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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Drummond Road, Bristol

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Glass Photo | ๐Ÿ“†
Dark Encounter, 2019 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ

Strange film. Not sure what to make of it. Combination of child disappearance and alien encounter. Very well filmed and acted - definitely not got the look or feel of a low budget, made for TV movie (which I don't believe it was).

๐Ÿท FilmTV | ๐Ÿ“†
The Highwaymen, 2019 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Watched on Thursday March 21, 2024.

๐Ÿท FilmTV | ๐Ÿ“†

Finished reading: Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay ๐Ÿ“š

๐Ÿท Books | ๐Ÿ“†

My bread is trying to escape! โš ๏ธ๐Ÿž

A loaf of bread in a metal baking pan on a wooden surface. One corner of the loaf has risen over the corner and out of the tin.

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Food | ๐Ÿ“†
Power cut

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Glass Photo | ๐Ÿ“†
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Watched on Sunday March 17, 2024.

๐Ÿท FilmTV | ๐Ÿ“†

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

Handley, RLPO (13 plays)
Arab Strap (2)
Gong (1)

๐Ÿท Music | ๐Ÿ“†

Wordle 1,000 ๐ŸŽ‰ 4/6

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โฌœ๐ŸŸจโฌœ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ
โฌœ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

๐Ÿท Games | ๐Ÿ“†
Gong at The Globe, Sunday 10th March 2024 ๐ŸŽต

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Gong and Ozric Tentacles at the sold out and very crowded Globe, Cardiff, Sunday 10th March 2024 ๐Ÿ“ท ๐ŸŽต

The two bands are doing their Last Joint Tour, jointly headlining and alternating their set orders. Last night at The Globe Ozric Tentacles played first followed by Gong.

Gong

Concert scene with audience silhouettes in front of a stage with psychedelic eye projection and purple stage lights A live music performance at The Globe with musicians on stage, including a saxophonist and guitarists, amid colorful stage lighting and a crowd of spectators in the foreground A live band performing on stage at The Globe with vibrant psychedelic background projections and an audience in the foreground

Ozric Tentacles

A live band performing on stage at The Globe, with colorful psychedelic projections in the background. Audience members are seen in the foreground, silhouetted against the brightly lit stage A live music performance at The Globe venue with band members illuminated by green and blue stage lights, and an audience watching the show

๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Music | ๐Ÿ“†

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

Bessie Smith (44 plays)
Kendrick Lamar (19)
Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson & Don Redman (11)
Bessie Smith & Fletcher Henderson (9)
Bessie Smith & Jimmy Jones (8)

๐Ÿท Music | ๐Ÿ“†

Two very close, exciting games of Six Nations rugby today. Two unexpected results for Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น and England ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ. A little compensation for this morningโ€™s cricket humiliation! ๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ‘

๐Ÿท Cricket ๐Ÿท Rugby | ๐Ÿ“†

Watching rugby - Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น v ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Scotland - and drinking a Dead Canary ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ‰

๐Ÿท Rugby ๐Ÿท Beer | ๐Ÿ“†
Hay-on-Wye bookshops ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“ธ

Documenting in photographs some of the current bookshops in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, the world’s first town of books.

Richard Booth’s Bookshop

Hay Cinema Bookshop

Hay Castle Honesty Bookshop

Hay-on-Wye Booksellers

Addyman Books

The Addyman Annexe

Murder and Mayhem

The Poetry Bookshop

Gay on Wye

Green Ink Booksellers

Broad Street Book Centre

Clock Tower Books

North Books

The Black Mountains Bindery

๐Ÿ“– more

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