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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

the dim pause

It’s my birthday today 🎂

Got a fortune cookie to open with my cards 🥠

Better to be lucky than clever

A collection of birthday greeting cards displayed on a surface, one featuring an illustration of a person reading with the phrase I like to party and by party I mean read books. In front of the cards, there's a fortune cookie wrapper
📆 | 🏷 Photography

First BBQ of 2024 🍷

A barbecue grill cooking sausages and mushrooms, outdoors near a fence and greenspace. Outdoor meal setup with two glasses of red wine, a bottle, grilled sausages, slices of bread on plates, coleslaw, Sriracha sauce, and condiments on a white round table with a natural backdrop.
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Wine

flâneur — day 16 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Is a beach flâneur possible? New Quay, Ceredigion

A person walking on a sandy beach with boats in the water and buildings along the coastline under a blue sky dotted with clouds.
📆 | 🏷 Photography

Had a fantastic weekend in Bristol celebrating my daughter’s birthday - Japanese restaurant, board game bar-café and cake 🎂

📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Food 🏷 Games

small — day 15 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

St Thomas' Hospital, London, late 1980s - I worked as an electron microscopist 🔬

A laboratory setup with an old computer, various electronic measurement devices, and an electron microscope.
📆 | 🏷 Photography

Location check in 🗺 — The Social, Bristol for veggie breakfast and a Bloody Mary

Google satellite map showing location pin

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🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo (12 plays)
The Libertines (11)
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog (9)
Furtwängler, VPO (4)
Furtwängler, BPO (3)

📆 | 🏷 Music

cactus — day 14 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Prickly pears in front of olives. Kalamata, Greece, 2015

An olive grove with mature trees and prickly pear cacti in the foreground under a cloudy sky.
📆 | 🏷 Photography

Location check in 🗺 — Beercosm. Cheddar Ales Totty Pot Dark Porter 🍺

Google satellite map showing location pin

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📆 | 🏷 Location 🏷 Beer

Location check in 🗺 — Izakaya Japanese Bar, Bristol 🇯🇵

Google satellite map showing location pin

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📆 | 🏷 Location

page — day 13 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Beer festivals past. When we had a plan 🙂🍺

Black and white printed page listing beers, and their descriptions, available at a beer festival
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Beer

magic — day 12 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

A little hidden magic in Lisbon, April 2023 🇵🇹

A vintage yellow and red tram with a Coca-Cola advertisement on its side travels on a street in a sunny urban setting with classic European architecture.
📆 | 🏷 Photography

sky — day 11 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Edinburgh, November 2023

Sun rising over a flat topped rocky mountain illuminating white clouds in a bright blue sky. Old fragment of a stone pillar in the foreground, buildings of a city in the distance.
📆 | 🏷 Photography

train — day 10 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Edinburgh Waverley Station, November 2023

A train station with multiple platforms and trains, with classical architecture in the background under a partly cloudy sky. Beyond the station, historic buildings on a hill, including a castle and a monument, are visible.
📆 | 🏷 Photography

crispy — day 09 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

A jar of Lao Gan Ma Crispy Chilli in Oil on a kitchen counter.
📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Food
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