Legend of the Fall – Mark E Smith kept swinging to the end 🎵

New Face in Hell 🎵 – Mark E Smith, lead singer with The Fall, dies aged 60. So many hours of my life spent listening to The Fall, from the late 70s, recording their sessions from the John Peel Show, to seeing them at the Green Man festival a couple of years ago (pictured here). Favourite albums Live at the Witch Trials and Grotesque.

Ursula K Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy author, dies aged 88. The Dispossessed has always been one of my favourite utopian novels. 📚

Xylouris White – Only Love 🎵

St. David’s Hall, Cardiff for La Traviata.

Checked in at St David’s Hall

Checked in at Cafe Citta. Cardiff, linguine & wine 🍷

Checked in at Delico Deli. Aberdare, large Americano and a cheese and onion pasty.

Quite ridiculous! - A new trend to ‘coordinate’ the look of your library by turning the spines to face inward

My kitchen bookcase is getting a little overcrowded. 📚

Now reading a biography - D. H. Lawrence - The Life of Outsider by John Worthen. 📚

I used to sporadically keep a record of the books I was reading on a Tumblr blog at imnowreading.tumblr.com - am going to try and resurrect this using the emoji tagging on Micro.blog.

Sea bass grilled, served with a borlotti bean and mushroom stew and broccoli stir fried with chilli and garlic.

Not quite the weather for a BBQ, but planning to charcoal grill some sea bass on our balcony. May end in disaster!

What’s not to love! – 🏏 and 🎵 – Sticky Wickets by The Duckworth Lewis Method