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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

🎡 My Top weekly artists: Jake Blount (63), The Animals (14), Raffaele Grimaldi (8), Anna Friederike Potengowski (1) & Anna Friederike Potengowski & Georg Wieland Wagner (1) via tweekly.fm

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music |

Finished reading: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza edited by John Daido Loori πŸ“š

πŸ“† | 🏷 Books |

Finished reading: Ten Poems about Music: The Blue Album introduced by Cerys Matthews πŸ“š

Additional fact from the book πŸ™‚πŸŽ΅ :

John Cage’s composition As Slow as Possible began being played in St Burchardi’s Church, Germany in 2001 and is scheduled to end in the year 2640.

πŸ“† | 🏷 Books 🏷 Music |

🎡 My Top weekly artists: Jake Thackray (55), Fontaines D.C. (49), Slow Club (18), PJ Harvey (14) & Georges Brassens (13) via tweekly.fm

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music |

Bar 44, Clifton, Bristol. Excellent tapas 🍷

Red wine bottle and glass in foreground, smiling woman in background
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Wine |

Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” The Quadrant, Clifton. Tribute 🍺

Google satellite map showing location pin

πŸ”Ž Zoom in

πŸ“† | 🏷 Location 🏷 Beer |

Traffic delays and rainbows 🌈

Motorway with queues of traffic but a rainbow in the sky
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography |

πŸ›£οΈ Motorwaying to Bristol to pick up my daughter and have a late lunch in Clifton.

πŸ“† | 🏷 Travel |

πŸ›  Tinkering with web design (again) πŸ•ΈοΈ

πŸ“† | 🏷 CompTechSci |

Finished reading: On Connection by Kae Tempest πŸ“š

πŸ“† | 🏷 Books |

Grey and rainy day in Aberdare β˜”οΈ

Narrow alleyway in the rain. Puddles. Woman walking with umbrella.
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography |

🍞 Preparing bread

πŸ“† | 🏷 Food |

⏰ Early morning Bank Holiday of course

πŸ“† | 🏷 Status |

⚽ Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Aston Villa. I enjoyed that.

πŸ“† | 🏷 Football |
Bottle and glass of dark Belgian beer, football match on TV in the background

Trappistes Rochefort 10

by Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-RΓ©my

Belgian Quadrupel, 11.3% ABV 🍺

Dark and delicious but taking it slowly…

πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Beer |
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