Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: The Just Joans (48), Walter, Columbia SO (10), Grateful Dead (9), Dorati, Royal Concertgebouw O., Schiff (6)

Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - double espresso and toast. ☕️

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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, 2019 - ★★★★½

Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2020.

How to make the perfect broccoli and stilton soup 🔗 — Excerpt: So entrenched is broccoli and stilton in my canon of classic soups – well up there with the likes of tomato, minestrone and chicken broth – that I’m slightly taken aback not to find it in Lindsey Bareham’s comprehensive collection A Celebration of Soup, or indeed in any of the other books I

Doors drummer, John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’ 🔗 — Excerpt: It took the Doors’ drummer, John Densmore, three years to visit the grave of his bandmate Jim Morrison after he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971. He didn’t even go to the funeral. “Did I hate Jim?” Densmore pauses, although he is not obviously alarmed by the question. “No.

In Bristol, dropping my daughter back off at university after the Xmas break.

Porto Lounge. Check in 🗺 - Malbec 🍷

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For the sake of balance, 🍷 … (sitting outside a pub in Bristol with LOTS of ‘vintage’ signs)

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Masons Arms. Drinking a Henry’s IPA by Wadworth

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Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Claude Debussy (36), The Smiths (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Sigmatropic (6)

The best movies of 2019 that you haven’t seen 🔗 — Excerpt: This quite extraordinary film from the 28-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov was a prize-winner in Cannes; in the UK it had three showings at the London film festival and then went straight to the streaming platform Mubi. Everyone should see it.

Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Cornershop (25), The Breeders (24), The Doors (23), Charles Baudelaire (10)

The Moon at Wales Millennium Centre.

Newport Railway Station (NWP). Check in 🗺 - Espresso con panna ☕️

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