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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

๐ŸŽต My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Secret Affair (35 plays)
The Who (23)
Jรคrvi, Frankfurt Radio Symphony (15)
The Jam (11)
Cornershop (5)

๐Ÿท Music
Ticket to Paradise, 2022 - โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ

Watched on Saturday July 13, 2024.

๐Ÿท FilmTV
The Zone of Interest, 2023 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Watched on Saturday July 13, 2024.

๐Ÿท FilmTV
Performance, 1970 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Surprisingly modern. Surprisingly brutal. Quite weird.

๐Ÿท FilmTV

Brilliant. So pleased Ollie Watkins scored the winning goal #AVFC ๐Ÿ‘โšฝ๏ธ

So England meet Spain on Sunday!

๐Ÿท Football

Surviving โšฝ๏ธ

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

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Football

Euro 24 semi-final. Netherlands ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ v ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England. 10 minutes until kickoff ๐Ÿ˜ฌโšฝ๏ธ

๐Ÿท Football
Final Test for Jimmy Anderson ๐Ÿ

So wrapped up in Euro 24 football that I forgot about cricket. Today is the start of the England v West Indies Test series.

The first Test match at Lordโ€™s will be the final international match for Englandโ€™s all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson.

I will be listening to TMS on the radio for most of the day and possibly catching a little TV coverage. Just hope the weather remains clear enough for the day’s play to go ahead.

๐Ÿท Cricket ๐Ÿท Weather

Euro 24. Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ v ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France. Half-time. That was an exceptional half of football, really looking forward to the second half โšฝ๏ธ

๐Ÿท Football

I was meant to be going to a concert at Chepstow Racecourse this evening to see Hozier and Brittany Howard ๐ŸŽต

The event was cancelled by the organisers at lunchtime today due to flooding at the venue. We had very heavy rain for several hours last night. Summer in Wales! ๐ŸŒง๏ธ๐Ÿ˜”

๐Ÿท Music ๐Ÿท Weather

๐ŸŽต My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Scott Ross (15 plays)
Evanescence (12)
Paul Weller (9)
John Shirley-Quirk, Pierre Boulez & Ensemble Intercontemporain (7)
Jessye Norman, Pierre Boulez & Ensemble Intercontemporain (1)

๐Ÿท Music

Election night. Iโ€™m not sure why but Iโ€™m staying up. Dual screening. Having a whisky ๐Ÿฅƒ

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.

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Whisky

Today’s kitchen experiment: Lacto-fermented green beans. Results will be known in about a fortnight ๐Ÿค”

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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๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Food

New premises in Aberdare for our local independent craft brewery Grey Trees Brewery ๐Ÿบ

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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๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Beer

UK General Election

Vote! ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ

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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๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Politics
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