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Wildlife Photographer. Music lover. Folkie but with a lot of rock. Broad tastes in art, literature and music. Curmudgeon. Husband/ Dad/ Grandad. COBOL programmer once upon a time. Ex-DEC Customer Services
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Wakey Wakey! #FooFighters #DaveGrohl #JimmyPage #JohnPaulJones #RockAndRoll #ClassicRock #RIPTaylorHawkins youtu.be/SbNVIPAABgw?...

Your sea shanty for Monday morning #LongestJohns youtu.be/syejregdl_0?...

Kemi Badenoch says she will not speak to women wearing burqas at constituency surgery.

It would be amusing if not so serious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Perhaps the greatest cover version of any song, ever. #Hurt youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?...

#Pixel7Pro #camera verdict after a week or so of getting used to it: not bad at all! These two taken at 30x and 25x respectively. Handheld, I should add.

In memoriam: David Eric Cyril Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) or, as we knew him, #Swarb! Kudos to whoever put this montage together for Cropredy 2016, presumably Nev Bull. youtu.be/fZIImXlZKyk?...

@elittlechild.bsky.social Happy birthday Ellie!

A last desperate throw of the dice from RTD to stimulate interest in #DoctorWho? I think so.

Great Spotted #Woodpecker on the feeder today.

#Springsteen #BornInTheUSA #Demo Great. youtu.be/22Gh1wQEe1I?...

Mother and Fledgling on my garden Peanut feeder today. #GreatSpottedWoodpecker

#BreconBeacons #Horse family today.

Female Cuckoo on the Brecon Beacons near me, yesterday.

#Foals & #Mare on the #BreconBeacons today.

The movie I want to see. #LegoTerminator

#BreconBeacons #Lamb munching lunch today.

From a very long distance using a 100-400mm lens image cropped down, I caught a #Cuckoo today.

Meanwhile, in 2000, #WarrenZevon was 3 years from his death but producing great music anyway. I miss him. youtu.be/CabhSnOrE_c?...

25 exposures on large-format film. Olympia, WA #beleiveinfilm #finartphotography #filmisnotdead #eastcaostkin #filmisnotdead #analogandfilmphoto #blackandwhitephotos #photography #pnw

RSPB Gwenffrwd Dinas is now open at ///suave.height.splash, but with restricted access as storm damage is still being repaired. You will be able to use about 200m of boardwalk, seeing some of the best pied flycatcher habitat on the reserve.

50 years ago, this song appeared on the "new" #FleetwoodMac debut album. youtu.be/qrU1Zg0wugE?...

I've plonked some tracks on a USB stick for the car. Here's the first 4. Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin tinyurl.com/4btmekdw Is It Like Today? - World Party tinyurl.com/2zfx6v3a Danny Jack's Reward - Fairport Convention tinyurl.com/2pwupk59 We Both Go Down Together - Decemberists tinyurl.com/ywfataew

#Reform #Reality #NoOneLikesATory

@elittlechild.bsky.social As a viewer of #DoctorWho since 1963, I'd like to say that today's episode "Lucky Day" is certainly one of the best of the modern era. No major #spoilers from me, but it was a suspenseful and surprising episode, with no tears from the Doctor, just for a change.

#BBC #DoctorWho #LuckyDay Best episode since "Blink". Watch it on BBC TV this evening, or BBC iPlayer (Disney+ outside the UK) now.

A bit of fun from 1983, #KissingwithConfidence is a song by #WillPowers (the stage name/persona of photographer-turned-singer #LynnGoldsmith) from her 1983 album Dancing for Mental Health. #CarlySimon is the uncredited lead singer. youtu.be/AO128UhPivE?...

#Meanwhile, in 2000... youtu.be/co6WMzDOh1o?...

One for the beer drinkers, this. Love the #LongestJohns! youtu.be/LrXDre65-a8?...

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We saw the Young'uns last night and they were very good. Thoroughly recommended - they're on their 20th anniversary / 40th birthday tour this year - go and see them! I videoed a couple of songs, so I've uploaded them to my seldom-used YouTube channel. youtube.com/@andrewjlesl...

3 episodes in and I think RTD is hitting top form. If you haven't been watching #DoctorWho recently, now is a good time to resume. All the episodes so far are on #BBC iPlayer. (A VPN may prove useful)

In 1986, a seminal album was released by Peter Gabriel: "So". This remains the most memorable track, for me. youtu.be/DYw9UrsFJa4?...

Meanwhile, in 1987... #GratefulDead youtu.be/mzvk0fWtCs0?...