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Perfect morning for some #Parkrun tourism at beautiful Frogmary Farm. Not quite in the Blackdown Hills, just feels like it... Also means I am halfway through the Parkrun alphabet without having put my mind to it yet 🤔

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Never a bad day to revisit arguably David Berman's finest moment. As always, one part funny two parts heartbreaking... youtu.be/bPD0JLwpc3k?...

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I have been waiting aaages it feels like for the new Robert Macfarlane. Excited to dive in. Just flicking through immediately struck by this epigraph from the late great Barry Lopez - "we are searching for the boats we forgot to build"...

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Post your comfort album

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A new band to me with this release but really enjoying it - Underneath by Floodlights. As they're Australian, comparisons with The Triffids are inevitable...

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The weather has improved...

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Enjoying a holiday at the Great British seaside this Easter...

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The Cure - Just like Heaven

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The Cure - Friday I'm in Love (Live on MTV Most Wanted)

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March 2025: Albums of the Month The Tubs - Cotton Crown Benefits - Constant Noise Circuit Des Yeux - Halo On The Inside Bad Bad Bird - Si Brutal The Horrors - Night Life

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My favourite find of the week is the debut album by Bad Bad Bird, described on Bandcamp as "chansons d'amour power-pop en Francais" which I think I can work out without Google translate... It's an accurate description and definitely one for Slumberland Records / jangle fans.

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Love this. Halo On The Inside is one of my albums of the year so far...

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Imagine a vote where every candidate is BRILLIANT. Imagine a vote with no corruption, lobby groups or dodgy polls. Imagine a vote that boosts your mental health. Imagine no longer – the polling booths are open for Invertebrate of the Year 2025. Vote here! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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@danzep.bsky.social - loving Overnight. I needed to tell you that I came to the pages about the Hertford Loop and Ponsbourne Tunnel precisely at the moment I went into said tunnel just now...

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The gyre is widening and the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Apart from that, all good thanks...

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What is the German word for the sad day your kids no longer need the play equipment so you take it down...? 😢 On the upside, when time allows, this area will become a pond...

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Beautiful morning for Panshanger #Parkrun - despite appearances, the cows were in a rather frisky mood today...

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My one bit of video from The Tubs gig was fortuitously timed…

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Adrian's photos are better than mine so I am going to quote tweet him. Absolutely superb set by The Tubs tonight - even more so given a new guitarist and a stand-in bassist. Definite gig of the year contender.

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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‘Spirit will be set free’: remains of young Aboriginal man returned to Tasmania after 170 years in UK

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New phone, Houthis

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I've already voted for Neu! twice, and they've not got close to the top twenty. Third time lucky, perhaps - this is surely their best and most complete album... #5Albums70s5

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

Definitely my album of the week - huge step forward from their excellent first album. Less shouting about sausages, but in a good way.

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My son: "Dad, I want to do CBT" Me: "Ok son, let's look into it, I'm glad you want to deal with your problems" Son: "Then I can ride a moped when I'm 16" Me: "What's cognitive behavioural therapy got to do with mopeds?" Son: "It means compulsory basic training" Me: "Oh" Son: "What problems?" 😬

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