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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Film log - watched: Flintoff, 2025 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… - Letterboxd link πŸŽ₯

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🏷 Cricket 🏷 FilmTV | πŸ“†

Film log - watched: Living, 2022 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… - Letterboxd link πŸŽ₯

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Currently reading: Scarpia by Piers Paul Read πŸ“š

🏷 Books | πŸ“†

Finished reading: What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt πŸ“š

🏷 Books | πŸ“†

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Kinks (36 plays), Jeremy Pelt (17), Stacey Kent (15), Carolyn Sampson; Bach Collegium Japan Chorus; Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki; Olivia Vermeulen; Makoto Sakurada; Christian Immler (13), Leif Ove Andsnes (13)

🏷 Music | πŸ“†

Aston Villa last won the FA Cup in 1957 ⚽️

🏷 Football | πŸ“†

Saturday afternoon - a prawn curry, a pint of Old Peculier 🍺 and watching πŸ“Ί Crystal Palace v Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley ⚽️

🏷 Beer 🏷 Football 🏷 FilmTV | πŸ“†

Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome πŸ”—

🏷 Links 🏷 History 🏷 Video | πŸ“†

🎡 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Leif Ove Andsnes (24 plays), Roger Waters (22), Lankum (13), Leif Ove Andsnes, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir & Grete Pedersen (12), Babyshambles (11)

🏷 Music | πŸ“†

Film log - watched: Gladiator II, 2024 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… - Letterboxd link πŸŽ₯

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Birthday lunch at The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd - oven roasted miso cod, wild rice, red pepper & gochujang puree and a kimchi fritter. And a bowl of chips 😊

Also a Weird Dad porter 🍺

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🏷 Photography 🏷 Food 🏷 Beer | πŸ“†

Film log - watched: Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity, 2025 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… - Letterboxd link πŸŽ₯

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My daughter’s birthday today. We were with a mixed clientele in the pub.

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The Grace. πŸ“

Some wax clearance needed πŸ•―οΈ

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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. πŸ“

A Ton of Tea
Ai Weiwei

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