Music
Every year since 2010 I have created a playlist of tunes that I’ve really liked and played heavily during the year. I do this on a variety of platforms but mainly on Apple Music and Youtube. If you’re...
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The Last Days of Twitter
The “last days” of Twitter (I say last days, social media platforms have a kind of undead quality to them) remind me of the “last days” of Livejournal. If memory serves, LJ’s decline began in around...
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Picture of the Day: Tilly Whim and the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty [2018]
June 2018 found me on holiday on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. This area of England is firmly embedded in the imagination of anyone who has ever read an Enid Blyton novel. An area rife with...
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Picture of the Day: City of Badeggs [2017]
Today in 2017, Mrs Gnomepants V2.0 and I embarked on a day trip by boat from Pula in Croatia (where we were on holiday) to the lovely, but slightly fusty smelling city of Venice. Venice was always one...
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Last Days of Twitter – Part 2
Last time I wrote about the end of social media was in November 2022 . I say wrote, in effect I shouted into a dark room and nobody heard me because of all the other people shouting into the dark...
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Picture of the Day: Ghost proof fireplace — Saltergate (1999)
Fire – Keeps ghosts down. Back in the olden times, like way back, before even 1998 — we’re talking the 17somethings — salt, the stuff you might sprinkle liberally on your chips, was a valuable...
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Picture of the Day: Come-t Again? (2020)
2020 was a weird year for all of us. Moreover it was a time when a book I read as an impressionable child warned of comets and them being harbingers of doom, woe and U2 albums. Load of old toss The...
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Picture of the Day: Do you want chips with that? (1984)
Chris selling icecream at the International Garden Festival 1984 (Liverpool) 1984 – a time before internet. A time before social media and mobile phones. A simple time. The government assault on the...
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Picture of the Day: Walking Along [Braich-y-Pwl, Aberdaron, 2018]
I’ve always liked a good stroll by the seaside and there’s one place long term readers will remember I like most of all. Not been there in years. This photo is potentially from my last visit in the...
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Picture of the Day: Holy Well, Southam, Warwickshire [2010]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the area I now live in has some curious and ancient locations. One such location is the Holy Well near Southam in Warwickshire. An ancient site where once pilgrims...
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