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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

πŸ”— β€˜Am I still any good? Have I still got it?’: PJ Harvey on doubt, desire and deepest, darkest Dorset

Harvey didn’t intend to make a new album: it crept up on her …

Looking forward to the release of this album next week 🎡

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Burger buns baked. Unusually uniform shape and size for my baking πŸ”

Six almost equally sized burger buns on a cooling rack

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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Delico Deli, Aberdare for tuna melt panini and cappuccino β˜•οΈ

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πŸ”— β€˜A nuclear reactor of music’: the story of Simple Minds’ classic album Empires and Dance 🎡

Sustaining an overpowering and unrelenting mood, music, voice and words perfectly in lockstep, Empires and Dance is a Mitteleuropean psychodrama.

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πŸ”— Pompeii fresco depicts what might be the precursor of pizza

Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that may depict the ancestor of the Italian pizza.

More details from The History Blog: Still life with pizza found at Pompeii

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β™« My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (30), The Wedding Present (3), William The Conqueror (3), Queens of the Stone Age (2) & The Smile (2) #weeklymusic via @tweeklyfm

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Post-show espressos β˜•οΈπŸŽ΅

Woman sitting at table at dusk, small coffees and theatre programme on table, illuminated fairground wheel and red brick building in background Copper building frontage at dusk with adjacent clear skies

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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Wales Millennium Centre for the WNO production of Bernstein’s Candide 🎡

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2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

National Eisteddfod of Wales

2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation, Aberdare, Saturday 24th June 2023

Proclaiming the Eisteddfod’s intention to visit an area at least a year and a day before the beginning of the festival

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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Darren Fawr Round Cairns

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Linkblog πŸ”—: Pagan Fires Burning: The New Wave of Dark Folk from the UK and Ireland 🎡

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β˜•οΈ Asher’s Whisky Fruit Cake and coffee

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Too much cricket but I can’t stop myself. Women’s Ashes Test about to start. Australia batting first 🏏

🏷 Cricket

June 21st 2023, the summer solstice, was the sixth annual #ShowYourStripes day.

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Chart, visualising temperature increases since 1850, consisiting of vertical stripes coloured blue to red, a lot more red on the right Bar chart showing warming temperatures in Cardiff since 1850

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Good morning from the greenhouse. I’m watering the tomatoes 🌱

Inside a small untidy greenhouse, young tomato plants growing on either side of central stone path Low view of door to a small greenhouse, chives growing in foreground

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