the dim pause

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:40:40 +0100

Watched: Crime 101, 2026 - ★★★½ 🎥

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:28:22 +0100

Watched: Project Hail Mary, 2026 - ★★★½ 🎥

Everyman Cinema, Cardiff Bay

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:27:25 +0100

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips (19 plays), Gorillaz (15), The Durutti Column (15), Sam Amidon (10)

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:23:59 +0100

Watched: I Swear, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:59:31 +0100

Watched: For All Mankind S5E1, First Light 📺

5⭐️

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:47:53 +0100

🔗 Book ban in Manchester school: Are we becoming Texas?

🔗 School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books

Articles from Freedom News and Index on Censorship 📚

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:20:52 +0100

Changeable. A short walk yesterday. It was windy, it rained a little, it snowed a little. Then the sun came out 🚶🌤️

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:26:31 +0100

Watched: Under the Volcano, 1984 - ★★★★★ 🎥

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:08:09 +0100

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, Mark Padmore, Alexandrina Pendatchanska RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs (45 plays), Tamar Inbar (39), Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Théorin, Paterson, Holloway, Baumgartner, Schukoff (26), Pekka Kuusisto, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra & Sam Amidon (13), John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic (5)

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:26:03 +0100

Watched: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, 2026 - ★★★★ 🎥

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:17:38 +0100

Watched: Frankenstein, 2025 - ★★★ 🎥

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:56:04 +0100

Currently reading: The Rats of Montsouris by Léo Malet 📚

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:56:44 +0100

Finished reading: 120 Rue De La Gare by Léo Malet 📚

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:44:02 +0100

Watched: The Secret Agent, 2025 - ★★★★★ 🎥

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:19:23 +0100

Currently reading: 120 Rue De La Gare by Léo Malet 📚

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:25:01 +0100

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Kremer, Hagen, Barshai, Chamber Orchestra of Europe (26 plays), Home Counties (20), Poyushchiye gitary (14), Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture SO (5), Stokowski, Houston Symphony Orchestra (4)

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:09:13 +0100

Notes from the US: Trump’s war

Driven by looming midterms and the Epstein Files, the MAGA cult has no credible arguments for this bloodbath

🔗 freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/1…

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:58:49 +0100

Even taking Trump’s confused reasons for the Iran war at face value, it’s still a total disaster

Two weeks in, it’s increasingly clear that the US-led war has taken every problem it aimed to solve – and made it worse

🔗 www.theguardian.com/commentis…

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:14:29 +0100

Franz Ferdinand

Cardiff University Student Union Great Hall, Sunday 8th March 2026 🎵

🔗 FRANZ FERDINAND captivate Cardiff on their Greater Glasgow Cultural Exchange tour

Supported by Home Counties

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:42:37 +0100

Watched: Brief History of a Family, 2024 - ★★★½ 🎥

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:43:39 +0100

Location check in — Cardiff University Great Hall to see Franz Ferdinand supported by Home Counties 🎵
🗺 Map of area

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:21:47 +0100

A March walk in Pembroke 🚶

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:37:13 +0100

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Daniil Trifonov, Gidon Kremer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Alexander Roslavets, Yulianna Avdeeva, Kremerata Baltica, Staatskapelle Dresden & Thomas Sanderling (20 plays), Asha Bhosle & Kronos Quartet (12), Gorillaz (12), Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture SO (10), Pekka Kuusisto, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra & Sam Amidon (7)

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:35:52 +0100

Italy have been exceptional this Six Nations 🏉

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:34:58 +0100

Two upsets today 🏉

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