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Leighton
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Grumpy and old and tired. Will say grumpy and old and tired things.
No Arthur, you haven't been betrayed. I told you it wasn't food. I told you it wouldn't taste good. That's on you, man.

#cat #catsofbluesky #disappointment
April 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
First holiday in years. My youngest has come to look after Henning. Our departure has not gone unnoticed (sound on for awoo). The guilt is real.

#schnauzer #schnauzergang
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The #cat when I tell her that cat food is good enough, if she wants sardines she can learn to fish or get a job.

#catsofbluesky
April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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India 🇮🇳 vs Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Kabaddi World Cup 2025

March 20, 2025
6:55am (CST)

On WillowTV
March 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A graffito in Plymouth that I have to pass on my occasional forays into the office. I kind of get it, little robot.
March 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
He really is a crashing Boer.
March 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Henning enjoying the watery February sun. How I love that beautiful empty head. He turned two years old two days ago.

#schnauzer #schnauzergang
February 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#nowplaying #vinylsky

#Queen, 絆 (Kizuna), 2024.

A Japanese fan-voted compilation of live cuts. They only got to choose from the extant releases, so no Frejus 86 or Inglewood 77, but still a handy précis. Exactly the mixtape you'd make from their live offerings.

#vinyl #nowspinning
February 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Made In Heaven, Queen, 1995

Hard to assess objectively as a Queen fan, it was his last gift to us. Necessarily a bit of a chimera and not for everyone, but I'd take slightly patchy Queen over the very best work of a hundred other bands.

#Vinyl #VinylSky
January 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A cold dark Monday in January is a slightly different proposition in Finland. My youngest sent a holiday snap of the aurora and nacreous cloud.

#aurora #cloud #Finland #notmyphoto
January 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylSky

Snakes And Ladders, Gerry Rafferty, 1980

Doesn't get the love of his previous two albums, and didn't have a big single. Leaner, more incisive lyrically and musically, feels less warm than the previous discs. You have to engage with it, rather than let it wash over you.
January 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I just don't get David Bowie's music.
There, I said it.
January 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylSky

Cat Stevens, Catch Bull At Four, 1972

If you like Cat Stevens, you'll like it. If you don't, you won't. No departures, no avant-garde timings, no gimmickry. Taking shit about Cat Stevens is like kicking a puppy, easily done, but why *would* anyone do that?
January 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bloody #cat. Decade and a half and STILL thinks I'm something to do with the weather. Just sits there croaking "AEIOU" at me every five seconds, like Satan's own broken smoke alarm.

I love you Mimi cat, but you're getting properly on my tit end.
January 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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What the world needs is Keith from Great Pottery Throwdown
January 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
German famously has a single word for everything (no, I know).

I don't have but a couple of words of German, so I can't compound a single word for the slight low felt when regarding the extra barren-feeling space after all the decorations are taken down and put away.

Leerwandtraurigkeit?
January 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Those people
unshakeable in their conviction
that if any sentence-
no matter how quotidian-

is in any contrived way

fractured

it constitutes #poetry.
December 29, 2024 at 11:51 AM
There's a new Welsh crime noir drama Ar Y Ffin set in my erstwhile hometown of #Newport. Great! Bit of recognition for the old girl. I retain enormous affection for #Casnewydd

Except U&Alibi are screening it later next year as Mudtown. Which while accurate is still a bit hurtful- as truth can be.
December 28, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Happy Christmas, and a huge thank you, to all the #NHS staff (including my wife) who are working this Christmas Day and Boxing Day !!!!
December 25, 2024 at 7:28 AM
youtu.be/JS1eTb6smNM?...

A Nativity for all of us.
AD/BC: A Rock Opera (2004) Matt Berry
YouTube video by ados4k
youtu.be
December 25, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Fun thing about being #Welsh in #England was pretending you got the Owain Hughes #GavinAndStacey joke because "it's a Welsh thing".

I've spent years trying to walk it back- there is no joke- but now nobody will believe me, like it's this mad Welsh conspiracy to deprive the English of a laugh.
December 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Not going to make any friends saying it, but it's kind of weird that people are getting all mystical and woo-woo about the simple, predictable, routine mathematical event that is a #solstice. Also, if a cow looks at you funny you aren't hexed. Relax.
December 22, 2024 at 12:03 AM
A *very* rare moment of focus from Henning the miniature #schnauzer

#SchnauzerGang
December 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM
I don't know how anyone can say Die Hard isn't a Christmas film. The setting, the themes and parallels and most indicative of all, it is absolute fucking rubbish.
December 20, 2024 at 9:44 AM
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylsky

Jacques #Brel, Infiniment, 2003.

A departure from my "no compilations" rule. You might think you don't know Brel, but his influence is so broad you'll know at least a couple of his better known songs.

He's at the top table with the greatest songwriters.
December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM