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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Sometimes I cave in …

Close up of fried egg, cheese and hash brown in a muffin

Egg & Cheese McMuffin meal with latte for breakfast β˜•

🏷 Photography 🏷 Food 🏷 Coffee

7/7 12:30am - First listen to I Inside the Old Year Dying 🎡

🏷 Music

πŸ”— Hard act to swallow: gull caught on film eating squirrel whole

It is a jaw-dropping scene worthy of a Hitchcock film

Wow!

🏷 Links 🏷 Nature

View through our letterbox on returning home after an evening doing a quiz in our local pub 🐈

(photo taken by my daughter)

Cat sitting accusingly on the floor of a hallway viewed through a narrow rectangular aperture

🏷 Photography

First over: Stuart Broad removes David Warner - for the 16th time in Tests - for 4 🏏

🏷 Cricket

🏏 Ashes: Day one, third Test, Headingley

🏷 Cricket 🏷 Status

This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸

Toad on soil under the leaves of a tomato plant

Seems like a very strange (sometimes very hot) place for a toad to want to live in but it’s been there for well over three months now. I have to be very careful when hoeing between the plants because it’s often completely buried in a well-camouflaged burrow which occasionally moves location.

I’ve been trying to get a better photograph but it’s fairly timid and makes a dash for cover whenever it notices me πŸ˜„

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🏷 Photography 🏷 Garden 🏷 Nature

Book πŸ“š and Butty Bach 🍺 in Hay

Man reading a book at an outdoor pub table, pint of beer in front of him

🏷 Photography 🏷 Books 🏷 Beer

Gateway

Stone doorway and wooden gates, one half closed other open showing steps and blue sky

🏷 Photography

Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” one night at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. Superb Wye Valley Smokery kippers served for breakfast 🐟

Google satellite map showing location pin

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🏷 Food 🏷 Location

Hay-on-Wye πŸ“š

Monochrome view of central doorway in a stone  wall with sign reading Honesty Bookshop. Overlooked by partially ruined large old house. Monochrome view of town street with an ornate bookshop and clock tower in the background.

🏷 Photography 🏷 Books

Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Blue Boar, Hay-on-Wye for a pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, one of my favourite beers 🍺

Google satellite map showing location pin

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🏷 Location 🏷 Beer

South Wales Fire Service helicopter carrying water has been repeatedly flying back and forth over our house all day today (still going now at 7pm and I think I first saw it about 8am).

According to Natural Resources Wales there’s a wildfire in Gethin Forest between Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, just over the side of the valley from us πŸ”₯😟

Distant view of helicopter in the sky, fire fighting water container slung beneath it

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🏷 Photography

Very dramatic final day in the 2nd Ashes Test 🏏

🏷 Cricket

β™« My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (15), Jonathan Wilson (3), Sparks (3), Jonathan Russell (2) & Paul Beaubrun (2) via @tweeklyfm

🏷 Music
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