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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Currently reading: Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs by D.D. Johnston 📚

🏷 Books | 📆

orange — day 04 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Two glasses of orange coloured drinks with ice on a tiled table. Book, chair and bench in the background.

Nice weather so trying out cooking flatbreads over a fire pit. Will later be barbecuing salmon and prawns to go with them 🔥 🫓 🦐 🐟

Fire pit with tripod and suspended skillet. Flatbread on skillet Close up of a flatbread cooking on a skillet over flames Table with plates containing cooked and uncooked flatbreads. One flatbread in process of being rolled out

🏷 Photography 🏷 Food 🏷 Weather | 📆

precious — day 03 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Macro photo of a gold ring on grey stone, sunlight shining on it causing reflection and shadow

🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Karajan, BPO (16), Stars of the Lid (15), Kikagaku Moyo (11), David Gunawardana (6), Yijia (6)

🏷 Music | 📆

About to try Norwegian brown cheese, brunost, for the first time. Pictured alongside a piece of Ossau-Iraty 🧀

Two blocks of cheese on a wooden board, one of them a caramel brown colour. Red wine and chutney in the background.

buildup — day 02 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Stone walls and scaffolding silhouetted against a blue sky

Location check in 🗺 — Margham Park for a food festival

Google satellite map showing location pin

🔎 Zoom in

abstract — day 01 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸

Macro image of irregularly shaped shining water droplets suspended on a spider web in front of barely visible foliage background

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 2023 - ★★★½

Watched on Monday August 28, 2023.

🏷 FilmTV | 📆

🎵 My Top weekly artists logged by last.fm: Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan (15), Thee Oh Sees (12), David Gunawardana (6), Stornoway (4), Yijia (3)

🏷 Music | 📆
Puzzling message

Every day my wife and I exchange messages. The problem is that these messages are growing ever longer. With the introduction of the New York Times' Connections game my daily message this morning consisted of:


DAILY #252
181 from 16 words
❇️1️⃣❇️❇️❇️
❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️
❇️❇️🆓❇️❇️
❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️
❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️
wellwordgame.com

LIGHTNING #252
162 from 17 words
2️⃣2️⃣❇️2️⃣❇️
❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️
❇️❇️🆓❇️❇️
1️⃣🟩❇️🟩❇️
❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️
wellwordgame.com

Wordle 797 5/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I solved the 8/25/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:43!

Connections
Puzzle #75
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦


I usually send a compiled single message, she sends me each result separately 🙂

Who says the spirit of competition is dead?!

Disclaimer: These are not the only messages we exchange 😊

🏷 Games | 📆

Dirty fries - sauerkraut, cheese, aioli, ketchup - and sticky tempura aubergine, coriander and chilli bao bun. Delicious but it got messy 😊

Messy platter of chips covered in sauce and fried aubergine in a bun with chillis and coriander

🏷 Photography 🏷 Food | 📆

Location check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Otley Gorllewin 🍺

Google satellite map showing location pin

🔎 Zoom in

🏷 Location 🏷 Beer | 📆
Barbie, 2023 - ★★★½

Watched on Tuesday August 22, 2023.

🏷 FilmTV | 📆
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