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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

winding — day 29 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: A narrow, cobblestone alleyway lined with colorful, textured buildings features two people walking away in the distance.

Porto, April 2025

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Franz Ferdinand (34 plays), Stanley Brinks (25), Herman Dune (11), Freschard and Stanley Brinks (8), Kate Bush (3)

📆 | 🏷 Music

ephemeral — day 28 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: A historical stone monument and a statue dedicated to Scottish-American soldiers are set against a partly cloudy sky.

The Eternaut, Netflix 2025 - ★★★★★ 📺

📆 | 🏷 FilmTV

collective — day 27 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: A colony of black ants is gathered around and entering a small hole in a sandy, twig-littered ground.

bridge — day 26 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

A historic stone bridge spans a river with cascading water, surrounded by old buildings in an overcast setting.

Bath, March 2023

Film log - watched: Warfare, 2025 - ★★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥

Film poster

📆 | 🏷 FilmTV

decay — day 25 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: A rustic, weathered house with blue doors and shutters stands amid greenery under a cloudy sky.

Thasos 🇬🇷, 2022

📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Weather

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇮🇳 India, First Test, day five, Headingley 📺🏏

So glad the rain has held off (mainly)!

Ben Duckett just out for a fantastic 149 👏

Match not over yet …

📆 | 🏷 Cricket 🏷 FilmTV

bloom — day 24 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: Purple flowers covered in water droplets create a vibrant and fresh appearance.

fracture — day 23 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: Red brick tiles arranged in a rectangular pattern show wear and a crack in one of the tiles.

hometown — day 22 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

A dramatic sky looms over a small town with a prominent church steeple and a building in the foreground labeled Afon Dar Café and Restaurant.

Aberdare, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: David Bowie (39 plays), Stanley Brinks (25), Jackson Browne (20), Matt Morton (17), The Samurai of Prog (15)

📆 | 🏷 Music

silhouette — day 21 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

Auto-generated description: A silhouette of a statue stands atop a column against a dramatic sky with the sun creating a halo effect around it.

Of course I had to try the relaunched Double Diamond 🍺

It’s not too bad, a fairly light and refreshing pale ale. I remember it from the 1970s, but probably more of the ad campaigns than the taste of the beer 😊

Auto-generated description: A can and box of Double Diamond Beer are on a patterned table next to a glass filled with beer, with outdoor greenery in the background.
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Beer
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