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spiddly.bsky.social
North of the Kennet, south of the Thames. Keeping it local with music, history and architecture. listening to and looking at all the good stuff.
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Happy tenth birthday, The Castle Tap #rdg #rdguk

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Ray Sawyer of Dr Hook? Definite proto-Bez.

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A duck enjoying the overflow from Foudry Brook at Green Park, Reading #rdg #rdguk

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Brambles on the garden wall near sunset, reminded of the @danielandclara.bsky.social rewilding mail art series #mailart

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“As with Narnia, there is magic at play at The Devil’s Quoits, having been resurrected and restored to its former glory.” The Devil’s Quoits, Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire bit.ly/4kaADc8 #StandingStoneSunday

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A fine afternoon #rdg #rdguk

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“You are unlikely to travel much distance by road in the UK without passing a roundabout with a stone circle inside it, while megaliths seem to be default landscaping elements when a gap in a new development needs to be filled.” Dr Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

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Even a stopped clock tells the #Uncanny time twice a day. Coincidence? Must be… @dannyrobins.bsky.social

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New Model Army @newmodelarmy.bsky.social #51stState youtu.be/4LIPcePMgds?...

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Me editing a new video…

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Currently listening to ‘Girl Cried Wolf’ by Beau - Apple Music bit.ly/3CEqUdl Spotify bit.ly/4hBc3zs #music

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Great episode of Unusual Music Exchange on Resonance FM, featuring the works of sound recordist / artist Jez Riley French. Good to see part of the programme covering the ‘salts | adagios’ album. Listen again on bit.ly/42U5OlI #radio #fieldrecording

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“These ancient weapons have been protecting the hedgerow’s secrets from the likes of us for millennia and show no signs of giving up now.” The first of the new mail art series from @danielandclara.bsky.social has dropped, with ‘The Naturalist Letters’ bit.ly/4gFnHbc

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Looking forward to reading and listening to this tonight. ‘Folklore, Facts and Fables 4: Stone Circles by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4hARjYz #music #zine

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A new entry on the Stone Diaries blog - ‘Avenue Moog’ short film and music exploring West Kennet Avenue bit.ly/4jRL5F6

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Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on ResonanceFM presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio

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Thank you everyone who’s ordered the Stone Circles zine/cd so far! I’ve got a sore arm from trimming the edges and still have more to make (as well as restocks for the others)! Www.forged-river.com #standingstonesunday #megalithic #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology

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Let’s take a walk down ‘Avenue Moog’ - a short film and psychedelic stroll down West Kennet Avenue (c.2,200 BC), music performed on a Minimoog Model D bit.ly/4aEk97L

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Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on ResonanceFM presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio

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Currently listening to ‘Inside Outside EP’ by Third House - Bandcamp bit.ly/3EjlAMR #music

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Polished Neolithic (late Stone Age) 4,500 year old stone axe head, unearthed in 1945 in Long Barn Lane, Reading. Seen in The Story of Reading section of @readingmuseum.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social #rdg #rdguk

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BIG NEWS!!!! The Uncanny-verse is about to get bigger…introducing UNCANNY: POST MORTEM 😱👻 Have a listen to this trailer and join me on Fri 31st for the first one…if you dare! 😱👻 Listen to the trailer here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." Mary Shelley (1797-1851) #StandingStoneSunday

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Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on ResonanceFM presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio

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Epic! ‘Stone Report: Volume One’ by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4jiH1xH #music #zine

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Currently listening to ‘Was It What You Thought’ by Headboy - Bandcamp bit.ly/42rBChu Apple Music bit.ly/42sr0Pv Spotify spoti.fi/3Wwwo0r #music

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Currently listening to ‘Longplayer’ by Jem Finer - Bandcamp bit.ly/4h1MmaR #music

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Currently listening to ‘Stone Report: Volume One’ by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4jiH1xH #music

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“A sort of blessing and a curse in that it made radio so much bigger than it was.” @robinblamires.bsky.social takes us on an entertaining and neurodivergent journey of his love of radio broadcasting in ‘The Audio Rainbow,’ broadcast on Resonance FM bit.ly/3WqMmJq #radio

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When the last living can of @weirdwalk.bsky.social beer decides the world isn’t for them and goes out with a bang. Farewell, dear can. Farewell.

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“Every stone has a secret, a secret that cannot be put into words.” A few days grace before reading the last of the Avebury Letters by artists Daniel and Clara. An enjoyable 12 months of art, imagination and exploration of time bit.ly/4hl5LTX #StandingStoneSunday #MailArt

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Currently listening to the #HelloGoodbyeShow on ResonanceFM presented by Dexter Bentley - new music, live performances and session archives every Saturday, 12.00pm to 1.30pm. bit.ly/2TucOBG #music #radio

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Epic Fog Cast from Robin The Fog on Resonance FM tonight #radio

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“Never shake thy gory locks at me” #rdg #rdguk

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Hearing the ResonanceFM station ident played on the hour after the Christmas / New Year hiatus is a bit like spotting land after weeks of being at sea 🙂 #radio

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“And with some time taken to consider this urban curiosity, comes the moment to take a step forward and stare into the abyss.” A new entry on the Stone Diaries blog, with a trip taken to the Holy Well of St Anne in Caversham bit.ly/426PzS5 #rdg #rdguk #history

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“This story the country people, for some miles round, are very fond of, and take it very ill if any one doubts of it; nay, they are in danger of being stoned for their unbelief.” William Stukeley (1687-1765) on the origin legend of the Rollright Stones #StandingStoneSunday

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The serenity of the winter sun.

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“This I have often times admir’d and been astonish’d at its extravagant magnitude and majesty.” William Stukeley (1687-1765) on The Cove at Avebury. He describes it as the adytum of the temple, representing the heavens. #StandingStoneSunday

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Currently listening to ‘Pylon Reveries (Tape Content +) by Charles Vaughan @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social Bandcamp bit.ly/4a1hbd4 #music

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The sound of 25 years. Deep time, continuous movement. Happy 25th birthday @longplayertrust.bsky.social, here’s to the next 975 years!

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A vintage postcard from nearly 95 years ago, of the Devil’s Den near Marlborough. It’s 3rd August 1930, as Alan writes on the reverse to his mother in Norwich. He’s just arrived in Malmesbury, having covered 47.5 miles in three days on his walking holiday. #StandingStoneSunday

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Currently listening to ‘The Lazar House’ by @adamandelvis.bsky.social Apple Music bit.ly/4gU0hzj Spotify bit.ly/49UaglS #rdgmusic #music

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A Wicker Man badge for sale in my local pub? Cut a caper man, and put a pound in the box

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Standing Stone and Mythic Site Advent Calendar - 24th December

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