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

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Hay-on-Wye 📚

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

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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 🔥😟

Very dramatic final day in the 2nd Ashes Test 🏏

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

🔗 ‘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 🎵

Burger buns baked. Unusually uniform shape and size for my baking 🍔

Location check in 🗺 — Delico Deli, Aberdare for tuna melt panini and cappuccino ☕️

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🔗 ‘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.

🔗 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

♫ 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

Post-show espressos ☕️🎵

Location check in 🗺 — Wales Millennium Centre for the WNO production of Bernstein’s Candide 🎵

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