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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

First time I’ve seen official merch stores set up and open outside the stadium more than two days before a gig. And there were customers making purchases at 10:30 this morning! 🎵

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📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Music

New hat for Glamorgan v Gloucestershire #OhGlammyGlammy 🏏😊

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📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Cricket

Couldn’t make it for County Cricket Day on Sunday, but I am at Sophia Gardens today for Day 4 of Glamorgan v Gloucestershire.

#OhGlammyGlammy 🏏

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📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Cricket

solitude — day 30 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷

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Manorbier, September 2021

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

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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 📷

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The Eternaut, Netflix 2025 - ★★★★★ 📺

📆 | 🏷 FilmTV

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

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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 📷

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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 📷

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

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