Location check in — The Mount Stuart, Cardiff Bay - a nice strong ale, Wobbly Bob 🍺
🗺 Map of area

Tuesday 26th May 2026, 9:00am

Kitchen, lounge, bedroom

Have had these thermometers for a couple of years and yesterday all recorded new maximum temperatures 🌞

Finished reading: The Medici Secret by Michael White 📚

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Bertrand Chamayou (48 plays), Bob Dylan (18), Amelia Cuni (15), Alexei Lubimov (14), Handley, RLPO, Little (6)

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Black Box Recorder (18 plays), Shovel Dance Collective (14), John Francis Flynn (8), Handley, RLPO, Little (6), Harding, BPO, Zimmermann (6)

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff 🎵

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Alexandre Bloch conductor
Veronika Eberle violin

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major

Sir George Benjamin
Concerto for Orchestra

Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)

Watched: Greenland 2: Migration, 2026 - ★★½ 🎥

Watched: Greenland, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥

Watching for a second time after more than 5 years. A little better than I remembered.

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Joseph Szigeti, Benny Goodman & Béla Bartók (38 plays), Home Counties (20), Shovel Dance Collective (10), Vladimir Verbitsky, St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (8), Ed O’Brien (7)

Thatchers Pavilion 🏏

Sunny and very warm at Aberdare Station this morning. Setting out for Sophia Gardens again for Day 2 of Glamorgan v Somerset 🏏🚆

Just looking at some Italian beers:

• Moretti (owned by Heineken)
• Peroni (owned by Asahi)
• Poretti (owned by Carlsberg)

All old Italian breweries but this is the way of the 🍺 world.

Not that busy here. Under 1,000 spectators in a 15,000 capacity ground 😞

Sophia Gardens. 📍

Glamorgan v Somerset 🏏

Watched: Caught on a Train, 1980 - ★★★★½ 🎥