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Sandy Sneddon
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Christian, Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Retired.
Good food & drink, films, music, travel.
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#BookSky 💙 📚 and #MusicSky crossover

#NowPlaying is the #Vinyl reissue of Norfolk Coast, The Stranglers 2004 album that relaunched and revitalised the band

I'm also reading Baz Warne's track-by-track description from hos newly published book, No Grass Grows On A Busy Street
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

Hugh Cornwell's 2022 album, Moments of Madness, is really good
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#ScottishFitba

Linlithgow Rose v Queen's Park in the Scottish Cup on BBC Scotland.

Linlithgow's ground is better than QP's new City Stadium!
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The people who campaigned for Brexit should be reminded of this every time they appear in the media. And, no, "But its not the right kind of Brexit" is not the correct answer.
Brexit costing UK as much as £90bn in lost tax revenue every year, analysis finds

The analysis also found that the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head of between £2,700 and £3,700

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
Brexit costing UK as much as £90bn in lost tax revenue every year, analysis finds
Brexit is costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenues every year, according to new analysis.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
That's been a busy & productive morning, and it's not even 10.30 yet!

Tickets booked for three gigs next year:
The Stranglers
Squeeze + Billy Bragg
The Proclaimers

Time for a cup of tea after all that.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#FilmSky 🎥

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn are the twin leads in this. The film starts as an almost Mike Leigh-style study of unremarkable lives unremarkable places, but then there's something just a bit off...

8/10 from us.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3238...
Dragonfly (2025) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Thriller
1h 38m
www.imdb.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#BookSky 💙 📚
#MusicSky

Baz Warne writes about the albums, the gigs, the shenanigans of his 25 years as guitarist, singer and songwriter in The Stranglers, my favourite band.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

I watched Scorsese's adaptation yesterday, today I'm watching Masahiro Shikoda's 1971 adaptation of Silence, with the screenplay cowritten with Shûsaku Endô, author of the novel about persecution of Christians and Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0067...
Chinmoku (1971) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama, History
2h 9m
www.imdb.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

My own wee tribute to Jimmy Cliff after hearing the news today that he has died.

This is a 2018 reissue of the 1972 soundtrack album, The Harder They Come
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#MusicSky

The great Jamaican singer and actor Jimmy Cliff has died. Thank you for the music, Jimmy.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

We rewatched Silence, Martin Scorsese's masterful 2016 adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel about the persecution of Christians and Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0490...
Silence (2016) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama, History
2h 41m | R
www.imdb.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Drumpellier Loch. I grew up half a mile from here
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#FilmSky 🎥
Written by Alan Bennet, starring Ralph Fiennes. Set in a Yorkshire milltown in 1916, The Choral is witty while shows the class and social divisions in the community and the power of music.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3185...
The Choral (2025) ⭐ 6.6 | Drama, History, Music
1h 53m | R
www.imdb.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
John Major talking sense. He's a much better ex-Prime Minister than he ever was Prime Minister.
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"

"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"

"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"

"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There will be wee boys all over Scotland today attempting bicycle kicks

#Scotland #WorldCup
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Scotland have qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1998.

A lot of people on here won't care about that, but last night was unforgettable.

I'm going to watch the game again on iPlayer
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November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#FilmSky 🎥
I wasn't aware of this when it came out in 2017. A powerful drama about two families of veterans divided by race in the 1940s American South, based on Hillary Jordan’s novel

www.imdb.com/title/tt2396...
Mudbound (2017) ⭐ 7.4 | Drama, War
2h 14m | R
www.imdb.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

We loved this! Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is an epic, Gothic classic!
www.imdb.com/title/tt1312...
Frankenstein (2025) ⭐ 7.6 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
2h 29m | R
www.imdb.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

Yes, there's a heist. No, it's not a heist movie.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3345...
The Mastermind (2025) ⭐ 6.5 | Crime
1h 50m | R
www.imdb.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

The first British punk album, the first album on the legendary Stiif labek, SEEZ 1, Damned Damned Damned by The Damned.

Even the sleeve picture was shocking back in 1977.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

Remember how amazingly mind-blowing this sounded back in the 70s?

It still sounds great, Ramones 1976 debut.

The longest song is 2m 35s, six of the 14 tracks are under 2 minutes long.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I've just enjoyed a very pleasant evening at Port of Leith Distillery. We tasted this year's new make spirit, two one year old spirits and a grain 'table whisky'. Slàinte!
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

I haven't played this for a while, good to it again, Carolyn Mas 1979 debut album.
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Watching my grandson's football team and a rainbow appeared in the sky over #Edinburgh
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM