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Leighton
@welshrhapsody.has.hair
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
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
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
#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
A *very* rare moment of focus from Henning the miniature #schnauzer

#SchnauzerGang
December 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM
#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
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinylsky

Live Killers, Queen, 1979.

A common bit of wax, but this is a bit special. It's a Portuguese pressing that is absolutely perfect. No idea what happened at the plant that day, but if there's a god of vinyl he touched these records. Such good reproduction.

#Queen
December 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM
#NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylSky

#BethHart & #JoeBonamassa, Black Coffee, 2017

Beth has to stand up to a very robust accompaniment, while Joe's excessive plank wanking is kept in check. Big fan of both individually, so had very high expectations when I bought this.

's great.
December 12, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Christmas is cancelled. Santa will abhor your tree of lies.
December 9, 2024 at 9:03 AM
#Schnauzer Sundays are good for one thing and one thing only.
December 8, 2024 at 11:58 AM
#NowPlaying #vinyl

Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk, Meco, 1977.

Not a frequent player but sometimes jazz-disco Star Wars is the only thing that will scratch that (very specific) itch.

#DoTheBump #Meco #StarWars
December 5, 2024 at 4:49 PM
#NowPlaying #Vinyl

The Original Soundtrack, 10cc, 1975

Most famous for I'm Not In Love, but that opening trio of Une Nuit A Paris is with every second.

#10cc #TheOriginalSoundtrack
December 4, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Thank God it's Christmas.
December 2, 2024 at 8:56 PM
The tree is up.

For now.
December 2, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. We tried to warn them but were dismissed as "Project Fear". They vote right, and have thereby been contemptuous of the climate issues facing us.

Now they bleat for sympathy? Sorry farmer, I have fewer rights because of your kind. Kiss my arse.
November 27, 2024 at 12:22 PM
#NowPlaying #Vinyl

Long Live Rock 'n Roll, Rainbow, 1978.

I didn't really get #Dio for a long time. Even as a kid I thought it was corny overwrought caterwauling. Thankfully we live and learn.

Gates Of Babylon is worth the cost of the album on its own.

#Rainbow #Blackmore
November 26, 2024 at 4:28 PM
#NowPlaying #vinyl

Christmas isn't much my bag, but I'm open to this kind of persuasion. Fairytale of New York by #Flake and #DoroPesch ? Get it into your ears!

#FlakeFeiertWeihnachten
November 25, 2024 at 5:56 PM
1988's eponymous first album by #TracyChapman shouldn't be as pointedly relevant as it is.

Not a note nor a lyric wasted, an incredible piece of work.

If you don't know it, go to your streaming service and play Behind The Wall. It's a single minute, but what a minute.

#NowPlaying
November 25, 2024 at 4:28 PM