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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

the dim pause

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
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Beer

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.
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Beer
Sharper, 2023 - ★★★½

A group of six diverse characters are arranged against a geometric and mirrored cityscape background with the title SHARPER displayed at the bottom.

Watched on Monday March 4, 2024.

📆 | 🏷 FilmTV
The Hunger Games, 2012 - ★★★½

A flaming mockingjay pin is centered above the title The Hunger Games against a dark background.

Watched on Sunday March 3, 2024.

📆 | 🏷 FilmTV

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Nadine Shah (16 plays)
Brittany Howard (12)
Portishead (12)
Christy Moore (10)
The Passions (10)

📆 | 🏷 Music

Shop window

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📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Glass Photo

Location check in 🗺 — Hay Distillery, sampling gins

🔎 Zoom in

📆 | 🏷 Location

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.
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Coffee

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

A cheese platter with various cheese types, grapes, crackers, honey, and pickled items, accompanied by glasses of port and dessert wine. A person is dining in the background.

(I got distracted midway 😊)

📆 | 🏷 Photography

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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