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AlanFricker
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Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen.
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Nation of Language predictably brilliant at the Roundhouse. Less excited by Westerman supporting
Nation of language with big search light type lights on white Nation of language lit from behind by beams of white light Blue and purple light dominates the band
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Disappointed in Stamford Council not having an open metadata policy. Another duffer from Google AI
Google AI is sorry to report that Stamford Council has no open metadata policy - unlike the globally renowned instutition Stamford
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Back looking at the transcriptions and interested that the AI has uncovered my brummie secret
Screen grab "So that's the plan basically Bab"
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Potential chart smash lyric right here
A screen grab of transcript saying "Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah"
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Euphoric night in Brixton watching Self Esteem. Crowd so loud and involved. Just a great show.
Self Esteem playing at Brixton. Start of the gig - red light with lead singer picked out by spotlight in a line of women dressed as puritans Self esteem in a group moving across the stage in front of the word Deranged Nadine Shah somewhere in a lot of red light and dry ice. Didn't change my mind live versus on record
October 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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So happy to see Allo Darlin. Still so special

"We do it

because we love it

And I'm here

because I love you"
Allo darlin at Earth Allo darlin again The Wave pictures in Earth Hall
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Digging out the vintage merch today #medlibs 📚
A grey drawstring bag with the slogan "BAG the evidence" written across it. The branding is for the national electronic library for health
October 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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A reworked version of Washington DC a highlight of the Magnetic Fields performing the second half of 69 love songs
The band Magnetic fields on stage at the union chapel - playing 69 songs part 2. There is a large pulpit behind them with what Stephen Merritt described as an alligator pit below it Complex wooden Ceiling of the union chapel bathed in blue and pink light
October 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Thanks to a query about how the date filter works in EBSCO EDS I have discovered more nonsense from publishers. I knew they put copyright dates in the future on their books but there are journals that are months and months ahead of real time #medlibs 📚
Screen grab from Browzine of the journal "Neural Regeneration Research" showing they are already 4 issues into 2026 when we are in early October 2025
October 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Unconvinced of the merits of opening the door with his face
A mackerel tabby is sat at the back door by a cat flap (it is unlocked). He is looking over his shoulder at the photographer
October 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Somehow my first trip to the roundhouse. The Beths were fantastic
Support band Dateline Roundhouse wooden ceiling lit in blue and pink tones The Beths!
September 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The #allotment is an absolute state. At least the birds have enjoyed the sweetcorn. Work to do this weekend to start putting it to bed for the winter
A sweetcorn cob that has dried and been eaten by birds A fennel bulb that has gone to see in a raised bed. There are tall fronds emerging from the bulb and yellow flowers A pink cosmos flower (I think)
September 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Comfy
Mackerel tabby cat enjoying sitting on top of a pile of towels in a green wash basket
September 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Let's call it not a vintage year for spuds #allotment
A feeble crop of potatoes mostly tiny laid out on some manky old decking
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Tadaa!
French illustrated story book "becassine aux bains de mer" likely from the 1930s Another old french illustrated book "Maurice en nourrice" from around 1905
September 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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@tinareynolds.bsky.social this was the bookshelf in my room in a place we hired in Church Enstone over the weekend
A selection of old books pretty much the reading shelf of a young woman a chunk of years ago - chalet school, ballet shoes, Anne of green gables etc
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Going to be a beautiful day
A path bisecting a ploughed field. The field is very brown and the sky above is very white with mist
September 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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One of the things that has worked ok this year #allotment
A hand holds two decent looking corn on the cobs still in their husks
September 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Urgh. Great start to the day. Hopefully the new version of OneNote will restore some of the abilities it had before the current version?
A system message informing me that OneNote for Windows 10 is going to expire and I have to do some sort of back up process to access my files
August 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Quality pub
Becklesbauer sticker on a hand drier
August 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Good times
Black pub cat wearing a collar and bowtie
August 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Fig situation is getting increasingly out of control #allotment
A brown plastic box full of ripe peaches
August 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Yeah. Think I should stick to the day job
A horrifically bodged join in a corner between tow bits of skirting board
July 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Round two and another win for @dang1es.bsky.social
The boardgame Undaunted 2200 Callisto on a table. There is a Lego pub in the background
July 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Journey to the office brightened by a favourite quote from Rufus Jones in the Friend
Transcript - Perhaps more wonderful still is the way in which beauty breaks through. It breaks through not only at a few highly organised points, it breaks through almost everywhere. Even the minutest things reveal it as well as do the sublimest things, like the stars. Whatever one sees through the microscope, a bit of mould for example, is charged with beauty. Everything from a dewdrop to Mount Shasta is the bearer of beauty. And yet beauty has no function, no utility. Its value is intrinsic, not extrinsic. It is its own excuse for being. It greases no wheels, it bakes no puddings. It is a gift of sheer grace, a gratuitous largesse. It must imply behind things a Spirit that enjoys beauty for its own sake and that floods the world everywhere with it. Wherever it can break through, it does break through, and our joy in it shows that we are in some sense kindred to the giver and revealer of it. Rufus Jones, 1920
July 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM