VPO, Norman (48), Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey …
: Watched: Greenland, 2020 - ★★ 🎥
: Watched: Band of Outsiders, 1964 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Tonight is the night for cocktails 🍸
: Should Feminists Read Baudelaire? BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature 🔗
: Watched: Rampage, 2018 - ★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ryley Walker (28), Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (15), Nun Gun (12), The Doors …
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Monotone - green olives, jalapeños and capers 🍕
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Yet again, Saturday night is pizza construction time 🍕
: The CricViz app has improved to become a great way to follow live cricket scores - I’m currently …
: Watched: The Source, 1999 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Ryley Walker: ‘Going two days sober was impossible since I was a kid’ 🔗 🎵 … the first sound you …
: Watched: The Opera Game, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
: Watched: The Love Witch, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Sum total of our April snow so far ❄️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jack Kerouac (15), Solti, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Alicia de Larrocha …
March 2021
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Cat increasingly sulky on the doorstep because I won’t let her in the house on a nice sunny day.
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ drinks, books
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Sunny day ☀️ - trying to colour coordinate drinking and reading 📚
: Currently reading: The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor et al 📚
: Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Public Service Broadcasting (20), Kevin Morby (11), William The Conqueror …
: Watched: Breathless, 1983 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Jazz audiences are always On the Road 🔗 🎵
: Optimistically booked tickets to see Laura Marling in Cardiff in October. 🎵
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Homescreening because I listened to today’s episode of Hemispheric Views // @HemisphericViews.
Two …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (16), Jack Kerouac (14), Suede (14), Waxahatchee …
: Half-time France 17 - 17 Wales in Six Nations 🏉. Action packed first half. As a bonus I think TV …
: Watched: Solaris, 1972 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: On the Road, 2012 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: William The Conqueror (40), Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music, Kirkby (28), …
: England 23 - 20 France in the Six Nations. Really enjoyed that - sharp, open, flowing rugby by both …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Alabama Shakes (25), Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (16), William The Conqueror …
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The Jalapeño Popper Vegan Grilled Cheese (jalapeños, pickled chillis, chilli jam and vegan cheese in …
: This has stuck in my mind from last night’s Later … with Jools Holland - Tom Jones & Jools Holland …
: Another short Test match, another England batting collapse. India win the Test series 3-1 🏏
: Watched: Pretty Woman, 1990 - ★★★ 🎥
: Watched: The Shape of Water, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Morning birdsong 🎵 Recorded Werfa, Aberdare at 10:16am on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021
February 2021
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: up — Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, March 2019 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: William The Conqueror (45), The Nightingales (25), Laundromat (14), Alabama …
: Wales 40 - 24 England. The rest of my household is happy. 🏉
: Half-time. Wales 17 - 14 England. Not sure how Wales got two tries, some strange decisions by the …
: Six Nations Wales v England starting soon. 🏉
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: pompasetting — Pompasetting at the National …
: Laundromat and on Bandcamp 🔗 — Three EPs. Blue, Green Red. Electronic and relaxed. Laundromat is …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: favourite — August 2008. First time at my …
: England bowled out for 81. Achieving their lowest total in a Test in India 😢. So far in the day - …
: Now India open there bowling with 2 wickets in the first 3 deliveries by Axar Patel. Wow! 🏏
: Joe Root bowling in the first session this morning - 5 wickets for 8 runs in 6.2 overs. His first …
: Michael Rosen blog post on Reading for Pleasure 📚 🔗 A child A book A read A chat. This is the …
: England 112 all out yesterday, India now 125-8 after an hour of play this morning. Some impressive …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: code — Not exactly code but the 3rd century BCE …
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Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 24th February 2021 — Three wasabi plants I planted in May last year have …
: Third Test India v England - pink ball match - at Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad is about to start. …
: Currently reading: Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel 📚
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: baby — My daughter and her babies at Grandma’s …
: The Great British Art Tour: why is Keats at Guy’s hospital? 🔗 The Romantic poet John Keats died 200 …
: John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death 🔗 Ode to a Nightingale (1819) My …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: banana — Sal, Cape Verde, April 2016 📷
: Re-watched Season 1 of For All Mankind over the last five days - now ready to embark on Season 2 👨🚀 …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: spell 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: colors — Burano, December 2016 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Carole King (24), Strawbs (20), Arlo Parks (12), Nun Gun (12) & The …
: Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘AI, gene-editing, big data … I worry we are not in control of these things any …
: I’ve missed a couple of days of the Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge but am trying to …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: weather — Crete, August 2016 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: still — Penderyn Distillery, April 2013 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: erudite — Amsterdam, March 2019 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: reflection — I still have my Power Macintosh G4 …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: compassion — I prepared a Valentine’s Day …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Nightingales (22), Strawbs (18), Carole King (14), James Taylor (11) & …
: Waking up to a Sunday morning England collapse 😔 🏏
: ‘It shook me to my core’: 50 years of Carole King’s Tapestry 🔗 James Taylor: The singer-songwriter …
: Six Nations - Italy score a try against England after two and a half minutes of play 😢 🏉
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: make — It’s snowing 🌨️. I’m making fire 🔥. 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: sporg — British Museum, January 2020 📷
: Watched: King Rocker, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: machine — Agios Nikolaos, Messenia, Greece, 2015 …
: Watched: Pawn Sacrifice, 2014 - ★★½ 🎥
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: energy — Solar & Wind 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: muddy — Tom at Challenge Valley - the muddiest …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: hope — Hoping to reach the summit, Vesuvius, …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: craving — travel, eating out, warm weather 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Piotr Anderszewski (13), Furtwängler, BPO (2), Glenn Gould (2), Bartok …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: sport — Millennium Stadium, 24th November 2007, …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: pets 📷
: Watched: Snowpiercer, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Great news - India vs England TV coverage: Channel 4 seals rights 🔗 🏏 It means the first Test in …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: layers — Rome, 2018 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: comfort 📷
: ‘Healthy and positive’ communities: Facebook and the restriction of political content 🔗 Recently …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: morning beverage — Preparing breakfast coffee at …
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: close up — Portugal, 2005 📷
January 2021
: Watched: The Dig, 2021 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Wintry scenes have returned this morning ❄️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Piotr Anderszewski (9), Holly Macve (6), Lael Neale (4) & Glenn Gould (2) …
: The Dig: Will Gompertz film review 🔗 It’s late summer in England, 1939. The sight and sound of RAF …
: Facebook is banning leftwing users like me - and it’s going largely unnoticed | Akin Olla 🔗 In …
: Viral Lies 🔗 Some falsehoods about the pandemic are so dangerous that they should be banned. By …
: Watched: The Theory of Everything, 2014 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Watched: The Quiet Ones, 2014 - ★★½ 🎥
: Antiquarium of Pompeii reopens 🔗 The Antiquarium of Pompeii reopened today after an extensive …
: Watched: Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Currently reading: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Years & Years (31), Suede (27), Yorkston/Thorne/Khan (27), Concerto …
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I’ve woken up to a slight change from the sunshine of yesterday ❄️
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Walk then beer in the winter afternoon sun ☀️ 🍺
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, recursion
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Baking some homemade burger buns for later today 🍔 🍞
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I don’t know the details, but it can’t be a bad thing. 🍺
: Watched: Ready Player One, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Watched: Cure, 1997 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Been tinkering with @vincent’s Sublime Ads on my blog thedimpau.se. Works very nicely. 👍
: India beat Australia by 3 wickets in the fourth and final Test. Tremendous finish to the series, …
: Up early enough to see the final 25 overs of the fourth Australia v India Test match. Rishabh Pant …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Prefab Sprout (11), David Bowie (6), Troyka (4), Melody Gardot (4) & …
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A vegan cheese selection from Honestly Tasty was very impressive.
: Watched: Education, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: Alex Wheatle, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: Red, White and Blue, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Watched: Lovers Rock, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥
: Watched: Pierrot le Fou, 1965 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Walter, Columbia SO (4), Walter, Columbia SO, Miller (4), Ian Bostridge, …
: Watched: Mangrove, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Walking in a frosty Dare Valley Country Park this morning. Views from the Penrhiwllech Trail. Plenty …
: Published 17 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️
: Can’t resist staying up late to see the start of the third Test between Australia and India in …
: There’s no need to peel ginger | Waste not 🔗 I used to peel my ginger badly, trimming off chunks of …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (8), The Doors (5), Evgeny Kissin (3), Radiohead (3) & Robert …
: Watched: Red Sparrow, 2018 - ★★ 🎥
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Doorstep Flame Grilling Beyond Burgers 🍔. Getting my first BBQ of the year in early.
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Happy Panoramic Homely New Year to All
December 2020
: Watched: Tenet, 2020 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Running a little late, but finally starting to cook our Xmas Dinner.
: Watched: Coco, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Robby Krieger (20), Robert Wyatt (5), Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra …
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Xmas day. Eggs make me angry 😡
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (19), Janet Baker, Raimund Herincx, ECO, Lewis (18), Glenn Gould …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ivor Cutler (92), Janácek Quartet (7), Robert Wyatt (7), Furtwängler, VPO …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Kevin Morby (10), Haitink, Concertgebouw (6), Herman Dune (5), Robert Wyatt …
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Published 32 photos on my Flickr account — Cardiff Before Christmas 📷
: Check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes. Bilidowcar Single Hop from Tenby Harbwr Brewery. Pan fried hake. 🍺 🐟
: Check in 🗺 — Barker Coffee. Cappuccino and smoked salmon, cream cheese and rocket bagel. Great idea …
November 2020
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Fairly quiet at 9:30pm on Monday night in Cardiff.
: Check in 🗺 — Back to Revolucion de Cuba for wine after Bar 44. 🍷
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Chocolate truffles and sherry.
: Check in 🗺 — Bar 44 for tapas and wine 🍷
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Having Monday Margaritas at Revolucion de Cuba before Wales’ Friday alcohol restrictions…
: Check in 🗺 — Revolucion de Cuba. Margaritas🍸
: Check in 🗺 — Duke of Wellington. Malbec 🍷
: Currently reading: The Ruins by Mat Osman 📚
: Check in 🗺 — Two nights in the Hilton, Cardiff.
: Enclosing their lives Old castle walls reinforce The rule of the few ✏️ #mbnov
: Check in 🗺 — The Gwaelod y Garth Inn . Sunday lunch. Hereford Pale Ale 🍺
: I’m gazing downwards A tiny pedestrian Fights against the flow ✏️ #mbnov
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Gwenifer Raymond (45), Robert Wyatt (27), Haitink, Concertgebouw (23), …
: Behind a dark mask Punchinello imagines Time of Carnival ✏️ #mbnov
: Nice to have the return of some international cricket. South Africa v England T20 at Newlands, Cape …
: What can be certain? No dilemma for Descartes - I am, I exist ✏️ #mbnov
: Adjust the colour Wait for something to happen But nothing was changed ✏️ #mbnov
: Watched: Time Trap, 2017 - ★½ 🎥
: A call through the mist Angry noisy chattering Tiding of magpies ✏️ #mbnov
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ believe, flickrfriday
: Ancient monument Provision of memory On featureless plains ✏️ #mbnov
: Books quickly devoured But to capture the meaning Is more of an art ✏️ #mbnov
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Gwenifer Raymond (17), Glenn Gould (7), Robert Wyatt (6), Il Giardino …
: Check in 🗺 — Rhoswenallt Inn. Jemina’s Pitchfork and Santa’s Little Belter 🍺
: Seeking a refuge Lands of milk and honey lie Beyond the border ✏️ #mbnov
: A winter journey Departing warmth and shelter Towards the unknown ✏️ #mbnov
: Why are the Labour party turning their back on the Green Industrial Revolution? … 🔗 Labour’s ‘Green …
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The piles of books I posted a photo of yesterday have been re-housed upstairs. According to Apple …
: 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. 😊 📚
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ melting, flickrfriday
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End of a rainbow in the Dare Valley Country Park.
: Check in 🗺 — Dare Valley Country Park.
: Possible worlds spin Planets around their orbits Peopled by strangers ✏️ #mbnov
: Covering the tree - Dependence on an other - Lichen spreads slowly ✏️ #mbnov
: My train of thought lost Interruptions disturb me Or are they welcome? ✏️ #mbnov
: Pale marble headstone Memory of young poet - A broken Greek lyre ✏️ #mbnov
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Herman Dune (29), Ivor Cutler (9), Robert Wyatt (8), Plastics (4) & James …
: Rumbling thunder sounds Far away lightning flashes Rain in the valleys ✏️ #mbnov
: Trees disturbed by breeze Shadows beyond the window Spooky gloominess ✏️ #mbnov
: Difficult to guess The story of an image Caught in an instant ✏️ #mbnov
: Hard and unyielding All things will slowly wear down Given enough time ✏️ #mbnov
: Watched: American Beauty, 1999 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: Mary on the Green I’d say the bright statue speaks In true memory ✏️ #mbnov
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
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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 …
: To inflate one’s worth Beyond the reality - Mistake of many ✏️ #mbnov
: Beginning of day Puzzling over breakfast tea Wondering what next? ✏️ #mbnov
: Green changed to amber Pine needles are covering Red tiles on the stoop ✏️ #mbnov
: Near neighbours entwine Branches and tendrils twisted Broken in the fall ✏️ #mbnov
: A fake persona Wane into obscurity Astonish me now ✏️ #mbnov
: Concentrate on sleep Losing thoughts and ideas Mislaid in the mist ✏️ #mbnov
: An autumn morning Dreary days of wind and rain Sweeping sodden leaves ✏️ #mbnov
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Plastics (25), Glenn Gould (11), Itzhak Perlman (4), Krček, Capella …
October 2020
: John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795. And on 31st October 1820 the 25 year old poet …
: We Stand with Jeremy Corbyn 🔗 Jeremy Corbyn has been a champion of decency and an ally to all …
: The Weaponisation of Labour Antisemitism 🔗 — David Graeber
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Published 30 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ Paris 1997
: Without Trace - George Monbiot 🔗 If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Ivor Cutler (18), Glenn Gould (17), Robert Wyatt (13), Kevin Morby (10) & …
: Very weird that Six Nations rugby is on in October. But watching Ireland v Italy 🏉
: Watched: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Watched: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, 2006 - …
: Check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes for lunch and Grey Trees’ Mosaic Pale Ale 🍺
: The State of It – George Monbiot 🔗 The Conservative promise to shrink the state was always a con. …
: Watched: The Greatest Showman, 2017 - ★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (94), Waxahatchee (23), Kevin Morby (21), Real Estate (21) & …
: 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 …
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14 Oct 2020 at 10:09 - Walking Track - Check out my @viewranger track (#walking) - total distance …
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A Day in the Life
Walking through the Ynys Recreation Ground — Aberdare Cricket Club winding down …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (32), Jonathan Wilson (26), Pet Shimmers (24), Garcia Peoples …
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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 …
: Check in 🗺 — Sunday dinner at the Bunch of Grapes 🍺
: Watched: The Fly, 1958 - ★★★★½ 🎥
: Watched: Akira, 1988 - ★★★ 🎥
: Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James 📚
: Currently reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 📚
: Watched: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, 2009 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: Earliest frescoes in Venice found during mosaic restoration 🔗 They also offer a rare glimpse into …
: The most important invention of the 20th century keeps us alive but is killing the environment. The …
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Continuing the saga - Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Ugandan rolex. Superb! Far exceeded my …
: From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner’s terrific guide to poetry 🔗 Now embarking on its second …
: Aston Villa - Liverpool finishes 7-2. Outstanding night for Villa! ⚽️
: Aston Villa v Liverpool. Villa leading 4-1 at half-time! Hat-trick for Ollie Watkins 😃 ⚽️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Juliette Gréco (80), Michael Kiwanuka (34), Glenn Gould (28), Pet Shimmers …
: 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. …
: How the Indian Premier League clean bowled English T20 cricket 🔗🏏 Two hundred million people watched …
: Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times 🔗 Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago …
: Baking won’t get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might 🔗 In Our …
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For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes I’ve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with …
: 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 …
: Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
: France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthéon 🔗 The …
September 2020
: Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ 🔗 — Excerpt: …
: ‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — Excerpt: Ten …
: Every time I read Meera Sodha’s column in The Guardian I find things I must cook. My latest quick …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (4), Krček, Capella Istropolitana (3), Golschmann, Columbia SO, …
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ lazy, flickrfriday
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Aperol Spritzing our way through a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon. 😎
: A Pizza Express Neptune Pizza 🔗 — Excerpt: I’m sure Pizza Express won’t mind my singing their …
: David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 🔗 — Excerpt: David Graeber, …
: Why Can’t My Camera Capture the Wildfire Sky? 🔗 — Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ industrial, flickrfriday
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Big bread - Turkish bread from a Cardiff bakery. 🥖
: Watched: Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Kevin Morby (35), David Bowie (17), Cornershop (15), Laura Marling (15) & …
: Check in 🗺 — Pembroke Castle. 🏰
: Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling’s Justification For Transphobia 🔗 — Excerpt: Recently JK …
: Check in 🗺 — Pembroke Rugby Football Club. Old Speckled Hen.🍺
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Breakfast on Manorbier beach this morning.
: 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 …
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Bethesda Baptist Church, Narberth.
: Glenn Maxwell gets his century and looks like he and Carey will win the match and the ODI series for …
: Pleased that Test Match Special is still broadcast on 198 kHz Radio 4 Long Wave and not just on …
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Sprilly Maid by Caffle Brewery. Ale infused with rosemary. Very good, even when drunk out of a …
: Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ horizon, flickrfriday
: Check in 🗺 — Florence Springs Eco Glamping. Woodstock Hobbit House.
: Check in 🗺 — Lillies Coffee Shop, Narberth. Cappuccino ☕️.
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Now moved into a Hobbit House.
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Spent a few hours on South Beach, Tenby today.
: Check in 🗺 — Harbwr Tap & Kitchen. Caldey Lollipop 🍺.
: 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.
: Check in 🗺 — Broadmead Hotel, Tenby.
: Check in 🗺 — Coach & Horses, Tenby.
: Yanis Varoufakis: capitalism isn’t working. Here’s an alternative 🔗 — Excerpt: When Margaret …
: Watched: The Legend of Hell House, 1973 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: England beat Australia by 6 wickets and win the T20 series by taking a 2-0 lead. Not as entertaining …
: Australia finish on 157-7. 🏏
: Today’s England v Australia Second International T20 is live on BBC One. And Australia are 3-2 after …
: Watched: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016 - ★★ 🎥
: Currently reading: Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson 📚
: Wow! That was a surprise, Australia collapse and England win the 1st Vitality T20 International. …
: England 162-7 in their T20 innings. Reachable for Australia. 🏏
: Some great batting from Dawid Malan in the 1st England v Australia T20. England don’t look like …
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ pentaxk100d, flickrfriday, magnetic
: How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s like one of those …
: Check in 🗺 — Costa Coffee, Strensham Services.
August 2020
: Watched: Joker, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Delicious breakfast this morning, bookmarked for cooking again - 🔗 Vegan Mushroom Bacon Breakfast …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 31: Love — Honeymoon, 1996 📷
: Greece is the word for white wines 🔗 — Excerpt: Diamantakis Diamantopetra White, Crete, Greece 2019 …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: Discovery — Finding jellyfish on Llansteffan Beach …
: Check in 🗺 — Llansteffan Beach
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Just Joans (41), LCP, Norrington (17), Holland Baroque Society, Rachel …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Flake — December 2010 was probably the heaviest …
: England v Pakistan first T20 match is underway at Old Trafford. Really surprised that the weather …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: Emotions — Overexcitement 📷
: Watched: Prospect, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb 🔗 — Excerpt: There is an alternative to corporate bubbles …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: Overcome — I did not overcome the opposition …
: Watched: The Edge, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: Relentless — Yesterday the wind was relentless …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: (Abandon) Hope — London, January 2020 📷
: Italy in a bowl: 10 simple, delicious summer pasta recipes – chosen by chefs 🔗 — Excerpt: Pasta with …
: 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 …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jacobs, Concerto Vocale, Nederlands Kamerkoor (51), Tan, LCP, Norrington …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: Home — Streaming Green Man Festival in the garden …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: Crunch 📷
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Check in 🗺 — Giggling Squid.
: 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 …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Stationary — Almost… 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: La Serenissima, Chandler, Bircher, Whelan (28), Tame Impala (24), Another …
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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… 📷
: Watched: The Dark Knight, 2008 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Field of Streams - Green Man Festival 🔗 — Summary: Green Man has announced plans for a virtual …
: Sir Roger Norrington Interview with Bruce Duffie 🔗 — Excerpt: Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington was …
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, splash
: 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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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 📷
: Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher 📚
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Another Sky (36), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (15), Bernstein, Columbia …
: How to make the most of past-their-best aubergines – recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: India is a country that’s …
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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 …
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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 …
: Pakistan’s bowling attack is looking sharp. England 12-3 after 5.3 overs. 🏴 v 🇵🇰 1st Test, Day …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Bisect 📷
: Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, 90degrees
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: Flow — Afon Cynon, Aberdâr
: Wasn’t expecting Ireland to beat England in the One Day International 🏏 today - close ending to an …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Peace — A Crass badge from the early 1980s. 🎵📷
: Why Autonomy News? – Autonomy News 🔗 — Excerpt: The Autonomy News collective plans to produce …
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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 📷
: Casa do Frango’s Portuguese summer spread – recipes 🔗 — Excerpt: Chargrilled spicy cauliflower with …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Floating 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (36), Itzhak Perlman (32), Nick Cave …
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Up 📷
: A waste-free Middle Eastern runner bean meze recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: At 14, I worked on a pig farm for …
July 2020
: New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge Stones 🔗 — Excerpt: A new study has revealed the origins …
: Currently reading: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 📚
: Watched: Blindness, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Algiers (65), Blake Mills (55), Mitropoulos, NYPO (54), Kikagaku Moyo (22) …
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Basil and wine - in the midst of making pizza 🍕 🍷
: The scramble for Edtech — just another data mining operation? 🔗 — Excerpt: …students aren’t really …
: Published 5 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, italy, ilford, xp2
: Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ canoneos300d, flickrfriday, polished
: Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion — Excerpt: Tim Smith, who has …
: Chris Frantz: Remain in Love 🔗 — Excerpt: David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With …
: Watched: Annihilation, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Watched: Looper, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥
: 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 …
: Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
: Goan Fish Curry with Fragrant Rice 🔗 — Excerpt: Method Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 30 min Step 1 …
: Watched: Weekend, 1967 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Algiers (27), Nadine Shah (11), Abbado, BPO (1), Furtwängler, BPO (1) & …
: Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Sri Lankan cucumber cashew curry 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s possible that I …
: Watched: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, 2020 - ½ 🎥
: Watched: Greyhound, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
: Watched: Aniara, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 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 …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Paul Weller (61), Mitropoulos, NYPO (23), Algiers (9) & David Bowie (9) via …
: Watched: Zombieland: Double Tap, 2019 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Published 2 photos on my Flickr account 📷
June 2020
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (10) via tweekly.fm
: Currently reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚
: Watched: Coherence, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Sena Jurinac & Franz Holletschek (20), Mitropoulos, Minneapolis SO (8), …
: Watched: All the Money in the World, 2017 - ★★½ 🎥
: Watched: What We Do in the Shadows, 2014 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Young’Uns (17), Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger (10), Park Jiha (7), Blake …
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Tried making sushi for the first time today - avocado and cucumber rolls.
: Flickr Blog - Why today’s Explore is important. 🔗 — Excerpt: Today we’re populating Flickr’s Explore …
: Watched: The Vast of Night, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
: Watched: Get Out, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 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 …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl (80), A.L. Lloyd (26), Ewan MacColl (23), Dead …
: Watched: Justice League, 2017 - ★★ 🎥
: Currently reading: My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson 📚
: Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
: Watched: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
May 2020
: Watched: Snowpiercer, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
: Watched: Audition, 1999 - ★★★½ 🎥
: A historic walk around Aberdare town centre 🔗 — Excerpt: Many of us visit Aberdare to shop and for …
: Further Delay to Cricket Season Announced 🔗 — Excerpt: The England & Wales Cricket Board have today …
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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. 🌱
: 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 …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (19), Marian Anderson & Franz Rupp (18), Marian Anderson & …
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Sister Seren popped round for tea this evening. ✝️
: I’m an NHS doctor – and I’ve had enough of people clapping for me 🔗 — Excerpt: I work for the NHS as …
: Currently reading: The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Jim …
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This week’s Flickr Friday theme of Childhood Memories gave me the opportunity to do this. Luckily …
: Track 18 May 2020 at 14:30 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – 5 mile circular route.
: The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s a foolish endeavour to try …
: Track 14 May 2020 at 14:45 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – afternoon walk.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Einstürzende Neubauten (43), Florestan Trio (18), Busch String Quartet (17) …
: Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — …
: Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — Excerpt: Right …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Mark Padmore; Paul Lewis (2), Michael Riesman & Philip Glass Ensemble (2), …
: Watched: Suicide Squad, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥
April 2020
: Watched: The Game, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: EOB (28), Radiohead (14), Kavus Torabi (10), Laura Marling (10) & …
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Lockdown just got serious - teaching my wife and daughter to play chess - their first game… ♟
: Watched: The Wandering Earth, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
: Currently reading: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq 📚
: ECB announces further delay to the professional cricket season. No professional cricket will be …
: Watched: Things to Come, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for piadina flatbread 🔗 — Excerpt: No 17 on my plan of things to do when …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: EOB (49), Julian Cope (13), Au Pairs (10), Kavus Torabi (3) & Soul II Soul …
: Currently reading: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer …
: Easy as 1,2,3: chefs on the 50 most simple, delicious three-ingredient recipes 🔗 — Excerpt: Most …
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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. 🎉
: Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — Excerpt: In 1798, …
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Regressing back to medieval times today and drinking mead with hops from Wye Valley Meadery.
: Chard dressed with lemon and Parmesan 🔗 — Excerpt: Method Prep time: 15 min Cooking time: 10 min The …
: Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien: ‘Humanity has only really learned from disaster’ 🔗 — Excerpt: Ed O’Brien …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (22), Kavus Torabi (20), Laura Marling (13), Julian Cope (11) & …
: Watched: Riverworld, 2003 ★ 🎥
: Currently reading: Ascension by Gregory Dowling 📚
: William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: David Bowie (2), Another Sky (1), Caravan (1), Echo & the Bunnymen (1) & …
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In the process of cooking a Kimchi Miso Hotpot from Tim Anderson’s Vegan Japaneasy
: Dark Sky Blog 🔗 – Dark Sky has joined Apple.
March 2020
: Watched: 2 Days in Paris, 2007 - ★★★★ 🎥
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Fall (56), Julian Cope (21), Bernstein, NYPO (10), Neil Young (10) & …
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Cooked pizzas. Scary daughter included! 🍕
: Watched: Zombieland, 2009 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Saturday night pizzas about to go into the oven 🍕
: Watched: Vivarium, 2019 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Currently reading: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo 📚
: Coronavirus in context: a guide to help you understand the pandemic 🔗 — Excerpt: The coronavirus has …
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Just received Tim Anderson’s Vegan JapanEasy in today’s post. Still awaiting delivery of some …
: Cricket has lost the role it had in 1939 but it’s still far more than a game 🔗 — Excerpt: Sport …
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We’ve got no shortage of coffee making options. ☕️
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: Julian Cope (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Bernstein, NYPO (10), Cornershop (10) & …
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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 …
: My walk across desolate Venice 🔗 — Excerpt: Gregory Dowling: So, as I anticipated in my last post, …
: 🎵 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
: Poet’s corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites 🔗 — Excerpt: William Wordsworth was …
: Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - cappuccino and vegan steak bake. ☕️
: Anna Jones’ squash and crispy kale pizza recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: Pizza is a big part of my life. It’s …
: Whipped feta, potato stew: Anna Jones’ recipes from Greece 🔗 — Excerpt: One of the things I need to …
: Currently reading: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan 📚
: Australia certainly dominated the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final to win their fifth title. Not as …
: 🎵 My Top weekly artists: The Just Joans (46), Finley Quaye (31), Cornershop (30), Anaïs Mitchell …
: Early Sunday morning (UK) watching and listening - coverage of India v Australia in the ICC Women’s …
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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 🏉
: 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 🎵
: 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 …
: A Quietus Interview 🎵 🔗 — Excerpt: Duncan Seaman talks to Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres of Cornershop …
: I was looking forward to watching the India v England 🏏 semi-final this morning but … Women’s T20 …
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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' …
: Florentino’s Ristorante & Pizzeria. Check in 🗺
: England playing West Indies in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup - a victory for England will send them …
: ♫ My Top weekly artists: Berlin Philharmonic, Jonas Kaufmann, Magdalena Kožená & Sir Simon Rattle …
February 2020
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Leap - Water still leaping out of the ground in Mountain …
: “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 …
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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. ☀️
: 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 …
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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 …
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Rhoswenallt Inn. Check in 🗺 🍺 — Drinking a Try Time by Glamorgan Brewing Co
: ♫ My Top weekly artists: Suede (34), The Just Joans (24), Marika Hackman (22), Goldfrapp (20) & …
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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 …
: ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 🏏 starts today - good to see full TV coverage in the UK (Sky), plus BBC …
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: Scale - Home in the South Wales Valleys (courtesy of a trip …
: Klaus Thomsen, Coffee Collective on The Idealists podcast 🔗 — Excerpt: To evade the so-called coffee …
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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 📷
: 3rd T20I between South Africa and England - Superb performance by Eoin Morgan to win the game for …
: 3rd T20I between South Africa and England - South Africa set a total of 222, some spectacular …
: Watching the 3rd T20I 🏏 between South Africa and England, the final and decisive T20 match of …
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Rest 📷
: ♫ My Top 5 weekly artists: Michael Kiwanuka (14), Pet Shimmers (13), The Just Joans (10), Caitlin …
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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 …
: Watched: Ad Astra, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: Rise - Breakfast coffee rising through a Moka pot 📷
: 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 📷
: I’ve been reading articles at The Correspondent for a few months now. Episode 13 of The Idealists …
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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 …
: ♫ My Top 5 weekly artists: David Bowie (37), Goldfrapp (28), Anaïs Mitchell (20), Pet Shimmers (12) …
: 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 📷
: 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 …
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Spot - In honour of Day 4, my attempt at a vegan Spotted …
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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 📷
: ♫ My Top 5 weekly artists: Pascal Rogé (17), Xylouris White (11), Abbado, BPO, Argerich (3), Martha …
: Andy Gill: Gang of Four’s genius guitarist who burned a route out of punk 🔗 — Excerpt: Britain’s …
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Sight - An old Philip Harris microscope 📷
: The Discover tab in Micro.blog’s Sunlit app is a brilliant way to browse February Photoblogging …
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Cooked Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fried potatoes and eggs for Sunday brunch. Very comforting! Had to …
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The Mad Bishop & Bear. ESB, watching Wales v. Italy Six Nations rugby, waiting for a train to …
: 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 …
January 2020
: 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 - Kara Walker: Fons Americanus - review 🔗
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Keats Bar at the Globe. Drinking a London Pride by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
: 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 🗺
: 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 🗺
: Shelley in London: Poland Street 🔗 — Excerpt: Soho is my favourite part of London. I love walking …
: A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue 🔗 — Excerpt: …
: Mary in St Pancras 🔗 — Excerpt: And then outside, to try to find Mary’s memorial. It is doubtful how …
: Mary in Somers Town 🔗 — Excerpt: A few days ago I went exploring, with Chihiro Umegaki, the Japanese …
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Cardiff Bay to Penarth - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
: Weekly ♫ My Top 3 artists: Donovan (31), David Bowie (15)
: Nant Ddu Hotel and Spa. Check in 🗺 - katsu cauliflower curry.
: In Fabric, 2018 - ★★★★★ Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2020. 🎥
: 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 ☕️
: Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Drinking a Plastered Pheasant by Quantock Brewery. Check in 🗺
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: The Just Joans (32), David Bowie (25), Andreas Staier (9), Glenn Gould …
: Lezzet. Fantastic Turkish restaurant!. Check in 🗺
: 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 🍷
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: The Just Joans (48), Walter, Columbia SO (10), Grateful Dead (9), Dorati, …
: Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - double espresso and toast. ☕️
: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, 2019 - ★★★★½ Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2020. 🎥
: Doors drummer, John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’ 🔗 — Excerpt: It took the …
: How to make the perfect broccoli and stilton soup 🔗 — Excerpt: So entrenched is broccoli and stilton …
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In Bristol, dropping my daughter back off at university after the Xmas break.
: 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
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Claude Debussy (36), The Smiths (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Sigmatropic (6)
December 2019
: The best movies of 2019 that you haven’t seen 🔗 — Excerpt: This quite extraordinary film from the …
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Cornershop (25), The Breeders (24), The Doors (23), Charles Baudelaire …
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The Moon at Wales Millennium Centre.
: Newport Railway Station (NWP). Check in 🗺 - Espresso con panna ☕️
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Rooftop terrace at Celtic Manor Resort.
: Rooftop Terrace. Check in 🗺 - Ice skating and mulled wine. Just the latter for me. 🍷
: The (Quiet) Death of a Legendary Parisian Bookstore 🔗 — Excerpt: When it was announced that the …
: Carmarthen Golf Club. Maurice’s birthday Sunday dinner. Check in 🗺
: Meera Sodha’s Christmas recipe for vegan achari brussels sprout curry — link 🔗
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: elbow (33), XTC (10), Bent Knee (1), Cerys Matthews (1)
: Divine inspiration: rescuing run-down churches – a photo essay — link to The Guardian 🔗
: Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen — link to The …
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Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Drinking a Hobby Horse by Rhymney Brewery
and a Gorlovka Imperial …
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Il Giardino Armonico (15), Solti, LSO (4), Andreas Staier (2), …
: Watchmen, 2009 - ★★★★★ Watched on Saturday December 14, 2019. 🎥
: Edge of Tomorrow, 2014 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday December 13, 2019. 🎥
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UK General Election. Polling stations open from 7am to 10pm. 🗳️
You don’t need your polling card or …
: Fascism: I sometimes fear… — link to a poem by Michael Rosen 🔗
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Found myself unusually popular tonight - often it’s more of an exclusive cat arrangement. 🐈
: Delico Deli. Americano and mozzarella, tomato and pesto panini. ☕️
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Lezzet. New discovery in Cardiff - a great Turkish restaurant.
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Duke Of Wellington. Malbec 🍷
: Labour’s Manifesto is fit for purpose. So, why are the middle classes so hostile to it? – link at …
: Weekly ♫ My Top artist: The Beatles (30) via @tweeklyfm
: Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday December 7, 2019. 🎥
: Some really interesting photographs in this collection. In the remains of a bombed-out Soviet …
: Weekly ♫ My Top 3 artists: Leonard Cohen (45), Cornershop (22)
November 2019
: My favourite types of coffee as a long drink (rather than espresso) tend to be the lightly roasted …
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Brilliant live performance by Fat White Family at The Tramshed, Cardiff on Wednesday 22nd November. …
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How to measure a year of reading 📚 - this sums it up nicely
Tom Gauld in The Guardian – link 🔗
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Tiny Rebel. Drinking a Oystermouth Stout by Mumbles Brewery
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National Museum Cardiff. Under wraps but still open.
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Côte Brasserie. Needing a cooked breakfast 🍳
: William Blake, poet and printmaker, was born #OnThisDay 1757 BBC In Our Time
: The Royal Hotel. Wine before bed 🍷
: Tramshed. Fat White Family 🎵
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Fantastic tapas and wine at Curado Bar, Cardiff, including Cabrales, my favourite blue cheese, and …
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Curado Bar. Brilliant tapas.
: How Utopia shaped the world — link on bbc.com 🔗
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Been shopping - now fully equipped for Xmas cake making this weekend. Apprehensive because last time …
: Media misrepresentations of the Labour party are being used strategically to create left wing folk …
: Listening to Thanks for the Dance, the album of Leonard Cohen’s final songs. 🎵 What is immediately …
: Outbatted, outbowled, outplayed. New Zealand beat England by an innings and 65 runs in the first …
:
Rhoswenallt Inn. Drinking a Santa’s Little Belter by Glamorgan Brewing Co
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Steve Hillage (14), Bent Knee (13), Ann Murray/Nobuko Imai/Stephen …
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Gong and Steve Hillage at The Tramshed, Cardiff, 22nd November 2019 🎵
: Doh! How does Homer get on at the British Museum? ★★★★★ — link 🔗
: He may be an anarchist who has voted only once in his life, but the comics legend Alan Moore is …
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Bar 44. Still my favourite place to eat in Cardiff.
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Tiny Rebel. Had to try a pint because of the name. Not disappointed. — Drinking a Stuck In A …
: Off to see Steve Hillage and Gong at The Tramshed, Cardiff tonight. Flying teapots and electric …
: Simon Armitage: ‘Nature has come back to the centre of poetry’ — link 🔗
: Back to Test cricket - New Zealand play England in the first of two Test matches. Match at the Bay …
: The Double, 2013 - ★★★★★ Watched on Wednesday November 20, 2019. 🎥
: Delico Deli. Americano and pesto panini ☕️
: 4000 year old Babylonian stews from cuneiform tablets – link 🔗 A short video of the attempt to …
: There’s a really good explanation of a Green New Deal for the UK on the Labour for a Green New Deal …
:
Rhoswenallt Inn. Drinking a Jemima’s Pitchfork by Glamorgan Brewing Co
: Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Abbado, VPO, Norman (54), The Sufis (35), Bent Knee (14), Gloria (10)
: Helen of Troy: the Greek epics are not just about war – they’re about women — link 🔗
: Waters Close Over Venice — link 🔗
: Politics and social media An interesting article on The Correspondent about social media and politicians - If a politician can …
: The Great NHS Heist, a documentary film that I supported on GoFundMe, is being released online on …
: Baudelaire’s unknown extra verse to erotic poem revealed — link 🔗 📚
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Trying a Labour Party Webinar
Last night I took part in a Labour Party video webinar with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and …
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Apparently sometimes I’m a Morning Motivator and sometimes a Sunrise Sloth. Thanks Nescafé.
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Good that I can still use my old iPod touch as a music player to some extent. Catalina syncs my …
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Bunch of Grapes. Drinking a Mosaic Pale Ale by Grey Trees Brewery
: Not again! England beat New Zealand in super over to win T20 series 3-2. Haven’t watched it yet but …
: Weekly 🎵 — ♫ My Top 3 artists: Tamino (24), Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (16)
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Cynon Valley Museum & Gallery.
: Delico Deli. Americano and toastie ☕️
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New buildings near Cardiff’s Principality Stadium take advantage of all the available space.
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Courier delivery at 11:33 this morning. Driver left our property at 15:36. He inexplicably reversed …
: England beat New Zealand in the 4th T20 match to level the series 2-2. Good to see an outstanding …
: Evening T20 match in New Zealand means that at least I’m up early enough in the UK to see half the …
:
Sunny and warm enough to be sitting outside this afternoon with a coffee and a book. And two cats…
: Forward Arts Foundation in conversation with Fiona Benson — link 🔗
: Currently reading: Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson 📚 Purchased after reading this review in The …
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Always get a crop of various fungi (mushrooms? toadstools?) in our garden during late summer and …
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Making sourdough starters using Paul Hollywood’s method. Very active even in our relatively cool …
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November afternoon in Cardiff Bay.
: Duke Of Wellington. Malbec 🍷
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The Dock. Drinking a SA Gold by Brains
: Weekly 🎵 — ♫ My Top 3 artists: Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort (29), Nick Cave
: South Africa win the Rugby World Cup 2019. They dominated the game, outplaying England and …
: England 6-12 South Africa at half-time in the RWC Final - not going quite as I’d hoped. England not …
:
Saturday morning. First prepare coffee. Next make breakfast. Then take a seat for England v South …
: A New Financial Order - Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis – link 🔗
: Currently reading: Baudelaire by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler 📚
October 2019
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Bristol Zoo Gardens. Luzon bleeding-heart.
: Cardiff Central Railway Station (CDF).
: Appointment at the Cardiff Apple Store Genius Bar this morning, first for several years. Bit of a …
: Tiny Rebel. Drinking a Time Lapse by Good Chemistry Brewing
: Aberdare Railway Station (ABA). Heading to Apple’s Genius Bar 📲
: Wales 16-19 South Africa in the second Rugby World Cup 2019 semi-final. Tight game, not that …
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Wales v South Africa Rugby World Cup semi-final kickoff is early Sunday morning so will be sticking …
: Most 🎵 listens this week — ♫ My Top 5 artists: Thom Yorke (26), David Bowie (16), Nick Cave
: England 19-7 New Zealand in the first Rugby World Cup 2019 semi-final. Outstanding and dominant win …
: How to make cinnamon buns — link 🔗
: Rugby World Cup semi-finals this weekend - England v New Zealand this morning and Wales v South …
: Finished reading: Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon 📚
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Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Drinking a Dreadnought by Nottingham Brewery
: Delico Deli. Latte and toastie ☕️
: Caroline Lucas & Yanis Varoufakis search for what went wrong with democracy — link 🔗
: My top 🎵 listens this week — ♫ artists: Georges Chelon (35), Elbow (9), Magdalena Kožená, Sir Simon …
: Top 10 books about Europe — link 🔗
: Wildcat and the Egghead: The life of Donald Rooum — link 🔗
: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato, onion and tomato gratin — link 🔗
: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Bolognese rice cake — link 🔗
: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for butternut squash — link 🔗
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First time trying a selection of vegan cheeses.
: Delico Deli. Americano ☕️ & Danish 🥮
: Woodrow Wilson (Wetherspoon). Just a coffee :(
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The Thin White Duke. Drinking a Loweswater Gold by Cumbrian Legendary Ales
: Premier Inn Carlisle Central hotel.
: Premier Inn Leeds City Centre (Whitehall Road).
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Editor’s Draught. Drinking a Editor’s Draught by Naylor’s Brewery
: Woodall Northbound Services (Welcome Break).
: Currently reading: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade 📚
: Duke Of Wellington. Pint of Dark 🍺
September 2019
: Delico Deli. Spanish quiche and latte ☕️
: Ne Travaillez Jamais! ca. 1965-66 - Situationniste Blog 🔗
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Chips, cheese and gravy - Puckin’ Poutine.
: Abergavenny Market. Abergavenny Food Festival
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Close up of the grass snake.
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Found a few surprises whilst moving my winter log pile this morning - at least three toads and a …
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Sea bream and sea bass with the broccoli, of course!
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Barbecuing some broccoli - results as yet uncertain …
: Currently reading: The Second Sleep by Robert Harris 📚
: Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground. Glamorgan v Leicestershire 🏏
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Gorgeous day for Glamorgan’s final home Specsavers County Championship match of the season against …
: Brewhouse & Kitchen. Eisteddfod Star 🍺
: Aberdare Railway Station (ABA). Heading for Glamorgan v Leicestershire at Sophia Gardens 🏏
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Found a Mason’s Arms in Bristol so felt obliged to visit. Good beer - Hoptimistic Monk - and a great …
: Masons Arms. Hoptimistic Monk from the Flying Monk Brewery 🍺
: Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Vegetarian breakfast
: Porto Lounge. ‘Beyond Cheese’ burger (vegan), tapas and Malbec 🍷
: The Old Post Office. Butcombe Bitter 🍺
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Delico Deli. Tuna melt panini
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Spiced Apple Chutney production
August 2019
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Buccaneer Inn. Trawlers’ Dread black IPA 🍺
: Currently reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚
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Bank Holiday Monday cricket - Glamorgan v Sussex Sharks in Vitality Blast T20 match, Will Beer …
: Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground. Glamorgan v Sussex Sharks Vitality Blast T20
: A secondhand book is a glimpse into the lives of other readers 📚🔗
: Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on this day in 1792 - BBC In Our Time - The Later …
July 2019
: Delico Deli. Tuna melt panini and Americano ☕️
: Rhoswenallt Inn. Jemima’s Pitchfork 🍺
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At Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Suffolk for the weekend - Gomez on the BBC Sounds stage 🎵
: England win the ICC Cricket World Cup final. Unbelievable and dramatic game of cricket - I’ve been …
: Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Breakfast prior to my work leaving do.
: Brilliant! England beat Australia by 8 wickets in 32.1 overs to go into the ICC Cricket World Cup …
: Australia all out for 223 in the ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final against England. Some really …
: Rhoswenallt Inn. First time in the new Glamorgan Brewery Rhoswenallt Inn. Great beer!
: Stafford (South) Motorway Services (Roadchef). Terrible services - only McDonald’s open and that not …
: Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport (CFU) (Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κέρκυρας Ιωάννης …
: Skiathos National Airport A.Papadiamantis (JSI) Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Σκιάθου Α.Παπαδιαμάντης. …
: Just catching up on yesterday’s cricket results - so, amazingly, it’s England v Australia in a World …
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Skiathos Town harbour nights
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Our final evening in Skiathos - meal at BU on the Bourtzi of Skiathos. Possibly the best grilled …
: Bourtzi Cafe (Cafe Μπούρτζι).
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cafe Nostalgic (η νοσταλγός).
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Kalamari at Mikros Vasilias beach cafe
: Currently reading: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell 📚
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The House of Alexandros Papadiamantis in Skiathos 2017
The House of Alexandros Papadiamantis in …
: Bourtzi Cafe (Cafe Μπούρτζι).
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Slighty disturbed that I’ve spent my pool and beach time this holiday lying on a One Direction …
: England dispatch New Zealand to seal Cricket World Cup semi-final spot - England 305-8, New Zealand …
: Interesting 🏏 stats: Most wickets by an England bowler at a World Cup JC Archer - 17 (2019) IT …
: Currently reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (trans.) 📚
: Very impressed with this update to NewsBlur on iOS
: Currently reading: Ways of Seeing by John Berger 📚
: Currently reading: Cane by Jean Toomer 📚
: Finished reading Circe by Madeline Miller. Very readable and lively recounting of the Greek Odyssey …
: England v India: Jonny Bairstow & Liam Plunkett star in hosts' Cricket World Cup win. Exciting match …
June 2019
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Increasing my limited space holiday cooking repertoire - ‘pizza’ made in a frying pan using pitas, …
: Very pleased to get BBC Test Match Special streaming in Greece 🇬🇷 to listen to England v India …
:
Skiathos mirror 2017
Skiathos mirror 2019
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A short walk - Achladias to Skiathos Town
: Location check in 🗺 — Ζαχαροπλαστείο “Το Πρώτο”. Kataifi and baklava
: Currently reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚
: Currently reading: Dr James Barry - A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Perez & Jeremy Dronfield …
: Currently reading: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 📚
: Premier Inn Manchester Altrincham.
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Matthew Bourne’s ballet Romeo and Juliet at Wales Millennium Centre (this was the interval set …
: Wales Millennium Centre. Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - South Africa v Afghanistan at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Imran Tahir …
: Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground. South Africa - Afghanistan 🏏
: Henry’s Cafe Bar. Gower Gold 🍺
May 2019
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ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up match at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff - Bangladesh v India. First photo is …
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Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground. ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up - Bangladesh v India 🏏
: Currently reading: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 📚
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Some highlights of Merthyr Rising Festival 🎵 this weekend - Attila the Stockbroker and Bedface
The …
: 🔖 Less whaling in Moby Dick! - Tom Gauld on fan petitions – cartoon
: A crowdfunding appeal is bringing readers, authors and publishers together to help keep the copy of …
:
The immortal Gong at The Globe, Cardiff, Thursday 23rd May 2019 🎵
: Informative and interesting article on The Quietus - 🔖 The Strange World Of…Gong - including a …
: 🔖 Don’t talk about ‘food poverty’ – it’s just poverty
: Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final …
: Currently reading: The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi 📚
: A day to easily get lost in sport - England v Pakistan ODI 🏏, Aston Villa v West Bromwich Albion …
: Currently reading: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 📚
April 2019
: Wales Millennium Centre. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
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Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground. Glamorgan v Surrey 🏏
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Views from the square during the Glamorgan v Surrey lunch interval. Lukas Carey of Glamorgan didn’t …
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Royal London One-Day Cup - Glamorgan v Surrey at Sophia Gardens. Gareth Batty bowling to Billy Root, …
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Went to see Suede at The Great Hall, Cardiff University Students' Union last night 🎵. They were …
: 🔖 A couple of simple tofu ideas I may try this weekend, both from BBC Food: Tofu Thai green curry …
: Currently reading: Vengeance in Venice by Philip Gwynne Jones 📚
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We’ve had this portable barbecue for 25 years now - it has served us well.
: Delico Deli. Americano and toastie ☕️
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Photos of misty Penarth taken on Tuesday 16th April.
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Attending my first cricket game of the season - Glamorgan v Essex in the Royal London One-Day Cup. …
: Penarth Railway Station (PEN).
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Retro-gaming at Kongs Bar, Cardiff.
: The Gatekeeper (Wetherspoon).
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Chloe Foy at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff tonight - superb, now looking forward to seeing her at the Green …
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Bryony Sier at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff 🎵 🎸
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Out and overnight in Cardiff tonight celebrating my daughter’s 18th birthday.
: Currently reading: The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell 📚
March 2019
: Carmarthen Golf Club. Mother’s Day Sunday dinner.
: Rhoswenallt Inn. Sunny afternoon lunch and beer.
: Currently reading: The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell 📚
: Delico Deli. Americano and panini again ☕️
: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS).
: Left the Irish bar after seeing Wales beat Ireland to get the Six Nations 🏉 Grand Slam. Not staying …
: St. James' Gate. Wales - Ireland 🏉
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Mixing it up in Amsterdam - ready for Wales game in Irish pub with Italian wine and lots of Dutch …
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Spiritualized at Paradiso, Amsterdam. 🎵
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Awaiting Spirtualized at Paradiso, Amsterdam. 🎵
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Checked in at Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder. Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
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Checked in at Oude Kerk. Oude Kerk.
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Checked in at Royal Palace of Amsterdam (Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam)
: Successfully installed Dialog app for Micro.blog onto a Kindle Fire tablet. Easier than I thought it …
:
At the New Theatre, Cardiff for the RSC production of Romeo & Juliet.
: Checked in at New Theatre. RSC Romeo & Juliet.
: Finished reading: Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman 📚
: Currently reading: Snap by Belinda Bauer 📚
: Checked in at The Hardwick. Sunday lunch.
February 2019
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At the National Museum Cardiff visiting the Leonardo Da Vinci - A Life in Drawing exhibition.
: Currently reading: Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman 📚
: Finished reading: The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis 📚
: Wales 21 - 13 England 🏉 Best game of Six Nations so far even though not the result I would have …
: Very enjoyable first half of rugby - Wales 3 - 10 England in the Six Nations 🏉
: Trying a BrewDog Electric India - relatively light and less “aggressive” than a lot of BrewDog …
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Americano & panini for breakfast.
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Another Sky at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff last night. Strong backlights, mists and shadows. Great …
: Checked in at Clwb Ifor Bach for Another Sky. Another Sky 🎵
: Currently reading: The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis 📚
: Got home from work in time to watch most of West Indies hitting 21 fours and 23 sixes in their ODI …
: 🔖 Cooking Sunday roast causes indoor pollution ‘worse than Delhi’ During the day of cooking, PM2.5 …
: Currently reading: Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh 📚
: 🔖 Welsh National Opera’s Un Ballo in Maschera - terrific gory fun with pirates, witchcraft and …
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Un ballo in maschera - interval.
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Pre-opera glass of wine. At Wales Millennium Centre for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.
: Checked in at Wales Millennium Centre. Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera
: 🔖 Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii
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Walking in the snow this afternoon - with a view over Aberdare.
January 2019
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Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.
: Milk! ... a strange battle has emerged, between an industry trying to replace something it says we …
: Currently reading: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚
: 🔖 Don’t trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users
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Tom Gauld on how to deal with owning too many books – 🔖 cartoon 📚
: 🔖 Recipe to try: Rachel Roddy’s rocket, leek and potato soup
: 🔖 There is no leftwing justification for Brexit. We must fight it to the last.
: Checked in at Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) (Aeroporto di Venezia “Marco Polo”)
: Checked in at Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta
: Checked in at Campo Santa Margherita.
: Checked in at Chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario (vulgo Gesuati)
: Checked in at Campo Santa Margherita
: Checked in at Trattoria Da Carletto
: Checked in at Chiesa di Sant’Alvise
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San Michele, the cemetery of Venice - “possibly the most beautiful cemetery in the world” according …
: Checked in at Cimitero di San Michele
: Checked in at Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli
: Checked in at Chiesa Della Madonna Dell’orto
: Checked in at Campo del Ghetto Novo
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First full day in Venice of our four night stay. Ogio cafe, where they fit as many crisps as …
: Checked in at Ristorante Contemporaneo Ogio
: Checked in at St. Mary of Nazareth Church (Church of the Scalzi) (Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth …
: Checked in at Campo dei Frari
: Checked in at Ca' del Campo Hotel Venice. Venice, for four nights.
: Checked in at Ristorante La Serenissima
: Checked in at Venice Water Bus
: Checked in at Bristol Airport (BRS). Heading for Venice
December 2018
: Checked in at Bunch of Grapes. Starting with a pint of Diggers Gold …
: 🔖 The new rules of Christmas dinner: don’t ask for Yorkshire puddings and always wear a party hat
: 🔖 Google+ to shut down early after privacy flaw affects over 50m users
: Another Sky 🎵 🔖 Heavens above
: An important epidemiological study :) 🔖 Turncoat Game of Thrones characters most likely to survive, …
: 🔖 Anna Jones’ vegetarian Christmas squash and chestnut tart recipe
: 🔖 Nigel Slater’s Christmas vegetarian loaf
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Checked in at Delico Deli. Coffee and toastie.
: Australia vs India cricket commentary 🏏 Great to see BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra broadcasting ABC Grandstand’s live ball by ball coverage of …
: Currently reading: Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old …
: Checked in at The Littleton Arms
: Checked in at Premier Inn Nottingham North West (Hucknall)
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A day in Nottingham – trams, Nottingham Trent University Open Day and Nottingham Contemporary art …
: Checked in at Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery
: Checked in at Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Lecture Theatre. Psychology talk
: Checked in at Bonington Lecture Theatre. Photography talk
: Checked in at Newton Building. Nottingham Trent University Open Day
November 2018
: Blimey! Alerts on my phone were going crazy! Aston Villa 5-5 Nottingham Forest – Tammy Abraham …
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Garden casualty in today’s strong winds.
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Latte and cheese and tomato toastie
: I don’t think I want to see Mastodon content in the Micro.blog (app or web) Discover sections, but …
: Currently reading: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 📚
: Half-Life at 20 🔖 Why it is the most important shooter ever made
: Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. RM Technical Seminar
: 🔖 The fresco “Leda and the Swan” - Parco Archeologico di Pompei
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Middle of November and it’s warm enough to spend the afternoon sitting in the garden.
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View over Aberdare on a short walk this afternoon.
: my.viewranger.com Sharing a track from ViewRanger
: HT @lohang@mastodon.social 🔖 War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”
: 🔖 A gallon of 2,000-year-old wine found in tomb
: ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2018 🏏 starts today – see tournament guide and players to watch and full …
: Found a minor niggle with the new Mastodon features. Set up my ActivityPub/Mastodon-compatible …
:
Alone for my evening meal tonight, so I cooked moules marinière.
: 🔖 King Crimson Cardiff Show by Tony Levin
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King Crimson at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wednesday 31st October 2018. 🎵
October 2018
: Flooding in Venice 🔖 Acqua alta is a big nuisance
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Train to work cancelled because of slippery rails 🚞 🤷🏼♂️
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Thought this was an appropriate choice to start reading on Halloween 👻 🎃 📚
: Currently reading: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver 📚
: 🔖 Venice under water as Italy hit by fierce wind and heavy rain
: 🔖 David Byrne: ‘My agent says I’m having a Leonard Cohen moment’
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David Byrne at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Saturday 27th October 2018. Brilliant show with excellent …
: Checked in at Motorpoint Arena for David Byrne - American Utopia Tour. David Byrne supported by …
: 🔖 Enchanted garden of frescoes unearthed at Pompeii
: 🔖 Who’s the Most Instagrammed Writer of All Time?
: I will be tempted 🎮 – Sega Mega Drive returns
: 🔖 Why the ultimate breakfast of champions might just be wine and cheese
: Currently reading: Venice by Peter Ackroyd 📚
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Testing out Pi-Hole applied as DNS to a few of our mobile devices - seems to be working well
: 🔖 Peterloo: The man who ordered a massacre
: Blue Monday is a great song by New Order – just eating an equally brilliant cheese of the same name …
: What?? – Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
: Poor season for Glamorgan, but not sure this was called for – Robert Croft has left his role as head …
: Tom Gauld on buying a novel in the digital age – cartoon 📚
: Currently reading: Are you experienced? by William Sutcliffe 📚
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Echo and the Bunnymen at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Monday 15th October 2018 🎵
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In a tapas bar with four drinks on the go at the same time – next we’re heading to see Echo and the …
: Checked in at Bar 44. Tapas.
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A day in Manchester City Centre
: Checked in at Gino D’acampo My Pizza & Prosecco Bar
: Checked in at Britannia Country House
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Pint of Titanic Cherry Dark 🍺 in The Salutation – it was on these premises in 1846 that Charlotte …
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At Manchester Metropolitan University Open Day – my daughter considering a Psychology course here.
: Checked in at MMU Brooks Building. Manchester Metropolitan University Open Day
: Checked in at Simon Building
: Mentioned this in a previous post, but just seen this in The Guardian, which has a little more …
: Sian Berry, the Green Party’s co-leader, made some really good points on BBC Radio 4’s Today …
: 16-bit Intel 8088 chip It’s National Poetry Day, so … 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio …
: I enjoy a Macallan malt, but maybe quite not this much – Bottle of whisky sold for world record …
: Currently reading: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo 📚
September 2018
: The Facebook account breach extends way beyond the site itself. The compromise of access tokens …
: Cooked rakott kelkáposzta – Hungarian layered savoy cabbage casserole – last night, using Quorn …
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Went to see the incredible Norwegian band Major Parkinson at Exchange in Bristol last night. One of …
: Just upgraded Acorn image editor from version 4 to version 6 To celebrate the launch of macOS …
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Adding to the post-a-homescreen timeline. 📱
: Cooked with cime di rapa for the first time last night – spaghetti with cime di rapa, garlic, …
: Interesting ‘earliest’ stories in the news this week 🔖 Earliest animal fossils are identified, …
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Peace Park, a small park I walk through on my daily commute, looks to have completely flooded in …
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Haven’t seen crows congregating next to Aberdare railway station before. They did this morning!
: Cricket commentary for Micro.blog now over for today! Just need the 🏏 emoji tag activated ;)
: Moeen Ali in immense form – as captain, batter and bowler – successfully leads Worcestershire Rapids …
: Worcestershire set 158 to win in the T20 Blast Final. Another great bowling performance, especially …
: Trying an unfiltered natural wine for the first time. Reminds me a bit of a good quality still …
: It’s the Sussex Sharks meeting the Worcestershire Rapids in the final of the Vitality T20 Blast 🏏
: And the Worcestershire Rapids win the first T20 Blast semi-final. Some great bowling by Moeen Ali …
: The good thing about the timing of the T20 Blast Finals Day is the return of England players to …
: Vitality Blast T20 Finals Day today – plenty of cricket to be watched; two semi-finals plus the …
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These are impressive – India to break record for world’s largest statue - twice
: Good luck to NASA! – Can Mars rover beat the dust to trundle on again?
: Still intend to skip today’s iteration of the iPhone X – after a decade or so of getting a new phone …
: Currently reading: The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo 📚
: Alastair Cook’s final Test innings for England is just starting now at The Oval - England’s most …
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Google’s Art Selfie goes worldwide and there’s no getting away from it – I am Man with a White Beard
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A little Hive to pass the time in the airport.
: Checked in at Zakynthos International Airport Dionysios Solomos (ZTH) (Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ζακύνθου …
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Checked in at El Greco. Third time in El Greco, Alykes in a fortnight. Great food!
August 2018
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Checked in at Kaki Rahi Taverna
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Checked in at Anatolitiko (Ανατολίτικο)
: Currently reading: The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo 📚
: Currently reading: Percy Bysshe Shelley – Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen 📚
: Currently reading: An Endangered Species by David Gower 📚
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Checked in at Taverna Zorbas
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Checked in at Alykanas Beach (Παραλία Αλυκανά)
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At Fito Cafe opposite the fish market in Zakynthos Town yesterday.
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Agios Charalambos – Αγ. Χαράλαμπος
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Watching the procession of Saint Dionysios through Zakynthos Town.
: Checked in at Zakynthos Port (Λιμάνι Ζακύνθου)
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Some limited space cooking – tomato, cheese and oregano omelectte and garlic/tomato bread.
: Currently reading: The Complete Short Stories of Raffles by E. W. Hornung 📚
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Checked in at Anatolitiko (Ανατολίτικο)
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A couple of excellent grilled sea bass earlier this evening.
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Currently inhaling insecticide, playing crib and drinking ouzo.
: Checked in at Apollo Taverna
: Checked in at Taverna Asteria
: Currently reading: Terror and terroir – The winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France by Andrew …
: Just noticed that the book I’m currently reading is published by Cambridge University Press but just …
: Currently reading: Monteverdi’s Unruly Women – The Power of Song in Early Italy by Bonnie Gordon 📚
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Perfectly acceptable retsina at €2.20 a litre 🍷
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Zakynthos for a fortnight, starting with a morning frappé 😎
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Two of my favourite places in Cardiff - Bar 44, on the left, and Tiny Rebel, on the right. They’re …
: Rain stops play :( Surrey defeated Glamorgan by 24 runs under the DLS Method. Neither progress to …
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Delayed restart – view from opposite side of the stadium – Michael Hogan bowling to Aaron Finch – …
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Interval, but covers on and raining ☔️ 🏏
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Glamorgan vs Surrey – Tom Curran bowling to Colin Ingram 🏏
: Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. Glamorgan vs Surrey 🏏
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Kizuna – Japan Wales Design – exhibition at the National Museum in Cardiff
: Checked in at Tiny Rebel. XLPA 🍺
: Checked in at National Museum Cardiff. Kizuna. Japan Wales Design.
: 🔖 Celebrity is not harmless fun
: Finished reading: Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis …
: Checked in at Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Only because the Rhoswenallt was full 😡
: Chris Woakes gets a well deserved century against India at Lord’s. Woakes now gets his name on the …
: I have got to try and make this – Manousheh: the Lebanese breakfast pizza that stole my heart
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My first ever Japanese whisky (bottle started a few weeks ago, not tonight!) - as a long-time …
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K. T. Tunstall 🎵
Edit after the event, when I wasn’t watching the bands:
K. T. Tunstall was …
: Checked in at Cyfarthfa Castle. Simple Minds, Pretenders & K. T. Tunstall 🎵
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One of our cats appears to have lost her front legs – the other is fine!
: England’s 1000th test match since 1877 - won against India by 31 runs in just over 3 days. …
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Lovely sunny breakfast this morning - going to be another hot weekend I think 😎
: The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born On This Day in 1792 - The Later Romantics
: Meschede makes 77 as Glamorgan win a thriller by two runs 🏏
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Couple of shots of the River Taff taken whilst walking back into Cardiff from the cricket at Sophia …
: Dramatic finish! Tim van der Gugten clean bowls Tye off the final ball of the game to seal a …
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Glamorgan vs Gloucestershire T20 at Sophia Gardens – Tye bowling to Meschede in the final over. …
: Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. Glamorgan vs. Gloucestershire 🏏
: Bats in libraries Some impressive interiors in this collection of The world’s most beautiful libraries. This caption …
July 2018
: Fantastic result from Glamorgan CC as they chase down 195 to defeat Surrey in the Vitality Blast T20 …
: Currently reading: Opening Up by Mike Atherton 📚
: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights – in charts 📚
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Cappuccino & 🧀 toastie.
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Quiche, salad & Americano.
: Currently reading: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014 by Clive James 📚
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Variation from The Green Roasting Tin – Courgette, Beetroot, Onion and Goat’s Cheese Tart
: Cartoon – Tom Gauld on The Odyssey
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Leaving an outside light on has attracted a few moths.
: Currently reading: Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson 📚
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Fantastic! The Selecter at Caerphilly Castle 🎵
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Very strange to buy a full bottle of wine in a plastic bottle. It’s a Bulgarian Sauvignon. It’s OK …
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Definitely quite a unique setting for a gig 🎵
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Arrived at Caerphilly Castle for open air concert with the 2Tone bands The Selecter and The Beat 🎵
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Stig of the Dump – published the year I was born, a book I remember extremely well from my …
: Good article by Owen Jones in The Guardian today – 🔖 Protest against what Donald Trump represents, …
: He was high-brow, low-brow, every-brow! 🔖 the genius of Leonard Bernstein 🎵
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The Breeders at the O2 Academy Bristol, Tuesday 10th July 🎵
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At the O2 Academy, Bristol awaiting The Breeders 🎵
: Checked in at O2 Academy. The Breeders. 🎵
: Checked in at Sergio’s. Italian!
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Glamorgan vs. Sussex Sharks in T20 Blast at Sophia Gardens on Sunday 8th July. Rashid Khan bowling …
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England vs. India at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Friday 6th July.
England 149 for 5
India 148 for 5 …
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The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer @missminifer arrived today – Oven Baked Ratatouille cooked.
: England - India T20 cricket 🏏 starting now, England - Colombia World Cup ⚽️ match in an hour and a …
: Nice little quiz, in a format I haven’t seen used before – NHS at 70: how well do you know the …
: Currently reading: Islam for the Politically Incorrect by Khaled Diab 📚
June 2018
: I’ve heard of Cyberpunk and Steampunk before – and read books that fall into those categories – …
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Being a little traitorous tonight … but enjoying it #ENGBEL 🍺 ⚽️
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Now reading Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody (Author) and Howard Read …
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Now reading The Fall by Albert Camus 📚
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PiL – Public Image Limited – at Tramshed, Cardiff on Thursday 21st June 🎵
: Checked in at Tramshed. PiL 🎵
: Just noticed there is a football/soccer ⚽ Discover link now active on Microblog. Thanks @manton :) I …
: 🔖 Daša Drndić – ‘unflinching’ Croatian novelist, dies aged 71. 📚
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Fatoumata Diawara, Le Gateau Chocolat and stage views last night at Utopia, curated by Charlotte …
: Checked in at Wales Millennium Centre Bar. Bean burger 🍔 & Malbec 🍷
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I knew it - Mexico! World Cup 2018 personality quiz: Which country should you really support? ⚽
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Looks like at least an extra half hour of podcast listening is available for me then.
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Cooking sea bream on a bucket. Don’t think the bush is happy that I keep barbecuing in this spot.
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Americano.
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Aberdare Canal - on a walk to work this morning after my train was cancelled.
: Checked in at Wales Millennium Centre. Acosta Danza.
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Glamorgan vs. Sussex Sharks in Royal London One-Day Cup at Sophia Gardens 🏏
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Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. Glamorgan vs. Sussex in Royal London One-Day Cup 🏏
: Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
May 2018
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Amber warning: Severe thunderstorms likely to produce torrential downpours, flooding in some places …
: David Attenborough - World Music Collector ― Fascinating documentary from BBC Radio 3 featuring some …
: Is Japanese knotweed driving you wild? Don’t curse it – cook it. I never imagined this was edible, …
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Beer - Otley O2 Croeso - and chickpea, coriander & chilli burger at The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd.
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Now reading Instrumental by James Rhodes 📚
: Supporting The Great NHS Heist Documentary via @gofundme
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Merthyr Rising Festival 2018
Dreadzone – Friday 25th May
Roland Gift (of the Fine Young Cannibals) – Saturday 26th May
The …
: Checked in at REDHOUSE- Old Town Hall, Hen Neyadd y Dref. NHS, DOA at 70?
: Checked in at JOL’s. Sunday lunch.
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Enjoying my first listen to Sweet Thursday – the new Herman Dune album released today. 🎵
: An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle' From Hyperallergic: An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ Guy …
: Checked in at Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Cribyn Ale.
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Glamorgan vs. Kent at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 🏏 – Marchant de Lange bowling to Daniel Bell-Drummond.
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🔖 No More Than a Litre of Wine a Day
French 1950s Health and Sobriety posters. Interesting article …
: Good to see that Glamorgan Cricket Club’s home ground in Cardiff is being renamed back to Sophia …
April 2018
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Now reading Red Gas by Edward Topol 📚
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Checked in at Cardiff Central Railway Station (CDF)
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At the Duke of Wellington, Cardiff.
: Checked in at Duke Of Wellington. Malbec.
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Checked in at Bar 44. Tapas.
: Porthcawl won with the last kick of the game 🏉
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Pembroke vs. Porthcawl WRU Bowl Final 🏉
: Checked in at Principality Stadium. Pembroke vs. Porthcawl WRU Bowl Final 🏉
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Coffee and cheese & onion pasty.
: Microblogging and fragmentation by Riccardo Mori
: Going to be interesting to find out if Amazon’s remake of Utopia is anywhere close to the quality of …
: Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece review ― Astonishing, ravishing, sublime – exhibition at the …
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Zeitgeist - Idiosyncratic Black Lager by BrewDog. 🍺
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Weather has been good for a couple of days so I walked home from work for the first time this year.
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Now reading The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison. 📚
: Checked in at Mountain Ash Comprehensive
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Checked in at Aberdare Railway Station (ABA)
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Checked in at Rhoswenallt Inn
: Checked in at Fernhill Railway Station (FER). Homeward bound.
: Checked in at Mountain Ash Comprehensive. Still working…
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Americano.
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Interesting - island stage set up for Arcade Fire tonight at the NEC. Don’t know where the front is! …
: Checked in at Brewhouse & Kitchen. Seren’s 17th birthday.
: Checked in at The White Horse. Rioja!
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The best pub in Sutton Coldfield - The Station.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚
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Aperitif at The Salt Cellar.
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Blue skies in Tenby this morning.
: I used to enjoy a Mr Kipling Cherry Bakewell. Not so sure I will now – What is Britain eating?
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Microbrewery in Tenby 🍺. Enjoying a Caldey Lollipop IPA at Tenby Harbour Brewery.
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Checked in at Coast just outside Saundersfoot. Brilliant food is an understatement. Exceptional!
: Today I’ve learned that Saundersfoot railway station is in the middle of nowhere, a mile and a half …
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View over the beach from The Old Chemist Inn at Saundersfoot.
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St. Fagans Museum of Welsh Life
Kennixton Farmhouse
Iron Age Roundhouses
Abernodwydd Farmhouse
Stryd Lydan Barn
: Ready for cricket! Indian Premier League starts on Saturday and the County Championship next week. 🏏
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Wales Millennium Centre for Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella.
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Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella.
: Another interesting night’s (for me) cricket - New Zealand did incredibly well to hold out to win …
: Robotic bees 🐝 on Mars! – Planet of the apis
: Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay Spring To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet …
March 2018
: Now I’ve just got to investigate Ursula K Le Guin’s electronica album and the associated book Always …
: Arcade Fire interview ‘People have lost the ability to even know what a joke is. It’s very …
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Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd for great food and even better beers.
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First listen to Solar Divination by Kavus Torabi 🎵
: Experimenting with a few crossposting ideas between Microblog, 10Centuries and Pnut. Not entirely …
: Google and Facebook data – Despite myself, I’m quite impressed with the data that Google holds on …
: Testing a Python script to crosspost from 10Centuries.org to Micro.blog » originally posted at …
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Now reading The Executor by Blake Morrison. 📚
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Long Mynd - a bit cold and misty.
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Definitely something up with Dark Sky (I hope!)
: Switched my radio on at 4am this morning to listen to a bit of the cricket - England’s first Test …
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Just found an old Acorn A5000 computer at work (monitor doesn’t belong with it). Still boots, but …
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Another snow day means time to bake some scones (and Scottish shortbread biscuits, and a rosemary …
: Just watched the first three episodes of the BBC’s Troy: Fall of A City. Quite impressed by this …
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Looking a bit cold in Bolton for the Villa game. Pleased not to be there!
: 🏉 Against all expectations I enjoyed Italy-Scotland most today. Don’t know how Wales managed to win …
: 🏉 Good job Ireland - must be looking forward to the World Cup now!
: 🏉 🤔 All going Ireland’s way - great play, Grand Slam imminent I think.
: 🏉 Italy 27-29 Scotland - disappointed for Italy, played so well for the first hour and probably …
: Hey @micron I’ve just noticed that the rugby 🏉 category is missing from your Discover Search …
: I see that the Bolton-Aston Villa ⚽️ match is also being broadcast live today. Another Saturday …
: Final day of this year’s Six Nations 🏉 competition. Beers 🍻 at the ready!
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Tonight I will definitely be getting my greens!
: Trying the experiment of turning off all the retweets from people I follow on Twitter using the …
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I finally got to watch Blade Runner 2049 last weekend. Very impressed with the film so have decided …
: Interesting article by Blake Morrison - Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? 📚
: Yes! Aston Villa 4-1 Wolves ⚽️
: Switched from France-England 🏉 rugby to Villa-Wolves ⚽️ football and seen two fantastic Villa goals …
: France - England 🏉 second half exciting but ultimately disappointing. Far too many penalties given …
: England 🏉 errors are mounting.
: Still think St. Austell Proper Job is one of the best bottled beers you can buy. 🍺 An authentic IPA …
: Disappointed in Scotland’s final passes, disappointed that Ireland got a bonus point, but Ireland …
: Six Nations 🏉 returns. Hoping for another win for Scotland ;)
: Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the first book in …
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White melting away to green.
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Wall tiles at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
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Wall tiles painted with split-leaves revolving around a rosette, c. 1560 - at the Benaki Museum of …
: Testing RSS to Pnut as a Service (RTPaaS) for cross-posting my Micro.blog feed to pnut.io.
February 2018
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Bobby Klein’s best photograph: Jim Morrison has a beer for breakfast.
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Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets - just noticed and appreciated this article, …
: Two great games of rugby 🏉 in the Six Nations today. Neither result went the way I would have liked, …
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Retsina at the Acropolis Museum🍷
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Kerameikos Cemetery Reliefs
Photo I:
A relief of the deceased girl Korallion, shown seated, holding out her hand to her husband. …
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I was very impressed with the ancient cemetery site of Kerameikos in Athens today.
The small museum …
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Hobbling around the Temple of Hephaestus.
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Just visited Athens Gasworks. We were practically the only people there ;)
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Fava and aubergine salad at Café Avissinia.
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Arrived in Athens for a five day stay. In quite a ‘budget’ area but found a little cafe down an …
: Happy Death of Captain Cook! I know it seems to gets more commercialized every year, but let’s just …
: Villa beat the Blues to win the local derby and go up to second place in the Championship Aston …
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Really enjoyed England vs Wales 🏉 today. Result for England was just about deserved, Jonny May was …
: Checked in at Premier Inn London Kingston Upon Thames
: Checked in at Starbucks. Membury Services, M4.
: Watching Hairy Bikers' Mediterranean Adventure Episode 6/6 Mainland Spain. Some great looking food, …
: Match ended Italy 15-46 England - Italy deserved probably deserved more, played well, but very happy …
: Italy vs England in the Six Nations for the final match of the weekend. I’d love to be in Rome …
: France vs Ireland - great French defence, outstanding French try, game won for Ireland by Johnny …
: Finding France vs Ireland quite tame compared to the Wales game earlier today. 🏉
: Wow - sixth consecutive win for Villa. A brilliant sporting Saturday! ⚽️ Aston Villa 3-2 Burton …
: So, Wales 34-7 Scotland in the Six Nations opener. Very pleased with the result but tomorrow and …
: Great to have a Micro.blog page for posts about rugby in time for the 2018 Six Nations opening …
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Pre-rugby 🏉 breakfast at Delico Deli, Aberdare.
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Now reading The Outrun by Amy Liptrot 📚
January 2018
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Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern, North African and Italian ingredients from Sous Chef - let the …
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Sunlit test from my Instagram account.
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First test photo from Sunlit
: Legend of the Fall – Mark E Smith kept swinging to the end 🎵
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New Face in Hell 🎵 – Mark E Smith, lead singer with The Fall, dies aged 60. So many hours of my life …
: Ursula K Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy author, dies aged 88. The Dispossessed has always been one of …
: Xylouris White – Only Love 🎵
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St. David’s Hall, Cardiff for La Traviata.
: Checked in at St David’s Hall
: Checked in at Cafe Citta. Cardiff, linguine & wine 🍷
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Checked in at Delico Deli. Aberdare, large Americano and a cheese and onion pasty.
: Quite ridiculous! - A new trend to ‘coordinate’ the look of your library by turning the spines to …
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My kitchen bookcase is getting a little overcrowded. 📚
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Now reading a biography - D. H. Lawrence - The Life of Outsider by John Worthen. 📚
: I used to sporadically keep a record of the books I was reading on a Tumblr blog at …
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Sea bass grilled, served with a borlotti bean and mushroom stew and broccoli stir fried with chilli …
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Not quite the weather for a BBQ, but planning to charcoal grill some sea bass on our balcony. May …
: What’s not to love! – 🏏 and 🎵 – Sticky Wickets by The Duckworth Lewis Method
: Just noticed that there were updates to Apple AirPort firmware released in December - AirPort Base …
: Interesting brief survey of the history, themes and current state of dystopian fiction in this BBC …
: Accidental Tech Podcast 255: The Thermal Paste Lottery @atpfm filled my flight home from Rome almost …
: Checked in at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport (FCO) (Aeroporto di Roma Fiumicino)
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Checked in at Chicco di Grano. Final lunch in Rome. Seren having spaghetti al pomodoro again…
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Early morning view from Trajan’s Forum.
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Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome
: Checked in at Taverna Volpetti. Pasta.
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Checked in at Trattoria Al 19. Brilliant meal!
: Checked in at Antica Enoteca. Pizza & wine.
: Checked in at Fondazione Keats-Shelley Memorial
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Checked in at Antico Caffè Greco. Espresso con panna.
: Checked in at Antico Caffè Greco. Espresso con panna.
: Checked in at Bristol Airport (BRS). Rome bound.
December 2017
: Checked in at Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). New Year’s Eve curry.
: Checked in at Bradley’s Coffee
: Checked in at The Sticks Hotel, Llanstephan
: Checked in at Llansteffan Beach. A short and rainy walk.
: Checked in at Foelcwan Farm. Xmas Dinner.
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Checked in at David’s Italian Restaurant
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Coffee pre-last minute Xmas shopping.
: There’s a nice compilation of 2017 ‘Albums of the Year’ lists at albumoftheyear.org. I always enjoy …
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The first Christmas card designed by John Callcott Horsley in 1843.
: Average wine glass capacity has increased from 66ml in the 1700s to 417ml in the 2000s, with the …
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Despite overnight snow we still managed to receive a delivery of a fine selection of Italian, …
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Slightly snowy outlook from my front door this morning
: Many years ago I used to cook Sarah Brown’s Red Dragon Pie from her Vegetarian Kitchen book. I will …
: To cook ― The perfect panforte
: Bitcoin energy consumption ― Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries …
: Posting from newly released MarsEdit 4. Great work @danielpunkass!
: Bookmark ― an interesting short article about the Welsh artist Augustus John by Colin Ward.
: Have had BBC Test Match Special on all morning. Great coverage and an exciting couple of hours of …
: Monday morning. Woken up to an England batting collapse in the second Ashes Test.
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My daughter and her grandfather head for our local pub.
: Checked in at Rhoswenallt Inn. Sunday Lunch.
: Checked in at Cafe Citta. Italian lunch before going to Wales-South Africa at the Principality …
: Checked in at Tiny Rebel. Pint of Compton Cricket Club.
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Checked in at Watershed for Happy End
: Checked in at Mackenzies. Tapas, beer, wine.
November 2017
: Checked in at Rhoswenallt Inn. Quiz night.
: 🔖 Ramen noodles with fresh greens and chilli miso www.theguardian.com
: Going to have to try and get tickets to An Evening with King Crimson at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, …
: 🔖 Illuminating India ― photography 1857–2017
: Checked in at Mamma Mia. Italian Sunday lunch in Swansea.
: Result! Preston North End 0-2 Aston Villa Season looking good so far. Consolidating a play-off …
: 🔖 Sustainability taken a step too far? ― Goblet of fire: how spat-out wine is being turned into …
: 🔖 Instant gratification and total convenience and delivery ― How the sandwich consumed Britain
: 🚫 Buy Nothing Day - Friday November 24th 2017 – #BuyNothingDay
: Checked in at Rhoswenallt Inn. Dinner and possibly Quiz Night.
: It's just not cricket! There seems to be about 10 mins worth of video clips of today’s Ashes play available for free online …
: 95% chance of heavy rain and Yellow warning of strong wind – I think I may get a little wet walking …
: What Other Pains will WoW Classic Bring? – this bought back a lot of memories of playing World of …
: I was a little irritated when I found out that all the Ashes 2017 cricket coverage is going to be on …
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Sri Lankan cooking tonight
I recently bought this book
‘Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka’ by Bree Hutchins - from our local library …
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Saturday morning breakfast routine!
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Seven: “Shadow”. I haven’t been outside much in the daylight today so …
: 🔖 The system is failing ― Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web. (ht @adamprocter)
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Six: “Seasonal”. Fungi in the fallen leaves.
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Five: “Liquid”. Reflections in the River Cynon.
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Four: “Up Close”. Baby squid, taken during the preparation of a …
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Three: “On the Move”.
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Two: “Tasty”. Greek style Sunday dinner - Vefa Alexiadou’s aubergine …
: 🔖 Keeping in mind for Xmas ― Joe Trivelli’s Italian Christmas recipes
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day One: “Squares”. Taken on a short and muddy walk this afternoon. …
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Coffee & toast.
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Syd Arthur at Clwb Ifor Bach, Friday 10th November 2017 @sydarthurband @ClwbIforBach
: 🔖 It’s true, wind turbines are monstrous ― But I have learned to love them ― Alice O’Keeffe
: Checked in at Clwb Ifor Bach for Syd Arthur
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Queso de Cabrales - a brilliant blue cheese!
: Checked in at Bar 44. Tapas. One of the best places to eat in Cardiff!
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Heading to Cardiff to see the outstanding Syd Arthur @sydarthurband at Clwb Ifor Bach tonight.
: Checked in at Cardiff University Julian Hodge Building. George Monbiot lecture.
: Checked in at Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Five-bean chilli and a pint of Spitfire.
: Checked in at Merthyr Tydfil College. Parents Evening.
: Checked in at SSE Swalec Stadium. RM Seminar time.
: Checked in at Clwb Ifor Bach for Mark Eitzel.
: Checked in at Delico Deli. Saturday breakfast.
October 2017
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Checked in at The Gate House. More Wye Valley Hopfather!
: Checked in at The Whitebrook. Restaurant with rooms — www.thewhitebrook.co.uk
: Checked in at The Robin Hood Inn. Had to have a beer (Doombar) here as it’s Monmouth’s oldest …
: Checked in at The Gate House. Wye Valley Brewery - The Hopfather
: Checked in at Rummer Tavern. Pint of Boss Blonde
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Checked in at Fernhill Railway Station (FER)
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Another Twitter irritation I haven’t come across before!
: The Chronikler 🔖 Bookmark ― The Chronikler – “a thought provoking trip through both the main avenues and back …
: Testing OwnYourSwarm by Aaron Parecki @aaronpk. Seems to work faultlessly and nice to see it feeds …
: Checked in at Aberdare Railway Station (ABA). Testing a Swarm feed
: Checked in at Mountain Ash Comprehensive
: 🔖 Still photographs spring to life
: 🔖 An Animated Introduction to Michel de Montaigne
: The Russian Revolution: then and now photographs
: 🔖 WPA2 security vulnerability ― ‘All wifi networks’ are vulnerable to hacking, security expert …
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Early Bird tickets booked ― Merthyr Rising Festival 2018 - Music, arts, and ideas at the birthplace …
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The Gentle Good @ghbonello at Clwb Ifor Bach
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Café Cittá, Cardiff - superb home-cooked Italian meal, already booked again for Wales-RSA rugby 🏉 in …
: 🍺 Small Bar, Cardiff for a pint of Grey Trees’ Afghan Pale Ale
: Time for a quick feed test …
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October, but great weather, so I’m barbecuing a mackerel
: 🎶 Listening to ― Ruins / Adfeilion by The Gentle Good
: Farewell to The Matrix ― Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation
: 🎶 Listening to ― american dream by LCD Soundsystem on Apple Music
September 2017
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🍷 I’ve got to admit that I am seduced by interesting wine labels. In this case the wine is also …
: Amazon still lags behind Apple, Google in Greenpeace renewable energy report – a few months old, but …
: 🔖 Bookmark ― Tim Roth: touching evil in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games
: The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life The new sleep science – An adult sleeping only 6.75 hours a night would be predicted to live only to …
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… and I still base my nut roast on a recipe in my 30+ year old Cranks recipe book. Can’t be beaten!
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The best dried oregano 🌿 I’ve ever found!
: 🔖 Bookmark ― iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review: India — Austin Mann (ht @moridin)
: 🎶 Listening to ― Golden Eagle by Holly Macve on Apple Music
: 🔖 Bookmark ― Natan Dvir — some interesting photographs.
: 🔖 Bookmark ― Wine, protest and Macron: why southern French wine producers are so angry
: Cooked these tonight ― Aloo Paratha (Indian Potato Stuffed Flatbread) ― Delicious!
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Revived my old Samsung Q1 after several years of it sitting in a drawer and have actually been using …
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Extensive pruning of the trees along the lane leading to my house has opened up the view across the …
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Photographing the rather bleak Carlisle Castle on a rather bleak day.
: 🔖Bookmark ― Mary Shelley review – sturdy literary biopic fails to resurrect spirit of author ― but I …
: Watched an Apple event live for the first time, to see the iPhone X. But possibly more impressed …
: Superduper! by @dnanian saves the day again for me. My work 2011 iMac, rendered almost unusable by …
: Impressed by this ethical business initiative: The Brewdog Unicorn Fund ― Giving away 20% of our …
: 🔖Bookmark ― Giant toddler peers over US-Mexico border wall
: 🔖Bookmark ― Brew period: the craft beer labels that are works of art
: Tapas at Bar 44 Another delicious tapas meal at Bar 44 in Cardiff last night. Their Cabrales blue cheese was a …
: Really like the Safari Extension in MarsEdit 4 Public Beta - got mine configured to create a …
August 2017
: 🔖Bookmarking ― A nice bit of squirrel: should we chow down a diet of invasive species?
: Importing bookmarks from Chrome to Safari works a lot better now than I remember from the past.
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Fruit Bats at Green Man Festival @Fruit_Bats @GreenManFest
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Oh noes! @GreyTreesBrewer @GreenManFest #beer
: Veritas technical support @veritastechllc far outdid Microsoft technical support @MicrosoftHelps in …
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Old servers out, data migrated to new servers, tidier server room! Next stage is upgrading to Server …
: The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 - The Later Romantics
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Interesting article by Gladstone Small about Lawrence Rowe in the August 2017 edition of The …
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Enjoying my final Fix in Greece
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House of Alexandros Papadiamantis
July 2017
: “Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.” …
: BBQ Toolbox - It’s a barbecue … in a toolbox - from @whatsamadder on Twitter, always a Wednesday …
: Even on holiday, not thinking about work, the death of Flash makes me happy: Adobe is ending …
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We’re staying in a room about 12’x15' - impressed that there is an illuminated exit sign above our …
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Looking across to mainland Greece from Skiathos
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Cheese pies on the beach for breakfast
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Third night of delicious food in Skiathos - grilled sea bass
: Just started reading the first of Peter F. Hamilton’s Chronicle of the Fallers Series - two massive …
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Greece needs bigger tables (or maybe we should order less food) …
: Trying out Micro.blog cross posting to Facebook.
: €5.50 for 1.5l of Kourtaki retsina in Skiathos supermarket :) Has to be done!
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Curiously, a bat just decided to land on my doorstep.
June 2017
: Playlist: Death in Vegas feat. Liam Gallagher♫Scorpio Rising Chris Isaak♫Wicked Game Blondie♫Hanging …
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A poplar hawk-moth has appeared in my server room.
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Talk & The Optimist - D. H. Lawrence
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Prompt delivery from Sous Chef @SousChefTweet - in time for some weekend cooking :)
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Some excellent gins at Cardiff Gin Festival but queue times at bars really needs sorting out …
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Royal Gun Salute outside Cardiff City Hall
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ICC Champions Trophy 2017 starts today - nice to see a Google Doodle celebrating it. 🏏
May 2017
: Wine glasses have increased in size from a capacity of 65ml 300 years ago to 450ml today - 🔖 Bigger …
: Yanis Varoufakis at the Hay Festival
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Bought the book, not so convinced by the wine … #Hay30 @yanisvaroufakis
: Just seen Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis speaking at Hay Festival - very impressed! #HayFestival
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And finally - Alabama 3 headlining Sunday night at Merthyr Rising - Superb!@TheAlabama3 …
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Fantastic to see the Grey Trees brewery bar at the Merthyr Rising festival - enjoyed great beer all …
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Stereo MCs headlining Merthyr Rising on Saturday night
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Merthyr Rising festival on Sunday 28th May @merthyrrising
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Pretty Vicious in Penderyn Square, Merthyr Tydfil on Friday night.
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Weekend is sorted! Merthyr Rising www.merthyrrising.uk
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Echobelly at The Globe, Cardiff - Thursday 18th May 2017
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10C REFUND AT COLLECTION POINTS WHEN SOLD IN SA - why don’t more countries do this on canned drinks, …
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Beavertown Smog Rocket Smoked Porter - unfiltered, unpasteurised, natural beer from …
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When broadcasting 4:3 programmes for widescreen television do we really need bright pink borders - …
: The Cure - A Forest * first ever TV performance Dec 79 youtu.be/-CtgAgTqx…
: Watching Indian Premier League cricket - Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rising Pune Supergiant. David …
: Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis review – one of the greatest political memoirs ever?
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A fantastique test photo from the micro.blog iOS app
: Twitter archive for TheDimPause now imported into this micro.blog
: How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Of mightiest poets and to hear the while Sweet music, …
April 2017
: Sensational #music by Tinariwen at the Tramshed, Cardiff on Thursday 27th April @TINARIWEN …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Manic Street Preachers (18), Karajan, BPO, Ferras (10), Julian Cope (9), …
: RT @GeorgeMonbiot: My column: Sure, I see the problems with Corbyn. But they pale beside the threat …
: RT @heretic101: not sure about the ‘sixth form rant’ or ‘squeezed into my shirt’!!! but perceptive …
: Great #coffee in St. Mary Street, Cardiff @coffeeheavenuk - very good smoked salmon, cream cheese & …
: BBC Wales HQ Cardiff #Hipstamatic https://t.co/DgyMPx9osw
: Patrick Jones #poetry at Tramshed Cardiff @TramshedCF @heretic101 #Hipstamatic …
: The Wye #Hipstamatic https://t.co/8wVCPEpveJ
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (87), Sigmatropic (35), Nick Cave & The Bad …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Cornershop (18), Baudo, LPO (5), Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra (4), …
: Morning walk to work https://t.co/VKWwRySyzN
: Proper Black #beer @ Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff https://t.co/TwhY8ge1hr
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Simple Minds (21), Blondie (20), The Breeders (20), Magdalena Kožená (11) & …
March 2017
: ♫ #lastfm artists: BBC Radio 4 (5), Davis, Staatskapelle Dresden (4), Glenn Gould (4), Julian Cope …
: Blimey! There’s free wifi on the Cardiff to Aberdare train - first time I’ve seen it on this line. …
: Just posted a photo @ Alexandra Gardens, Cardiff City Hall https://t.co/Jx3EwbWLMV
: Digger’s Gold @ Rummer Tavern https://t.co/WQPHbVz0xX
: Coleg y Cymoedd @ Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff https://t.co/6bnaNUj1mT
: ♫ #lastfm artists: The Walkabouts (28), Glenn Gould (23), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Jörg Demus (14), …
: RT @cockaygne: Real Truth about Fake News: Central Narratives to Rival Heresies …
: Just got home from work to find this in our garden … #cows https://t.co/uXWTaGkU63
: Matthew Bourne’s Red Shoes #dance @ Wales Millennium Centre https://t.co/6uPOL1BZ8T
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Elbow (38), Brasstronaut (36), Electric Light Orchestra (28), Julian Cope (25) & …
: RT @merthyrrising: Os gwelwch yn dda RT https://t.co/Cc5Mt3q5eg
: RT @BBCInOurTime: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, conceived in a long summer storm in 1816, was …
: Elbow at the Newport Centre 10th March 2017. Sensational! #elbowlive2017 @Elbow @NewportCentre …
: Look on my works, ye mighty … https://t.co/BAZjbQUmVD https://t.co/43I4R2KE6K
: RT @cockaygne: Book Review: The Wild Girls - https://t.co/gOHMA4dJvj by Ursula Le Guin ISBN: …
: @AbernantEagle https://t.co/lbTvRDZm8I
: The Colosseum after antiquity https://t.co/n7LCr1JLCp https://t.co/Um5KKGNoY7
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Bruce Springsteen (62), Cabaret Voltaire (37), Camper Van Beethoven (28), Ian …
: RT @bbctms: Incredible. @NathLyon421 takes 8 wickets on the opening day of the 2nd Test. India all …
: Brasstronaut - impressive support for @StornowayBand in Cardiff at the @TramshedCF @Brasstronaut …
: Stornoway in Cardiff - the lively farewell @StornowayBand https://t.co/i6xyH1iMvd
: Stornoway in Cardiff - the acoustic farewell @StornowayBand https://t.co/lq0R9jQhGA
: Dessert @ Bar 44, Westgate St, Cardiff https://t.co/UcQMxxkLZP
: @Brasstronaut Any idea what time you’re due to be on stage tonight (1st March) in Cardiff?
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Jörg Demus (30), Furtwängler, VPO (10), Samuel Rhodes, …
February 2017
: @GreenManFest That would be brilliant!
: A Roman road courtesy of McDonald’s! Who says they’re 100% evil! :) https://t.co/kI9vNH7Vx3
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Mark Padmore; Paul Lewis (24) & Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn, Amihai Grosz, …
: Edna St.Vincent Millay #poetry https://t.co/q8JHFlTJQJ
: RT @whatsamadder: A burger press that can get stuffed and a vegetarian epiphany for me. Here’s …
: ♫ My Top 3 #lastfm artists: Glenn Gould (28), Tinariwen (13) & BBC Radio 4 (1) via @tweeklyfm #music
: RT @TINARIWEN: New album and new video out tomorrow! Tanmirt +IO:I https://t.co/PuPDpO6zDz
: #cricket (Joe Root appointed England Test captain with Ben Stokes his deputy | Sport | The Guardian) …
: Pre Wales-England Six Nations - in craft beer bar in Cardiff - undefined map …
: DiEM25: One Year On https://t.co/eKSlwtDsed
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Elbow (20), Sundara Karma (17), Xylouris White (11), Mark Padmore and Nicholas …
: ‘It was as if I had peered into hell’: the man who brought the Nazi death squads to justice | Law | …
: Pylon #MonochromeMonday (Pylon #MonochromeMonday) https://t.co/6t6f0SU6Yp
: Wolf Alice - Wicked Game (iTunes Festival 2014) https://t.co/hSFPmAqqv1
: Lane (Lane) https://t.co/uokTrVnP5N
: Meander (Meander) https://t.co/9oXj43mCnK
: Verifying that “thedimpause.id” is my Blockstack ID. https://t.co/sU1jYaX15l
: I’d like to share a track from ViewRanger https://t.co/I2vmIjuCpg
: RT @WerfaAbernant: Got this to go with my new glasses ;) https://t.co/CNSg9JYX5N
: Aberdare Morning (Aberdare morning) https://t.co/pevts3WXJj
: DiEM25-UK: Organisational launch meeting https://t.co/RIYA4aX6nx
: ♫ #lastfm artists: PJ Harvey (58), GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message (19), King Creosote …
: Just watched Stonehearst Asylum https://t.co/vyHcRIlJhQ - not heard of it before, but was very …
January 2017
: Yanis Varoufakis: Europeans should be excited about Benoît Hamon winning the French presidency …
: Steve Bell on the special relationship https://t.co/t59YeNdTYI
: ♫ #lastfm artists: BBC Radio 4 (8), Leonard Cohen (3), Elbow (2), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard …
: DiEm25 YouTube Channel https://t.co/rHYHUt2tvR
: DiEM25 (Home) https://t.co/ZNyK4SH7vz
: Village Loaves #bread #baking #food From: https://t.co/w1KPP17AqE https://t.co/z7bdlq9wxs
: RT @BBCInOurTime: Lord Byron, poet, was born #OnThisDay 1788 https://t.co/Vophborhnx
: Blue cheese and celeriac pithivier …will be tomorrow’s dinner #food #recipe From: …
: Here I Am #books #reading #nowreading https://t.co/lJnYtCaZae
: The sheer poetry of the Trump inauguration https://t.co/BPyZ1lek7m
: A History of Anarchist Counter-Inaugural Protest https://t.co/cBim0kmTCX
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Scott Walker (28), Tinariwen (21), BBC Radio 4 (7), Leonard Cohen (5) & …
: Recipes https://t.co/pi62lQdstI
: RT @theanalyst: New podcast episode with @Eoin16, Sam Billings, Sunil Gavaskar and @Cricket_Mann …
: Edna St. Vincent Millay (Edna St. Vincent Millay) https://t.co/RLJpB89ETi
: Check out this great Podcast: https://t.co/nibtHix0ZU https://t.co/fWk26Ryxbf
: N - The Napoleonic Wars First Complete AAR https://t.co/N4sLvWubHS
: https://t.co/0uiPesaDe6 is shutting down on March 15, 2017 https://t.co/q0QJ9WfrGd
: Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford - #nowreading https://t.co/uw0wN3QG4W
: Ram Mohan Roy #MonochromeMonday #blackandwhitephotography #monochromeworld #monochromephotography …
: La La Land is a big, bombastic musical – but it’s the smaller gestures that make it sing …
: How to cook the perfect mulligatawny | Life and style | The Guardian https://t.co/Zp8RBfuTDW
: ♫ #lastfm artists: B.B. King (25), Arcade Fire (20), Throwing Muses (20), Ultra Vivid Scene (20) & …
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Fallen
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Training
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Reflecting
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Bridging
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: ♫ #lastfm artists: Cornershop (55), Handley, RLPO (29), The Doors (22), The Cardigans (21) & Dmitri …
December 2016
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Federico García Lorca y La Argentinita (69), Robert Johnson (42), Leonard Cohen …
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Llansteffan Castle
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Daffodils blooming on Boxing Day
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: RT @KP24: Cricket properly back on terrestrial TV here in UK right now - @cricketon5! Soooo good! …
: RT @Knifeworld: £8:50 from Spotify in my last royalty statement. That’s nearly as much as if I’d …
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Ca' Rezzonico selfie
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: Ca' Rezzonico selfie @ Ca' Rezzonico https://t.co/R9RpyVNhtO
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Palazzi Mocenigo
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: Palazzi Mocenigo @ Venezia, Italia https://t.co/0hkvoLX7EI
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Cabaret Voltaire (19), Van der Graaf Generator (14), Baker Gurvitz Army (12), Guy …
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Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
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: Very impressed with the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari today - probably more so than… …
: RT @AbernantEagle: Brilliant @Starsailorband gig tonight at the fabulous @TramshedCF. …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Gong (132), Xylouris White (50), Tinariwen (31), XTC (25) & Throwing …
: ♫ My Top 2 #lastfm artists: Gong (12) & Mitski (11) via @tweeklyfm #music
: Watch “Einstürzende Neubauten - The Garden” on #Vimeo https://t.co/LPF05u40Uq
November 2016
: Nigel Slater’s orzo, black cabbage and smoked cheese https://t.co/2AIe3n6f9L
: ♫ My Top 2 #lastfm artists: The Barker Band (16) & St. Petersburg String Quartet (10) via @tweeklyfm …
: No likey @ArrivaTW - doesn’t fit nicely into my wallet! https://t.co/6yqAkNRqVu
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Sunday Sourdough
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: Sunday Sourdough @ Aber-nant https://t.co/XSdQ3nOOS1
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Early early morning snow - melting fast
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: Early early morning snow - melting fast @ Aber-nant https://t.co/0gEmv2e0tY
: ♫ My Top 3 #lastfm artists: Kristin Hersh (24), Einstürzende Neubauten (11) & Gong (8) via …
: Our version of a Pain Rustique https://t.co/ETMHpr8sWg
: Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies aged 82 https://t.co/h0wWjFdXGn
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Deer in Cardiff
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: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Kristin Hersh (36), Gong (15), Syd Arthur (15), Elton John (2) & Duke …
: Syd Arthur: Apricity review – unique, soulful and trippy in the best sense https://t.co/YjGLljSsMI
: RT @Knifeworld: Hi. I’ll be playing around the UK with Gong later this month. Do join us. x …
: Just posted a photo @ Cardiff Central railway station https://t.co/2towu0XsqA
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Cardiff cranes
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: ♫ #lastfm artists: Xylouris White (73), Kristin Hersh (59), Pixies (24), Leonard Cohen (11) & …
October 2016
: I’m off to see Stornoway at Tramshed, Cardiff. https://t.co/4txxuN1RPh via @seetickets
: RT @whatsamadder: Gadget Review: this week, a banana filling machine that doubles as an insult to …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Syd Arthur (51), The Clash (29), Dexys Midnight Runners (24), Evgeny Kissin (23) …
: To Hell With Poverty - @andygangof4 @gangof4official missed the microwave, but enjoyed! …
: Gang of Four live stream (Live on https://t.co/c4Af7ZH0MV) https://t.co/hLENLPVIfI via @YouTube
: Syd Arthur’s Apricity Is MOJO’s Album Of The Week https://t.co/XT4tHIM8WU via @MOJOmagazine
: Sad to see @twfeed #twitterfeed go. Migrated my feeds to @IFTTT and @buffer - now to see if they …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Bent Knee (22), Red Martian (16), SEXWITCH (6), BBC Radio 4 (4) & BBC …
: 8th September 1888 | Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 - 1 Aston Villa | First day of the Football League | …
: Fantastic! :: Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan https://t.co/C4RHFBnlAa
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Walter Gieseking (27), Chumbawamba (23), Bartok Quartet (19), Baker Gurvitz Army …
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Ben Ottewell
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: Ben Ottewell @ Clwb Ifor Bach https://t.co/Ohi50RJrS1
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Squashed
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: Squashed https://t.co/fwjJF4HhEL
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Sir Tom Jones
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: Just passed by Sir Tom Jones @ Fernhill railway station https://t.co/vJMwabyHHv
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Bent Knee (69), Björk (35), Cabaret Voltaire (31), Neu! (24) & Manic Street …
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Dà Mhìle Seaweed Gin
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: Dà Mhìle Seaweed Gin https://t.co/wNj2hGbSBE @DaMhile damhiledistillery for #scd …
September 2016
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Big, Big, Big Red Wine
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: Big, Big, Big Red Wine @ Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff https://t.co/YePExetTdw
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Gang of Four (27), Young Marble Giants (23), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott (17), …
: Martin Rowson on the impending Labour leadership result – cartoon https://t.co/YBdflxAnEs
: Get off the treadmill: the art of living well in the age of plenty https://t.co/7DAoI2apua
: @fayhield …and if your current tour extended to South Wales I’d even come and see you ;)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Fay Hield (3), The Doors (3), Ezza (2), Gun Outfit (2) & Neu! (2) via …
: Abergavenny Food Festival means Little Rumba https://t.co/NvlL91v4HO
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Abergavenny Food Festival means Little Rumba
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The Great Gatsby
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Biltong and Cider
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: Biltong and Cider @ Abergavenny, Monmouthshire https://t.co/ElLLKZh4P1
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Abergavenny Food Festival
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: Just posted a photo @ Abergennveny Food Festival https://t.co/FRZzvUI3yk
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Early at Abergavenny Food Festival
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: Early at Abergavenny Food Festival @ Abergennveny Food Festival https://t.co/0CS7imZmq5
: Readers’ recipe swap: Marmalade | Eve O’Sullivan https://t.co/PLYChJt4hx
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Gang of Four (27), Einstürzende Neubauten (18), Enrique Morente (13), Etran …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Fall (95), Cornershop (76), King Crimson (63), Glenn Gould (61) & …
: YOU FOUND FRANCES https://t.co/Z9m5F6BQrg
: The Shock Of The Neu! Michael Rother & Green Man Festival Reviewed: https://t.co/ZDIq9rJYFZ
August 2016
: ♫ My Top 2 #lastfm artists: Edna St. Vincent Millay (5) & Louis MacNeice (2) via @tweeklyfm #music
: Shared from @thedimpause on #Ello - https://t.co/ss8tQ5ETVF https://t.co/6pzUrJvY6K
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Calm, crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean
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: Calm, crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean @ Gerani,Chania,Crete https://t.co/ddvzsjMq8m
: I’d like to share a track from ViewRanger: https://t.co/Nm1YK3TTFx
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Hazy balcony sunset
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: Hazy balcony sunset @ Pardalakis Apartments Gerani https://t.co/ZKuw0pP4EJ
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Poe (18), Echo & the Bunnymen (16), The Doors (16), Melody Gardot (12) & …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Gun Outfit (21), Laura Marling (21), Guerrero, Nashville SO, Binelli (6), Cabaret …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Au Pairs (24), Gun Outfit (12), Haitink, Concertgebouw O., Perahia (6), The …
: Chilli beef rendang https://t.co/0clEc18fjD
: ♫ #lastfm artists: XTC (16), Hector Zazou (12), Benjamin Clementine (11), Haitink, Concertgebouw O., …
July 2016
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Laura Marling (25), Robert Tear, Philip Ledger (23), Mark Padmore and Nicholas …
: Shared from @thedimpause on #Ello - https://t.co/SFzCJpAqWV https://t.co/MIsgd7a67O
: @Suzie_D7 No, went into an aubergine parmigiana …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Einstürzende Neubauten (13), Belle and Sebastian (6), The Doors (3), The Unthanks …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: The Doors (24), Belle and Sebastian (22), BBC Radio 4 (8), Guy Garvey (7) & Gang …
: RT @britishlibrary: Percy Bysshe Shelley died #otd in 1822. Explore how he came to write his poem …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: The Smashing Pumpkins (27), Estrella Morente (14), Islaja (13), Public Image Ltd. …
June 2016
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: BBC Radio 4 (15), Gun Outfit (5), Algiers (2), Laura Marling (2) & …
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Rajah Rammohun Roy
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: ♫ #lastfm artists: XTC (89), Einstürzende Neubauten (37), Cornershop (33), Gun Outfit (11) & The …
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Father's Day
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: ♫ #lastfm artists: Fay Hield (25), Einstürzende Neubauten (18), Knifeworld (16), Benjamin Clementine …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Takács Quartet (8), Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn, Amihai Grosz, Maxim Rysanov, …
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Steyn bowling
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: ♫ #lastfm artists: Cornershop (46), Bartok Quartet (12), BBC Radio 4 (8), Lang Lang, VPO, Gergiev …
May 2016
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Henry’s Funeral Shoe (50), Cornershop (12), Knifeworld (12), BBC Radio 4 (3) & …
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Lamphey Church
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Beach stroll
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Freshwater East
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: ♫ My Top 4 #lastfm artists: Radiohead (38), Laura Marling (28), XTC (14) & Lush (2) via @tweeklyfm …
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Black & White
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Grey Trees
via Instagram [bit.ly/27mBlIG](http://bit.ly/27mBlIG)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Radiohead (75), XTC (18), Melody Gardot (10), Troyka (6) & Ezza (5) via …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Mogwai (14), Björk (4), Sigmatropic (3), Slint (3) & Fay Hield (2) via …
:
Grey May Day
via Instagram [bit.ly/1Y34vq5](http://bit.ly/1Y34vq5)
April 2016
:
Skeleton mosaic found in Turkey - "Be cheerful and live your life"
via Instagram bit.ly/26zvVte
🔖 History Blog
: ♫ My Top 2 #lastfm artists: Knifeworld (11) & Abbado, BPO (6) via @tweeklyfm #music
: Trying BrewDog’s @BrewDog This. Is. Lager. I can confirm It. Is. Lager. and It. Is. Brilliant.🍺
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Etran Finatawa (13), The Doors (11), David Bowie (4), Portishead (4) & …
:
Antarctic 100 Memorial
via Instagram [bit.ly/1p9b1zl](http://bit.ly/1p9b1zl)
:
Awaiting The Rite of Spring
via Instagram [bit.ly/1VunN9G](http://bit.ly/1VunN9G)
:
iPad carnage
via Instagram [bit.ly/1qLc2z9](http://bit.ly/1qLc2z9)
: KNIFEWORLD - High/Aflame (OFFICIAL VIDEO) https://t.co/J3yq2ZIPtl via @YouTube
:
Ffresh Fish & Chips
via Instagram [bit.ly/1p1tz4n](http://bit.ly/1p1tz4n)
: Garden visitor https://t.co/LN4tbzo6AM
:
Garden visitor
via Instagram [bit.ly/1Vmu3Ad](http://bit.ly/1Vmu3Ad)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Glenn Gould (66), Guy Garvey (25), White Denim (21), Gun Outfit (16) & …
: I just finished walking 5.90 miles in 1h:52m:41s with #Endomondo #endorphins https://t.co/B1TmclX5ie
: ♫ My Top 2 #lastfm artists: Federico García Lorca y La Argentinita (12) & White Denim (7) via …
: Still hope for 150+ #ENGvWI #WT20Final #bbccricket
: Following #ENGvWI #WT20Final from Cape Verde via #bbccricket Live Reporting - hope it’s not a waste …
:
Retro-gaming
via Instagram [bit.ly/1POc2T8](http://bit.ly/1POc2T8)
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Sparrows for breakfast?
via Instagram [bit.ly/1V155Gk](http://bit.ly/1V155Gk)
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Lighthouse
via Instagram [bit.ly/25ASH3w](http://bit.ly/25ASH3w)
:
Musical Dinner II
via Instagram [bit.ly/1pQZFRg](http://bit.ly/1pQZFRg)
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Musical Dinner I
via Instagram [bit.ly/1Vg74FG](http://bit.ly/1Vg74FG)
:
Looking back...
via Instagram [bit.ly/1Vg6Deu](http://bit.ly/1Vg6Deu)
March 2016
:
Lonely beach photo
via Instagram [bit.ly/1X0clQI](http://bit.ly/1X0clQI)
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Fishermen, Cape Verde
via Instagram [bit.ly/25yFjgn](http://bit.ly/25yFjgn)
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Main square
via Instagram [bit.ly/25yF3hg](http://bit.ly/25yF3hg)
:
Santa Maria
via Instagram [bit.ly/1RPMRHF](http://bit.ly/1RPMRHF)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Gun Outfit (69), Belle and Sebastian (55), New Order (47), Steve Mason (30) & …
:
Mystery object
via Instagram [bit.ly/1The8BI](http://bit.ly/1The8BI)
:
Small beer
via Instagram [bit.ly/1RGdOu0](http://bit.ly/1RGdOu0)
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Jaipur & a bacon butty
via Instagram [bit.ly/22GJOXp](http://bit.ly/22GJOXp)
:
Rainbow over Manchester Airport
via Instagram [bit.ly/1MKPhzI](http://bit.ly/1MKPhzI)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Nadia Reid (52), Fufanu (12), Gun Outfit (12), Astor Piazzolla (10) & …
: I just finished walking 1.15 miles in 18m:38s with #Endomondo #endorphins https://t.co/VEAA7NWYIw
: I just finished walking 5.52 km in 1h:00m:04s with #Endomondo #endorphins https://t.co/MBquoRHF2v
: Choices! #INDvPAK #cricket #WT20 or #WALvITA #rugby #6Nations?
:
Misty Fernhill
via Instagram [bit.ly/1MrJxL3](http://bit.ly/1MrJxL3)
:
Cardiff Bay, March 2016
via Instagram [bit.ly/1UA7WVd](http://bit.ly/1UA7WVd)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Nadia Reid (10), Fleetwood Mac (8), Portishead (7), Gang of Four (4) & …
:
Tabasco is great!
via Instagram [bit.ly/1RGea11](http://bit.ly/1RGea11)
:
Twickenham feeling like Wales...
via Instagram [bit.ly/1QOsl7E](http://bit.ly/1QOsl7E)
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The Prince Blucher, Twickenham Green
via Instagram [bit.ly/1V0K4KY](http://bit.ly/1V0K4KY)
:
Espresso & Grappa
via Instagram [bit.ly/1LgIYc5](http://bit.ly/1LgIYc5)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: CHVRCHES (13), White Denim (13), Gun Outfit (12), The Doors (6) & King Gizzard & …
February 2016
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Gergiev, Kirov Orch., Mariinsky Theatre (42), Genesis (15), Fidetzis, Athens …
: England lose 6 wickets for 9 runs :( #RSAvEng #cricket
: Time for a little #cricket then - #RSAvEng in the second and final match of the T20 series
: GNU social: https://t.co/HaTtMvgNxo Friendica: https://t.co/8zf8hzHxuJ
: Nice photo from the ECB prior to the start of RSAvENG T20 match in Cape Town #cricket #cricket …
:
Sunlight
via Instagram [bit.ly/1XA9Bdl](http://bit.ly/1XA9Bdl)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Fay Hield (35), Savages (15), Misty In Roots (14), White Denim (10) & …
: Testing out a GNU social account.
: ♫ #lastfm artists: White Denim (57), Golden Animals (11), Duke Garwood (10), The White Stripes (9) & …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Algiers (30), Songhoy Blues (14), St. Petersburg String Quartet (11), The Verve …
January 2016
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Dub Syndicate (26), The Smashing Pumpkins (13), Dmitri Shostakovich (11), Algiers …
:
Photo Madness!
via Instagram [bit.ly/1nE2fsY](http://bit.ly/1nE2fsY)
:
"The frost has settled down upon the trees"
via Instagram [bit.ly/1ZLVJ4G](http://bit.ly/1ZLVJ4G)
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Tame Impala (19), David Bowie (12), Radiohead (9), Slint (9) & The …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: David Bowie (60), The Smiths (51), Fleetwood Mac (40), Fay Hield (36) & …
:
Charging
via Instagram [bit.ly/1RdrkHF](http://bit.ly/1RdrkHF)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Fleetwood Mac (84), David Bowie (21), Julia Holter (20), Gang of Four (13) & New …
December 2015
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Gang of Four (62), Crass (35), Camper Van Beethoven (20), Sigmatropic …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Julia Holter (20), Songhoy Blues (15), Joy Division (14), Slint (9) & …
: ♫ My Top 2 #lastfm artists: The Pop Group (11) & Pond (11) via @tweeklyfm #music
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Tame Impala (23), Tear, Robert with Philip Ledger (19), Algiers (15) & Billy …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Krček, Capella Istropolitana (64), Courtney Barnett (18), The Doors (11), Algiers …
November 2015
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Melody Gardot (17), Algiers (11), Reigakusha, Sukeyasu Shiba (11), The Districts …
:
Melody Gardot in Cardiff
via Instagram [bit.ly/1MEm9cR](http://bit.ly/1MEm9cR)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Ted Hughes (12), Echo & the Bunnymen (9), Jack Wallen (9), Sigmatropic (5) & …
:
Burnt Graffiti
via Instagram [bit.ly/1LbCcNx](http://bit.ly/1LbCcNx)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Tame Impala (36), Pond (15), Melody Gardot (15), Takács Quartet (13) & King …
: QI: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lost poem acquired by Oxford University https://t.co/MTIlqKeUYh
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Elīna Garanča (18), Melody Gardot (18), Bernstein, NYPO (6), Handley, RLPO, …
October 2015
:
Too much music...
via Instagram bit.ly/1ipOGu0
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Detail of the Picton memorial
via Instagram [bit.ly/1k9LVxY](http://bit.ly/1k9LVxY)
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General Picton memorial, Carmarthen
via Instagram [bit.ly/1RB91IO](http://bit.ly/1RB91IO)
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Tenby beach
via Instagram [bit.ly/1igyjzS](http://bit.ly/1igyjzS)
:
Books
via Instagram [bit.ly/1M1ydIi](http://bit.ly/1M1ydIi)
:
Tenby on a rainy day
via Instagram [bit.ly/1GwLvMR](http://bit.ly/1GwLvMR)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Karajan, BPO (43), July (14), Tom Robinson (11), Courtney Barnett (10) & LCP, …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture SO (25), Tom Robinson (11), Reigakusha, …
:
The outstanding Starsailor in Bristol last night
via Instagram bit.ly/1OAEo8o
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Yokoyama, Tsurata, Music Dept., Imperial Household (7), Portishead (5), Björk …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Reigakusha, Sukeyasu Shiba (22), Ezza (11), Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra Of …
September 2015
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Ezza (17), Ramshackle Union Band (11), Sigmatropic (7), John Matthias, Trinity …
:
Sun streaming in today
via Instagram [bit.ly/1R8roFa](http://bit.ly/1R8roFa)
:
I may be in the wrong place...
via Instagram bit.ly/1iS96gg
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Björk (14), Paco de Lucía (8), Richard James (5), Portishead (2) & …
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Fleetwood Mac (19), Melody Gardot (18), King Crimson (14), Björk (13) & …
:
Preparing for Foo Fighters at Milton Keynes Bowl
via Instagram [bit.ly/1KywnQx](http://bit.ly/1KywnQx)
: Drinking like a fish #boots #wine http://t.co/rGVDLqRlJR
:
Drinking like a fish
via Instagram [bit.ly/1FqZcXu](http://bit.ly/1FqZcXu)
:
Sunset over Iggy Pop at Milton Keynes Bowl
via Instagram [bit.ly/1JYhL6o](http://bit.ly/1JYhL6o)
:
Ready for King Crimson at St. David’s Hall http://t.co/SSRAhsUqi4
: ♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Darren Hanlon (46), Black Yaya (24), Ezza (17), The Breeders (15) & …
August 2015
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Etran Finatawa (32), Ezza (27), Modeste Hugues (20), Nitin Sawhney (17) & Nusrat …
:
Green Man Festival #9 - The Drink
via Instagram [bit.ly/1Jjhv4H](http://bit.ly/1Jjhv4H)
:
Green Man Festival #8 - This is the Kit
via Instagram [bit.ly/1JUHUZZ](http://bit.ly/1JUHUZZ)
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Green Man Festival #7 - Black YaYa
via Instagram [bit.ly/1JgFGhX](http://bit.ly/1JgFGhX)
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Green Man Festival #6 - Tom Robinson
via Instagram [bit.ly/1NyQYEs](http://bit.ly/1NyQYEs)
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Green Man Festival #5 - Darren Hanlon
via Instagram [bit.ly/1JtkS6b](http://bit.ly/1JtkS6b)
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Green Man Festival #3 - Syd Arthur
via Instagram [bit.ly/1PPBhar](http://bit.ly/1PPBhar)
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Green Man Festival #4 - Bombs
via Instagram [bit.ly/1JjgCJs](http://bit.ly/1JjgCJs)
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Green Man Festival #2 - The Fall
via Instagram [bit.ly/1NyQcqW](http://bit.ly/1NyQcqW)
:
Green Man Festival #1 - Courtney Barnett, in silhouette
via Instagram [bit.ly/1UaHZIv](http://bit.ly/1UaHZIv)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: The Walkabouts (105), Marika Hackman (42), Courtney Barnett (106), St. Vincent …
:
Sleeping pillion
via Instagram bit.ly/1LamSqg
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Sunrise at Agios Nikolaos harbour
via Instagram [bit.ly/1UGz0Ry](http://bit.ly/1UGz0Ry)
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A shed, a caravan and a small olive grove - what more could you want?
via Instagram bit.ly/1DPk6UJ
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View of Agios Nikolaos whilst walking to Stoupa this morning
via Instagram bit.ly/1P8Qi5W
:
Agios Nikolaos at night
via Instagram bit.ly/1h3Luo4
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Etran Finatawa (12), Terakaft (3), Linval Thompson (1), Thomas Newman (1) & …
:
Pantazi Beach
via Instagram bit.ly/1N6yQk1
:
Sunset at Agios Nikolaos
via Instagram bit.ly/1WcSmPT
: 2nd ball of Stokes' 2nd over in the Australian 2nd innings was the 1,000,000th legal delivery bowled …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Etran Finatawa (10), Terakaft (4), Ali Farka Touré (3), Duke Garwood (3) & …
July 2015
: Tom Robinson & Band: Latitude 2015 https://t.co/eg6afNyfxT via @YouTube #music
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Nitin Sawhney (18), The Fall (12), The Walkabouts (12), Fidetzis, Athens State …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Radiohead (19), Duke Garwood (10), Son Lux (3), Camper Van Beethoven (2) & Bat …
:
Portishead with Thom Yorke at Latitude 2015
via Instagram bit.ly/1J7TlLO
:
Very good - Tom Robinson playing through a few songs pre-official slot
via Instagram [bit.ly/1J6KjyE](http://bit.ly/1J6KjyE)
:
Lake swimming at Latitude Festival
via Instagram [bit.ly/1VdI6Gt](http://bit.ly/1VdI6Gt)
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Benjamin Booker (24), Stornoway (12), Björk (10), tUnE-yArDs (10) & Furtwängler, …
: ♫ #lastfm artists: Björk (12), Hector Zazou (12), Melody Gardot (11), The Smashing Pumpkins (7) & …
: Sign The Ello Bill of Rights for Social Network Users from @elloword: https://t.co/nnDs5EjIxA
June 2015
: @NakedWines A little Boy Meets Girl was on the cards! … the @BMGwines A & R Shiraz Viognier in fact …
: Having the first wines we chose during the @NakedWines Cardiff tasting - order arrived today - as …
:
Craft ale danger!
via Instagram [bit.ly/1LsogB7](http://bit.ly/1LsogB7)
: Sigmatropic (feat. Carla Torgerson of The Walkabouts) Part 1 https://t.co/JYHDfGhSPH via @YouTube
:
Pelléas et Mélisande / WNO
via Instagram [bit.ly/1Me9DkX](http://bit.ly/1Me9DkX)
: JUPITER-C - THE PROCESS https://t.co/x2Oi0R3MDg via @YouTube
May 2015
: Stories from a Crowded Room - Timelapse May 2015 Tour https://t.co/n5vJZXAIdA via @YouTube
April 2015
:
Nearing the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain
via Instagram bit.ly/1O3NeIT
February 2015
:
Browns Fish and Chips in Pembroke
via Instagram [bit.ly/1EsHqmI](http://bit.ly/1EsHqmI)
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Cleddau Bridge II
via Instagram [bit.ly/1AKobGr](http://bit.ly/1AKobGr)
:
Cleddau Bridge
via Instagram [bit.ly/1vQhRNh](http://bit.ly/1vQhRNh)
:
Freshwater East
via Instagram bit.ly/19l4KcH
December 2014
: Just spent nearly an hour reconnecting about 50 keyboards and mice back into computers in four IT …
October 2014
: Tapas at the Rhoswenallt Inn tonight!
September 2014
:
Pinot Noir
Photo via Instagram bit.ly/1t7NHwX
:
Reflections of Butty Bach
Photo via Instagram bit.ly/1t7NGch
:
Three Choirs Vineyard, near Newent
Photo via Instagram bit.ly/Yqhusk
August 2014
: …and fantastic wine, especially the Prosecco!
: Good free wifi in The Wine Bar ! http://t.co/hFO2OLaHsO
:
Sun-drying tomatoes in Ravello
: Aglianico and Falanghina now added to the list of Italian wines I like! (Red and white respectively)
:
Ravello - outside the location where D. H. Lawrence wrote some of Lady Chatterley’s Lover …
:
View over Naples from Vesuvius
:
Tom having a little jig on the top of Vesuvius :) http://t.co/Htr12exSY8
:
In Herculaneum http://t.co/xFmPtqH6vu
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Bronze herm of a homeowner, Herculaneum
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Navigating Pompeii http://t.co/3dvbfpjDlp
:
First pizza in Italy! http://t.co/isACPBrrT5
:
…but #AutoAwesome doesn’t always get its panoramas quite right! http://t.co/cpLBEsYPQ5
:
Today I discovered that Google’s #AutoAwesome creates its own panoramas… http://t.co/YV6kl0lgy4
July 2014
:
Two Spitfires overhead
The Secret Garden Party
:
The Emerald City
The Secret Garden Party
: Mountains of tapas and mojitos this afternoon…now at Urban Tap House. http://t.co/rPMi7XKBzj
: Tapas night at the Rhoswenallt Inn next Tuesday - we’ll be there!
: RT @henrymoeranBBC: Well played Rahane - 103 on a difficult pitch. @HomeOfCricket looking superb in …
:
Quite like what Google’s #AutoAwesome has been doing to my photos - this one of Uplands, #Swansea … …
:
Michael Sobell Sports Centre, Aberdare
June 2014
: #ENG messed up the football #WorldCup, messing up the rugby #NZLvENG - hope the cricket #EngvSL …
:
Chiswick from on high
Morning view over Chiswick from Hammersmith Premier Inn #London
:
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire, Earl's Court, Saturday 7th June 2014
: £11.60 for two 187ml glasses of wine??? :(
: Now in St John the Evangelist church, Canton, paying for wine with “a donation of our choice”. Great …
May 2014
:
Cardiff Bay from the barrage
: Tapas #food (@ La Cha Cha) http://t.co/NwmiZCw2Ge
: Glorious weather, I’m at Terra Nova! Give It Some Welly #beer http://t.co/tGgPC1UJKg
: …time, like money, is measured by our needs. #qotd
April 2014
: Digger’s Gold from @greytreesbrewer fantastic on the Rhos today (@ Rhoswenallt Inn) …
: Cloudy at MACS today http://t.co/SukCDvTumQ
:
Pwll Waun Cynon Nature Reserve
: From Middlemarch #QOTD http://t.co/jZ3gUKWu36
:
Elbow
Elbow at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff on Tuesday 8th April 2014
: Pizza - again! (at @PizzaExpress) http://t.co/Hz0yJ80Sko
:
Fog filling the Cynon Valley
March 2014
: Pints of red wine @Manics http://t.co/3kQvEA1xzQ
: Eating pizza (at @PizzaExpress) http://t.co/Op26pD7tdL
: Nice light show with the music at #wt20 #bbccricket :)
: Watching cricket #wt20 whilst drinking a Winter Warmer ale doesn’t seem right.
:
Kachikally Crocodile Pools
Bakau, #TheGambia
:
Kachikally Crocodile Pool, The Gambia
Nests
#TheGambia #pressgram
: Malaria tablets washed down with champagne…
:
High over North Africa
High over North Africa
Sunset en route to UK
February 2014
: Arcade Fire - Normal Person : http://t.co/MpLfHertcN via @youtube
: Courtney Barnett - Black Skinhead (Kanye West cover): http://t.co/6UUOK7F6uE via @youtube
January 2014
: Five years' use of @LogMeIn now over - all removed from my computers and iOS devices. #logmeout …
:
Aberdare Station: Early morning coal train approaching
#DiscoverPressgram
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Early morning coal train approaching Aberdare Station
: No electricity = candles + wine http://t.co/E2yuCRHBHh
December 2013
:
Towy
Sunset over the River Towy near Carmarthen
:
The Station: My favourite #pub in Sutton Coldfield #pressgram http://t.co/GDsi86TnlL
:
The Station
My favourite #pub in Sutton Coldfield #pressgram
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Morning contrails: #sunrise #pressgram http://t.co/A1lNMJHt0K
:
Morning contrails
#sunrise #pressgram
November 2013
:
Rusty Bridge
Rusty #Autumn in the Cynon Valley
:
KT Tunstall stage
St. David’s Hall
:
Shiraz and KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff tonight #Music
:
Paul and Tina at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd
October 2013
:
Arctic Monkeys
Cardiff Motopoint Areana, Tuesday 29th October 2013 #arcticmonkeys #cardiff
: I believe I’m the only person drinking red wine in the Motopoint Arena #ArcticMonkeys
:
Tracks Fernhill: Green light #tracks #DiscoverPressgram http://t.co/02MgMiaGjp
:
Tracks Fernhill
Green light #tracks #DiscoverPressgram
:
View from Peace Park
There was some blue sky today in the #CynonValley
:
Early morning - Streetlights, Aberdare
September 2013
:
Cardiff Bay
Millennium Centre
: Goes well with red wine! From http://t.co/m6BvrfPl60 http://t.co/iy19VF7cPe
: Nice! Aston Villa 3-2 Man City http://t.co/usZKFE1Eyq
:
Fish and chips
Fish and chips, Rhoswenallt Inn
: Severn Bridge: Dreadful weather crossing the Severn Bridge http://t.co/kEaZXVEfws
:
Abergavenny Food Festival
Buying Welsh Cakes!
:
Vietnamese Summer Roll
Vietnamese tofu summer roll at the Abergavenny Food Festival
:
Severn Bridge
Dreadful weather crossing the Severn Bridge
:
Pint of Bullshit
Sweet potato and fig tagine - plus a pint of Bullshit
:
Shakespearean character
Stained glass at the RSC Theatres
:
Swan Theatre stage
Stage set for opening of Titus Andronicus
: @AbernantEagle Semi-jealous about being in Stratford and not at the cricket :(
:
Titus Andronicus
Some light-hearted entertainment lined up for tonight!
:
Wild Beaver
I haven't (yet) taken up the offer...
:
The bright day is done...
Evening meal all done and posted! Can tell we're staying in Shakespeare's county :)
:
Apple dessert, White Swan
Apple samosa, cinnamon panna cotta, apple sorbet, poached apples, toffee apple purée - White Swan, …
:
Plaice main, White Swan
Poached plaice in burnt caraway noisette, crayfish tortellini, saffron spiced white radish, candied …
:
Salmon main, White Swan
Pan roast salmon, mussels & cocoa bean chowder - White Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon #food
:
Quail starter, White Swan
Pan roast quail breast, confit leg, Scotch quail egg, spring onions, quinoa, radish - White Swan, …
:
King prawn and chorizo linguine
Rhoswenallt Inn evening meal
:
Usk Castle
Trotsky at Usk Castle
:
Giant Hogweed
Giant Hogweed at Usk Castle
:
Rhod Gilbert
Last night's entertainment was excellent!
:
Moon and Chinese lantern
Moon and Chinese lantern over Green Man Festival #greenman13
:
Red berries
Red berries in a sea of knotweed
:
Yes, #Pressgram has arrived - my first quick photo test! #photography http://t.co/PNDp3buTtp
August 2013
: Spotting computers in film and on TV! http://t.co/bo5WvIy7ZN
: Was out walking 5.74 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/7UgmPF2N2h
: Was out walking 5.83 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/NcwCTgk8zJ
:
Lindos Amphitheatre and Acropolis http://t.co/mhV1qz0XSt
:
Lindos https://t.co/MbRRDnjGkG
:
Rooftop cafe in Lindos. http://t.co/lvfH9FRDYa
: oh well, rain in Manchester, I’ll celebrate quietly and return to holiday pursuits #bbccricket …
:
But for a brighter view I can always look up from the table! #bbccricket #bbcashes …
:
This is what my grey and white (like the DRS!) world looks like now #bbccricket #bbcashes #ashes …
: “England are well and truly in the brown.” - Great quote from #BBCcricket #BBCAshes online!
:
…but I can be tempted away https://t.co/r0SBtmaAzS
:
My Greek beloved… https://t.co/bVhjIBVcaJ
: I finished Ready Player One a couple of days ago, and now Dark Eden. If I was somewhere with …
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Whitebait, fried courgettes, dips #foodphoto http://t.co/3rxdcre5ys
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Beach outside our apartments at Pefkos, Rhodes. http://t.co/ZIvczysQfV
July 2013
: Why that Jane Austen quotation on the new £10 note is a major blunder http://t.co/CONzZEtUqy #adn
: @valleyboi1 It’s not such fun on foot in this weather either!
: No cricket, no tennis, no rugby, so #Pointless #adn
: Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley’s poem unmasked http://t.co/5bSHTIwqOM #adn
: Trying to sit and have breakfast in the garden - midges can’t sleep much, they’re certainly up …
: @Aggerscricket “Did she work or was she a housewife?” - asking for trouble!
: Currently hammocking in the garden whilst listening to the cricket - ideal summer pursuits. …
: Today is the first time I’ve ever seen a group of people swimming in the River Cynon. Suppose it …
: Cats stalking the mole in our garden. I’m hoping they get it - shifted 2 wheelbarrows of molehill …
April 2013
: I’ve just ordered lots of strangely named Domino’s Pizzas from the Aberdare store. Mmmm.
March 2013
: Was out walking 3.19 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/WHlaGpOsZK
: Appropriate names for a winery #63 @ Bugibba, Malta http://t.co/jZB7Ftcb8g
: The world is fine as seen through wine. http://t.co/duI2IkwXiU
: Fire, Pizza, Quirky Bird and … The Lost Boys …
: Just bought our Green Man Festival 2013 tickets. Please, please @GreenManFest - sort the weather out …
: Benson the foot warmer in action. Amazing what a crust of pizza will buy you! http://t.co/s0b5sPEz5U
: Was out cycling 8.70 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/3JhynttNCe
: Not seen Shinji Kagawa play for MU before today. Now watching him on MOTD - looks very composed - …
February 2013
: This morning’s experiment listening to cricket on iPlayer Radio whilst walking to work fails. Poor …
January 2013
:
I don’t make many cakes but second time for this one in 2 weeks - Spiced Olive Oil Cake - …
: RT @PenPastwn: Caged wine. I only want Rioja. http://t.co/YksxTwop
: Tree coming down in lane outside our house, falling towards our garden and stretching our telephone …
September 2012
: Determined to have first and last #bbq of the summer holidays this evening…whatever the weather! …
August 2012
: “Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.” #qotd
:
Millennium Stadium from up high! http://t.co/zvbFqtLo
July 2012
: My favourite white wine of this year'’s tasting event in Cardiff - ordered a couple of bottles, g… …
June 2012
: …but getting darker and darker as I walk to the station - think it’s going to pour down. Lovely June …
: A little earlier! RT @NakedWines: Naked tasting at #Cardiff City Hall in full swing …
: Great evening at wine tasting at Cardiff City Hall @NakedWines #nakedtour2012 - nice selection of …
: Not too crowded - too easy to get wine! http://t.co/HpHNSR9h
: In Revolucion de Cuba for tapas prior to wine tasting @NakedWines in Cardiff #nakedtour2012
: Looking forward to it! RT @nakedwines: Who’s coming to our #wine tasting in #Cardiff tomorrow? Over …
: From Civilization to Big Brother: how a game recreated Orwell’s 1984 http://t.co/cG4qPVnO - going to …
: @Iain_Slitherine You love it! (Thankfully!)
May 2012
: Rules to live by #4284 - How to eat: pizza http://t.co/D9pyfcyj via @guardian
April 2012
: finished Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay …
: @valleyboi1 Cheers - having another good dose of tapas and watching Bayern Munich-Real …
: Some of the best tapas we’ve ever eaten - El Capitain, Caleta de Fuste http://t.co/qogg8Wrc
March 2012
: Was out walking 1.05 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/kPapXIYb
: Rugby done, tapas underway, dance next… http://t.co/8QuB4rAd
: SA and red wine before midday - not looking good… http://t.co/stgQFtLM
: Was out walking 5.30 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/BAsJVrUg
February 2012
: Morse Code wine by Henry’s Drive Vignerons (http://t.co/cYEBKsj0) - good price at Tesco at the …
:
Even the snowmen are Villa supporters in Sutton Coldfield! http://t.co/cck9hOmx
: Stepping back in time and having a glass of green ginger wine!
: fin de Spectacle? - another edition of Spectacular Times found and displayed online at …
January 2012
:
Peace Park a little flooded - could have walked along fence, I suppose! http://t.co/TYPIJcrA
December 2011
:
Xmas dinner is over! Sitting down to drink now! http://t.co/z65zkOEq
: Great wine labels! @NakedWines http://t.co/g0Gj2eLy
November 2011
: Great delivery this morning - Wild Meat Company and @NakedWines, perfect partners! …
: Uploaded a whole batch of photos taken with my phone up to flickr…Green Man 2011, Turkey and more! …
: @NakedWines Beers???? Traitor!
: a 15 minute strike = a coffee break #strike #30nov
:
Throwing Muses at The Gate, Cardiff http://t.co/FJEhXn5w
: Looking like fantastic weather for a Guy Fawkes Night!
October 2011
:
Julian Cope at The Globe, Cardiff on Saturday night. http://t.co/iDa4lqMU
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Wales Millennium Centre, pre-Strictly Gershwin http://t.co/4NLtlmJF
: @serenalys Ballet, Pizza Hut, Strictly
: Not that I’m drinking wine this early in the morning - will be having a beer with #rwc2011 soon …
: Another lovely wine from naked! Smooth, clean tasting with loads of flavour - fruit and light …
September 2011
: Tapas in Cardiff http://t.co/CnXWHzW
: Sad state of affairs that it takes nearly as long to travel Gatwick-Aberdare as Turkey-UK. One …
: Was out walking 8.20 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/tCC9lK5
: Was out walking 6.67 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://t.co/gLrJj8s
August 2011
: Antalya, Turkey, Partly Cloudy 29° #berryweather - not too hot today, temperatures rising through …
: Was out walking 5.21 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://bit.ly/qqC58J
: Was out walking 5.27 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://bit.ly/nIPSoz
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Stonehenge - thee days in Wiltshire/Dorset instead of two weeks in Cyprus! http://twitpic.com/61aesu
: Check this video out – Denise_0001.avi http://t.co/sg7W7AR via @youtube created by Paul Mason, not …
July 2011
: Treehouse with wood store beneath nearly finished - construction in our garden by Maurice Crayford! …
: Making myself an anchovy, olive and jalapeno pizza to counteract two days of scrounging bland …
: Romcom, pizza and wine tonight…girls' night in plus me…
June 2011
: My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The Kills (11), The Dead Weather (11) & Leonard Cohen (8) …
: BBQ weather! http://lockerz.com/s/107626352
May 2011
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Toilet humour still prevalent ;) http://twitpic.com/551xom
: Neptune 1965, pizza without cheese take 2 ! http://lockerz.com/s/106450284
: Getting seriously pissed off with a mole who lives in our garden :( http://lockerz.com/s/100485254
: 3 cheers for #Asda - replaced failed #XBox360 8 weeks after purchase. Not so pleased with #M$, …
: Pizza from 1965 apparently - tuna, anchovies, capers, olives, onion, parsley, a squeeze of lemon & …
: Pizza Express, Cardiff Bay. http://lockerz.com/s/98674523
April 2011
: sigh of relief - core system upgrades on 4 servers and 334 workstations just finished - can enjoy …
: Great design of wine label from @NakedWines http://plixi.com/p/94851243
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Great looking ground in Mumbai - RT @Aggerscricket: We are in! http://twitpic.com/4fz3lq
March 2011
: Was out walking 5.30 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://bit.ly/dRlSyb
: Pendine, United Kingdom, Clear 10° #berryweather http://tinyurl.com/5t5rao8
: Dylan Thomas' writing shed and boat house - better pictures will be uploaded to …
: Was out walking 5.06 km with #Endomondo. See it here: http://bit.ly/i5xO5c
February 2011
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Ready for rugby - 4 pint take-out of Butty Bach, free Wye Valley glass & mat from Red Cow Inn! …
:
Alfred Hitchcock alive and well in Carmarthen - thousands of starlings! http://twitpic.com/41i8rw
: Weather turned absolutely atrocious as soon as we’ve come past Abergavenny on the way home from …
December 2010
: Credit also due to Parcel Force who got a box of 15 bottles of wines (@NakedWines) up here - Royal …
: Seriously impressed @NakedWines - got our Xmas delivery despite a load of snow. Have had no other …
: R4 LW + old Roberts radio = cricket on the way to work. Better than DAB! #Ashes
: Not that I’m drinking at this time of the morning - just saw the @NakedWines tweet whilst listening …
: Great wine! RT @NakedWines: The Manley Pinotage has quite a few cult followers… the new vintage is …
November 2010
: Steak and kidney pie, mash and peas - ideal meal for snowy weather!
: Lagedor is playing Call of Duty Black Ops: Call of Duty Black Ops - score: 40 of 1000, achievements: …
: Lagedor is playing Call of Duty Black Ops: Call of Duty Black Ops - score: 40 of 1000, achievements: …
: RT @walesweather: 25/05:07: Heavy Snow - Wales: FLASH Warning of Heavy Snow for Wales valid from …
: Lagedor is playing Call of Duty Black Ops: Call of Duty Black Ops - score: 40 of 1000, achievements: …
: Fire lit, dough for homemade pizzas proving, wine breathing, set for an ideal evening - if it wasn’t …
: Foul weather for a bonfire night in Carmarthen!
: RT @walesweather: 05/11:34: Severe Gales - Wales: ADVISORY of Severe Gales for Wales valid from 0001 …
October 2010
: A baker’s dozen of @NakedWines arrived - mainly syrah & malbec - now, which to have with my steak …
: @NakedWines Go on then - I’ll give the Lorca malbec a try! Expect an update in a couple of hours :)
: Lorca malbec VERY smooth, fruity, slightly spicy, too drinkable! @NakedWines - went well with a …
: Tapas in Cardiff, after a quick visit to the Apple store :) http://plixi.com/p/49598805
September 2010
: Battlefield Academy - http://bit.ly/b9jRo5 - one of the best games I’ve played for a long time. …
: @Iain_Slitherine Saw the video, bought the game, hope it measures up to BBCBA standards :)
August 2010
: All the cheap retsina we’re buying in Kefalonia is from Crete - long way for it to come…
:
Smoke Fairies at the Green Man Festival last night - in the rain! http://twitpic.com/2gq1f7
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Test image from Opera Mini on phone - CenterParcs climbing wall! http://twitpic.com/2ftmpb
: RT @AtheistQOTD: “It can’t be seen, smelled, felt, measured, or understood, therefore let’s worship …
July 2010
: Cheap crown capped retsina is as good as ever!
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Messy hair day! http://twitpic.com/28lxdf
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On the beach at Weston. http://twitpic.com/28lzwu
May 2010
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Very bracing and blustery on Sully Island today! http://twitpic.com/1sgt8n
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White Horse Hill http://twitpic.com/1qbyis
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Had picnic on White Horse Hill - great weather and scenery! http://twitpic.com/1qcjox
: My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Poe (36), The Who (31) and The Dead Weather (22) …
: Just been a brief but fairly glowing mention of @nakedwines on BBC R4 ‘Food Programme’
April 2010
:
http://twitpic.com/1ifiui - Daffodils!
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http://twitpic.com/1ifiya - Daffodils!
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http://twitpic.com/1ifm2z - 2 bbqs in 2 days! Some of it in rain today tho'!
: Slippery Wembley surface for FA Cup semi today! Villa very unlucky not to be awarded penalty. #avfc
: Top pizza topping - anchovies, capers & black olives :)
: “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” Plato (#qotd)
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http://twitpic.com/1e0juk - Hay not all about pubs though!
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http://twitpic.com/1e1nxe - Sunny day!
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http://twitpic.com/1e1w1g - Even warm and dry enough to sit outside Kilverts Inn …
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http://twitpic.com/1e2elw - Gravitas.
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http://twitpic.com/1dt5vr - Beacons snow in April!
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http://twitpic.com/1duzo9 - Pubs of Hay-on-Wye #1 - staying here!
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http://twitpic.com/1dv99i - Hay pub #2 - sardines, anchovies and Landlord…
:
http://twitpic.com/1dvjpl - Rural view from room window - leaning out trying to find a phone signal …
:
http://twitpic.com/1dvl30 - Hay pub #3 - several beers, including lovely HPA!
March 2010
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http://twitpic.com/16kvq4 - First cake I’ve baked in years - made with help of Seren for Denise’s …
February 2010
: @NakedWines Definitely a compliment!
: Curse you, @NakedWines, you’ve ruined cheap supermarket wine for me!
: Reduced to watching BBC Live Text online for the Villa FA Cup replay :(
: Italy - England too close for comfort and now it’s 1-1 in Palace - Villa cup tie :(
: RT @walesweather: Heavy Snow - Wales: ADVISORY of Heavy Snow for Wales valid from 0001 Tue 16 Feb to …
: My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Shearwater (21), Chumbawamba (13) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (4) …
: RT @AtheistQOTD: “If atheism can be called a belief, can I say that my not collecting stamps is a …
: Just worked out that the quantity of tweets I type and coffee I drink increase exponentially with …
: Virginity auction, Mel Gibson swearing, shark kill, psychic cat, head in pizza oven - Bizarre top 5 …
January 2010
: RT @AtheistQOTD: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that …
: @valleyboi1 And another goal!!! Haven’t seen Villa score this many for ages!
: RT @walesweather: 16/11:03: Heavy Snow - Wales: ADVISORY of Heavy Snow for Wales valid from 0001 Wed …
: RT @walesweather: 12/13:47: Heavy Snow - Wales: FLASH Warning of Heavy Snow for Wales valid from …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Team Deathmatch in Sub …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Forza Motorsport 3. Public Race Camino Viejo …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Headquarters in Favela. …
:
http://twitpic.com/x6uci - See - Domesticity at home, laptop in kitchen = multiple tweets…
: The truth behind the snow! - Britain at standstill as terrorists use weather to create chaos …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Joinable - Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Team …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Forza Motorsport 3. Racing in Season Play Level 7 - …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Headquarters in Invasion. …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Domination in Wasteland. …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Forza Motorsport 3. Racing in Season Play Level 9 - …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Domination in Invasion. …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Joinable - Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Domination in …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Team Deathmatch in …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. In pre-game lobby. (Xbox Live …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Team Deathmatch in …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Domination in Estate. …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. In pre-game lobby. (Xbox Live …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Headquarters in Derail. …
:
http://twitpic.com/wrlow - Sent home because of #uksnow - which has now completely stopped!
:
http://twitpic.com/wrm82 - See!!
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Joinable - Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Headquarters …
: Xbox Live: lagedor is currently Online. Playing Modern Warfare® 2. Playing Free-for-all in Skidrow. …
: My Xbox gamertag Lagedor is playing Modern Warfare® 2: Modern Warfare® 2 - score: 145 of 1000, …
: I’m Xbox gaming - Lagedor is playing Modern Warfare® 2: Modern Warfare® 2 - score: 145 of 1000, …
December 2009
: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season DVD ~ Larry David http://amzn.com/B002OOWKSA - …
:
http://twitpic.com/uh8zf - Early morning snow on 21st December, and a day off work :)
:
http://twitpic.com/uhw4a - Afternoon snow! More in the gallery at nntk.net
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http://twitpic.com/u01le - Then & now :) (Higher quality images at http://nntk.net)
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http://twitpic.com/tx1lq - See, #snow in Aberdare!
: New ‘Now reading:’ entry: Darwin among the Machines - http://tinyurl.com/y9sclqh
March 2009
: Listening to Bon Iver for first time - in anticipation of Green Man - not sure who his voice reminds …
