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Watched: Fallout Season 1 📺

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A rewatch as a reminder before starting Season 2. Very enjoyable second visit, there was a lot I had forgotten.

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Location check in — Negroni at Cosy Club, Mermaid Quay 🍸
🗺 Map of area

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Watched: The Odyssey, 2026 - ★★★★★ 🎥

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Everyman Cinema, Cardiff Bay

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2:30pm today is Odyssey time 🎥

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Start of the Premier League season is not going well for Villa. 4-0 down against Brighton and now a red card. It’s not even half-time 🙁⚽️

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First try of Hop 2000 from Grey Trees (local brewery, about a mile from my house). Fruity and hoppy IPA 🍺

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🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Public Enemy (38 plays), Aigul Akhmetshina; Antonio Pappano (18), Paul Weller (14), Aigul Akhmetshina; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Daniele Rustioni (6), Aigul Akhmetshina; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Daniele Rustioni; Apollo Voices; Genevieve Ellis; Genevieve...

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Watched: The Devil Wears Prada 2, 2026 - ★★½ 🎥

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Tonight’s challenge is a 1.25kg platter of snacks left over from last week’s party 🫒🧀🥒

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For 2 😊

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Watched: The Devil Wears Prada, 2006 - ★★★ 🎥

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Morning coffee and England v Pakistan BBC TMS coverage ☕️🏏

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇵🇰 Pakistan Test series starts today, County Championship resumes tomorrow. Cricket is back 👏🏏

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A day in Bath yesterday - mainly books, beer and walking 📚🍺🚶

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Avatar 🎥

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🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Phish (51 plays), The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips (47), Trey Anastasio (26), Marie-Claire Alain (22), Suitner, Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Schreier, Lorenz, Ketelsen (21)

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Preparing to host quite a large garden BBQ 😅

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Watched: Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥

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Now ready for a Brand New Day 🕷️

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Aberdare cricket ground - a little parched.

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@V_ 👍

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@thedimpau.se Just a shame it’s all closed up. The local council drew up plans 6 or 7 years ago to open it up as a cycle track between the two valleys - but, funding …

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@thedimpau.se It’s the Merthyr Tunnel. Abernant/Cwmbach to Merthyr Tydfil, which some people (not me!) do indeed consider to be the Underworld 🙂

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Tunnel

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Cynon Valley

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Sunday morning walk 🚶

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🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Peter Schreier, Sviatoslav Richter (24 plays), Billy Strings (9), Phish (6), Sviatoslav Richter (4), Stornoway (3)

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@WiredDifferently Excellent track! I was re-visiting them because I heard them on the radio this week - they’re playing a concert in London this August, featuring orchestral versions of Graceland tracks I believe.

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@rom Late here (UK) but I’m going to see this match out!

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@philosopher In this season’s squad possibly not - overseas red ball players have been the Austalians Ryan Hadley and Nathan McAndrew 🙂

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Established members of the team are the South African Colin Ingram and Timm van der Gugten ftom the Netherlands.

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But there have been more prominent players recently - in 2025 there was Asitha Fernando, the Sri Lankan pace bowler, and the Australians Marnus Labuschagne (for several seasons up to 2025) and Michael Neser (for a couple of seasons).

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@philosopher Not so much on TV these days but fortunately all the counties livestream their County Championship matches for free on YouTube. Often a good chance to see some top international players - I try to go to as many Glamorgan home matches as possible.

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@philosopher Glamorgan v Middlesex last year - just using an older photo I liked for this month’s Glass featured Sport category 😁

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@devilgate Soundalike clues are not my favourite 🙂

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@ReaderJohn Thank you. So do I - to me the photos have a nice old-fashined look!

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@jeremycherfas No, processing is not included. One of the selling points is that the film is processed using the colour film C41 process so that high street film developing/printing services can easily deal with it - for example, Boots in the UK 🙂

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The price of the cameras is not too outrageous - in the UK about £15 for the 27 exposure camera compared to about £12 for a 36 exposure roll of the same Ilford film.

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@jeremycherfas These were all taken in 2019, scanned from prints taken on a disposable Ilford XP2 400 black and white film camera, with no additional processing. I quite like them - they definitely provide a different atmosphere to the numerous colourful iPhone photos I took at the same time 🙂

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@thedimpau.se Excellent! Very pleasant at Sophia Gardens in this weather 🙂

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@philosopher Superb!

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@ReaderJohn My in-laws have bought me a bottle of 10yo every Christmas or birthday for, I think, at least the last 15 years (because they know I appreciate it 😊). But the Laphroiag Elements is definitely an enhanced experience!

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@ReaderJohn I tasted it alongside the standard 10 year old Laphroiag, one of my favourite whiskies, which is definitely distinctive. I’d argue that the difference between the 10yo and the Elements definitely make the latter fantastic for me. It intensified everything I like about the distillery’s whisky 😊

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@tibz It was good to be back on Mars 🙂

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@ReaderJohn Got that link in my reply wrong at first - should have been this

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@ReaderJohn I definitely don’t read enough French to cope with a novel! I saw this article and searched AbeBooks for some secondhand copies of his books. Found a couple of editions of English translations published by Pan in the early 1990s 😊

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@manton Sync with NetNewsWire would be fantastic ✅

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@rpmik I believe they’re touring in the US this August 🙂

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@ffmike 😆

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@philosopher Some exceptional batting (more for India) and terrible bowling by both sides 😞

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@thedimpau.se And such a shame Rehan Ahmed didn’t get another chance for his bowling and batting 🤷‍♂️

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@thedimpau.se Yep, India scoring very freely 🫣

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