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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Sharper, 2023 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ

Watched on Monday March 4, 2024.

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The Hunger Games, 2012 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ

Watched on Sunday March 3, 2024.

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๐ŸŽต My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Nadine Shah (16 plays)
Brittany Howard (12)
Portishead (12)
Christy Moore (10)
The Passions (10)

๐Ÿท Music | ๐Ÿ“†
Shop window

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Glass Photo | ๐Ÿ“†

Location check in ๐Ÿ—บ โ€” Hay Distillery, sampling gins

Google satellite map showing location pin

๐Ÿ”Ž Zoom in

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Staying at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. They do excellent Wye Valley Smokery kippers for breakfast.

An old white-painted building with signage for   The Old Black Lion inn, featuring lanterns, stone accents, and a person standing at the entrance. A sign indicates the inn offers food, drinks, and accommodations. A dimly lit room featuring a traditional wooden loft with a ladder, a bed on the lower level, antique furniture including a dresser with a mirror, and a wicker trunk at the foot of the bed. Light filters in through a window A breakfast table with two kipper fillets garnished with herbs on a plate, accompanied by a French press with coffee, orange juice, and another plate with fried eggs, spinach, and beans in the background.

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Coffee | ๐Ÿ“†

Starter

A table with gourmet dishes and wine glasses; in the foreground, a plate with breaded appetizers garnished with green leaves, sprinkled with paprika; in the background, two glasses of red wine, another dish with colorful food

Main course

A nearly empty speckled dinner plate with remnants of food and a pair of crossed utensils on it, resting on a wooden table, surrounded by a half-empty wine glass, water glasses, and a wine bottle

Dessert

A cheese platter with various cheese types, grapes, crackers, honey, and pickled items, accompanied by glasses of port and dessert wine. A person is dining in the background.

(I got distracted midway ๐Ÿ˜Š)

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Captain on deck ๐Ÿซก

A life-size cardboard cutout of a Star Trek character stands at the entrance of a bookstore with rows of bookshelves filled with various books. A cardboard cutout of a character in a red and black Starfleet uniform from Star Trek inside a bookstore with a woman carrying books walking in the background.

(A little upset that AI alt text generator didnโ€™t recognise Kirk or Picard ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ––)

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Retro ๐Ÿ––

A wooden bookshelf filled with various VHS tapes, mostly from the Star Trek series, and a row of orange-spined books. The top shelf includes a box set for The Saint TV series.

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Someone spent too much time sorting books by spine colour ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ“š

A narrow bookshop aisle with tall wooden shelves filled with various books on either side. A person is browsing books in the background, under fluorescent lighting. Person browsing books in a cozy bookstore with shelves organized by color.

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Books | ๐Ÿ“†

I donโ€™t know why โ€ฆ ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Ÿˆ

A black and white cat standing inside a utility sink in a kitchen setting, with cleaning supplies and a dish brush to the side.

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Now listening to Nadine Shah’s new album Filthy Underneath. It’s very good ๐ŸŽต

๐Ÿท Music | ๐Ÿ“†

Woke up at quarter to seven to hear Bashir take 2 wickets in 2 balls. Will now be glued to the radio for as long as it lasts ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ

๐Ÿท Cricket | ๐Ÿ“†
Oppenheimer, 2023 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Watched on Sunday February 25, 2024.

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Dramatic and slightly disappointing morning of cricket. Hoping for more drama in the final half an hour. Wicket needed ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ

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