duncanbatey.bsky.social
is allegedly a gracefully ageing rocker whose life was demolished in a freak meditation accident back when he was a computer scientist
but also very definitely a singer-songwriter and t'ai-chi enthusiast based in Glastonbury, UK
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A gentle stroll around a short circular walk I haven't tried in a few months because Long Covid, just to see how it goes really. Result: as long as I don't mind walking verrrrrry slowly, it's just about do-able. I also saw: capybara, wallabies, alpaca, and an emu.
#NormalForGlastonbury
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"politically motivated assassination"?? Good grief.
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You're so fly your posts need footnotes - neat trick.
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Do you... do you think you might need to get out more?
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Well it was, more or less in order, with some overlaps: a g&t, an artichoke and olive pizza, little Belgian beers, dark chocolate, and a barking but fun film called Shadow In The Cloud.
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Both.
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Two kinds! 📖🎸
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I've never actually seen the film - early adopter of the radio series, then books and TV, so a little apprehensive about it not living up to them. I'll give it a go.. one day.
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Sounds fab, count me in.
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I think that definitely qualifies it as 'antique'!
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Wondering where I've put my electronic thumb... time to leave, possibly.
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None of the above, although there is a link to Gaza, and the US president is saying words. I wish he'd stop doing that.
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I don't know whether to recommend you look or not. It's pretty bad. If it carries on escalating it could get Very Bad Indeed.
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The chap who tuned the piano said it's in remarkable nick considering how old it is, and I said yes, pre-war - and he said no no, older - pre-both wars: 1900. I had no idea! I've known it all my life - it figures in some of my earliest memories.
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That's more or less how my dad got into his career knowing nothing whatsoever about it: did the aptitude tests when demobbed from the RAF, which said something like "tape operator", and being a jazz fan he thought "recording studio!" - turned out it meant for computers, which led to EE and then IBM.
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I just got my piano tuned, first time in years, so there's that too. I shall play beautiful things on it.
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Actually, come to think of it, #Rush too
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Coming in somewhat late to the day, this prompted me to go check the news, and... Holy crapola. Don't they know you're really not supposed to do that? I mean, very very specifically *that* in particular?? Against the backdrop of a world gone mad, etc. etc.
Now, where's my electronic thumb...
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#KublaKhan #Xanadu #Coleridge
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Any milk of paradise knocking about?
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Definitely form emerging from chaos on multiple levels there, I reckon.
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How about making a Nice Cup of Tea, much more effective.
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Entropy.
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True, true. Not that I have any idea whatsoever what Hartlepool council gets up to!
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This might explain why I generally enjoy taking photos, but find taking selfies difficult - so I give up, and thus have never learned the specific how.