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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Watched: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, 2024 - β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½ πŸŽ₯

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Argentina πŸ‡¦πŸ‡· 0-1 πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ Egypt so far … βš½οΈπŸ†

Messi doesn’t score a penalty

So having a glass of Argentinian Malbec 🍷

πŸ“† | 🏷 Wine 🏷 Football

🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Moody Blues (13 plays), Rush (7), Mystery Jets (4), Kirill Petrenko, BPO, Zimmermann (2), Arctic Monkeys (1)

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Two World Cups ⚽️🏏

A television on a wooden stand is displaying a split screen with a soccer match on the left and a cricket match on the right.

But this is not ideal - can’t really see either properly unless I sit really close! Need to choose …

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Apophenia was a very nice beer for the Belgium match tonight. Game still in the balance πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ

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Cardiff

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Pitch inspection 🏏

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2xR2D2?

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🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express (32 plays), Sivert Høyem (11), Stavros Lantsias (8), Kostas Papadopoulos (5), Bob Dylan (4)

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Freddo espresso in a nice whisky tumbler β˜•οΈ

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All holiday games played plus a new retsina to try πŸ‘πŸŽ²πŸ·

Tatsu - A Game of Dragon Mastery - with Mythos and oregano crisps this afternoon.

Cribbage and Hive with retsina, lemon fava and halva in the evening.

Scrabble a couple of nights ago.

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πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Wine
Retsina

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Minute Cryptic - 24 June, 2026

“Hermit perhaps returning alone, wandering city” (9)

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πŸ† 0 hints – 3 under the community par (26,068 solvers so far).

www.minutecryptic.com

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Escher in Greece πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·

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Currently reading: Exodus: The Helium Sea by Peter F. Hamilton πŸ“š

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