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Hello from Umeå! Which is snowy and bright and calm, and the three exhibitions at the Bildmuseet have each made me feel more about how good art can be than I have in a long time.

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Alisson won Man of the Match, Man of the Week, Man of the Tournament & Man of the Year there. Think he might’ve won an Oscar. Incredible performance.

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Ahahahahahahahahajahajajahaa I will abso-fucking-lutely take that! 🔴 #LFC

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Not at all surprised. But the song's been growing on me, so hope they find a way to keep the attitude without the obvious.

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Although missing my flight has ruined my evening plans and made me a sweaty mess running through the airport for nothing, I don't mind sitting off and people watching for a couple of hours. Airports are a great place to see who's coming and going, which is always interesting to me.

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Another bloody Brexit advantage: have arrived in Sweden but missed my connecting flight to Umeå due to having to stand in the longest passport queue 😡

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I am a big advocate of giving stories on TV/film the time they need to unfold, rather than sticking rigidly to structure. But 3 episodes in, even I am starting to have doubts about the new series of The White Lotus. There's things happening slowly, and then there's things not happening at all.

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The Swedish "no bags in the arena" policy is causing even more havoc with my packing now than it did in May.

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Now caught up with the new selections from the weekend - some thoughts: 🇩🇪: Fine. It'll do fine. 🇷🇸: Boring 🥱 🇩🇰: Better than I expected! Could be a Q 🇭🇷: No thanks, I hate it. Also: 🇳🇱: Sweet, could do alright in this bizarre year. 🇦🇺: The more I listen, the more I love it. Not sorry.

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Absolute fair play to The Dispensary for filling the FA Cup half time playlist just with the full version of Sister Ray.

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Been out all day so this is where I've discovered I get to see Dolly Style do Yihaa in Stockholm! Yay! 🐴

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This keyring hangs in our kitchen. Given to me in 2018, my 2nd visit to Kyiv, by a man in Independence Square. We'd been bit of chatting in broken Russian/English about how Kyiv is much nicer than Moscow or Petersburg (which is true!). Then he gave me this straight off his own keys. 1/

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Too horrified by last night's Trump/Vance ambush on Zelenskyy last night to be able to say anything smart about it. I suspected Trump was looking at Putin with admiration, but thought it might play out as a battle of who's stronger. Not this. As ever, Слава Україні 🇺🇦

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Taken myself out for dinner. They've just played a cover of the Foo Fighters song Times Like These by Glen Campbell and it was really good! I'm not a country fan at ALL, but it was that lovely thing where the sound suits what the song is actually saying.

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Part 1 of week off: first van trip of 2025!

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That feeling of FINALLY being off work for the next 10 days 🥳 this week has been been a seemingly eternal drag to this point.

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I know we all say it, but that's coz it's true: makes such a difference to mornings now that it's light (and maybe even sunny!) doesn't it?

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Starting to think we might do it this year guys 🔴🔴 Still not quite singing it though! 🤐

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I..... 2025 is not a serious year.

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For the love of GOD please can Vinted sellers start listing materials correctly. Acrylic is not "pure wool". Fake leather is not leather. Polyester is not silk! Almost always, the clue is in the name!

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This is completely right, & is the main reason I stayed away from National Finals for so many years. I'd listen to the songs, have my favourites, but want the performance to hit me in the same way it hit the general audience. Knowing more is fun, but it can also skew our perceptions.

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Happy #twinpeaksday to all that celebrate

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I'm very happy to hear Slot taking like "yeah but" because I think that's what we need. Keep focused. The second we think that we're fine seems to be when we end up all at sea. We had a plan and stuck with it today.

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Manchester City, who are they? 🔴🔴

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I like to keep some element of surprise to each Eurovision season. This year it's that I'm not watching any of the #Melfest heat performances so I can save the impact for when I'm there live on March 8th. But reading everyone's takes on Måns and Kaj last night is testing my resolve!

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In a bad and unusual situation today: have a lovely afternoon ahead with no plans, no to-do list, but I have RUN OUT of books on my reading pile!

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Wyld Sauna is definitely my favourite new thing to open in Liverpool in a while. Such an invigorating way to spend a morning, plus naturally works in a proper catch-up with a mate.

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Got our Wembley tickets sorted, see you there Reds! 🔴

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I've been drafting a piece of writing about Tommy Cash but you know what, he's not worth the effort. Can be summed up as "nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is".

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Well I've listened to that Joost & Tommy track, and that's 1 minutes 47 seconds of my life I'm never getting back.

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I'm fairly new to the online Eurovision sphere. So before today if you'd asked me which of the NF contenders would get the most strongly divisive opinions of '25, don't think I'd ever have guessed Mans. Heroes is fine, but I really saw him as too beige to warrant this level of discourse. Just me?

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