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David Cook
@spiddly.bsky.social
North of the Kennet, south of the Thames. Keeping it local with music, history and architecture. Listening to and looking at all the good stuff.
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Today might be a good time to tell you of my new blog Stone Diaries, detailing my thoughts during field trips to ancient sites.

Entries are being updated with details of myths and pubs for each site, so do join me on my travels 🙂

stonediaries2.wordpress.com

#StandingStoneSunday
Kit’s Coty House features in the latest episode of #Uncanny as @dannyrobins.bsky.social explores a theory connecting the paranormal and ancient sites.

Listen again on @BBCSounds bit.ly/43CjZvn @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

(photo ©️ @englishheritage.bsky.social)
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“The realisation of a fool’s errand was made apparent when the occupants of the other car made a break for it, but were driven back by the rain.”

A new entry on the Stone Diaries blog, with a visit to West Kennet Avenue.

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WILD WEATHER AT WEST KENNET AVENUE
26th October 2025 It was the morning after, as a nation collectively sought to find their bearings after being displaced in time. Like others, I spent many waking hours of my Sunday bemused by how …
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November 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The ruins of Reading Abbey all aglow as we head towards winter @readingmuseum.bsky.social #rdg #rdguk
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on @resonancefm.bsky.social presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio
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The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show on Resonance 104.4 FM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Currently listening to ‘Trackways Ancient and Modern’ by @thememoryband.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/47HsDva Apple Music bit.ly/47SZiN7 Spotify bit.ly/4qV8Fo4 #music
Trackways Ancient & Modern, by The Memory Band
11 track album
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November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Been looking forward to tonight’s edition of The Circled A Show on @resonancefm.bsky.social since it was announced weeks ago.

All things on mythologist Joseph Campbell, 8pm tonight #radio
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Our podcast is back for a third season and to start us off we chatted with Gwenno about Utopia, landscape, touring, writing and filmmaking.
Up next Jeremy Deller, then Lenny Rimbaud.
Subscribe to hear each episode as we release them each Friday morning
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Weathered by time and the elements but still standing tall, a beacon calling to those with a sense of curiosity and discovery.

#StandingStoneSunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Currently listening to ‘A Thousand Pokes’ by @stickinthewheel.bsky.social - Bandcamp bit.ly/4ouZKbp Apple Music bit.ly/3WHinwB Spotify bit.ly/4oshdkD #music

Live performance on #HelloGoodbyeShow on @resonancefm.bsky.social, presented by Dexter Bentley. Listen again on Mixcloud bit.ly/4hVfMJi #radio
A Thousand Pokes, by Stick In The Wheel
13 track album
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November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Definitely got a laugh from that! @weirdwalk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hQJ8rZ
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Currently listening to ‘I’ll Stop When I’m Done’ by EERA - Bandcamp bit.ly/3Lr8IYs Apple Music bit.ly/4hJ1ECv Spotify bit.ly/3WBlpCz #music
I'll stop when I'm done., by EERA
10 track album
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November 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Currently listening to ‘Light and Dark’ by Leonor and Gashnois - Bandcamp bit.ly/47V1moT Apple Music bit.ly/4hGd4ad Spotify bit.ly/3LIeRQ3 #music

Live performance on #HelloGoodbyeShow on @resonancefm.bsky.social, presented by Dexter Bentley. Listen again on Mixcloud bit.ly/43cv0U5 #radio
Light and Dark, by Leonor and Gashnois
4 track album
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November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Epic show from @psbhq.bsky.social and London Contemporary Orchestra at the Barbican yesterday #music
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. - #CLNolan #ClocksGoBack
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A journey made on a whim can be rewarding, no matter how short the stay.

#StandingStoneSunday
October 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The majesty of megaliths, awaiting your visit and discovery.

#StandingStoneSunday
October 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The Long Neolithic is more than a persistence of field system boundaries, the standing of stone houses of the dead. The Long Neolithic continues as conversation. Each of its circles, menhirs and portal tombs an ambassador of its mysteries. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
October 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The turn of season and weather makes for a dramatic view at West Kennet Long Barrow.

This is the last weekend of British Summer Time, before the clocks go back and evenings draw in sooner. Enjoy your field trips this weekend!

#StandingStoneSunday
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Great edition of ‘The News Agents’ on @resonancefm.bsky.social, as @judemontague.bsky.social chats with Tom Rowe of Wave Farm about all things radio.

Broadcast as part of XMTR Audio Arts Festival, St Leonards-on-Sea, 26-28 September 2025

Listen again on Mixcloud bit.ly/4qhlgBz #radio
The News Agents - 18 October 2025 (Tom Roe - USA transmission arts 1)
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October 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on @resonancefm.bsky.social presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio
hellogoodbyeshow
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show on Resonance 104.4 FM
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October 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
All the places I showed you on my return, as you waited patiently for me to come home from field trips…

Now you can freely walk alongside me and see them for yourself.

Thank you, beloved Poose.

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October 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on @resonancefm.bsky.social presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio
hellogoodbyeshow
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show on Resonance 104.4 FM
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October 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Made at sites of ancient stones, upon hillforts and in the depths of a fogou. Megalithic Moog is an album crafted using a 1974 Moog Prodigy and the land itself. Melodies from leylines, beats from boulders, songs from stones.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The silence here is deafening. The door and window is open, but still he doesn’t come home.

Where have you gone, little guy? #rdg #rdguk
October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just a Sunday afternoon walk around Whiteknights Lake #rdg #rdguk
September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM