Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: Transport — Aberdare Bus Station 📷

Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Windows 📷

Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: Black and White — Nasturtium 📷

Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher 📚

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Another Sky (36), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (15), Bernstein, Columbia SO, Gould (3), James Dean Bradfield (3) & Furtwängler, VPO via tweekly.fm

How to make the most of past-their-best aubergines – recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: India is a country that’s close to my heart, and I feel fortunate to have been able to spend more than a year of my life there, travelling, surfing, learning yoga, meditating and, most recently, fundraising for the charity Action Against Hunger.

Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: View — Looking over Aberdare

Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: Day tripping — My in-laws took a day trip to our garden today 😉 📷

Debut album from Another Sky - I Slept on the Floor - just arrived in this morning’s post. 👏 🎵

Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd

Went to the Bunch of Grapes in Pontypridd for a meal last night - pubs and restaurants in Wales were allowed to open for indoor dining from Monday this week. Our first meal out near home in Wales since the beginning of March.

The food was really good, especially the Roasted Cod Loin, so I can’t resist posting some details. 😀

Menu Board

Sweetcorn Soup - Charred sweetcorn, butterbean and radicchio soup, garlic and rosemary sourdough crouton

Pan Fried Cockles - Pan fried cockles, leeks and laverbread on fried sourdough bread, charred lemon

Beetroot Pie - Beetroot, mushroom, black bean and spinach pie, sautéed garlic greens and roasted red onions

Roasted Cod Loin - Ancho chilli roasted cod loin, sautéed mussels, cockles, laverbread and saffron, roasted fennel mash

Grapes in the Bunch

To accompany the meal I had my first proper cask beers since March - two from Salopian Brewery, a pint of Shropshire Gold bitter and a pint of Dewdrops New England IPA. 🍺

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Pakistan’s bowling attack is looking sharp. England 12-3 after 5.3 overs. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇵🇰 1st Test, Day 2 🏏

Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Bisect 📷

Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ flickrfriday, 90degrees

Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: Flow — Afon Cynon, Aberdâr