Photography @ the dim pause

Stokes Croft

Redcliffe Bascule Bridge, Bristol

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Watching the Strictly Come Dancing Final with family & friends 💃🕺

Champagne 🥂 Beer 🍺 Port 🍷 Snacks

Pizzas arriving soon 🍕

A person is pouring champagne into glasses on a table with snack bowls, hummus, and a drink can.

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First sighting of a jay (Garrulus glandarius) feeding in the garden this winter.

A bird with brown and blue feathers stands on grass and fallen leaves.

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Emergency lighting evening. Will be attempting Trivial Pursuit by candlelight accompanied by cheese and wine 🎲🧀🍷😀

Candlelit lounge with a game and wine on a coffee table

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Storm Darragh 💨

Tree down in garden

A misty backyard features a moss-covered roof, several trees, one fallen and a white house with a sloped roof in the background.

Gate not happy 😢

A metal gate is leaning against an uprooted tree near a house, surrounded by greenery and wet ground.

Just missed greenhouse and shed

A large tree has fallen over a grassy area, surrounded by other trees and a house in the background.

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1954 Pegaso Z-102

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1971 Matra 530 LX

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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

A serene lake landscape features calm water, overcast skies, and trees lining the shore.

and Aberdare Park today (Friday) - clear and cold

A serene park scene features empty benches on a grassy field with trees silhouetted against a sunrise sky.

A grassy field containing a stone circle with standing stones is set against a backdrop of hills and trees. A flock of geese has is on the ground amongst the stones.

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Misty morning walk in Dare Valley Country Park 🚶‍♂️

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Wild God Tour - Cardiff Utilita Arena, Wednesday 6th November 2024 🎵

A lively concert scene with a performer on stage, vibrant lighting, and a large crowd. The backdrop features a screen displaying the performer, surrounded by musical instruments and band members.

A person in a suit and tie is singing into a microphone on stage, with musical instruments in the background. The image appears to be a large screen projection at a concert with a crowd visible at the bottom. The colors are in a sepia tone

A large concert venue filled with a crowd. The stage is illuminated with bright lights and features musicians performing. Large screens display the performers, with one showing a person holding a microphone. Concertgoers are silhouetted in the foreground, some with raised hands

Supported by Black Country, New Road

A band performing on stage with multiple musicians playing instruments. There is dramatic stage lighting and a large screen displaying a close-up of a singer. The audience is visible in the foreground.

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Utilita Arena, Cardiff to see Nick Cave with Black Country, New Road as support 🎵

A man wearing a yellow hoodie stands with a drink in a large indoor venue. Behind him, there's a large illuminated sign reading WILD GOD. Several security personnel are visible in the background. The setting appears to be an event or concert.

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Autumn walk

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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 🥧

A baked tart on a cooling rack sits on a wooden table. Next to it is an open cookbook titled The French Market Cookbook. In the background is a bookshelf filled with cookbooks.

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Red Admiral basking in today’s sun ☀️🦋

A Red Admiral butterfly with vibrant orange and black markings on its wings, resting on a textured surface.

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Moonlit view over Lindos on our way to our final evening meal in Rhodes at Agostinos Restaurant.

A moonlit coastal village scene at night, featuring illuminated white buildings and a rocky hillside. The sea shimmers under the moonlight, and a car's headlights create light trails along a narrow road.

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Herding goats 🐐

A woman in a purple dress walks down a rural asphalt road towards a group of goats. The landscape is dry and rocky, with hills and sparse vegetation under a clear blue sky.

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Retsina and Hive on the beach 🏖️🍷

Two people playing a board game with hexagonal tiles featuring insect designs on a blue and white striped beach towel. One person is pouring white wine into plastic cups, and there are sunglasses and sneakers nearby.

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🐈 #Caturday poolside attack 😁

A white cat is sitting on a poolside lounge chair, nibbling on someone's toes. Two pairs of legs are visible, with one person wearing orange shorts. Another person is walking in the background near the pool. Lounge chairs are arranged around the pool.

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Sailing into the olive grove

A small, weathered boat with a canopy is surrounded by overgrown grass and trees. An orange and pink cloth is draped over the front. A dirt path runs alongside, and the background features hills and a colorful sunset sky. Various scattered items

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Sailing into the olive grove

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The Acropolis of Lindos

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The Acropolis of Lindos

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The Acropolis of Lindos

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Quite a warm walk up to the Acropolis of Lindos this afternoon 🏛️

A couple is standing next to a stone wall overlooking a scenic coastal view. The woman is holding a round bag and wearing a patterned top and shorts, while the man is wearing a cap, sunglasses, and a striped shirt.

Ancient ruins with tall stone columns and a partially standing wall under a clear blue sky. A person stands next to a small tree amidst rocky terrain.

Ancient Greek ruins with tall columns and stone steps under a clear blue sky. Two people are sitting on the steps, and a few figures are visible on a higher level in the background.

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A Fix 🍺

A man with glasses sits at a table on a balcony, enjoying a drink. The view overlooks a scenic bay with boats and a distant hillside. The setting is sunny and framed by a tree and railing.

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Pool morning 🌞

Outdoor swimming pool with clear blue water, surrounded by sunbeds and closed umbrellas. Palm trees and rocky hills are in the background under a clear blue sky.

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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 🐈‍⬛ 🙂

A sunny beach scene with people swimming and relaxing on the sand. There's a rocky shoreline and clear blue water. Boats are anchored in the bay, and potted plants are on the beach. The backdrop features rocky hills under a clear sky.

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Starting my vowel collection

A Scrabble board game setup on a table with a rack of tiles showing the letters A, E, I, O, U, R and a blank tile. A bottle labeled CAIR Retsina and a partially filled glass are nearby.

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Demanding entry

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Cocktails with a view 🍸🏛️

A nighttime view of a coastal village with white buildings, illuminated by warm lights. Above the village, a large, well-lit fortress sits on a hill with the sea visible in the background.

Two cocktails with lime and ice on a table at a rooftop bar, with a scenic view of a lit-up city and hill in the background. A small bowl of snacks is next to the drinks, and a couple of modern table lamps provide subtle lighting

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Let Me In 🐈

A rustic stone entrance with a wooden door, surrounded by white plastered walls. Stone steps lead up to the doorway. A cat is sitting on the steps looking up at the doorway.

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Alien landscape 🇬🇷

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Alien landscape

Rocky, arid landscape at sunset with scattered shrubs and trees. A solitary tree stands in the distance under a gradient sky transitioning from blue to pink. Sparse vegetation and dry grass cover the uneven terrain.

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Good morning from Rhodes ☕️

View of a Mediterranean coastal village with white buildings, a swimming pool, and lush greenery. A palm tree stands in the center, with distant mountains and the sea in the background under a clear blue sky.

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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.

Close-up of a purple scabiosa flower with delicate petals and long stamens, set against a blurred green background.

A field with tall grass and numerous small purple flowers, set against a backdrop of dense, green foliage and trees.

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Antiques. Rue Blaes, Brussels

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Brussels Beer Project Bailli

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La Fleur en Papier Doré, Brussels

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Window next door to La Fleur en Papier Doré, Brussels. With reflection of the windows of the building opposite 😄

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Bird bath ⛲️

A group of pigeons are gathered around and bathing in a water fountain situated in a park. The fountain is actively spraying water, and one pigeon is captured mid-flight above the others. The background includes a grassy area, trees, and a tall building.

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Bird bath ⛲️

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Back in the UK and having margaritas at San Marino in Brixton 🍸

Image of a corner building with ornate architectural details, featuring a turret and large windows. The sign on the building reads San Marino. The scene is illuminated with string lights hanging across the storefront, against a backdrop of a deep blue evening sky.

Two cocktails garnished with lime wedges and one tall glass of beer on a round, marble-top table in an outdoor seating area of a restaurant or bar.

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Moules frites at Ploegmans, Rue Haute 148, Bruxelles, Belgium 🇧🇪

A man with glasses and a striped shirt is seated at a wooden table in a cozy restaurant. In front of him is a meal consisting of a pot of mussels, a basket of fries, and a glass of white wine. The background features wooden panels and mirrors.

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Favourite bar of yesterday - Le Coq. And Nick Cave was in the Gents 😊🍺

An empty, rustic pub interior with wooden tables and chairs, a long cushioned bench along the wall, and a wooden bar. The pub is adorned with chalkboards listing drinks, hanging light fixtures, and a dark wooden ceiling.

A cozy pub interior with wooden elements and red cushioned seating. The walls display various vintage beer advertisements, including brands like Duvel, Saison Dupont, Moinette and Gouden Carolus. A framed painting hangs above a small table.

A wall cluttered with posters and stickers. The central poster promotes Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and their new album Wild God set to release on August 30, with concert dates listed for October in Antwerp.

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View over Brussels 👀

A close-up of a pigeon perched on a concrete ledge with a cityscape in the background. The sky is partly cloudy with blue patches, and there is a modern glass elevator structure on the left.

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Surrounded 🍺

A man sits at a rustic wooden table in a cozy café, drinking beer. The table has two bottles of beer and a bowl of snacks. The interior decor features hanging vintage marionette dolls and a mural of old European buildings and people.

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Favourite bar of yesterday - La Fleur en Papier Doré 🍺

A street scene showing a row of buildings with large windows. The building on the left has a storefront with a large black-and-white photograph of people displayed in the window. The building on the right houses a café with decorative metalwork and blue accents.

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Elbow at Cirque Royal, Koninklijk Circus, Brussels tonight. Brilliant! 🎵

Concert scene with dramatic lighting and beams of light shining onto the stage. A band is performing, with musicians playing instruments and a vocalist singing. A large audience watches, many holding up their phones to record the event.

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Brussels Beer Project 🍺

An indoor café or bar scene with a wooden table and two glasses of beer in the foreground. The glasses have colorful designs on them. The seating includes green chairs, and the walls are decorated with white and red tiles. There is red neon lighting illuminating the scene.

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Raised bridge. Arrived in London yesterday for the start of six day mini-break - travelling onwards today 🚆🗺️

Tower Bridge in London spanning the River Thames on a cloudy day, with boats on the river and trees on the left bank.

A close-up view of the iconic blue ironwork and gate of London's Tower Bridge, with the raised road visible in the background. The structure displays the distinct blue and black arches typical of the bridge's design.

A group of people standing on the walkway near Tower Bridge in London, taking photos and looking up at the bridge. The image shows the bridge's structure, with its towering stone pillars and blue metal framework.

A bustling scene on Tower Bridge in London, showing a large group of cyclists and pedestrians during what appears to be a busy day. The iconic modern London skyline, including The Gherkin and The Walkie Talkie building, is visible in the background

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XL 🍺

A man with a beard and glasses is holding a large cup of beer at an outdoor event. He is wearing a striped shirt and has a backpack on one shoulder. There are tents and other people in the background, with a banner that says BAR.

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The Water Lilies

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The Water Lilies

A pond with numerous lily pads and a few blooming white water lilies surrounded by reflective water and greenery.

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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

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White

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Red

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Vines & Poplars

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Llanerch Vineyard

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Very interesting and enjoyable visit to and tour of Llanerch Vineyard, Vale of Glamorgan yesterday for wine tasting and lunch 🍷

A lush vineyard stretches into the distance under a clear blue sky with scattered clouds.

Wine was sampled!

A person is standing in a vineyard holding two glasses with a sunny blue sky and lush green vines in the background.

Red

A bunch of dark purple grapes is hanging on a vine surrounded by green leaves.

White

A vineyard features grapevines with clusters of green grapes under a bright blue sky.

Guardian of the Grape

A falcon-shaped scarecrow stands in a lush vineyard under a clear blue sky.

Vines & Poplars

A lush vineyard with rows of grapevines stretches across a sunny landscape, with a row of poplar trees and a blue sky.

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Favourite breakfast again 🥯

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Levels of processing.

Halide’s Process Zero

A cat sits on a wooden bench in front of a white stucco wall with a window. A small plant is visible to the side of the bench.

and NordStudio’s Wes Anderson - Inspired

An open field with tall grasses and wildflowers under a blue sky with a few clouds. Trees and bushes border the horizon, and there is a barbed wire fence in the foreground.

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Summer walk

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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 🍤

An outdoor scene featuring a white wall with a packet of Scampi Flavour Fries, a glass of white wine, and a Roberts sports DAB radio.

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Seat taken

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Thursday night tapas at Bar 44, Cardiff

A bearded man is sitting at a restaurant table with several plates of food, looking towards the camera, while other diners are seated in the background.

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Cardiff gull

A lone seagull perches on top of a cash machine in front of a tall, modern building.

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Cardiff gull

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The Village Inn, Pontprennau. An hour or so of time to kill 🍺

A pint of Guinness beer on a weathered wooden picnic table outdoors, with a backdrop of green foliage and a partly cloudy sky.

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I’m not expecting too much help with the decorating this morning 🐈‍⬛ 💤

A partially renovated room showing exposed plaster on walls, a chandelier, and a large window with light streaming in. A stepladder, mop, and bucket are present, indicating ongoing work. A white duvet covers a sofa. A cat is sleeping on the duvet.

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Jamaican Dragon Stout in a half pint bottle. Should have bought more than one 😞🍺

A glass of dark beer and a bottle of Dragon Stout on a wooden table. The bottle label features a red dragon and the text Original Jamaican Dragon Stout. In the background, there is a wooden bench and part of a white wall

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Holiday's end

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Weather yesterday was good enough for garden pizza 😄

A woman is preparing pizza dough outdoors on a floured wooden board. A freshly baked pizza topped with olives, cheese, and capers sits on another wooden board next to a jar of Mutti tomato sauce. A small table with various ingredients is in the background.

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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

A weathered, rocky terrain with a carved T shaped deep groove. A single foot wearing a black sandal is visible at the bottom left, highlighting the uneven surface. Small patches of green plants are scattered within the rock crevices.

A rocky beach coastline with clear blue water, a red inflatable boat in the shallow bay, and a small cart on the beach holding kayaks and paddleboards. In the background, there are white buildings and green trees under a clear blue sky.

A sandy, narrow path flanked by low stone walls, surrounded by green shrubs and bushes under a clear blue sky. The path appears to lead towards a distant horizon with minimal vegetation.

Wooden informational signboard at Cova des Pardals - Son Vell in a natural, rocky landscape. The sign includes a map, text details about the area, regulations, and symbols indicating prohibited activities. The sky is clear and blue.

A rugged rocky landscape with small green plants scattered throughout. The background features low bushes and a clear blue sky.

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Ciutadella 🇪🇸

A couple standing together, posing for a photo on a stone terrace with a scenic backdrop of a coastal town. The man is wearing sunglasses, a striped shirt, and shorts, while the woman is in a green patterned dress with a white woven handbag.

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Morning coffee in Menorca ☕️🇪🇸

A serene outdoor patio featuring a white table with a cup of coffee and a decorative ashtray on it. In the background, there is a cushioned daybed with a canopy surrounded by green artificial grass. The area is enclosed by white walls with rising sun and blue sky above.

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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 ⚽️

A cozy room with a wooden table, on which sits a glass of dark beer and a bottle of Fuller's Golden Pride. In the background, a television is showing a soccer match with a player in a white jersey with the number 9 on the chest

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Election night. I’m not sure why but I’m staying up. Dual screening. Having a whisky 🥃

A living room capturing a dual screen setup. The television displays a news broadcast about the election, while an iPad on the coffee table streams a live video chat titled Freedom's Anarchist Election Night Watchalong.

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Today’s kitchen experiment: Lacto-fermented green beans. Results will be known in about a fortnight 🤔

A glass jar filled with pickled green beans and herbs is placed on a wooden surface with various kitchen items in the background.

A recipe for lacto-fermented green beans with garlic and bay leaves, featuring preparation instructions and ingredient list.

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New premises in Aberdare for our local independent craft brewery Grey Trees Brewery 🍺

A modern building with a grey roof, green and grey walls, labeled Grey Trees, stands adjacent to an empty parking lot under a partly cloudy sky.

A dark-colored warehouse with the numbers 18, 19, and 20 on its doors is surrounded by parked cars and greenery under a partly cloudy sky.

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UK General Election

Vote! 🗳️

A stone building with a slate roof, serving as a polling station, is situated behind a gated entrance with surrounding greenery under a cloudy sky

A stone building with large windows and green gutters appears to be an entrance to a school, as indicated by the signs on the doors and windows.

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Also keeping an eye on the football ⚽️

A glass of beer and a can of Birrificio Angelo Poretti sit on a wooden table in a living room with a soccer game on TV in the background.

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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 🙏 🎵

A musical trio performing on stage in a dimly-lit venue with colorful lighting. The three musicians are playing different instruments, including a banjo and a double bass, with a backdrop featuring architectural elements lit in red and green.

A black and white photo of a live music performance featuring three musicians. The setting includes an ornate stage backdrop with classical architectural details. The band consists of one person playing an electric guitar, another playing an upright bass, and a third singing

Three musicians perform on stage in a dimly lit venue. One plays an electric guitar, another stands by a double bass, and the third plays a violin. The backdrop features large, illuminated artwork and colorful lighting. An audience watches the performance.

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.

Black and white image of a neoclassical church with tall columns and a domed bell tower. The church is at the top of a long flight of steps, bordered by trees and an iron fence.

Black and white photo of a stone stairway and railings, surrounded by trees and historic buildings. A sign reads Welcome to St George's Bristol. The scene also includes iron railings and a lamp post.

A black and white photograph of a historical church featuring prominent columns and a dome. A streetlamp stands in the foreground, and lush foliage surrounds the church. A person is seated on a bench near the pathway leading to the church. The sky is cloudy.

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Calvados Old Ale - 2022 Vintage

A glass and a bottle of Moor Vaults limited release barrel-aged beer are on a wooden coffee table. A tray of assorted chocolates is also on the table. In the background, a television screen shows a soccer match being played.

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 📖☕️🐈

A black-and-white cat is lounging on a wooden picnic table in a garden. Next to the cat is a white mug and a pink book titled The KLF by John Higgs. The surroundings include lush, green bushes.

#Caturday

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European Hornet 🦟 (Vespa crabro)

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A grey, rainy morning in Cardiff ☔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

A cityscape view showing a multi-story building with a sign for Queens Arcade and a Tim Hortons cafe on the ground floor. The image features other buildings in the background, including modern high-rises and a church-like structure with spires

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Nye 🎭

A theater view from the balcony, showing a stage with a single bed prop under blue lighting. The audience is seated and waiting for a performance to start, with a mix of empty and occupied seats.

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Wales Millennium Centre for Nye, starring Michael Sheen 🎭

A yellow table with a theatre programme from The National Theatre titled Nye placed on it. The programme mentions a new drama by Tim Price and displays a person in pyjamas posing dramatically.

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Bunch of Grapes’ vegan starters and mains. Recommended! 😋

A dining setup featuring two plates of food on a wooden table with two glasses of beer. The plate in the foreground has a sophisticated presentation of what appears to be a dish with patés and garnished vegetables.

A wooden table setting at a restaurant with two plates of gourmet food and two glasses of beer. The foreground plate features a dish with cheese, a vegetable tart, and a side salad; the background plate has a different dish topped with grilled broccoli.

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At the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd to try their Vegan Grill Week menu.

A pint of amber beer sits on a wooden table next to a printed menu for Vegan Grill Week, running from May 21st to May 25th, 2024. The menu features a selection of smoked and grilled vegetable dishes.

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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.

A large building is wrapped in magenta fabric adorned with various textile art pieces. The surrounding area features people walking, sitting on benches, and a few outdoor tables in a plaza on a sunny day. Modern skyscrapers are visible in the background.

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Hackney Den

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☕️

A woman with glasses is sitting at an outdoor café table, smiling and preparing Vietnamese coffee using a traditional drip filter. Two glasses of coffee with condensed milk are on the table. In the background, a London ambulance and a few buildings are visible.

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Very continental! Made in France wine merchant on Church Street, Stoke Newington. Sparkling burgundy 🤷🏼‍♂️🍷🇫🇷

A man with white hair and a beard, wearing glasses and a striped shirt, sits at a round yellow table outside a café on a city street. Two glasses of white wine are on the table. In the background, there are buildings and a church.

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Sunny afternoon in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. Small picnic of beer, olives and crisps 🌞

A scenic pond surrounded by lush green trees and vegetation under a partly cloudy sky. A building is visible in the background. A water fountain in the pond creates a gentle spray. Waterfowl are swimming on the water's surface.

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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) 📸

Daily Top Nine Hipstamatic photos from May 18, 2024. The images include: a misty lake with trees, an ancient stone tower on a hill, sunsets, a nighttime street food stall and flower close ups.

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24h Bagel House 🥯

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A man with white hair and beard is standing on a rooftop holding a pint of beer. He is wearing sunglasses and a blue T-shirt with a yellow circular design. The background includes a cityscape with buildings and a blue sky.

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Hotel rooftop bar serving a microbrewery IPA 🍺😊

A rooftop scene with a wooden table, pink and black chairs, and a glass of beer in the center. The background features a metal railing and a cityscape under a blue, partly cloudy sky.

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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 🗳️

Old stone building, yard and walls with a Polling Station sign in Welsh and English pinned up on fencing outside

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hometown — day 30 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Black and white photo of a town square with historic buildings, a few pedestrians, lamp posts, and a tree.

Here’s an older post with a few more photos

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drift — day 29 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Severn at Worcester

A river flowing through a city with green trees lining the banks, a cathedral in the distance, and a cloudy sky above.

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community — day 28 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Tewkesbury Abbey

Interior of a Gothic cathedral showing vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows, stone columns, and rows of wooden chairs.

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Crossed the old Severn Bridge for a change

A bridge with a vehicle driving on it, traffic cones delineating lanes, and suspension cables visible against an overcast sky.

A vintage-style photograph of a sea view from a pier with a metal railing and a lamp post, under an overcast sky.

Black and white photo of a suspension bridge, with cables converging towards the top of the towers, and a single van driving along the road.

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surprise — day 27 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Unusual places to find a cat!

Black cat crouched on a kitchen worktop in a corner under a shelf and next to a wine rack

#Caturday bonus 🐈 🙂

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critter — day 26 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Tate Modern Turbine Hall, October 2008

Giant spider-like sculpture in a large industrial hall filled with yellow and blue metal bunk bed frames amongst which people wander

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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

A collection of old books with worn spines on a bookshelf, including works by Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats

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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

City at dusk with illuminated Xmas lights and historic buildings. Pedestrians walking an a pavement under the lights. Clear pale blue sky.

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dreamy — day 23 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Pet Shimmers, 2019 🎵

Darkly lit band on stage with backdrop of bright screens with hazy pictures of a person wearing bright red lipstick

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blue — day 22 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Thasos, July 2022 🇬🇷

Expanse of blue sea beneath blue skies. Mountians just visible on the horizon. A small boat is causing a wake in the middle distance.

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mountain — day 21 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

The Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire, April 2015.

Broad grass path through gorse and bracken. Tall pointed mountain in the distance. Blue skies above.

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ice — day 20 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Sunny Saturday Aperol Spritz 🌞

A glass of iced beverage on a sunny day, with a blurred background featuring outdoor seating.

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birthday — day 19 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

My daughter and I both had birthdays this week! 🎂

Two people sitting at a bar with glasses of red wine and a bottle of Tilia wine on the table.

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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 📸

A night sky with a silhouette of tree branches, some leaves illuminated by artificial light from below, against a backdrop of a wooden fence adorned with string lights.

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Black Lion, Aberaeron. Quiet little beer garden (yard?) overlooked by a chapel 🍺💒

Two glasses of beer on a wooden table, with an outdoor seating area and stone buildings in the background.

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Clear skies last night means there’s a little frost this morning. Sitting outside with a hot coffee ☕️

A serene pond surrounded by budding trees with a small wooden dock in the foreground and clear blue skies above.

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Impressions

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🌌

A low-light scene with silhouettes of trees against a twilight sky reflected on the surface of a pond, with a wooden dock post in the foreground.

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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 😊 🌌

A table set with a bottle of Barolo wine, two glasses, a box of crackers, a plate of cheese, a bowl of olives, and a small jar of pear and date chutney.

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Another breezy beach walk today

Sandy beach with a lone figure walking, coastal buildings nestled on the hillside, dark clouds overhead.

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transcendence — day 17 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Saint Carannog overlooking Llangrannog

A bronze statue of a figure looking out to sea, standing on a cliff overlooking a rugged coastline with a sandy beach, rocky outcrops, and rolling green hills under a cloudy sky.

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It’s my birthday today 🎂

Got a fortune cookie to open with my cards 🥠

Better to be lucky than clever

A collection of birthday greeting cards displayed on a surface, one featuring an illustration of a person reading with the phrase I like to party and by party I mean read books. In front of the cards, there's a fortune cookie wrapper

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First BBQ of 2024 🍷

A barbecue grill cooking sausages and mushrooms, outdoors near a fence and greenspace.

Outdoor meal setup with two glasses of red wine, a bottle, grilled sausages, slices of bread on plates, coleslaw, Sriracha sauce, and condiments on a white round table with a natural backdrop.

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flâneur — day 16 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Is a beach flâneur possible? New Quay, Ceredigion

A person walking on a sandy beach with boats in the water and buildings along the coastline under a blue sky dotted with clouds.

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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 🔬

A laboratory setup with an old computer, various electronic measurement devices, and an electron microscope.

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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

An olive grove with mature trees and prickly pear cacti in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

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page — day 13 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Beer festivals past. When we had a plan 🙂🍺

Black and white printed page listing beers, and their descriptions, available at a beer festival

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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 🇵🇹

A vintage yellow and red tram with a Coca-Cola advertisement on its side travels on a street in a sunny urban setting with classic European architecture.

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sky — day 11 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Edinburgh, November 2023

Sun rising over a flat topped rocky mountain illuminating white clouds in a bright blue sky. Old fragment of a stone pillar in the foreground, buildings of a city in the distance.

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train — day 10 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Edinburgh Waverley Station, November 2023

A train station with multiple platforms and trains, with classical architecture in the background under a partly cloudy sky. Beyond the station, historic buildings on a hill, including a castle and a monument, are visible.

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crispy — day 09 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

A jar of Lao Gan Ma Crispy Chilli in Oil on a kitchen counter.

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prevention — day 08 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Tate Modern, 2008

Interior view of a building with an artistic installation: a text panel with a narrative about continuous rain and its effects on urban sculptures, set in the future, above a colorful fringe curtain. People are visible on an upper balcony.

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wellbeing — day 07 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, November 2023.

Interior of a museum gallery with a large Buddha statue, visitors walking along the balcony, display cases, and an ornate white ceiling structure.

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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

A wind farm with multiple wind turbines in a grassy field under a clear blue sky.

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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

Silhouette of a statue by a waterfront at sunset, with street lights, buildings in the background, and a vividly colored sky.

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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 😄

Greeting card featuring a photo of woman resting her chin on her hand, with text that reads: Mum was tired of being teased for her inability to use technology by the same people she'd taught how to use a toilet

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flowers — day 02 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Garden primroses and heather 🌱

A variety of wildflowers with raindrops on their leaves and petals; prominent are pink primroses in the foreground amidst green foliage.

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toy — day 01 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

TOY at the Green Man Festival 2014 🎵

Rock band on a stage in a festival tent under red lighting, audience in foreground

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View from the bedroom window. Woke up to a little unexpected snow this morning ❄️

A snowy garden with a winding driveway amongst trees and bushes, a dusting of snow on the ground and rooftops, under a partly cloudy sky.

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Ashley Road, Bristol

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Drummond Road, Bristol

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My bread is trying to escape! ⚠️🍞

A loaf of bread in a metal baking pan on a wooden surface. One corner of the loaf has risen over the corner and out of the tin.

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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

Concert scene with audience silhouettes in front of a stage with psychedelic eye projection and purple stage lights

A live music performance at The Globe with musicians on stage, including a saxophonist and guitarists, amid colorful stage lighting and a crowd of spectators in the foreground

A live band performing on stage at The Globe with vibrant psychedelic background projections and an audience in the foreground

Ozric Tentacles

A live band performing on stage at The Globe, with colorful psychedelic projections in the background. Audience members are seen in the foreground, silhouetted against the brightly lit stage

A live music performance at The Globe venue with band members illuminated by green and blue stage lights, and an audience watching the show

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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

📖 more

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Now listening: Any Woman’s Blues - Bessie Smith

Playlist:

🔗 Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith 📚🎵

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Microbrewery 🍺

A sunny outdoor scene with a black pickup truck parked in front of a modern building with large windows and an outdoor seating area. There are multiple metal beer kegs stacked on the ground near the vehicle and around the patio. A clear blue sky with fluffy clouds

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Lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd 🍺

A pub interior with wooden tables and chairs, a half-full glass of beer on a table, and a book titled Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay. A bar with taps and bottles in the background, and a coat draped over a chair.

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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.

An old white-painted building with signage for The Old Black Lion inn, featuring lanterns, stone accents, and a person standing at the entrance. A sign indicates the inn offers food, drinks, and accommodations.

A dimly lit room featuring a traditional wooden loft with a ladder, a bed on the lower level, antique furniture including a dresser with a mirror, and a wicker trunk at the foot of the bed. Light filters in through a window

A breakfast table with two kipper fillets garnished with herbs on a plate, accompanied by a French press with coffee, orange juice, and another plate with fried eggs, spinach, and beans in the background.

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Starter

A table with gourmet dishes and wine glasses; in the foreground, a plate with breaded appetizers garnished with green leaves, sprinkled with paprika; in the background, two glasses of red wine, another dish with colorful food

Main course

A nearly empty speckled dinner plate with remnants of food and a pair of crossed utensils on it, resting on a wooden table, surrounded by a half-empty wine glass, water glasses, and a wine bottle

Dessert

(I got distracted midway 😊)

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Captain on deck 🫡

A life-size cardboard cutout of a Star Trek character stands at the entrance of a bookstore with rows of bookshelves filled with various books.

A cardboard cutout of a character in a red and black Starfleet uniform from Star Trek inside a bookstore with a woman carrying books walking in the background.

(A little upset that AI alt text generator didn’t recognise Kirk or Picard 😆🖖)

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Retro 🖖

A wooden bookshelf filled with various VHS tapes, mostly from the Star Trek series, and a row of orange-spined books. The top shelf includes a box set for The Saint TV series.

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Someone spent too much time sorting books by spine colour 😡📚

A narrow bookshop aisle with tall wooden shelves filled with various books on either side. A person is browsing books in the background, under fluorescent lighting.

Person browsing books in a cozy bookstore with shelves organized by color.

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I don’t know why … 🤷🏼‍♂️ 🐈

A black and white cat standing inside a utility sink in a kitchen setting, with cleaning supplies and a dish brush to the side.

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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

Night scene of the exterior of the Senedd, also known as the Welsh Parliament building, in Cardiff Bay with the building illuminated and a wet promenade reflecting lights. People are visible walking by.

BBC Hoddinott Hall

Orchestra setup with chairs, sheet music stands, and various instruments including violins, cellos, and basses on a concert hall stage with a wooden interior and modern lighting. Few musicians are present, suggesting a rehearsal break or preparation for a performance

Cardiff Bay

A nighttime cityscape with a calm body of water reflecting lights from buildings, a clock tower, and a modern structure resembling a stadium. Dark blue sky with clouds above.

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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

A Bloody Mary cocktail on a wooden table, garnished with celery, lemon and rosemary, with people and beverages in the background.

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Had a Sharon last night - manzanilla, sweet vermouth and Campari 🍸

A cozy setting with people enjoying drinks around a wooden table, which features a glass of red beverage in the foreground, and various items such as more drinks, a smartphone, and a menu.

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Preparing my new album cover 😉

A person seated in a chair in a room with purple walls, a wooden floor, and a small table with various items including bottles.

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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 🍷 🇮🇹

A kitchen countertop with a pot of boiling spaghetti, a pan of tomato sauce with meatballs and vegetables, two glasses of red wine, a wine bottle, a box of spaghetti, and various cooking utensils and condiments.

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Egg seen on walk 🚶‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

An egg with the phrase Stop touchin me egg written on it, placed on a moss-covered fence post.

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New coffee shop in town. Coco’s. Alex Gooch almond croissant and americano ☕️

A person seated at a wooden table enjoying a coffee and pastries, including a frothy cappuccino and a dusted almond croissant.

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Some fantastic wildlife images here:

Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award winner bbc.co.uk
BBC - Home https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-68215592

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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 ☕️😊

A kitchen countertop with a coffee-making setup including a kettle, an espresso machine, several mugs, and a sugar container.

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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 🚶‍♂️

A rusty metal gate barring a misty, tree-lined woodland path with ivy-covered structures and a leaf-strewn ground.

A black and white photograph of a misty wooded area with a closed metal gate in the foreground, surrounded by leaf-covered ground and trees with ivy-covered trunks.

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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 🕰️

Photograph of a cookbook page detailing a recipe for House Black Daal. The text describes the dish as a version of daal makhani, a signature dish of Dishoom that is cooked over 24 hours.

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The soup turned out to have quite an attractive colour when blended 😊

A bowl of soup with sliced multigrain bread and a whole loaf topped with poppy seeds on a wooden cutting board next to a knife.

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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 🌶

Overhead view of a saucepan of brightly coloured vegetables in stock

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St John the Baptist Parish Church, Aberdare

Black and white photo of an old stone chapel with a bell tower next to a cemetery with gravestones and a prominent memorial obelisk. Leafless trees and a modern building are in the background.

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St John the Baptist Parish Church, Aberdare

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Time for a New Year’s Day Bloody Mary 🍹

A Bloody Mary cocktail with a celery stick in a glass next to a bottle of Bloody Mary mix on a kitchen counter, with books and kitchen items in the background.

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The party’s really kicking off here now. A Happy New Year to everyone 🥳

A black and white cat sleeping on a blue blanket with a reindeer pattern. The blanket is on a leather sofa against a patterned wallpaper background.

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A quiet New Year’s Eve 🧀 🍷

A cozy indoor scene with a festive atmosphere featuring a wine bottle, two glasses of red wine, assorted cheeses on a wooden board, crackers in a bowl, and a jar of red onion chutney. Decorative pillows, a Christmas tree.

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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 🍷🎄

Two large cardboard boxes delivered and placed on a porch with plant-filled garden in the background.

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Traditional Xmas essentials 📖 📺

A festive Radio Times magazine cover with dates December 23, 2023, to January 5, 2024, featuring a cartoon illustration of a black and white cat on a decorated Christmas tree.

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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 👌

A whole pie and a sliced open pie revealing a dark filling on decorative plates, with a OTTOLENGHI branded bag in the background, all on a wooden surface.

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Watching the Strictly Come Dancing final with my wife and daughter 🥂

Three people smiling and posing for a photo indoors, likely during a festive gathering. The woman on the left is holding a glass of champagne, the woman in the middle is wearing glasses and wearing a holiday-themed jumper with a penguin.

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Lankum and Rachael Lavelle at Roundhouse, London 🎵

Monochrome image of musicians on stage under strong lighting

Monochrome image of female singer and male saxophonist on stage, audience in foreground

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 🍺

Woman sitting at a pub table with six small glasses of beer

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Tapas at Casa Andaluz, Edinburgh last night

Man holding a glass of wine at a table covered with small plates of food

Small plates of food on a table - mussels, prawns, calamari and salads

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Rubbing the toe of David Hume 😀

Stone plinth with bronze statue of a seated man in a toga. Woman standing in front of the statue touching its toe

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Fish and chip supper with my father-in-law and a Pembrokeshire Henry VII cider 🍺

Cafe table with three plates of fish and chips and drinks, man sitting at far side of table

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Crossing Cleddau Bridge, view towards Milford Haven.

View from a bridge over wide river, white grid fence in foreground, cloudy sky

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Autumn coffee ☕️

Large cup of cappuccino with chocolate powder leaf pattern dusted on the surface of the foam

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Bridleway, Cwmbach

Monochrome, pathway leading through trees with tall stone wall to the left

Monochrome, stone wall, overgrown with moss and ivy, with two window-like openings

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Stonework

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Bridleway, Cwmbach

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Been walking 🚶‍♂️

Two pairs of walking boots propped up on stone steps

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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

Man with grey hair, beard and glasses in a crowd inside a concert venue

I’m aglow

Band playing on stage, crowd in foreground

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Rainy Cardiff ☔️

Rainy street at night. Brick buildings, wet road, shining lights reflected, grey clouds in sky,

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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

Theatre stage with band of 8 musicians - woman singing in sparkling dress, 4 guitarists, 2 keyboard players and drummer

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 🍞

Round loaf of crusty, golden, baked bread on a cooling rack

from a Riverford recipe

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Pathway

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A Welsh - Portuguese - Italian breakfast today ☕️

Table set for breakfast with toast, coffees and pastéis de nata

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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 …

Round, brown crusted loaf of bread on a wooden chopping board

📺 🍞

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Dylan Thomas around Swansea Marina

Dylan Thomas Square

Statue of a seated man on a stone block in front of a red brick building

Dylan Thomas Theatre

Three storey building with some scaffolding. Colourfully painted but faded and needing redocoration and repair

Captain Cat

The sleepers are rung out of sleep with his loud get-out-of-bed bell
Under Milk Wood

Statue of a sea captain leaning forward grasping a rope with bell attached. Three pigeond perched on statue. Moored boats in background.

The Dylan Thomas Centre

Beige blocky building with arched windows and large coat of arms mounted on front wall.

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Ships in Tawe Basin

Canning Tugboat

Old rusting black, white, red and yellow tugboat moored in a marina

Trinity House Lightship 91 Helwick

Rusting orange and white ship with central iron tower supporting a large glass light enclosure at its top

Close up detail of rusting orange and white ship

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Sail Bridge, River Tawe

Curved suspension footbridge across a wide river. Red brick dock buildings and hills in the background.

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Swansea Marina

Pump House

Red brick building with square tower alongside a dock and next to truncated section of an iron bridge

Shallow water

Slipway

Garden

Blocked, Prince of Wales Dock

Two concrete blocks with graffiti faces blocking the entrance to an empty car park alongside open water

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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.

White stone, ornate historical building with central large curved glass window on upper floors.Modern bookshop entrance at ground level.

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Breakfast today for our 27th wedding anniversary 💍

Wooden coffee table set with 2 cups of coffee, 2 plates with croissants and 2 mimosas

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A morning of kimchi production 🇰🇷

Two sealed jars of finely chopped vegetables in a reddish brown liquid

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I’ve got stout 🍺

Boxed packs and cans of beer on a wooden table. Boxes show a picture of a glass of dark beer, cans are black, cream and pink

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treasure — day 30 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Shining gold mask of a bearded man above a decorative gold sheet chest piece, both mounted on a dark background

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 📸

Black and white picture of dark, light and striped towels hanging on a washing line

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workout — day 28 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Close up of steep stone steps and seating of a Roman amphitheatre

Side, Turkey, 2009

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embrace — day 27 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Mossy log in undergrowth with ivy starting to grow over and around it

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WNO Ainadamar curtain call 🎵

Colourful singers and dancers on brightly lit stage receiving applause at the end of a show

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At the Wales Millennium Centre

Bearded man in blue jacket and checked shirt sitting at an outdoor table with a glass of red wine

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Should have waited until my second beverage before posting my daily photoblogging image - I prefer this 🍷 😊

Glass of red wine next to a booklet on an outdoor table with yellow chairs, a red brick building and Ferris wheel in the background

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beverage — day 26 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Glass of red wine on a cafe table, background view of buildings through large windows

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flare — day 25 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Silhouette of a boy on a man's shoulders above a crowd of people, in front of a plume of sparks from a bonfire

Green Man Festival, 2013

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belt — day 24 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Multicoloured suitcases on an airport luggage conveyor belt

Bristol Airport

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Final evening in Greece so it will be retsina 🍷 followed by an ouzo nightcap

Two glasses of white wine and a bottle on a glass table illuminated by a candle behind them

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Away from home, so it’s a Greek #Caturday 🇬🇷 🐈

A tabby and a gray and white cat sprawled on a stone floor in sunlight and shadow

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a day in the life — day 23 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Sandy beach and calm sea, town and silhouette of a castle on a hill in the background. On the sand a man is lying on a beach towel reading a book

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 📸

Narrow road bordered on the left by a wire fence and the right by a flowering hedge. Taken just after dusk so there is illumination from street lights and the moon is visible in a dark sky. Gateway, stone wall and woman walking with shopping bag in the distance

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 🎵

Narrow road, to the left restaurant with outdoor seating, to the right two seated musicians playing guitar and bouzouki

Guitarist and bouzouki player seated on high stools with small amps in front of them

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Fox 🦊 & Cat 🐈

Woman crouching down stroking a cat, a fox lying on the ground a few feet away

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Wandering near Mylos watermill

Man standing next to foliage covered ruined building. Stone archway and vertical cascade of water visible

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I am going to have to attempt to recreate these at home 😋

Small pancakes topped with feta cheese on a slate tile

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fall — day 21 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Narrow waterfall cascading down a small rocky cliff

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 🚶‍♂️🍺

Woman walking on a narrow road on a hillside amongst trees

Woman sitting by table with beer and lemonade, view across tree covered hills

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disruption — day 20 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Crowd of people, many holding banners, marching down a city street. Clock tower of Big Ben in the distance.

London, 2015

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Beach breakfast 🏖️

Two filo pastry pies, bottle of Fanta on a towel on a sandy beach

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edge — day 19 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

View from the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a small town and harbour and several small islands. A danger sign is suspended on a rope in the foreground warning about keeping away from the edge

Parga, Greece

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Frappe in Parga ☕️

Two glasses of frothy iced coffee on a table overlooking boats in a harbour and castle on a hill

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fabric — day 18 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Washing lines hung with sheets and clothing over a narrow canal between tall buildings

Venice, 2019

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intense — day 17 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

View over small swimming pool and sun beds, overlooked by very large bright sun in the blue sky

Parga, Greece

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oof! — day 16 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Bottles of chilli sauce on a kitchen worktop, Mexican sauce bottle in foreground is labelled muy picante

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red — day 15 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Large Victorian red brick building behind a row of market-type stalls. Groups of people in foreground, blue skies above.

Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil

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statue — day 14 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Man in shorts and t-shirt standing in front of a large bronze statue of Apollo

Paris, 1997

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glowing — day 13 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Streetlight glowing at night - orange illumination over a country lane which is several inches deep in snow. Deep tyre tracks in the snow.

Werfa, Abernant, December 2010

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Late summer greenhouse tomatoes. I’m currently roasting them for a pasta sauce 🌱🍅

Cardboard punnet containing a mixture of small yellow and red tomatoes

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panic — day 12 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Patch of old, stained concrete wall with small white sign in the centre reading Edward M. Forster, The Story of a Panic, 1928

Ravello, 2014

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retrospect — day 11 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

IImitation, painted doorway next to a shop showing a man in old-fashioned clothes holding a book and ascending a wooden staircase

Hay-on-Wye, 2023

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cycle — day 10 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Orange and silver e-bike leaning against a large noticeboard covered in stickers. Foliage in background.

Berlin, 2022

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Preparing for a hot #Caturday 🐈

Early morning garden scene, sun shining on a cat sleeping on a wooden picnic bench next to a blue deckchair

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language — day 09 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Curved copper plate frontage of a large theatre building with words formed by windows in the copper. Entrance doors below copper front, pedestrians strolling in the foreground

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

Gwyneth Lewis

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yonder — day 08 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Grass covered dirt track leads off into the distance across hills and fields which are freshly dug in foreground and planted with small bushes and trees in the distance.

Halkidiki, 2010

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panorama — day 07 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Panoramic view of a small bay. Rocks and rock pools in foreground, small sandy beach and low cliffs and hills in background. Blue skies and sun.

Manorbier, Pembrokeshire

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well — day 06 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Stone well, capped with a metal dome, on a stone paving floor in a Venetian square with old church building and brick wall in the background

Venice, 2019

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forest — day 05 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Deciduous forestscape with central bare branching oak trunk surrounded by greenery, early morning sunlight illuminating the scene from low on the left

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orange — day 04 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Two glasses of orange coloured drinks with ice on a tiled table. Book, chair and bench in the background.

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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 🔥 🫓 🦐 🐟

Fire pit with tripod and suspended skillet. Flatbread on skillet

Close up of a flatbread cooking on a skillet over flames

Table with plates containing cooked and uncooked flatbreads. One flatbread in process of being rolled out

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precious — day 03 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Macro photo of a gold ring on grey stone, sunlight shining on it causing reflection and shadow

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About to try Norwegian brown cheese, brunost, for the first time. Pictured alongside a piece of Ossau-Iraty 🧀

Two blocks of cheese on a wooden board, one of them a caramel brown colour. Red wine and chutney in the background.

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buildup — day 02 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Stone walls and scaffolding silhouetted against a blue sky

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abstract — day 01 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Macro image of irregularly shaped shining water droplets suspended on a spider web in front of barely visible foliage background

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Dirty fries - sauerkraut, cheese, aioli, ketchup - and sticky tempura aubergine, coriander and chilli bao bun. Delicious but it got messy 😊

Messy platter of chips covered in sauce and fried aubergine in a bun with chillis and coriander

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Muffins on a cast iron griddle - today’s baking experiment 🥯

Close up of browning muffins on a black cast iron griddle

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Rainy outside so staying in this #Caturday 🐈

Black and white cat curled up on a cushion on an armchair. Windows in background with no sunshine evident!

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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 🍞

Rectangular loaf of bread on a wooden chopping board

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Great selection delivered from The Tinned Fish Market 🐟

Three colour tinned fish tins of mackerel, tuna and sardines next to illustrated cardboard packaging

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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 🥚

Overhead view of tomato topped frittata in green Le Creuset frying pan

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I very rarely share meme-type images but this took my fancy … 🏏

England’s first drawn Test under Stokes & McCullum

Picture of Ben Stokes and Brendan McCullum with WWWWLWWWWWWLWWLLWD superimposed on the top

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 is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸

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This morning’s improved photograph of the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸 🌱

Common toad on soil next to the base of a plant

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Sometimes I cave in …

Close up of fried egg, cheese and hash brown in a muffin

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)

Cat sitting accusingly on the floor of a hallway viewed through a narrow rectangular aperture

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This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸

Toad on soil under the leaves of a tomato plant

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

Man reading a book at an outdoor pub table, pint of beer in front of him

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Gateway

Stone doorway and wooden gates, one half closed other open showing steps and blue sky

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Hay-on-Wye 📚

Monochrome view of central doorway in a stone wall with sign reading Honesty Bookshop. Overlooked by partially ruined large old house.

Monochrome view of town street with an ornate bookshop and clock tower in the background.

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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 🔥😟

Distant view of helicopter in the sky, fire fighting water container slung beneath it

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Burger buns baked. Unusually uniform shape and size for my baking 🍔

Six almost equally sized burger buns on a cooling rack

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Post-show espressos ☕️🎵

Woman sitting at table at dusk, small coffees and theatre programme on table, illuminated fairground wheel and red brick building in background

Copper building frontage at dusk with adjacent clear skies

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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

Procession of people in Druidic robes through a town centre

IProcession of people in Druidic robes through a town centre

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Good morning from the greenhouse. I’m watering the tomatoes 🌱

Inside a small untidy greenhouse, young tomato plants growing on either side of central stone path

Low view of door to a small greenhouse, chives growing in foreground

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🐈 Duffy

View from above of curled up black and white cat looking at the camera

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Lusco Fusco 🍷

Bottle of red wine, glass of red wine and small radio on a wooden table with a garden backdrop

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Just the two of us for dinner tonight. Not sure which two. 🐈

Cat laying on a picnic bench set for two, woman seated in background reading a book

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Nephew and son, nephew and daughter

Two young men on camping chairs, fields in background

Young man and woman sitting next to each other on camping chairs, fields in background

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Farm party 🎉

Group of people drinking in foreground, background of fields and blue skies

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Watchful eye 👁️

View through a window of woman cutting limes next to a tequila bottle, reflection in the window of a man watching what is happening

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Saturday shopping for celebration barbecue 🍺🍷 🛒

Supermarket trolley full of wine, beer and tequila

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🪑 📚 📻 🍺

Bright blue deckchair on grass next to a book, bottle of beer and small radio

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.

Broad dirt path through tall pine trees, sun streaming in from a low angle

I only learned of and found this site recently. It consists of the remains of a Bronze Age ring cairn.

Selfie of bearded man in on scrub ground with small area of stones visible, pine trees in background

There are two similar monument sites nearby which I’m also going to seek out.

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Now being summoned for supper 🐈

Black and white cat sitting in doorway of house

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Late #Caturday (OK, so it’s Sunday)

Black and white cat sleeping on concrete steps next to a deckchair

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Wiper and True Mild in Bristol 🍺

Monochrome picture of pint of beer on an outdoor pub table, woman drinking beer on opposite side of table

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Another walk with my daughter this morning - 6.5 miles, we’re upping the ante 🙂

Panoramic view over Aberdare

View over a town in avalley, woman standing on a path on the right of the picture

Cefn Pennar Gethin Forest

Mossy lanes

Woman in distance walking on narrow lane bounded by mossy stone walls shaded by overhanging branches

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 🏏

iPad showing live cricket match propped up next to an iMac, both on a crowded, messy desk

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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 🚶‍♂️

Panoramic view across wooded valley, blue skies above

View across valley, bracken in foreground, blue skies above

Monochrome image of woman walking on path through field, backdrop of conifers and electricity pylon

Black sheep on a scrub hillside, some sheltering in shade of a small tree, distant view of valley in background, blue skies above

View across valley showing town below, wind turbines on distant hillside, blue skies above

And the skylarks were singing, which I love to hear

iPhone screenshot of Melin bird ID app showing skylark recording

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Getting warm outside 🔥

View from doorway of house looking into garden with a blazing metal fire pit and barbecue grill

(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 😄 🍞

Crusty loaf of bread on a chopping board, two cut slices next to it

(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.

Colourful bottle with pink elephant on label next to a glass of pale golden beer

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Fairly triangular brunch 🍳

Willow pattern plate of hash browns and omelette slice next to dish of roasted tomatoes

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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 😊📚🇬🇷

Cover of Greek cookery books. Olives and olive leaves on a vibrant blue background

Open Greek cookery book showing a selection of pies and pita

Open Greek cookery book showing eggplant recipes

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Early #Caturday morning garden coffee 🪴🐈☕️

Man on deckchair and black and white cat sitting in sunlight in a garden. Cup of coffee on wall in foreground.

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Carmarthen Golf Club (I’m just dining and drinking, not playing ⛳️😀).

View over a golf course and green, blue skies above.

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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 … 🥃

Three bottles of spirits in a row - rum, whisky and brandy - next to a glass of whisky

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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 🍺

2/3 beer glass filled above the 1/2 pint line

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From #Caturday sun …

Cat sleeping on a picnic bench in the 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 😟

Looking down into a glass of sake with a photo sticker of a man warming sake on camping stove visible inside the glass

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Outdoor sake and reading 📚

Two books and a glass of sake on an outdoor chair

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Can’t be comfortable #Caturday 🐈

Cat sleeping on red tiles partly draped over a table leg

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Pub reading 🍺📚

Two women reading books on a picnic bench outside a pub. Glasses of beer on the table.

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Piece of cake, packet of jalapeño & dill crisps and cup of coffee on a tablecloth

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🐈

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Monsutā Okinawa Dry 🍺

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The way back

Easyjet aeroplane at the airport terminal

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An airport corner for final Nata - not the same ✈️

Woman sitting on a bench with nata and coffees on a table

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Bowl of cockles and two glasses of beer

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Circular fountain surrounded by trees in a city square

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Two glasses of beer on a table with lake and fountain in background

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Casa Fernando Pessoa impressed me. Small museum but we spent a couple of hours there today.

Front of plain 3-storey building, the house of Fernando Pessoa, banners labelled Museum hanging from two windows

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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.

Plates of fried sardines and cheese, glasses of wine and small loaf of bread on a table

Woman seated at table of food and drink, two men at similar table in background

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Had to do it ☺️

Man seated at table in street with glasses of white port and cod fishcake

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Cat in the English Cemetery

Black cat seated on gravestone in a shady cemetery

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An empanada in the Jardin da Estrela

Man seated at a table with beers and a small pie. In a park, pond in background

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Who’s responsible for this !?

Orange sticker with yellow star on a city lampost

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The Trouble with Tribbles

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Floors are looking a bit psychedelic

Wavy lines of balck and white mosaic tile in a town square with staue on tall column

Could be

Outside a small bar, customers drinking shots of cherry brandy

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Joining the Lisbon sticker spotter club @maique @stickerspotter

Sticker, drawing of a cat's head with four eyes, on a black post

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Plates of fried food on a table

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Petisqueira Conqvistador, beer and bolinhos de bacalhau

Exterior of a small white painted cafe, painted black doors and menu blackboard

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Looking at the real life map of Lisbon 🗺️

View over a city from high viewpoint, woman seated on stone wall in foreground reading a guidebook

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Breakfast ☕️ - Confeitaria National

Man standing in interior of coffee shop, coffees and natas on counter in front of him

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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 🎉

Five people sitting around table drinking cocktails

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Crossing the Severn

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Magnolia on a morning walk

Flowering magnolia tree above a stone wall with painted wooden door

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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:

Three people walking through church gate towards a stone church tower

Stone churc with square tower, graveyard in foreground

Stone church with square tower viewd from a road

and the nearest beach, Freshwater East:

Almost deserted beach, tide out, expanse of stony sand and cloudy blue sky

Four people looking windswept on a beach

Didn’t stay long, it was a very windy day 🙂

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Eggs

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Walls on a walk. Hoping the first has got something to do with Easter, otherwise it’s just plain weird 🥚

Three eggs secreted in the gaps in a brick wall

Graffiti on a brick wall reading we was er

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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 🎯🙃

Dartboard mounted on a kitchen wall adjacent to the oven

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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 😞

Plate of cooked breakfast and a pint of beer

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Sun is shining (at last) 🌞

Evening sun shining across a small balcony with bench and table

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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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practice — day 31 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Upright piano with sheet music propped above the keys

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mirror — day 30 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 📸

Metal sculpture of a rhino constructed using reflective stainless steel objects attached to a bicycle

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slice — day 29 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 📸

Slices of loaf tin shaped cakes under protective plastic covers

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prompt — day 28 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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support — day 27 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Exterior of ornate building with sign in window reading We Fix All Cars

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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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instrument — day 26 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Graveyard, tombstone of Caradog with carved violin on the top, monochrome

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spice — day 25 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 📸

Street scene, Indian restaurant called Spice Corner in a corner house-like building next to signpost

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court — day 24 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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Edwardian Baroque 2-storey symmetrical Portland stone building

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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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chance — day 23 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Exterior of small Chinese takeaway restaurant in a converted corner terraced house, called Lucky Star

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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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insect — day 22 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Monochrome image of metal plaque of a bee, honeycomb and flowers

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tiny — day 21 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 📸

Man using very large pepper grinder over a pizza

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houseplant — day 20 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 📸

Spiky air plant in a small ashtray between two seated Buddha stauettes

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analog — day 19 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 📸

Close up of triple hourglass sand timer with three different colours of sand

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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 🐈

Monochrome image of black and white cat curled up in and looking out from an enclosed cat bed

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portico — day 18 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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portico — day 18 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Portico of a Georgian sandstone building

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early — day 17 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 📸

Monochrome image of darkened kitchen window, digital clock visible to left showing 6:35

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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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road — day 16 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Red car driving away from viewer on overgrown lane

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patience — day 15 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 📸

Small green plant shoot poking through soil

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horizon — day 14 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 📸

Stone filled river flowing under a bridge, horizon of hills and grey skies in the background

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connection — day 13 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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shiny — day 12 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Silver Roman denarii, coins on a white background

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gimcrack — day 11 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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ritual — day 10 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Circle of standing stones on a grass surface

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together — day 09 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 📸

View into an office building window behind which is a group of mannequins

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walk — day 08 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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My kind of street 🤫

Sandstone street corner with the street name sign Quiet Street

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Man silhouetted walking in front of Roman Bath

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View from our hotel room window in Bath this morning ❄️

View from high building across snow covered rooftop

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whole — day 07 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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whole — day 07 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Two whole pizzas and a bottle of red wine

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The Joy of Sesh IPA 🍺 and a flight of Bath gins at The Black Fox, Bath

Pint glass of beer and three small glasses of gin and tonic on a wooden table

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KT Tunstall at St David’s Hall 🎵

Band on stage at end of a gig, waving to audience

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engineering — day 06 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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Stone statue of a woman with a cog wheel at the base

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The result of my Sunday trim. I definitely needed to wear a hat on today’s walk ❄️

Monochrome selfie of man with very short hair and stubble

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tile — day 05 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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tile — day 05 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Tiled mosaic of 1930s Aberdare Coliseum theatre building

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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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Close up of a zip and two black zip fasteners with white stick figures painted on them

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solitude — day 03 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 📸

Lone open jewellery store between shut down and boarded up shops

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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.

Cut loaf cake plus two slices on two small plates

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weather — day 02 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

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Clouds and blue sky reflected on the surface of a lake

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Dry Cleaning at Tramshed Cardiff last night supported by THUS LOVE and Dehd 🎵

Illuminated sign advertising Dry Cleaning gig

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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secure — day 01 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸

Monochrome image of a chained wooden gate leading to a field

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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.

Church interior showing rows of seating and altar

Exhibition of wedding dresses in a church

Red Welsh dragon steel sculpture in a small conference room

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Slightly rusty handlebars and slighty rusty cycling ability but I’ve completed an easy 8 mile ride 🚲

Bicycle handlebars in foreground, bridleway leading off into distance, fields and blue sky in background

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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 🚲

Blue bicycle leaning against garage door

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Burning origami 🔥

Folded coloured paper burning on a bed of dead leaves and charcoal

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Delighted to be able to repeat yesterday’s outdoor reading in the afternoon sun ☀️

Open book, cat and coffee, sunny garden in the background

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.

Pint of beer on a table, river in the background

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George & Devonshire, Chiswick

Drinks on a table in a dimly lit pub, bookshelves in the background

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Wild Beer Co Beyond Modus 8 🍺

Very wine-like beer - a “strong, wild and sour Flanders Red”. Delicious.

Glass and bottle of dark beer on a table in front of a pizza

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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.

Snow covered grass and driveway. Sun streaming through pine trees in the background.

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Spritzes and crosswords in the snow.

Drinks, books and crosswords on a small balcony table, snow on the ground in the background

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De-icing again, still can’t get the car to the top of our drive.

Red car at bottom of snow covered sloping driveway

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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 🐈 💤

Cat curled up on an armchair next to a desk

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Bar 44, Clifton, Bristol. Excellent tapas 🍷

Red wine bottle and glass in foreground, smiling woman in background

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Traffic delays and rainbows 🌈

Motorway with queues of traffic but a rainbow in the sky

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Grey and rainy day in Aberdare ☔️

Narrow alleyway in the rain. Puddles. Woman walking with umbrella.

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Bottle and glass of dark Belgian beer, football match on TV in the background

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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Quote from Heart of Darkness

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

Dining table set for four filled with numerous plates and pots of food

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 📸

Tree with gravestones stacked around the trunk

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Xmas gift. I did.

Oven glove with picture of a man cooking and the text - I’ll feed all you fuckers

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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 🤷‍♂️

Blurry nighttime street view with woman walking a dog

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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 …

Lorry and car on a snow covered motorway

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Some light snow in Bristol this morning ❄️

City street scene with a light covering of snow

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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 🐈 🐑

Black and white cat curled upon a blanket next to a fluffy toy sheep

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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.

Large rectangular dish of uncooked lasagne topped with slices of butternut squash and grated cheese

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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

Black and white view of stalls in a street market

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Excursion into sticker territory…

Two stickers on painted steel reading Jam Thieves and Born on the Road

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Escaped the Séance Escape Room 😀

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Vaults Dark 🍺 and crisps. Heaven.

Pint glass of dark beer next to a packet of crisps

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Drinking Reverend 🍺 at The Spirit Vaults, Melbourne. Lovely little microbrewery and pub.

Glasses of beer in front of brewing vats

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Simple fare

Two plates of fish and chips on a table in a pub

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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

Woman using a mobile phone and black and white cat, both sitting on a flight of stairs

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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

Plate of cured salmon with salad and toasted bread

Plate containing vegan burger, chips and pickles

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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

Kitchen scene of a bearded man stir-frying food in a wok

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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 ☕️

Mug of coffee and book on a mosaic table, cat in the background, sun shining

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Moonlight

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Top down view of an Americano and a cherry bakewell on a wooden table

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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!

Results on Flickr 📷

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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 📷

Ian Mason at King's Quoit Neolithic burial chamber overlooking Manorbier Bay

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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

📖 more

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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 + TIME

All 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 🎵

On Apple Music…

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Cooler with a little rain today so it’s an evening for a log fire with cheese and wine.

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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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Another Sky 🎵

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HMS Morris 🎵

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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 😀 🍺

Google satellite map showing location pin

🔎 Zoom in

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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 🪶 🐿 😀

Great Spotted Woodpecker at a bird feeder

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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 📷

Mother and daughter in nice clothes, walking and waving

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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. 📷

Carved script on Pillar of Ashoka fragment

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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 😄 📷

Little girl and three dolls, one bigger than her

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Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 23: banana — Sal, Cape Verde, April 2016 📷

Bananas and other fruit on a market stall

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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 📷

Coloured houses and bell tower in Burano, Venice

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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 📷

Art installation - The Shield of Achilles by Peter Finch

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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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A Day in the Life

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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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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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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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.

A Guardian picture essay 🔗

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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)

📖 more

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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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22:42

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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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Jim Morrison

Bobby Klein’s best photograph: Jim Morrison has a beer for breakfast.

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Edna St Vincent Millay

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.

Ca. 325-310 B.C.

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I was very impressed with the ancient cemetery site of Kerameikos in Athens today.

The small museum is excellent and I found the “handshake” reliefs from the cemetery particularly moving. They show the deceased, usually seated, bidding farewell to the living.

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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