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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Finished reading: Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 📚

🏷 Books | 📆

🔗 Champions Trophy 2025: Australia-South Africa abandoned in Rawalpindi 🌧️ 🏏

🏷 Links 🏷 Cricket | 📆

🔗 Seven planets align in UK skies this week for last time until 2040

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, and Saturn will all be briefly visible in the evening sky

Listening to Robert Wyatt 🎵

🏷 Music | 📆

Went for a walk because it’s raining in Rawalpindi and the cricket hasn’t started. Photographing with Hipstamatic again 📸 😄

A rustic wooden fence stands in front of a small stream and rocky area surrounded by dense, leafless vegetation.A brick labeled TANYBRYN ABERDRE is partially submerged in a rocky, water-filled environment.A rusted, cylindrical metal object lies on wet, rocky ground surrounded by clear water.A serene lake surrounded by bare trees reflects a cloudy sky, with a distant hill and power lines visible in the background.A wheelbarrow sits on a muddy hill overlooking a landscape with leafless trees and a cloudy sky.A muddy path meanders through a leafless forest area, with a fallen fence lying across it under a cloudy sky.A scenic view of a valley with green fields and hills under a cloudy sky, illuminated by sunlight breaking through.A solitary tree stands on a distant hill under a blue sky, reflected in the calm waters below.

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🎥 Asteroid City (2023) ★★★★★

This package from Finland worried me slightly 😀💿🎵

Auto-generated description: A wrinkled paper package features a radioactive symbol, several Finnish addresses, a cartoon snake, and text in Finnish alongside contact details for a business.

According to Google Translate the text by the snake means: REMEMBER, NEVER BE FOOLED!

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Gui, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Callas, Picchi, Stignani, Vaghi, Sutherland (44 plays), Manic Street Preachers (26), Kim Deal (11), The Doors (10), Bill ‘Ravi’ Harris & The Prophets (6)

🏷 Music | 📆

Today’s breakfast bowl

Auto-generated description: A bowl on a wooden table contains hash browns, a sausage, scrambled eggs, and cherry tomatoes.

England giving Australia some catching practice 😞 🏏

Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 🏏, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 v 🇮🇪 Ireland 🏉, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland 🏉, Aston Villa v Chelsea ⚽️. Choices, choices, choices …

🏷 Cricket 🏷 Rugby 🏷 Football | 📆

ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 starts today with Pakistan 🇵🇰 v 🇳🇿 New Zealand in Karachi.

Then it’s a feast of daily ODI matches for a couple of weeks, with Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England to look forward to on Saturday 🏏

Maria by Callas, 2017 - ★★★★★

Fascinating sequence of archive footage - including performances, interviews and home movies. No commentary, but very interesting to watch.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, 2024 - ★★½

Less enjoyable and less interesting than Part One.

Bridget Jones's Baby, 2016 - ★★★

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

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