Category: photography
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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 Fernando bowling to Jaydn Denly.
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Four parts tomato juice, not five ✅
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Trying to support our local pub, which is under new management. Good beer - plus they even serve horses (with broccoli 🥦! Who knew?) 🍺
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Reading on a quiet beach 📖
Llantwit Major 🏴
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Coco’s Coffee & Candles, Aberdare
Americano, Alex Gooch sourdough toast, marmalade ☕️
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Not an advert, but this pizza was surprisingly good for a supermarket pizza 🍕
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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 before a gig. And there were customers making purchases at 10:30 this morning! 🎵
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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 Glamorgan v Gloucestershire.
#OhGlammyGlammy 🏏
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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
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ephemeral — day 28 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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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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decay — day 25 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Thasos 🇬🇷, 2022
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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 🏴
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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 refreshing pale ale. I remember it from the 1970s, but probably more of the ad campaigns than the taste of the beer 😊
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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 📷
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warmth — day 17 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
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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 2022
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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 2025
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hidden — day 12 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
King’s Quoit, Neolithic burial chamber, Manorbier 🏴
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Good morning kitten 🐈
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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.
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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 guess it’s an established winery.
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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 📷
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travel — day 8 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷
Heraklion International Airport “Nikos Kazantzakis”
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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 Chalkidiki/Thessaloniki and has been in business since the 1940s 🍷
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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 📷
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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 Trafalgar Square, early 1970s. And yes, that’s me 🐦🙂
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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 used to play inside this hollow tree in the 1970s. It’s still there but looking a little more distressed.
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Northeast and Carlson go on to both get their centuries 👏🏏
Glamorgan 266-3
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
Clouds starting to clear, should be another sunny day!
Glamorgan batting first on Day 1 of Glamorgan v Middlesex, the final County Championship game before the pause for the return of the Vitality Blast T20 matches 🏏
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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 🏏☀️
Northamptonshire have had a bit of a collapse in the last hour, losing five wickets to stand at 137-6.
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
County Cricket day again - Day 1 of Glamorgan v Northamptonshire at Sophia Gardens 🏏
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Sophia Gardens. 📍
Drinking a pint of Glamorgan Brewing Co 1888 Pale Ale whilst watching Glamorgan v Derbyshire at Sophia Gardens 🏏🍺🌞
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Birthday lunch at The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd - oven roasted miso cod, wild rice, red pepper & gochujang puree and a kimchi fritter. And a bowl of chips 😊
Also a Weird Dad porter 🍺
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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
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The Grace. 📍
Blue Sky Drinking by Arbor Brewery 🍺
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Mercado Bom Sucesso. 📍
Today’s itinerary:
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Three days in Porto 🇵🇹
Tourist and selfie poses 😁
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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 Championship - Glamorgan v Leicestershire 🏏
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First time on one of the new South Wales Metro electric trains 🚊
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Early morning spring walk through town.
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Tunnel with stickers
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Location check in — ABBA Voyage 🎵
🗺 Map of area
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Location check in — Greenwich Market
🗺 Map of area
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Micro Bar, Bike Repairs, Brushes, Burgers - in Monmouth.
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Browsing in an antique shop
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I must down to the seas again
Sea-Fever
John Masefield, born 1878, Ledbury -
Ledbury
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The Summit
Aconbury Hill
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Hot tub as the sun goes down 🌅
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Having a margarita at sunset in a hot tub 🌅🍸
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Reading around a log 🪵📚
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Aconbury Hill
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Ewes’ Retreat, Wye Valley. In a shepherd’s hut for a few days 😁
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Woodpecker and robin
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The day’s produce, created whilst watching and listening to Afghanistan v England 😊
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Went for a walk because it’s raining in Rawalpindi and the cricket hasn’t started. Photographing with Hipstamatic again 📸 😄
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This package from Finland worried me slightly 😀💿🎵
According to Google Translate the text by the snake means: REMEMBER, NEVER BE FOOLED!
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Today’s breakfast bowl
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Yesterday I cooked the recipe for slow cooked Sifnos Chickpeas shared by Jeremy Cherfas @jeremycherfas. Definitely worth the long cooking time. It was delicious served with freekeh, rocket and some aioli.
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Trying a white stout for the first time.
Nethergate Brewery White Stout 🍺
This new hazy beer is pale in colour, yet delivers the rich, creamy textures which you would expect from a traditional stout, while its infusion of vanilla pods and cocoa nibs creates silky vanilla notes and hints of chocolate. Hops: Boadicea, Challenger
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I haven’t used Flickr too much recently but I am now trying their 21st birthday 21 Day Flickr Birthday Photo Challenge.
It’s got very flexible rules for adding photos - you could even upload all 21 entries on the same day! Plus there’s no restrictions on when the photos are taken, so I’ll probably just try a daily trawl through my photo library for an appropriate image.
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Blocked pathways
Seeing plenty of fallen trees on my walk today has given me a chance to try out 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
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Following the red brick road
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Icy
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Rings
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Busy roasting parsnips 🧑🍳
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Detour required on my walk today 🌳🚶♂️
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Monkton, Pembrokeshire
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Mudbanks and water
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Tenby 10
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Pembroke Castle 🏰 🏴
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Remember Your Kerb Drill
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Still settling 🧀 🍷
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Settling down for a quiet New Year’s Eve 🍸
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Our family Christmas dinner this year was a Mexican themed menu 🌮 🇲🇽
Cooked from three cookbooks, with most of the recipes coming from Karla Zazueta’s Authentic Family Recipes from Northern Mexico. All turned out very well 👨🍳
Now just polishing off leftovers.
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Happy Christmas! Not sure how long she’ll tolerate her #Catmas collar 🐈 🎁
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Having the first of my Xmas beers 🍺
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Stokes Croft
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Redcliffe Bascule Bridge, Bristol
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Watching the Strictly Come Dancing Final with family & friends 💃🕺
Champagne 🥂 Beer 🍺 Port 🍷 Snacks
Pizzas arriving soon 🍕
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First sighting of a jay (Garrulus glandarius) feeding in the garden this winter.
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Emergency lighting evening. Will be attempting Trivial Pursuit by candlelight accompanied by cheese and wine 🎲🧀🍷😀
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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 Valley Country Park on Wednesday - grey, misty and murky
and Aberdare Park today (Friday) - clear and cold
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Misty morning walk in Dare Valley Country Park 🚶♂️
Originally posted on Glass
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Originally posted on Glass
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Wild God Tour - Cardiff Utilita Arena, Wednesday 6th November 2024 🎵
Supported by Black Country, New Road
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Utilita Arena, Cardiff to see Nick Cave with Black Country, New Road as support 🎵
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Autumn walk
Originally posted on Glass
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Slightly inspired by last night’s Great British Bake Off, my autumnal-ish bake today is a mushroom, kale and broad bean quiche 🥧
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Red Admiral basking in today’s sun ☀️🦋
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Moonlit view over Lindos on our way to our final evening meal in Rhodes at Agostinos Restaurant.
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Herding goats 🐐
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Retsina and Hive on the beach 🏖️🍷
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🐈 #Caturday poolside attack 😁
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Sailing into the olive grove
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Sailing into the olive grove
Originally posted on Glass
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The Acropolis of Lindos
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The Acropolis of Lindos
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The Acropolis of Lindos
Originally posted on Glass
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Quite a warm walk up to the Acropolis of Lindos this afternoon 🏛️
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A Fix 🍺
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Pool morning 🌞
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Thank goodness for the tiny St Paul’s Beach, the only beach in Lindos not packed with sunbeds 🏝️
Additional task: spot the cat in this photo 🐈⬛ 🙂
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Starting my vowel collection
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Demanding entry
Originally posted on Glass
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Cocktails with a view 🍸🏛️
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Let Me In 🐈
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Alien landscape 🇬🇷
Originally posted on Glass
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Alien landscape
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Good morning from Rhodes ☕️
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Succisa pratensis, also known as devil’s-bit or devil’s-bit scabious, is a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family.
Literally hundreds of these flowers in our garden at the moment. Never noticed them before.
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Antiques. Rue Blaes, Brussels
Originally posted on Glass
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Brussels Beer Project Bailli
Originally posted on Glass
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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 😄
Originally posted on Glass
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Bird bath ⛲️
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Bird bath ⛲️
Originally posted on Glass
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Back in the UK and having margaritas at San Marino in Brixton 🍸
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Moules frites at Ploegmans, Rue Haute 148, Bruxelles, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Favourite bar of yesterday - Le Coq. And Nick Cave was in the Gents 😊🍺
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View over Brussels 👀
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Surrounded 🍺
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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! 🎵
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Brussels Beer Project 🍺
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Raised bridge. Arrived in London yesterday for the start of six day mini-break - travelling onwards today 🚆🗺️
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XL 🍺
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The Water Lilies
Originally posted on Glass
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The Water Lilies
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Addyman Books
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Broad Street Book Centre
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Gay on Wye
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Hay Cinema Bookshop
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Hay-on-Wye Booksellers
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Murder and Mayhem
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North Books
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Richard Booth Books
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The Addyman Annexe
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The Poetry Bookshop
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Guardian of the Grape
Originally posted on Glass
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White
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Red
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Vines & Poplars
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Llanerch Vineyard
Originally posted on Glass
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Very interesting and enjoyable visit to and tour of Llanerch Vineyard, Vale of Glamorgan yesterday for wine tasting and lunch 🍷
Wine was sampled!
Red
White
Guardian of the Grape
Vines & Poplars
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Favourite breakfast again 🥯
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Levels of processing.
Halide’s Process Zero
and NordStudio’s Wes Anderson - Inspired
Also posted on Glass 📸
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Summer walk
Originally posted on Glass
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I may have made some dodgy choices. Sitting in the garden on a warm but cloudy afternoon, listening to cricket, drinking Prosecco and snacking on Scampi Fries 🍤
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Seat taken
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Thursday night tapas at Bar 44, Cardiff
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Cardiff gull
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Cardiff gull
Originally posted on Glass
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The Village Inn, Pontprennau. An hour or so of time to kill 🍺
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I’m not expecting too much help with the decorating this morning 🐈⬛ 💤
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Jamaican Dragon Stout in a half pint bottle. Should have bought more than one 😞🍺
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Holiday's end
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Weather yesterday was good enough for garden pizza 😄
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Sea Lavender, Menorca
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Sea Daffodil, Menorca
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Samphire, Menorca
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Departing Menorca 🇪🇸
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Hot and rocky! My phone kept overheating. But guided by Google Maps I walked to and found the site of:
Prehistoric T-shaped anchor, Son Xoriguer, Illes Balears, Spain
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Ciutadella 🇪🇸
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Morning coffee in Menorca ☕️🇪🇸
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Abney Park - one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ garden cemeteries of London
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Caerphilly Castle July 2018
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Surviving ⚽️
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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! 🗳️
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Also keeping an eye on the football ⚽️
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Jake Blount at St. George’s, Bristol on Friday 21st June 2024.
Jake Blount (banjo, fiddle), Gus Tritsch (guitar, banjo), Nelson Williams (bass)
Brilliant and entertaining evening 🙏 🎵
If you don’t know Jake Blount, take a look at his NPR Tiny Desk Concert on YouTube
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Instead of the usual one 1¼ hrs it took us over 2½ hrs to drive to Bristol last night - delays leading up to the Brynglas Tunnel and an accident on the Severn Bridge 😔
But it was made worthwhile by fish and chips at The Hatchet Inn and my first visit to St. George’s. An impressive venue.
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Calvados Old Ale - 2022 Vintage
Beer choice for this evening’s Serbia 🇷🇸 v 🏴 England Euro 2024 match. Accompanied by cocktail based chocolates. Father’s Day gifts! 😁⚽️🍺
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St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol
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St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol
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St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol
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Morning book, coffee & cat 📖☕️🐈
#Caturday
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European Hornet 🦟 (Vespa crabro)
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A grey, rainy morning in Cardiff ☔️🏴
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Nye 🎭
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Wales Millennium Centre for Nye, starring Michael Sheen 🎭
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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.
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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 Terrace, enveloping the building’s iconic concrete walls with approximately 2000 square metres of bespoke woven cloth.
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Hackney Den
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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 🌞
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I’ve been dipping my toes into the Hipstamstic world again. The app has improved a lot since the last time I used it (about a year ago) 📸
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24h Bagel House 🥯
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Hotel rooftop bar serving a microbrewery IPA 🍺😊
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Mirrored 🪞
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Bristol. Early hours.
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Bristol. Walking back to my daughter’s flat in the early morning.
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Pink!
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Looking back. Cape Verde 2016. A very old Samsung phone was used 😞
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Local elections today - just for the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales in our area. First time I’ve had to use photo ID to vote 🗳️
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hometown — day 30 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales 🏴
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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
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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 cat!
#Caturday bonus 🐈 🙂
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critter — day 26 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Tate Modern Turbine Hall, October 2008
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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 library, Lisbon, April 2023
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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, Monmouthshire, April 2015.
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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 birthdays this week! 🎂
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Frosty Spring morning
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Aberaeron beach
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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 🍺💒
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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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Impressions
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After a birthday day of beach, beer and pizza will be finishing with cheese (Perl Wen and Perl Las) and wine. Then hot tub in the dark, hopefully with some clear and starry skies. Evening weather forecast looks good 😊 🌌
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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 overlooking Llangrannog
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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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First BBQ of 2024 🍷
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flâneur — day 16 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Is a beach flâneur possible? New Quay, Ceredigion
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Had a fantastic weekend in Bristol celebrating my daughter’s birthday - Japanese restaurant, board game bar-café and cake 🎂
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small — day 15 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
St Thomas' Hospital, London, late 1980s - I worked as an electron microscopist 🔬
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Prickly pears in front of olives. Kalamata, Greece, 2015
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cactus — day 14 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Prickly pears in front of olives. Kalamata, Greece, 2015
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page — day 13 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Beer festivals past. When we had a plan 🙂🍺
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Dare Valley Country Park, above Tarren y Bwllfa, January 2021
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Edinburgh, November 2023
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Edinburgh Waverley Station, November 2023
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Lisbon, April 2023
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Cardiff Bay, October 2013
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magic — day 12 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
A little hidden magic in Lisbon, April 2023 🇵🇹
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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, November 2023
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crispy — day 09 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
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prevention — day 08 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Tate Modern, 2008
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wellbeing — day 07 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, November 2023.
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windy — day 06 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
Dare Valley Country Park, above Tarren y Bwllfa, January 2021
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My brother has made the news! 👏🔗:
‘Once in a lifetime’ comet spotted from Derbyshire garage roof - BBC News
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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
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card — day 03 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸
I appreciated the recent Mother’s Day card my wife received from our son 😄
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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 2014 🎵
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View from the bedroom window. Woke up to a little unexpected snow this morning ❄️
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Ashley Road, Bristol
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Drummond Road, Bristol
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My bread is trying to escape! ⚠️🍞
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Power cut
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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 📷 🎵
The two bands are doing their Last Joint Tour, jointly headlining and alternating their set orders. Last night at The Globe Ozric Tentacles played first followed by Gong.
Gong
Ozric Tentacles
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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 town of books.
Richard Booth’s Bookshop
Hay Cinema Bookshop
Hay Castle Honesty Bookshop
Hay-on-Wye Booksellers
Addyman Books
The Addyman Annexe
Murder and Mayhem
The Poetry Bookshop
Gay on Wye
Green Ink Booksellers
Broad Street Book Centre
Clock Tower Books
North Books
The Black Mountains Bindery
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Now listening: Any Woman’s Blues - Bessie Smith
Playlist:
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Microbrewery 🍺
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Lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd 🍺
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Shop window
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Staying at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. They do excellent Wye Valley Smokery kippers for breakfast.
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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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Retro 🖖
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Someone spent too much time sorting books by spine colour 😡📚
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I don’t know why … 🤷🏼♂️ 🐈
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Cardiff Bay
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BBC Hoddinott Hall Wales Millennium Centre
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Senedd Cymru
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Cardiff Bay last night 📷 🎵
Senedd Cymru
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff Bay
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800, 2023 - ★★★★
As a sports biopic I really enjoyed this; 2h40m went by quickly! Interesting content - I learnt a fair amount. Recreation of the cricketing scenes better than I was expecting 🏏
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Bloody Mary
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Breakfast
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Had a Sharon last night - manzanilla, sweet vermouth and Campari 🍸
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Preparing my new album cover 😉
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Triangle of Sadness, 2022 - ★★★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 13, 2024.
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Italian theme tonight - spaghetti with (vegan) meatballs and Chianti Classico 🍷 🇮🇹
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Egg seen on walk 🚶♂️🤷🏼♂️
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New coffee shop in town. Coco’s. Alex Gooch almond croissant and americano ☕️
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Some fantastic wildlife images here:
Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award winner bbc.co.uk
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Mossy path on a route from home locally described as “up the mountain” 🚶♂️
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Had to buy a new kettle. Our drinks preparation area now looking quite high tech ☕️😊
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Pipeline
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Power lines
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Obscured lines
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Gateway and door on a misty morning walk
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Choices. On a slightly misty walk this morning 🚶♂️
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Gate on the path of the old Abernant to Cwmbach railway line
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Well, this will account for a large part of my day now 🕰️
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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, spiced with garlic, smoked paprika and a little chilli 🌶
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St John the Baptist Parish Church, Aberdare
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St John the Baptist Parish Church, Aberdare
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Time for a New Year’s Day Bloody Mary 🍹
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The party’s really kicking off here now. A Happy New Year to everyone 🥳
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A quiet New Year’s Eve 🧀 🍷
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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 course, was Harrison Ford. Fitting conclusion (I presume) to the Indiana Jones films.
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator, 2004 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday December 24, 2023.
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Lankum, Roundhouse, 13th December 2023
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… and Xmas essentials #2 just arrived 🍷🎄
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Traditional Xmas essentials 📖 📺
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Bought some mince pies from an Ottolenghi deli during my recent visit to London. Now trying them with a coffee … superb 👌
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Watching the Strictly Come Dancing final with my wife and daughter 🥂
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Lankum and Rachael Lavelle at Roundhouse, London 🎵
Wednesday 13th December 2023
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Uncharted, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Monday December 11, 2023.
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The National Monument of Scotland, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh
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Flight of beers at the Halfway House, Fleshmarket Close 🍺
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Tapas at Casa Andaluz, Edinburgh last night
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Rubbing the toe of David Hume 😀
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Fish and chip supper with my father-in-law and a Pembrokeshire Henry VII cider 🍺
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Crossing Cleddau Bridge, view towards Milford Haven.
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Autumn coffee ☕️
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Bridleway, Cwmbach
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Stonework
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Bridleway, Cwmbach
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Been walking 🚶♂️
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Olive
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Gateway
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Stornoway at Tramshed, Cardiff, Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Tramshed, Cardiff, Tuesday 31st October 2023 🎵
Stornoway
I’m aglow
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Rainy Cardiff ☔️
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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 night
Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Live! 🎵
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View from Cwmbach, Rhondda Cynon Taf
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Squash, sage & maple soda bread 🍞
from a Riverford recipe
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Pathway
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A Welsh - Portuguese - Italian breakfast today ☕️
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Amanita 🍄
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Sail Bridge, River Take, Swansea
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Captain Cat The sleepers are rung out of sleep with his loud get-out-of-bed bell - Under Milk Wood
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The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
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Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea
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Pumphouse, Swansea Marina
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Dylan Thomas Square, Swansea
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I watched The Great British Bake Off’s Bread Week on Tuesday so of course I’ve had to attempt a cottage loaf for the first time …
📺 🍞
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Dylan Thomas around Swansea Marina
Dylan Thomas Square
Dylan Thomas Theatre
Captain Cat
The sleepers are rung out of sleep with his loud get-out-of-bed bell
Under Milk Wood
The Dylan Thomas Centre
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Ships in Tawe Basin
Canning Tugboat
Trinity House Lightship 91 Helwick
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Sail Bridge, River Tawe
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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 appear to be accessible or in use.
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Breakfast today for our 27th wedding anniversary 💍
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A morning of kimchi production 🇰🇷
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I’ve got stout 🍺
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treasure — day 30 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Gold death-mask, known as the ‘mask of Agamemnon’, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 2018
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Black and White #Caturday 🐈
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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 this 🍷 😊
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beverage — day 26 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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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 Valtos Beach 🇬🇷
23rd September 2023, 11:08 EEST
Unfortunately not a typical day in my life but one I’m very pleased to be enjoying.
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road — day 22 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Chrysogiali 🇬🇷
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Live music at the restaurant we went to tonight was fantastic (as was the food) - all Greek music with the exception of a Greekified (?) cover of Dylan’s Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 🎵
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Fox 🦊 & Cat 🐈
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Wandering near Mylos watermill
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I am going to have to attempt to recreate these at home 😋
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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, particularly after a steep climb. I’ve just been offered a beer by the waterfalls so of course I accepted 🚶♂️🍺
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disruption — day 20 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
London, 2015
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Beach breakfast 🏖️
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edge — day 19 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Parga, Greece
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Frappe in Parga ☕️
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fabric — day 18 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Venice, 2019
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intense — day 17 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Parga, Greece
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oof! — day 16 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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red — day 15 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil
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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, December 2010
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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
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retrospect — day 11 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Hay-on-Wye, 2023
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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 Centre, 2012
Welsh: Creu Gwir fel Gwydr o Ffwrnais Awen
(trans: Creating Truth like Glass from Inspiration’s Furnace)English: In these Stones Horizons Sing
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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, Pembrokeshire
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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 📸
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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 prawns to go with them 🔥 🫓 🦐 🐟
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precious — day 03 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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About to try Norwegian brown cheese, brunost, for the first time. Pictured alongside a piece of Ossau-Iraty 🧀
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buildup — day 02 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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abstract — day 01 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
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Dirty fries - sauerkraut, cheese, aioli, ketchup - and sticky tempura aubergine, coriander and chilli bao bun. Delicious but it got messy 😊
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Muffins on a cast iron griddle - today’s baking experiment 🥯
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Rainy outside so staying in this #Caturday 🐈
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Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2017 - ★★★
Watched on Friday August 11, 2023.
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🔗📸 Best of the iPhone photography awards 2023 – in pictures
Some interesting photographs, almost all taken with various iPhone Pro models.
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Ashes cricket. Capture of a TV screen which has a strange, almost negative effect. Camera post-processing was just a simple conversion to monochrome.
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An old loaf tin has made a re-appearance since my bread maker broke down. Handmade bread which is very tasty, but not quite getting the rise I want yet 🍞
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Great selection delivered from The Tinned Fish Market 🐟
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Yarrow
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Tomato
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Marsh Thistle
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Soldier beetle on ragwort
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Yarrow 🌼 🌱
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Spinach and onion frittata 🥚
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I very rarely share meme-type images but this took my fancy … 🏏
England’s first drawn Test under Stokes & McCullum
Courtesy of The Cricketer
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Love detonates this distance between us to ash holds your flooded heart in the fire of night Robert Montgomery
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All palaces are temporary palaces Robert Montgomery
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Book & beer, Hay-on-Wye 📖🍺
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Gateway Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye
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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 ☕
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View through our letterbox on returning home after an evening doing a quiz in our local pub 🐈
(photo taken by my daughter)
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This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸
Seems like a very strange (sometimes very hot) place for a toad to want to live in but it’s been there for well over three months now. I have to be very careful when hoeing between the plants because it’s often completely buried in a well-camouflaged burrow which occasionally moves location.
I’ve been trying to get a better photograph but it’s fairly timid and makes a dash for cover whenever it notices me 😄
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Book 📚 and Butty Bach 🍺 in Hay
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Gateway
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Hay-on-Wye 📚
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South Wales Fire Service helicopter carrying water has been repeatedly flying back and forth over our house all day today (still going now at 7pm and I think I first saw it about 8am).
According to Natural Resources Wales there’s a wildfire in Gethin Forest between Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, just over the side of the valley from us 🔥😟
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Burger buns baked. Unusually uniform shape and size for my baking 🍔
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Post-show espressos ☕️🎵
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2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation 🏴
National Eisteddfod of Wales
2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation, Aberdare, Saturday 24th June 2023
Proclaiming the Eisteddfod’s intention to visit an area at least a year and a day before the beginning of the festival
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Good morning from the greenhouse. I’m watering the tomatoes 🌱
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🐈 Duffy
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Lusco Fusco 🍷
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Just the two of us for dinner tonight. Not sure which two. 🐈
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Nephew and son, nephew and daughter
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Farm party 🎉
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Watchful eye 👁️
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Saturday shopping for celebration barbecue 🍺🍷 🛒
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🪑 📚 📻 🍺
And the concrete path is too hot to stand on barefoot 🌞
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Morning walk through local forestry to a nearby scheduled monument, the Carn Castell y Meibion cairn.
I only learned of and found this site recently. It consists of the remains of a Bronze Age ring cairn.
There are two similar monument sites nearby which I’m also going to seek out.
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Now being summoned for supper 🐈
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Late #Caturday (OK, so it’s Sunday)
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Wiper and True Mild in Bristol 🍺
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Another walk with my daughter this morning - 6.5 miles, we’re upping the ante 🙂
Panoramic view over Aberdare
Cefn Pennar Gethin Forest
Mossy lanes
Fallen tree
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After watching/listening to the England v Ireland Test throughout today I’m now following the Yorkshire Vikings v Lancashire Lightning Vitality Blast T20 match. Reminds me how good the Blast competition can be - I still prefer it to The Hundred 🏏
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Some views over the Cynon Valley yesterday morning whilst walking with my daughter.
The ground is drying in the good weather making paths more passable; we covered over 5 miles, including some steep climbs, in 2 hours 🚶♂️
And the skylarks were singing, which I love to hear
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Getting warm outside 🔥
(Lunchtime approaching 😊)
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Bank Holiday start - been making a vegan soda bread loaf. Then ate half of it for breakfast - tasted really good 😄 🍞
(Vegan because it used oat milk and lemon juice in place of the traditional buttermilk).
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Huyghe Delirium 🍺
Bottle is superb but on first taste the beer is a little too florally scented. It will probably grow on me.
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Fairly triangular brunch 🍳
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Browsing a charity shop in town today and found this weighty 500 page book on Greek food - Culinaria Greece: Greek Specialities by Marianthi Milona. Full of what look to be delicious recipes. Good find for just £1 😊📚🇬🇷
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Early #Caturday morning garden coffee 🪴🐈☕️
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Carmarthen Golf Club (I’m just dining and drinking, not playing ⛳️😀).
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Had some Japanese whisky for World Whisky Day, courtesy of my daughter’s boyfriend. But then my father-in-law broadened the scope … 🥃
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A generous half pint of Cwrw Otley Diafol. Delicious and brewed at The Bunch of Grapes. 7.4% ABV. Given it a 5* rating on Untappd 🍺
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From #Caturday sun …
… to #Caturday shade
Some cats just can’t take the heat 🐈
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Inside the One Cup Sake. I have not been warming mine on a camping stove 😟
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Outdoor sake and reading 📚
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Can’t be comfortable #Caturday 🐈
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Pub reading 🍺📚
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🐈
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Monsutā Okinawa Dry 🍺
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The way back
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An airport corner for final Nata - not the same ✈️
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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 glasses of wine each, all for €13. Guys at the cafe couldn’t have been nicer.
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Had to do it ☺️
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Cat in the English Cemetery
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An empanada in the Jardin da Estrela
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Who’s responsible for this !?
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The Trouble with Tribbles
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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
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Got to Bristol Airport early (as usual), through security then had notification that flight to Lisbon delayed by an hour and a half. We ordered a bottle of Prosecco. New notification that delay is now only going to be half an hour 🫤 ✈️
Still plenty of time though!
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Pre-dinner cocktails outside Shiro Japanese restaurant last night. Food later was stunning. Celebrating my daughter’s birthday yesterday, mine tomorrow 🎉
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Crossing the Severn
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Magnolia on a morning walk
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Visited Lamphey, Pembrokeshire for lunch yesterday and included a short detour to the (in parts) medieval St Tyfai’s Church in which I got married nearly 27 years ago:
and the nearest beach, Freshwater East:
Didn’t stay long, it was a very windy day 🙂
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Walls on a walk. Hoping the first has got something to do with Easter, otherwise it’s just plain weird 🥚
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My choice of walking route wasn’t fully appreciated by everybody this afternoon 😊
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Just installed a dartboard in our kitchen 🎯🙃
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Otley O6 Porter 🍺
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Late morning veggie breakfast in Wetherspoons. They’ve sold out of mushrooms and tomatoes 😞
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Sun is shining (at last) 🌞
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Ivy
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Been on a short walk, just destroying the benefits of it 🍺🫤
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practice — day 31 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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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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Reflecting
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instrument — day 26 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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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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📷 Walking and photographing
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St David’s Hall, ready for Suede 🎵
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insect — day 22 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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tiny — day 21 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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houseplant — day 20 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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analog — day 19 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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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 📸
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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 poorly on Untappd. Very hoppy 🍺
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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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horizon — day 14 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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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 📸
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gimcrack — day 11 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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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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My kind of street 🤫
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walk — day 08 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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View from our hotel room window in Bath this morning ❄️
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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
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KT Tunstall at St David’s Hall 🎵
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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 📸
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Leszet Turkish Kitchen. Enjoyed a really good meal for Denise’s birthday 🎂
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Drinking a Smoked & Spicy 🍸
Dangerous Don Mezcal, Smoky Ginger Ale, Angostura Bitters, Chilli, Lime, Sugar, Cinnamon, Thyme
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zip — day 04 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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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 for broad bean, potato and fennel soup which provided two evening meals.
Then yesterday I made a Romanian apple and caraway loaf cake, her selection from Irina Georgescu’s book Tava.
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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 Cleaning
🔗 Dry Cleaning review – left-field art rockers are a deadpan delight - from a gig a couple of days ago
The post-punk band led with impassive cool by hypnotic frontwoman Florence Shaw are a genuinely radical band
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secure — day 01 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare
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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 now having an good in-house coffee shop (just visible off to the right hand side in the first picture) serving very good coffee ☕
Founded in 1852 and located in the heart of the town of Aberdare, in the picturesque Cynon Valley, St Elvan’s has recently undergone an extensive £2 million renovation, and has now reopened as a vibrant new space featuring concert and conference facilities, an exhibition gallery, meeting rooms, heritage tours, our in-house coffee shop “Spires” and of course as a continued active place of worship.
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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 pressure. May venture out 🚲
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Burning origami 🔥
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Delighted to be able to repeat yesterday’s outdoor reading in the afternoon sun ☀️
Tomorrow looks like the return of more typical February cloud ☁️
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Final pint of beer in London before heading for home - Fuller’s ESB at The Old Pack Horse, Chiswick 🍺
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The Old Ship, Hammersmith. Drinking Young’s Special 🍺 overlooking the Thames.
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George & Devonshire, Chiswick
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Wild Beer Co Beyond Modus 8 🍺
Very wine-like beer - a “strong, wild and sour Flanders Red”. Delicious.
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It’s been over a week since it snowed. Everything lower down in the valley has completely melted but it’s still a different (cold!) world when you enter our garden.
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Spritzes and crosswords in the snow.
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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
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Sunday morning. I don’t usually let our cat sleep next to my desk - the shed hair becomes an annoyance 🙄
This morning she persisted, probably because nobody else is up and the bedroom doors are shut. I gave up trying to discourage her. Won’t be for long though 🐈 💤
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Bar 44, Clifton, Bristol. Excellent tapas 🍷
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Traffic delays and rainbows 🌈
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Grey and rainy day in Aberdare ☔️
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Trappistes Rochefort 10
by Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy
Belgian Quadrupel, 11.3% ABV 🍺
Dark and delicious but taking it slowly…
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Really!? Pub Wifi password … but I’ve typed it and it works … got a feeling it’s the default and they don’t know how to change it to something that’s easier on the keyboard ⌨️
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Otley Oxymoron stout and O-Ho-Ho ESB brewed at the Bunch of Grapes 🍺
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Came up in my Readwise Daily Review today. Hadn’t realised that the phrase
We live, as we dream — alone
was Conrad’s. I did know it from the Gang of Four song 🎵 📚
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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 2022, but for my reference I do want a record of the food I cooked for this year’s Christmas dinner.
Most years I cook Christmas dinner around a specific theme (often a nationality) or from a particular (often new) cookery book. This year our meal was based on Afro Vegan: Family recipes from a British-Nigerian kitchen by Zoe Alakija.
Starters were
- Lebanese-Nigerian Roast Chickpea Shawarma
- Smoky Cashew and Beetroot Dip
and mains
- Classic Jollof Rice
- Groundnut Stew with Sweet Potato
- Efo Riro (Stewed Greens)
- Suya-Battered Vegetable Kebabs
- Eba
The only slight disappointment was the eba - small starchy balls of dough made from garri flour (cassava). I’d never cooked with the flour before and think I got the consistency wrong - too soft and sticky.
Cooking all that was a lot of work for a relaxed family meal for just the four of us. We certainly didn’t eat everything - leftovers were contributed to a much larger Boxing Day family meal at my brother-in-law’s farm.
This was the first time I’d cooked from Afro Vegan - I will certainly be trying out more recipes from it.
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🔗 Gravestone-encircled ‘Hardy Tree’ falls in London
Couple of my photos from January 2020 📸
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Xmas gift. I did.
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Walking my in-laws’ dog at 3am this morning after a long and indulgent Boxing Day. Dog is the blur in a hi-vis jacket 🤷♂️
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Winter Wonderland Wheel, Cardiff
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Cardiff City Hall and Winter Wonderland
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First mince pie of the season
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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 🇲🇦 ⚽️
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Eighth floor Bristol near sunset 🌇
Pretty heavily filtered because it’s through a pretty dirty window ☺️
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Temperatures dropping, time to find a warm spot, preferably with a friend 🐈 🐑
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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.
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Had some heavy rain in the last week 🌧
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Early morning refresh🚶♂️
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St Stephen’s Church, Bristol
Clare Street, Bristol
Leonard Lane, Bristol
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Striding through St Nicholas Markets, Bristol
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Excursion into sticker territory…
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Escaped the Séance Escape Room 😀
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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.
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Simple fare
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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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Stair #Caturday
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Rugby on #Caturday … Wales trailing, cat sleeping through it 🐈 🏉
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Colours in Cardiff Bay 🚶♀️
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Viewing autumn wind and rain through our bedroom window 🍂
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Pastrami style cured salmon followed by a vegan burger
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McDoner’s 🤔
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Views across Dare Valley
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Common Pill Millipede
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This Isn’t Bacon roll. My sub rolls turned out a little plump but very tasty 🤤
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📸 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 in our kitchen in Aberdare, Wales
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Pale tussock moth caterpillar 🐛
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Branching out 🌳
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Good to eat outside in October. Spontaneous, quick barbecue fare but the result was delicious 😋
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Just discovered why we’ve got so many wasps flying around the front of our house – they’re nesting in a stone wall. Will be leaving them in peace!
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Coffee, book and cat in the early morning Autumn sun ☕️
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Moonlight
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Caturday cleaning 🐈
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Symplegades?
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Salem Chapel, Robertstown
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Robertstown
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Pizza. Olives, capers and green chilli 🍕
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Lebanese wine with our pizza tonight 🍕 🍷 🇱🇧
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Yesterday at Abergavenny Food Festival
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Afternoon, #Caturday
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One of my favourite beers: Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, at The Gloucester Old Spot, Bristol 🍺
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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.
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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 🏏
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Bindweed
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Bindweed over juniper
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Camp from Thursday to Monday at the Green Man Festival 🎵
Five days with virtually no internet access - plus yesterday to recover from the festival - now just about ready to catch up with the Micro.blog timeline again 😉
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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
The food is prepared in the small kitchen right in front of the four customer tables
Studying the menu board
Dishes from front to back - Prawn Pad Thai, Tofu Pad Siew and Tofu Pad Mama, accompanied by Thai prawn crackers and spring rolls
Everything was really delicious - but a special mention goes to the Pad Thai, which was fantastic 🍝😋
I’m certain we will be eating there again.
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Greek Village Salad – Horiatiki Salata
Looks like today is going to be the last hot day of our current spell of good weather. Cooler with rain tomorrow and Tuesday. So taking the chance to continue a week of al fresco dining in the garden 😊
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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 Cardiff. Welsh Fire lost by 39 runs; their batting was poor and the bowling of the Curran brothers and Sunil Narine too good. Enjoyed seeing the match but I’m still not convinced of the need for this new format of the game 🏏
Photo is of Tom Curran bowling to Ollie Pope.
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Summer. Wales. Raining. At least it’s warm so I can sit in the garden with a beer 🍺
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Some more celebrating 🎉
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Really special and enjoyable day in Bristol, my daughter’s graduation ceremony – BSc Psychology with First Class Honours 👏
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Chairs 🪑
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The Olde Hatchet Inn, Bristol.
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Tunnel
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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 Cave, which is footsteps from our apartment in Thasos 🇬🇷
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Lazy, simple evening meal in our apartment tonight – dolmades, Throumba olives, tzatziki and bread.
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Multi-storey cats 🐈
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Morning walk🚶♂️
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Strangely we had Italian food tonight - seafood linguine and gnocchi alla Sorrentina. The owners of the apartments we’re staying in are an Italian—Greek couple who live in Naples when it’s out of season here. He (Italian) has a big influence on the food served in the bar here. It was delicious 🤤
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Mount Athos from Limenaria, just before sunset
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And omelette is served!
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Compact omelette cookery🥚
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Empty beds view a moonrise 🌙
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Lost in the trees
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Some art in Limenaria
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Late lunch in the bar 🍺
Anchovies 🐟
Games 🎲
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Looking towards Mount Athos
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Image of the Harpie, 1497
I’m struck by some images on a Kindle 🫤
from The Burning Man by Frances Wilson
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Drinks in a bar with my daughter. She finds my conversation stimulating 😉 📕 🍺
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Alex in Limenaria
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Waves
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Breakfast after a night of storms, thunder and lightning ⛈
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Trypiti Beach
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Normal service is resumed 🌞
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Beach stroll after dinner
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Purple Love Bug ❤️🐞
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Morning coffee at Limenaria harbour ☕️
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Heading for Thasos 🇬🇷
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La Chouffe 🍺
India building a substantial lead 🏏
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Explosive walking!
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On to the salt marshes
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Walking on Whiteford Sands
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Saturday afternoon Leffe 🍺
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Okra fries!
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Tempelhof Airport for the Tempelhof Sounds festival 🎵
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Roses in Berlin 🌹
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Living the pickle life 🍺
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Anhalter Bahnhof
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Anhalter Bahnhof
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Karl-Marx-Allee
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Mozart and Beethoven. Haydn is on the far side 🎵
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Deutsches Technikmuseum
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DHL 😡
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Reichstag
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Deckchairs and Reichstag
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A Pale Ale 🍺
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Craft beer in Berlin - BRLO Brwhouse beer garden 🍺
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Heathrow Terminal 5 ✈️
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Marmite or Dynamite 🧨
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My only Jubilee celebration - Pact Coffee’s Remera Tugirekawanziza Rwandan coffee, their Platinum Jubilee Edition @pactcoffee ☕️
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Bank holidays. Yesterday was small barbecue day, today is pizza day.
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On review I somehow missed posting Day 4 😊
So for the sake of completeness …
thorny — day 04 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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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 📸
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stripes — day 29 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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fair — day 28 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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written — day 27 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge. design by william blake: thomas gray writing his poems 📸
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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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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 📸
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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 at a self-portrait - not flattering, but some would say fairly accurate 😉
prompt: seated grey haired man with a bushy grey beard drinks a glass of red wine and reads a green book
The area I live in - not bad…
prompt: Cynon valley in Wales
…and a more specific location even closer to home - I wish, but a bit overdramatic!
prompt: Werfa Abernant
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symmetry — day 21 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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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
19 May 2022
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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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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 📸
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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 📸
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pot — day 10 of the micro.blog may 2022 photoblogging challenge 📸
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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 📸
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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 📸
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Hay-on-Wye 📚
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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 shop window in 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 📸
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Looking into some One Cup sake
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Mainly trees 🚶♂️🌲 📷
Walking today - view of Aberdare, a mine entrance and (mainly) trees.
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Birthday board game. I lost.
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Llansteffan beach 🏖
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Keeping it simple 🍕
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Forest walking
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Llansteffan Castle 🏰
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Daffodils. St John the Baptist churchyard, Aberdare. 🌼
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Homeward bound from Bristol, becoming a familiar route.
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Disintegration into moss
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Interesting poster combinations.
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Brief stop at Tintagel 🏰
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Flat white and a pasty on a bench in Padstow harbour. Final harbour coffee break of our stay in Cornwall 😀☕️
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Second flat white of the day on a bench at Porthleven Harbour ☕️
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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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Kemyel A - standing stone (menhir)
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Flat white on a bench overlooking Mousehole harbour ☕️
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Violets
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Sky, sea and ruins - view from the front of the cottage we’re staying in.
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Lamorna Cove
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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 and misty.
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St Ives
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Flat white on a bench overlooking St Ives harbour ☕️
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Inside Delico Deli with an Americano, looking out. ☕️
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Sharp
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Pastéis de nata added to my coffee morning ☕️
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Misty and muddy walk this morning but at least I got above the clouds. Now to clean my boots … 🚶♂️
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Cactus boot, prehistoric jungle and glasshouse at Bristol Botanic Garden 🌱
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Some intense leafleting in Bristol.
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Rhubarb chard at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
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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 cameras - thank you ebay 😊
Camera on manual exposure; I was pleased with most of my guesses!
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A visit to King’s Quoit, the Neolithic burial chamber overlooking Manorbier beach, Pembrokeshire. September 2021. More photos in this album on Flickr 📷
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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 tofu, avocado, sweet potato and smoked salmon. Delicious but we still haven’t got the sizes quite right; they tend to turn out a little on the large side.
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Main course and dessert.
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First visit of the year to my favourite pub. Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd🍺
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Finishing off Xmas evening
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Quiet family Xmas dinner of
Spanakopita
Gigantes plaki
Harissa roasted sprouts, broccoli, halloumi and spinach
Gingery beetroot with peanut dressing and black sesame
Flatbreads
Hummus
Tzatziki
Boxing Day will be busier…
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Will be feeling really strong today - cooking nearly a kilogram of spinach for Xmas dinner 🎅💪
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Short Sunday afternoon walk🚶♂️
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First Xmas fire 🔥
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The crowds are in for the early morning cricket 🏏 🐈
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Senedd Cymru
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A new novelty - first train journey in almost two years - Mountain Ash Station 🚊
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Walking through Aberdare 📷
A short sequence of B&W photos of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
View from the footbridge
Aberdare Market
Cardiff Street, Aberdare
Victoria Square, Aberdare
St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare
Whitcombe Street, Aberdare
Canon Street, Aberdare
Weatheral Street, Aberdare
Aberdare Library
Library Square, Aberdare
St John the Baptist Church, Aberdare
Dare Valley Country Park
St John the Baptist Churchyard
St John the Baptist Churchyard
Aberdare Jobcentre
Bradleys Coffee Shop, Aberdare
View from the footbridge
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Changes! Severed my ponytail and shaved my hair and beard short 💇♂️
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And a barge sails by 😀
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Morning view over Camden Lock from hotel room window.
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Stereolab and Kynsy at the Roundhouse, London, Sunday 14th November 🎵
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Take out beer! Two pints of Grey Trees Brewery’s Mosaic Pale Ale fits in this carton from the Bunch of Grapes 🍺
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John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father worked in a livery stable at the Swan and Hoop inn. A small blue plaque at the site reads
In a house on this site the “Swan and Hoop” John Keats, Poet, Was born 1795
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home — day 31 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Saturday pizza 🍕
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Ready for Strictly Come Dancing Hallowe’en special - pumpkin courtesy of Thomas Mason 🎃 💃
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Not a satisfactory solution. Also trying to make pizza at the same time 🏏 🏉 🍕
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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 2004 ⌛📷
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underneath — day 28 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge. King’s Quoit, a Neolithic burial chamber in Manorbier, Wales 📷
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chaos — day 27 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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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 📷
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connection — day 24 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Scenes from our local coffee shop, Delico Deli, this morning. They have entered Hallowe’en mode 🎃 ☕️
Though, to be honest, there is a permanent touch of the macabre in their normal decor 😊
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meaning — day 23 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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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 📷
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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 📷
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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 📷
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Just had delicious spinach pies at Sotiris Bakery 🇬🇷
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WINEYBEEST 10.5%
WILD BEER CO 1/3 IMPERIAL STOUT + WINE BARRELS + TIMEAll the decadence of an imperial stout base beer and accented by a hint of acidity and fruit character picked up from one year of maturation in red wine barrels.
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wheels — day 14 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Hungarian Soproni IPA and delicious beetroot cake 🍺
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Laura Marling at Tramshed, Cardiff, 13th October 2021 🎵
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Tapas at Bar 44
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animals — day 13 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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BBQ 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 📷
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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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twilight — day 8 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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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 📷
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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 the Labour Party, Aberdare MP 1900-1915 📷
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dark — day 2 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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touch — day 1 of the micro.blog october 2021 photoblogging challenge 📷
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Abergavenny Food Festival - The Market Hall
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Couple of quick photos at the start of Elbow’s gig at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff last night 🎵
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Sitting outside Cafe Citta, Cardiff. Double espressos ☕️
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Arrived in Cardiff. Aperol Spritz time.
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A squirrel broke into our peanut butter while we were out! 🐿
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North Beach, Tenby
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Sitting by a fire in the dark listening to Oscar Peterson’s Night Train. 🎵
Argentum B&W vs Apple Night mode 😊
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Don’t know how well this will photograph (it’s on a slighy crumpled crisp packet) but I think this image on Tyrell’s sour cream and serenade chilli flavoured crisps is imaginative branding!
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Seaweed Ale made with Pembrokeshire foraged kelp by Caffle Craft Brewery 🍺
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Woodstock in the morning sun.
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BBQ time
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Such a good album! Kitchen Sink by Nadine Shah 🎵
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Cooler with a little rain today so it’s an evening for a log fire with cheese and wine.
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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 Charles Baudelaire and a bottle of Dà Mhìle Distillery Welsh gin, oak aged in ex-Bourbon barrels.
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Narberth Castle 🏰
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Arrived at a Hobbit House called Woodstock for a week away from it all. No power, no running water, wood fired hot tub. Plan is to read and relax.
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St. Florence Church ⛪️
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A beer at the Parsonage Inn, St. Florence 🍺
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Sri Lankan street food and drink at The Coconut Tree in Cardiff last night. If I hadn’t committed myself to shooting only in black and white in September it would have been very colourful…
A Rio Rumble cocktail
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Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 🎵
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Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 🎵
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The Coconut Tree, Cardiff.
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The Pool, Melbourne
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Wood firing pizza tonight 🍕 😃
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Just sorted out my deckchair and radio to settle down for a sunny afternoon listening to the cricket when … 3rd Test: England beat India by an innings and 76 runs. 🏏
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Green Man Festival 2021 Photographs 📷 🎵 – a Flickr album of photos straight from my old Pentax K100D camera.
It’s the first time I’ve bothered carrying a ‘real’ camera around a festival. I quite like some of the images compared to my phone photos. 😊
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Graffiti in Athens, February 2018
Describing my relationship with the increasing number of social photography platforms 😉📷
Test share of my first Glass post
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A gap in today’s relentless August (!) drizzle 🌧
Let’s BBQ Beyond Burgers!
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Barely a week after I started to try out Gala I’ve just posted my first photograph to Glass.
The image aptly illustrates my relationship with the increasing number of social photography platforms. 😉📷
I’m @TheDimPause there too.
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Just learned that this is called a Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes.
A living woodland crest, the forest bug is a shieldbug that loves nothing more than the sap of oak trees.
Also known as a red-legged shieldbug.
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Break in play
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Like mother, like daughter 😉
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Open air dance performance by NDC Wales at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
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Lenten Spaghetti with Tahini.
A success!
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Friday night dinner recipe from Vefa’s Kitchen:
Lenten Spaghetti with Tahini
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Gala - photography based social media
I’ve been trying out the photography based social media platform Gala. It was brought to my attention by @gr36 here on Micro.blog, in this conversation.
My username/profile there is (as expected!): thedimpause
I like the app they’re developing - although it does seem sluggish at times and I have experienced a few crashes whilst using it. Hopefully there’ll be a willingness and time allowed for improvement. It’s the style of app I wish Flickr had, a relatively simple photo browsing experience.
I don’t know yet whether the platform will succeed and prosper so I’m also publishing the photos I upload there to a Flickr album titled Gala. At the moment they’re mainly images from my archives which I’m revisiting with a little more post-processing.
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Published 6 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, gala
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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 ☕️ 🐑
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Purezza Bristol, vegan pizzeria. Seaspiracy pizza 🍕
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Pizza sequence. Trying out the pizza oven in wood fired mode for the first time. 🍕
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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 Hawkweed
Common Spotted Orchid
Cabbage White on Horseradish
Marsh Thistle
Common Lavender
Nasturtium
Gunnera
Kale
Oregano
Cucumber
Chilli
Rocket
📖 more
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🐈 🐈 seeking shady spots today 🌞
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Quite warm again today. ☀️
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Just created somewhere to sit. 🌱
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Euro 2020 Final: England v Italy ⚽️
Pre-match feasting 😋
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Gin and tonic made with Japanese gin and homegrown kumquats.
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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 ⚽️
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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 😀 🍺
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Nice change! London Pride in a dimpled pint glass 🍺
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Revolucion de Cuba. Friday night in Cardiff.
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Food at Citta is so good, and all prepared in a tiny open kitchen. Have missed coming here 😊
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Corvina 🍷
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Temple of Peace and Health, Cardiff.
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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, reduced to 6 overs and target of 103. 🏏
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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 Gardens, Cardiff 🏏
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Afternoon Sherry and truffles.
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Tapas at Bar 44, Cardiff.
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In the last few weeks we’ve been having a Great Spotted Woodpecker visiting our bird feeders. Not a brilliant photo because it was taken from a distance through a window but it did also capture the squirrels and a robin 🪶 🐿 😀
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Don’t know what they’re waiting for … 🐈⬛
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Geranium and reflections 🪴
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Misty walk in the country park this morning 🌫
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Squid ink linguine with grilled octopus. Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd.
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Cheese & Mustard 🧀 🍷
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Persian inspired vegan mezze at Koocha, Gloucester Road, Bristol. Delicious!
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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.
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means
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Barbecued vegetables, pitta breads, hummus, taramasalata and sriracha sauce. Enjoying the good weather today because the forecast for tomorrow and Friday is heavy rain and strong winds.
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Breezy morning at Manorbier.
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Bit of rain, but we have HPA 🍺
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Henry’s Moat Hobbit House, St. Florence
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Paella de verduras
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Planning a paella de verduras
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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 photo - it was taken with an old Blackberry 9300 mobile phone)
Now, nearly 10 years later, the children have long outgrown such things. Having a shed up in a tree wasn’t too practical or convenient so (finally!) over the last couple of days I have dismantled, relocated and reconstructed it.
It took me considerably longer to dismantle and get down from the tree than it did to rebuild.
The shed is still in fairly good condition but the next job is to paint it with a wood preserver. I also need to take advantage of the good weather over the next couple of days to build a roof where the shed used to be - we use the area that was underneath the treehouse for storing, drying and seasoning logs.
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ food, dal
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I find myself eating 😃 for the first time in years.
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Leaving Wales for a few hours. Prince of Wales Bridge across the River Severn, heading into England.
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Tonight is the night for cocktails 🍸
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Monotone - green olives, jalapeños and capers 🍕
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Yet again, Saturday night is pizza construction time 🍕
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Grey Trees Belgian Blonde 🍺
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Annual arrival day 🏏
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This was delicious! 🐟
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Sum total of our April snow so far ❄️
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Like Clockwork 🍺
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Cat increasingly sulky on the doorstep because I won’t let her in the house on a nice sunny day.
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ drinks, books
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Sunny day ☀️ - trying to colour coordinate drinking and reading 📚
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Homescreening because I listened to today’s episode of Hemispheric Views // @HemisphericViews.
Two screens, first is all widget, everything else in App Library.
And for reference it’s an iPhone 8 with 162 apps installed. 😟 🤷
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Returning Seren
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Painting 🎨
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The Jalapeño Popper Vegan Grilled Cheese (jalapeños, pickled chillis, chilli jam and vegan cheese in a toasted sandwich) from JOL’s Food Truck yesterday was absolutely delicious. Accompanied by fantastic Triple Cooked Chips. If the Truck is in your area don’t miss it!
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Risking it
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Coffee in the sun 🌞 ☕️
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: up — Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, March 2019 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: pompasetting — Pompasetting at the National Botanic Garden of Wales on Boxing Day, 2007 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: favourite — August 2008. First time at my favourite music festival, the Green Man Festival. Not my favourite weather. Not taken with with my favourite phone/camera, a 1.3 megapixel Vodafone 716. 🎵📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: code — Not exactly code but the 3rd century BCE Brahmi script Edicts of Ashoka did need deciphering in the 19th century. British Museum, June 2015. 📷
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Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 24th February 2021 — Three wasabi plants I planted in May last year have exploded into activity. Wasn’t expecting such vigorous growth and flowering so early in the year, especially after/during some very cold and wet weather.
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: baby — My daughter and her babies at Grandma’s house, April 2004 😄 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: banana — Sal, Cape Verde, April 2016 📷
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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 📷
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I’ve missed a couple of days of the Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge but am trying to pick up on it again. 😟 📷
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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 Mirrored Drive Door (2003). Hasn’t been powered up in a very long time though. 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: compassion — I prepared a Valentine’s Day vegetarian cooked breakfast for us this morning to cure the effects of a slight excess of wine last night. 🥰 📷
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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 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: machine — Agios Nikolaos, Messenia, Greece, 2015 📷
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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 assault course in the world! August 2007 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: hope — Hoping to reach the summit, Vesuvius, August 2014 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: craving — travel, eating out, warm weather 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: sport — Millennium Stadium, 24th November 2007, Wales 12-34 South Africa 🏉 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: pets 📷
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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 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: morning beverage — Preparing breakfast coffee at Latitude Festival, 2019 📷
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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: close up — Portugal, 2005 📷
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Wintry scenes have returned this morning ❄️
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Venice, January 2019 📷
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Orion
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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 ☀️ 🍺
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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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A vegan cheese selection from Honestly Tasty was very impressive.
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Walking in a frosty Dare Valley Country Park this morning. Views from the Penrhiwllech Trail. Plenty of snow visible on the Brecons.
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Published 17 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️
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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
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Running a little late, but finally starting to cook our Xmas Dinner.
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Xmas day. Eggs make me angry 😡
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Published 32 photos on my Flickr account — Cardiff Before Christmas 📷
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Fairly quiet at 9:30pm on Monday night in Cardiff.
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Chocolate truffles and sherry.
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Tapas at Bar 44 in Cardiff.
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Having Monday Margaritas at Revolucion de Cuba before Wales’ Friday alcohol restrictions…
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ believe, flickrfriday
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The piles of books I posted a photo of yesterday have been re-housed upstairs. According to Apple Health on my phone, in moving them I did 4752 steps, covered 2.8km and climbed 41 flights of stairs (I think this is an underestimate!). A literary workout. 📚
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Moving four large bookcases. Trying to prevent our books from descending into chaos. 😊 📚
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ melting, flickrfriday
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End of a rainbow in the Dare Valley Country Park.
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Sunrise this morning.
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Force me to select
One highlight of the autumn -
Abundance of squash✏️ #mbnov
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Earlier fears were well founded. Difficult to get above 250°C with the wood we had available. Tried a couple of wood fired pizzas but now switched to gas for higher temperatures. 🍕
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Trying our pizza oven with its wood burner for the first time. It’s brilliant when gas fired but I’m not convinced by the size of the wood burner. We’ll see… 🍕
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Published 30 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ Paris 1997
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Inspired by seeing the Eastern European Jewish sweet bread babka on The Great British Bake Off I tried making a savoury pesto-filled version. Quite pleased with the appearance and taste. 🍞
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Walking through the Ynys Recreation Ground — Aberdare Cricket Club winding down for the winter. 🏏
📍 — Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
🕰️ — Wednesday October 14th, 11:27 BST#adayinthelife
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Worrying. I have become that elderly person with a blanket on their lap. It’s getting chilly …
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Whitebait, mackerel with black garlic braised lentils and a coffee crème brûlée - a brilliant Sunday lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd today. Accompanied by a few pints of a Salopian Brewery New England IPA. 🍺 🐟
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Crete, 2004
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Continuing the saga - Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Ugandan rolex. Superb! Far exceeded my expectations; can’t imagine the egg-based version would be better.
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Bread today turned out surprisingly cat-like. Tasted good but not sure what made the loaf collapse. 🍞
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For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes I’ve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with broccoli. And baked black-eyed beans.
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Cooking Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi. And sticky jasmine rice.
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ lazy, flickrfriday
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Aperol Spritzing our way through a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon. 😎
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Why Can’t My Camera Capture the Wildfire Sky? 🔗 — Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ industrial, flickrfriday
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Big bread - Turkish bread from a Cardiff bakery. 🥖
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Breakfast on Manorbier beach this morning.
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Never cooked on a gas barbecue before this week. Never thought I’d close a lid on a barbecue whilst cooking. Never had barbecued vegetables three days in a row. But here I am.
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Bethesda Baptist Church, Narberth.
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Sprilly Maid by Caffle Brewery. Ale infused with rosemary. Very good, even when drunk out of a plastic cup.🍺
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ horizon, flickrfriday
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BBQ time.
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Hobbit facilities.
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Now moved into a Hobbit House.
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Spent a few hours on South Beach, Tenby today.
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Tenby Harbour. Round and about Tenby for a few days.
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ pentaxk100d, flickrfriday, magnetic
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Bakewell Tart. ☕️
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Delicious breakfast this morning, bookmarked for cooking again - 🔗 Vegan Mushroom Bacon Breakfast Toast
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 31: Love — Honeymoon, 1996 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: Discovery — Finding jellyfish on Llansteffan Beach 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Flake — December 2010 was probably the heaviest snowfall I have experienced. 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: Emotions — Overexcitement 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: Overcome — I did not overcome the opposition tonight. I came last. 🎮 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: Relentless — Yesterday the wind was relentless here. Some plants have suffered. 🌱 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: (Abandon) Hope — London, January 2020 📷
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Lunch 🐟
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ vanishingpoint, flickrfriday
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: Frosty — Cool chillies 🌶 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: Graceful — Ballet Seren, 2009 📷 (late entry because I missed posting yesterday ☹️)
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: Home — Streaming Green Man Festival in the garden at home 🎵📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: Crunch 📷
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ countryside, flickrfriday
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: Change — Just noticed that this roughly circular ring of mushrooms has suddenly emerged in our garden 🌱📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Ribbon — My Grandfather’s France and Germany Star 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: Grid — Bridge grids - Prince of Wales (Second Severn Crossing) and Clifton Suspension 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: Cuddly 📷
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Glamorgan’s first home game of the recently started cricket season - Glamorgan v Gloucestershire at Sophia Gardens in the Bob Willis Trophy. No spectators, but at least there’s live streaming on YouTube. 🏏
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Stationary — Almost… 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: Silhouette — Cardiff Bay, January 2020 📷
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Check in 🗺 — Cwrw Gorslas in a Pod at the Rhoswenallt. 🍺
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: Among — Among the undergrowth… 📷
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Field of Streams - Green Man Festival 🔗 — Summary: Green Man has announced plans for a virtual festival this month to replace this year’s edition of the event. Eels, Pictish Trail, Stella Donelly, Father John Misty, and Adwaith will all play exclusive sets. 🎵
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, splash
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The weather was a little unpredictable today ☔️
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: Filter 📷
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Paella de verduras 🥘
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: Sound — Garden chimes 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: Transport — Aberdare Bus Station 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Windows 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: Black and White — Nasturtium 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: View — Looking over Aberdare
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: Day tripping — My in-laws took a day trip to our garden today 😉 📷
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Debut album from Another Sky - I Slept on the Floor - just arrived in this morning’s post. 👏 🎵
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Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd
Went to the Bunch of Grapes in Pontypridd for a meal last night - pubs and restaurants in Wales were allowed to open for indoor dining from Monday this week. Our first meal out near home in Wales since the beginning of March.
The food was really good, especially the Roasted Cod Loin, so I can’t resist posting some details. 😀
Menu Board
Sweetcorn Soup - Charred sweetcorn, butterbean and radicchio soup, garlic and rosemary sourdough crouton
Pan Fried Cockles - Pan fried cockles, leeks and laverbread on fried sourdough bread, charred lemon
Beetroot Pie - Beetroot, mushroom, black bean and spinach pie, sautéed garlic greens and roasted red onions
Roasted Cod Loin - Ancho chilli roasted cod loin, sautéed mussels, cockles, laverbread and saffron, roasted fennel mash
Grapes in the Bunch
To accompany the meal I had my first proper cask beers since March - two from Salopian Brewery, a pint of Shropshire Gold bitter and a pint of Dewdrops New England IPA. 🍺
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Bunch of Grapes. Check in 🗺
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Bisect 📷
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Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, 90degrees
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: Flow — Afon Cynon, Aberdâr
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Peace — A Crass badge from the early 1980s. 🎵📷
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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay, 4th August 1792.
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Bug 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Floating 📷
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Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Up 📷
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Saturday night pizza 🍕
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Basil and wine - in the midst of making pizza 🍕 🍷
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Published 5 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, italy, ilford, xp2
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ canoneos300d, flickrfriday, polished
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Check in 🗺 — Tinto Lounge. First meal out since the beginning of March. Very good vegan Beyond Cheese Burger with a glass of Malbec 🍔 🍷 😃
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
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The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia.
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Published 2 photos on my Flickr account 📷
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Tried making sushi for the first time today - avocado and cucumber rolls.
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Flickr Blog - Why today’s Explore is important. 🔗 — Excerpt: Today we’re populating Flickr’s Explore page with a curated selection of photos of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for equality.
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Linguine with carrot top pesto 🥕
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Vegetables: Riverford Organic Farmers 🌱
Using my submission to this week’s Flickr FlickrFriday theme #Vegetables in praise of Riverford Organic Farmers. Photo is of our vegetable box delivered at 6:30am this morning, as it is every Monday. We’ve been Riverford customers for over 10 years but their deliveries during the current COVID-19 lockdown have been invaluable. They have maintained high quality service and continued to provide excellent produce throughout this period.
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Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷
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Garden plant identification. Does anyone know what these purple flowers are? 🌱
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Rosa canina, commonly known as the dog rose. 🌱
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Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 25th May 2020
After years of neglect we’ve been trying to improve and actually make use of the area of garden behind our house.
I should really have taken some ‘before’ photographs but here are a few details in pictures of progress so far.
Sun terrace 😀
Oregano bed and compost bin
Thyme planted in a rusty wheelbarrow!
Small raised beds cleared and dug over ready for planting
Greenhouse, which still definitely needs some repair, semi-tidied and an attempt at seed germination started - including basil, coriander, dill, rosemary, sage and tarragon
Rampant mint alongside the greenhouse
Chives and bay in two of the raised beds
Garage newly painted and starting to get some decoration
Buttercups flourishing alongside the garage
Meanwhile, for some rest and relaxation time, at the front of the house the weather has now been good enough to string up the hammock.
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Sister Seren popped round for tea this evening. ✝️
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Currently reading: The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich 📚
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This week’s Flickr Friday theme of Childhood Memories gave me the opportunity to do this. Luckily nobody saw me playing with Action Man in the garden. 😳
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Track 18 May 2020 at 14:30 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – 5 mile circular route.
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Intense Santorini 🇬🇷
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Evening games.
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Lockdown just got serious - teaching my wife and daughter to play chess - their first game… ♟
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…and this is the card we got her 😸
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My daughter’s 19th lockdown birthday celebration this morning. 🎉
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Regressing back to medieval times today and drinking mead with hops from Wye Valley Meadery.
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Copycats 🐈
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Kimchi Miso Hotpot
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In the process of cooking a Kimchi Miso Hotpot from Tim Anderson’s Vegan Japaneasy
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Cooked pizzas. Scary daughter included! 🍕
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Saturday night pizzas about to go into the oven 🍕
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Currently reading: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo 📚
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Just received Tim Anderson’s Vegan JapanEasy in today’s post. Still awaiting delivery of some required ingredients though… 📚
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We’ve got no shortage of coffee making options. ☕️
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Sunny spring day in the garden, if a little breezy.
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Made a loaf using khorasan flour for the first time. Rise was a bit peculiar but I really like the taste and texture.
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My walk across desolate Venice 🔗 — Excerpt: Gregory Dowling: So, as I anticipated in my last post, yesterday I had the opportunity to take a long walk across Venice, since I had to go to the university to act as Chairman of a “commissione di laurea”, sitting in front of a computer and connecting telematically with the students…
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Rushden Transport Museum. Check in 🗺 🍺 - drinking Black Country Bitter by Holdens Brewery
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England beat Wales 33-30 in a thrilling Six Nations encounter 🔗 🏉
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Twickenham Stadium. England v Wales, Six Nations 🏉
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Comptoir Libanais. Check in 🗺 - breakfast.
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Cornershop’s England is a Garden - 5* review in _The Times_today. Ample Play 🎵
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The Bishop. Check in 🗺 🍺 - drinking a Young’s London Special by Eagle Brewery (formerly Charles Wells)
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Bar 44. Check in 🗺 - brilliant tapas, as usual!
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: Vision - Hawk-eyed. Fresco by Giandomenico Tiepolo. (Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, 2019) 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Leap - Water still leaping out of the ground in Mountain Ash today - a lot more rain over the last couple of days. 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: Below - At the WNO performance of Carmen last night we literally had back row seats. Everything was below us. 📷
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Wales Millennium Centre. Check in 🗺 - Carmen, Welsh National Opera.
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Las Iguanas. Check in 🗺 - cocktails, wine and bar snacks in Cardiff Bay. Weather is gorgeous. ☀️
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: Together - Birch & Ivy 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: Escape 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: Hurdle - Panathenaic Stadium, Athens, 2018. There have definitely been hurdles here in the past… 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: Double - Lift (photo from January 2018) 📷
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Porto Lounge. Check in 🗺 - for a Beyond burger and Malbec 🍷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: Station - Aberdare station this afternoon. Deserted because the line is still closed due to Storm Dennis flooding in the Cynon Valley. 📷
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Rhoswenallt Inn. Check in 🗺 🍺 — Drinking a Try Time by Glamorgan Brewing Co
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 22: Spectacle - Watching Wales v France in the Six Nations 🏉 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 21: Progress - Progress up an escalator. There’s been a lot more progress since this was taken with my first digital camera in April 2004, when my daughter wasn’t quite even 3 years old. 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: Scale - Home in the South Wales Valleys (courtesy of a trip to Legoland in 2008) 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Space - Sal, Cape Verde, April 2016 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: Oppose 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: Cool - Commercial Street, Aberdare 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Rest 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: Balance - Taking today’s prompt literally… 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: Warmth - Picante! Spanish pimentón is one of my favourite flavours and I’m always reluctant to throw the decorative tins away 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: Rise - Breakfast coffee rising through a Moka pot 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: Attachment 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: Plain 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Sign 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: Lull - Need a lull in Storm Ciara to deal with a tree that’s blown down into our garden 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: Contrast - Some of my 2 Tone vinyl from the late 1970s 📷 🎵
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: Above - Wind turbines on the hills above Aberdare 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Plant - Winter morning herbs: frozen oregano and rosemary 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: Hide - I cannot claim credit for this photo, but I am the subject (concealed in a farmhouse in the St Fagans National Museum of History). My daughter took and post-processed the photograph for an A-Level Photography project. 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Spot - In honour of Day 4, my attempt at a vegan Spotted Dick using a slight variation on this recipe. It will look better with custard! 📷
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Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Reflect - Cardiff Bay, Saturday 18th January 2020 📷
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Sight - An old Philip Harris microscope 📷
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The Discover tab in Micro.blog’s Sunlit app is a brilliant way to browse February Photoblogging Challenge contributions. The timeline grid there goes a long way back. // @macgenie
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Cooked Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fried potatoes and eggs for Sunday brunch. Very comforting! Had to use a wok because I didn’t have a lidded frying pan with enough room for nearly 1.5kg of potatoes.
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The Mad Bishop & Bear. ESB, watching Wales v. Italy Six Nations rugby, waiting for a train to Cardiff. 🏉 🍺 — Drinking an ESB by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
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February Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Open - Books on display in the William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain 📷
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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 🗺
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Keats House, Hampstead
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St Pancras Old Church - memorial stone to Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and The Hardy Tree.
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St Pancras Old Church. Check in 🗺
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Margarita, wine and Brazilian dough balls by the Thames in winter 🥶
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The Wheatsheaf. Drinking a Landlord by Timothy Taylor. Check in 🗺
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Cardiff Bay to Penarth - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - vegan steak bake and espresso ☕️
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The Waterguard. Keg not cask :( — Drinking an Old Brewery Bitter by Samuel Smith. Check in 🗺
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McDonald’s. Check in 🗺 - Egg McMuffin and latte ☕️
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Revolucion de Cuba. Check in 🗺 - Malbec & Mojito 🍷
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In Bristol, dropping my daughter back off at university after the Xmas break.
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For the sake of balance, 🍷 … (sitting outside a pub in Bristol with LOTS of ‘vintage’ signs)
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Masons Arms. Drinking a Henry’s IPA by Wadworth
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The Moon at Wales Millennium Centre.
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Rooftop terrace at Celtic Manor Resort.
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Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Drinking a Hobby Horse by Rhymney Brewery
and a Gorlovka Imperial Stout by Acorn Brewery
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UK General Election. Polling stations open from 7am to 10pm. 🗳️
You don’t need your polling card or ID to vote. You just need to turn up!
A wet and breezy morning at our polling station.
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Found myself unusually popular tonight - often it’s more of an exclusive cat arrangement. 🐈
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Duke Of Wellington. Malbec 🍷
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Some really interesting photographs in this collection.
In the remains of a bombed-out Soviet darkroom, hundreds of rolls of film were discovered rotting among the rubble by the photojournalist Samuel Eder earlier this year.
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Brilliant live performance by Fat White Family at The Tramshed, Cardiff on Wednesday 22nd November. 🎵
Interesting recent interview with the band – link 🔗
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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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Duly delivered.
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Côte Brasserie. Needing a cooked breakfast 🍳
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Madame Bobalú 🍷
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Fantastic tapas and wine at Curado Bar, Cardiff, including Cabrales, my favourite blue cheese, and carpaccio de bacalao ahumado.
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Curado Bar. Brilliant tapas.
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Been shopping - now fully equipped for Xmas cake making this weekend. Apprehensive because last time I tried this the cake was terrible and ended up in the bin. But that was about 25 years ago…
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Rhoswenallt Inn. Drinking a Santa’s Little Belter by Glamorgan Brewing Co
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Gong and Steve Hillage at The Tramshed, Cardiff, 22nd November 2019 🎵
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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 Metaphor by Turning Point Brew Co.
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Rhoswenallt Inn. Drinking a Jemima’s Pitchfork by Glamorgan Brewing Co
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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 Faiza Shaheen. Both were impressive speakers, coming across very well and appearing passionate and knowledgeable about the issues of the current election campaign.
There were around 3000 people taking part, using Zoom video conferencing software - it worked well.
The format was a half hour discussion by the two main panellists plus a couple of guests, a 15 minute presentation of some Labour Party campaigning software, then a short Q&A session with John and Faiza answering questions raised by participants. Text chat was enabled for all participants.
It was good to see a new way of electoral candidates presenting their ideas in a political campaign. I only had two criticisms - the Q&A session could have been longer and the chat needed some moderation (it was spammed sporadically by a few users).
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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 music library with iOS 5.1.1 so long as tracks are ripped from CD, manually added audio files or purchased from iTunes. Tracks downloaded via Apple Music subscription do not sync.
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Cat on a (not Hot Tin) Roof
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Bunch of Grapes. Drinking a Mosaic Pale Ale by Grey Trees Brewery
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Cynon Valley Museum & Gallery.
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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 his lorry off our drive into soft ground. An impressive recovery vehicle had to completely lift the rear of the vehicle out of the mud. DX - Delivered Exactly!
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Sunny and warm enough to be sitting outside this afternoon with a coffee and a book. And two cats…
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Always get a crop of various fungi (mushrooms? toadstools?) in our garden during late summer and autumn. Wish I had the knowledge and confidence to decide if any of them were edible … but I don’t!
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Making sourdough starters using Paul Hollywood’s method. Very active even in our relatively cool kitchen.
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November afternoon in Cardiff Bay.
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The Dock. Drinking a SA Gold by Brains
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Saturday morning. First prepare coffee. Next make breakfast. Then take a seat for England v South Africa in the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final. 🏉
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Bristol Zoo Gardens. Luzon bleeding-heart.
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Wales v South Africa Rugby World Cup semi-final kickoff is early Sunday morning so will be sticking to trying a couple of alcohol free beers. 🍺 🏉
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Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Drinking a Dreadnought by Nottingham Brewery
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First time trying a selection of vegan cheeses.
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The Thin White Duke. Drinking a Loweswater Gold by Cumbrian Legendary Ales
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Editor’s Draught. Drinking a Editor’s Draught by Naylor’s Brewery
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Chips, cheese and gravy - Puckin’ Poutine.
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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 small grass snake. All safely relocated.
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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 …
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Gorgeous day for Glamorgan’s final home Specsavers County Championship match of the season against 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 beer garden. 🍺
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Delico Deli. Tuna melt panini
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Spiced Apple Chutney production
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Tenby Harbour
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Buccaneer Inn. Trawlers’ Dread black IPA 🍺
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Bank Holiday Monday cricket - Glamorgan v Sussex Sharks in Vitality Blast T20 match, Will Beer bowling to Sean Marsh 🏏
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At Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Suffolk for the weekend - Gomez on the BBC Sounds stage 🎵
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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 halloumi I’ve ever had!
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cafe Nostalgic (η νοσταλγός).
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Kalamari at Mikros Vasilias beach cafe
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Vegetarian whitebait?
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The House of Alexandros Papadiamantis in Skiathos 2017
The House of Alexandros Papadiamantis in Skiathos 2019
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Slighty disturbed that I’ve spent my pool and beach time this holiday lying on a One Direction towel.
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Increasing my limited space holiday cooking repertoire - ‘pizza’ made in a frying pan using pitas, fresh tomatoes, cheese, olive oil and oregano 🍕
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Tubes
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Skiathos mirror 2017
Skiathos mirror 2019
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A short walk - Achladias to Skiathos Town
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Vasilias Beach, Skiathos
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Vasilias Beach.
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Skiathos Town Cat
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Matthew Bourne’s ballet Romeo and Juliet at Wales Millennium Centre (this was the interval set piece, not the performance itself). Great dance, interesting and very dark setting.
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - South Africa v Afghanistan at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Imran Tahir (RSA) and Rashid Khan (AFG) bowling. Rain interruptions, but RSA win. 🏏
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woodfired pizza & kitchen.
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ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up match at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff - Bangladesh v India. First photo is of MS Dhoni and KL Rahul batting; both went on to score centuries in India’s innings of 359 🏏
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Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground. ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up - Bangladesh v India 🏏
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Some highlights of Merthyr Rising Festival 🎵 this weekend - Attila the Stockbroker and Bedface
The Neville Staple Band and Cast
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The immortal Gong at The Globe, Cardiff, Thursday 23rd May 2019 🎵
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Overgrown
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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 keep still for the panorama shot :) 🏏
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Royal London One-Day Cup - Glamorgan v Surrey at Sophia Gardens. Gareth Batty bowling to Billy Root, who went on to get a career-best unbeaten 113 in Glamorgan’s innings. 🏏
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Went to see Suede at The Great Hall, Cardiff University Students' Union last night 🎵. They were amazingly good, an absolutely electric gig from start to finish. I saw Suede twice in the 1990s with exactly the same lineup of Brett Anderson, Richard Oakes, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert and Neil Codling. Last night’s performance was as good as, if not better than, those earlier days.
Great support from BC Camplight (aka Brian Christinzio).
The Suede setlist was
- As One
- My Insatiable One
- Outsiders
- We Are the Pigs
- So Young
- Metal Mickey
- New Generation
- Tides
- She’s Not Dead
- Stay Together (Brett with Richard acoustic)
- The Drowners
- It Starts and Ends With You
- Indian Strings
- Trash
- Animal Nitrate
- Another No One (Brett solo acoustic)
- Beyond the Outskirts
- The Invisibles
- Flytipping
- Beautiful Ones (encore)
- Life Is Golden (encore)
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We’ve had this portable barbecue for 25 years now - it has served us well.
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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. Michael Hogan bowling to Alastair Cook. 🏏
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Retro-gaming at Kongs Bar, Cardiff.
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Chloe Foy at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff tonight - superb, now looking forward to seeing her at the Green Man Festival this year. 🎵
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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.
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Reflective cat
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Mixing it up in Amsterdam - ready for Wales game in Irish pub with Italian wine and lots of Dutch cheese. 🏉🏴🍷
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Spiritualized at Paradiso, Amsterdam. 🎵
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Carter Bar & Kitchen.
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Awaiting Spirtualized at Paradiso, Amsterdam. 🎵
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Rain, beer and guidebook.
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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)
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At the New Theatre, Cardiff for the RSC production of Romeo & Juliet.
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At the National Museum Cardiff visiting the Leonardo Da Vinci - A Life in Drawing exhibition.
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Another Sky at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff last night. Strong backlights, mists and shadows. Great music, really pleased that I got tickets as soon as I saw their set on Jools Holland’s Later last year. @anotherskymusic 🎵
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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.
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Walking in the snow this afternoon - with a view over Aberdare.
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Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.
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Tom Gauld on how to deal with owning too many books – 🔖 cartoon 📚
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Final night out in Venice.
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Checked in at Ai Barbacani
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Obligatory Venetian selfie.
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Checked in at Ca' Rezzonico
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San Michele, the cemetery of Venice - “possibly the most beautiful cemetery in the world” according to my guidebook.
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Washing day.
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First full day in Venice of our four night stay. Ogio cafe, where they fit as many crisps as possible into a bowl :)
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Checked in at The Cabin
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Checked in at Wahaca
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Checked in at Delico Deli. Coffee and toastie.
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A day in Nottingham – trams, Nottingham Trent University Open Day and Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.
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Garden casualty in today’s strong winds.
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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.
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Alone for my evening meal tonight, so I cooked moules marinière.
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King Crimson at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wednesday 31st October 2018. 🎵
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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 👻 🎃 📚
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David Byrne at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Saturday 27th October 2018. Brilliant show with excellent support from Benjamin Clementine. 🎵
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Testing out Pi-Hole applied as DNS to a few of our mobile devices - seems to be working well
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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 Bunnymen 🎵
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A day in Manchester City Centre
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Ceiling selfie
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Pint of Titanic Cherry Dark 🍺 in The Salutation – it was on these premises in 1846 that Charlotte Brontë started writing Jane Eyre 📚
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At Manchester Metropolitan University Open Day – my daughter considering a Psychology course here.
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Spot our cat 🐈 !
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Went to see the incredible Norwegian band Major Parkinson at Exchange in Bristol last night. One of the best live performances I’ve seen in a long time! 🎵
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Adding to the post-a-homescreen timeline. 📱
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Olive and anchovy 🍕
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Peace Park, a small park I walk through on my daily commute, looks to have completely flooded in heavy rain last night. A huge pile of bulrushes from a nearby pond is now blocking my path.
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Haven’t seen crows congregating next to Aberdare railway station before. They did this morning!
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These are impressive – India to break record for world’s largest statue - twice
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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.
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Checked in at El Greco. Third time in El Greco, Alykes in a fortnight. Great food!
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Checked in at Kaki Rahi Taverna
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Carcassonne in the bar
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Checked in at Anatolitiko (Ανατολίτικο)
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🥚 🥪 action!
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Checked in at Paolos Corner
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Checked in at Taverna Zorbas
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Greek coffee ☕️
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Checked in at Al Fresco
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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.
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Checked in at Κλαυδιανός
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Some limited space cooking – tomato, cheese and oregano omelectte and garlic/tomato bread.
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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.
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A view from a sun lounger.
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Indulging
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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 more colourful IRL 😀
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Delayed restart – view from opposite side of the stadium – Michael Hogan bowling to Aaron Finch – weather not good 🏏
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Interval, but covers on and raining ☔️ 🏏
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Glamorgan vs Surrey – Tom Curran bowling to Colin Ingram 🏏
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Tiny Rebel XLPA 🍺
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Kizuna – Japan Wales Design – exhibition at the National Museum in Cardiff
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Reducing a tomato glut 🍅
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My first ever Japanese whisky (bottle started a few weeks ago, not tonight!) - as a long-time consumer of Scottish whiskies, I’m very impressed.
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K. T. Tunstall 🎵
Edit after the event, when I wasn’t watching the bands:
K. T. Tunstall was supporting
The Pretenders and
Simple Minds
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One of our cats appears to have lost her front legs – the other is fine!
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Lovely sunny breakfast this morning - going to be another hot weekend I think 😎
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Couple of shots of the River Taff taken whilst walking back into Cardiff from the cricket at Sophia Gardens.
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Glamorgan vs Gloucestershire T20 at Sophia Gardens – Tye bowling to Meschede in the final over. Glamorgan heading to a total of 201 🏏
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Variation from The Green Roasting Tin – Courgette, Beetroot, Onion and Goat’s Cheese Tart
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Leaving an outside light on has attracted a few moths.
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Inter-band reading :)
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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 childhood! Stig of the Dump author Clive King dies aged 94 📚
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The Breeders at the O2 Academy Bristol, Tuesday 10th July 🎵
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Pip Blom 🎵
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At the O2 Academy, Bristol awaiting The Breeders 🎵
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Glamorgan vs. Sussex Sharks in T20 Blast at Sophia Gardens on Sunday 8th July. Rashid Khan bowling to Colin Ingram. 🏏
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England vs. India at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Friday 6th July.
England 149 for 5
India 148 for 5
England win by 5 wickets
🏏India’s 6th over: Liam Plunkett bowling to Virat Kohli. Suresh Raina at non-striker’s end.
India’s 11th over: Kohli and Raina still batting.
England’s 19th over: Umesh Yadav bowling to Alex Hales. David Willey at the non-striker’s end.
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The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer @missminifer arrived today – Oven Baked Ratatouille cooked.
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Ouzo summer evenings time.
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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 (Illustrator) 📚
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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 🎵
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Fatoumata Diawara, Le Gateau Chocolat and stage views last night at Utopia, curated by Charlotte Church as part of the Cardiff Festival of Voice. 🎵
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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.
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Aberdare Canal - on a walk to work this morning after my train was cancelled.
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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 🏏
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Amber warning: Severe thunderstorms likely to produce torrential downpours, flooding in some places and frequent lightning.
Think I’ll try and get home by 4pm today.
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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 📚
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Merthyr Rising Festival 2018
Dreadzone – Friday 25th May
Roland Gift (of the Fine Young Cannibals) – Saturday 26th May
The Blockheads – Sunday 27th May
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Enjoying my first listen to Sweet Thursday – the new Herman Dune album released today. 🎵
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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 with lots of images.
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Gateway 📷
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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.
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Checked in at Bar 44. Tapas.
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Pembroke vs. Porthcawl WRU Bowl Final 🏉
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Cooking!
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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. 📚
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Checked in at Aberdare Railway Station (ABA)
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Checked in at Rhoswenallt Inn
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Interesting - island stage set up for Arcade Fire tonight at the NEC. Don’t know where the front is! 🎵
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Checked in at Ask
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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.
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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!
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View over the beach from The Old Chemist Inn at Saundersfoot.
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Tenby Harbour.
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St. Fagans Museum of Welsh Life
Kennixton Farmhouse
Iron Age Roundhouses
Abernodwydd Farmhouse
Stryd Lydan Barn
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Wales Millennium Centre for Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella.
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Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella.
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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 🎵
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Now reading The Executor by Blake Morrison. 📚
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Ludlow Castle.
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Long Mynd - a bit cold and misty.
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Ludlow Brewery.
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Definitely something up with Dark Sky (I hope!)
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Just found an old Acorn A5000 computer at work (monitor doesn’t belong with it). Still boots, but keyboard seems dodgy. No idea what I’m going to do with it!
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Another snow day means time to bake some scones (and Scottish shortbread biscuits, and a rosemary and garlic bread)!
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The Return of the Snow.
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Looking a bit cold in Bolton for the Villa game. Pleased not to be there!
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Tonight I will definitely be getting my greens!
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I finally got to watch Blade Runner 2049 last weekend. Very impressed with the film so have decided to re-read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to remind myself of where it all started. 🎬📚
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Pizza ready to go!
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Pizza 🍕 entering the oven.
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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 Islamic Art, Athens.
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Snow days.
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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, published on the anniversary of her birth, February 22nd 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay’s poetry has been eclipsed by her personal life – let’s change that 📚
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Athens (stylised by Google)
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Flight home delayed :( :)
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Last day in Athens
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Parko Navarinou
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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. Grave enclosure of the Herakleotai, Street of the Tombs.
Ca. 350 B.C.
Photo II:
A relief of the deceased girl Eukoline, shown with her parents, her grandmother and her dog. Found near the Sacred Way.
Ca. 350 B.C.
Photo III:
Grave relief of Demetria and Pamphile.
The inscription beneath the pediment gives the names of the two dead sisters.
The women, remote and isolated, gaze apathetically at the spectator. They are already in another, transcendental world, far from the things of this life. The pilasters of the naiskos have been restored. It is one of the last tomb stones made before the law passed by Demetrios of Phaleron prohibiting the erection of luxurious tomb monuments.
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I was very impressed with the ancient cemetery site of Kerameikos in Athens today.
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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 arcade that served some great fried seafood dishes and wine at €3 a litre :)
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Out of Order.
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Really enjoyed England vs Wales 🏉 today. Result for England was just about deserved, Jonny May was superb, but weather was atrocious!
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Pre-rugby 🏉 breakfast at Delico Deli, Aberdare.
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Now reading The Outrun by Amy Liptrot 📚
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Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern, North African and Italian ingredients from Sous Chef - let the cooking commence!
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Sunlit test from my Instagram account.
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First test photo from Sunlit
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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 spent listening to The Fall, from the late 70s, recording their sessions from the John Peel Show, to seeing them at the Green Man festival a couple of years ago (pictured here). Favourite albums Live at the Witch Trials and Grotesque.
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St. David’s Hall, Cardiff for La Traviata.
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Checked in at Delico Deli. Aberdare, large Americano and a cheese and onion pasty.
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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. 📚
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Sea bass grilled, served with a borlotti bean and mushroom stew and broccoli stir fried with chilli and garlic.
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Not quite the weather for a BBQ, but planning to charcoal grill some sea bass on our balcony. May end in disaster!
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Checked in at Chicco di Grano. Final lunch in Rome. Seren having spaghetti al pomodoro again…
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Through the Keyhole.
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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
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The Colosseum
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Circus Maximus
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Lights!
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Checked in at Trattoria Al 19. Brilliant meal!
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Keats-Shelley House
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Spot the coins …
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Checked in at Antico Caffè Greco. Espresso con panna.
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Colosseum
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Denise at Er Baretto, Rome.
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Seren at Er Baretto, Rome.
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Checked in at David’s Italian Restaurant
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The first Christmas card designed by John Callcott Horsley in 1843.
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Despite overnight snow we still managed to receive a delivery of a fine selection of Italian, Spanish and Greek wines from @NakedWines. Now ready for Xmas. 🍷
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Slightly snowy outlook from my front door this morning
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My daughter and her grandfather head for our local pub.
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Wales 24-22 South Africa
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Cafe Citta, Cardiff
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Checked in at Watershed for Happy End
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Heading to the Rhos
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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 (stock reduction). It’s an interesting and well photographed travel journal of a trip around Sri Lanka in addition to a multitude of recipes picked up along the way. Tonight I cooked from it for the first time - Boiled Egg Curry, Spinach with Dhal and Fried Cabbage -
The results were superb; gently spiced but extremely tasty. A lucky random find that I can highly recommend!
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Pizza time 🍕
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day Seven: “Shadow”. I haven’t been outside much in the daylight today so have had to resort to candlelit shadows …
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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 paella this evening. Hipstamatic filter applied.
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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 and pepper casserole. @douglane
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day One: “Squares”. Taken on a short and muddy walk this afternoon. @douglane
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Syd Arthur at Clwb Ifor Bach, Friday 10th November 2017 @sydarthurband @ClwbIforBach
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Queso de Cabrales - a brilliant blue cheese!
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Heading to Cardiff to see the outstanding Syd Arthur @sydarthurband at Clwb Ifor Bach tonight.
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Frost & fog this morning.
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Sunny morning in Monmouth
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Checked in at The Gate House. More Wye Valley Hopfather!
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Checked in at Monnow Bridge
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Checked in at Fernhill Railway Station (FER)
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Another Twitter irritation I haven’t come across before!
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A touch of mist
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Checked in at Peace Park
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Early Bird tickets booked ― Merthyr Rising Festival 2018 - Music, arts, and ideas at the birthplace of the red flag.
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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 December
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Morning
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October, but great weather, so I’m barbecuing a mackerel
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🌕 Full moon this morning
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🍷 I’ve got to admit that I am seduced by interesting wine labels. In this case the wine is also pretty good!
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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!
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Revived my old Samsung Q1 after several years of it sitting in a drawer and have actually been using it for something useful over the last couple of days.
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Extensive pruning of the trees along the lane leading to my house has opened up the view across the Cynon Valley.
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Photographing the rather bleak Carlisle Castle on a rather bleak day.
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Fruit Bats at Green Man Festival @Fruit_Bats @GreenManFest
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Oh noes! @GreyTreesBrewer @GreenManFest #beer
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Old servers out, data migrated to new servers, tidier server room! Next stage is upgrading to Server 2016 next week…
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Interesting article by Gladstone Small about Lawrence Rowe in the August 2017 edition of The Cricketer magazine @TheCricketerMag
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Enjoying my final Fix in Greece
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House of Alexandros Papadiamantis
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Reflecting on Skiathos town
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Skiathos town
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…with a view!
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Tapas time…
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Crib time
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We’re staying in a room about 12’x15' - impressed that there is an illuminated exit sign above our door in case of emergency!
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Looking across to mainland Greece from Skiathos
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Agia Paraskevi beach
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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
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Greece needs bigger tables (or maybe we should order less food) …
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Up close and personal 🦇
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Curiously, a bat just decided to land on my doorstep.
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BBQ imminent …
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Broken hammock replaced :)
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A poplar hawk-moth has appeared in my server room.
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Hot day = Ouzo night
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Had a hammock disaster :(
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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 @ginvodkaco - 30+ min for a drink is not acceptable 😡
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Royal Gun Salute outside Cardiff City Hall
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Early to vote in the rain
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Bought the book, not so convinced by the wine … #Hay30 @yanisvaroufakis
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And finally - Alabama 3 headlining Sunday night at Merthyr Rising - Superb!@TheAlabama3 @merthyrrising alabama3.co.uk
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Fantastic to see the Grey Trees brewery bar at the Merthyr Rising festival - enjoyed great beer all weekend! @greytreesbrewer @merthyrrising greytreesbrewery.co.uk
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Stereo MCs headlining Merthyr Rising on Saturday night
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Pretty Vicious in Penderyn Square, Merthyr Tydfil on Friday night.
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Valley view
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The Crucible opening set
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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, surely it would reduce littering…
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Beavertown Smog Rocket Smoked Porter - unfiltered, unpasteurised, natural beer from beavertownbrewery.com
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When broadcasting 4:3 programmes for widescreen television do we really need bright pink borders - surely black is better.
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The Line
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Nice evening
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I’ve been polled! #vote
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Walking home
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Afon Cynon
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A fantastique test photo from the micro.blog iOS app
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Llansteffan Castle
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Daffodils blooming on Boxing Day
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Deer in Cardiff
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Sir Tom Jones
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