The current top 5 most unusual things guests have left behind in their room at my B&B in no particular order. A drone. A dozen cooked skinless chipolatas.(now cold) A fifteen year old human person. A wedding ring. An emmmm… bedroom ehhh.. ‘device’.

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I’m trying to avoid starting work. Guests last night in the big room? 4 lads, 2 crates of beer. Just left, eyes way back in their heads. They’re on holiday, I get it, and they’ve paid for what I offered. So all good. It’s the game. But, in 5, I’ve got to open that door, and get the room ready again

Twenty Five years. youtu.be/l8Zl_p5Ii1o?...

I get Room 101 now, Must have been far the noisiest room in the hotel we stayed in last night. Over the street where bars allowed smoking and drinking outside, and beside the lift shaft. Probably got about 90 minutes.

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Ahhh! So the silky ish bit of paper under the lid is what keeps the spreadable butter spreadable instead of it going firm! Now I get it. Good inventing.

#FallFriday ‘If I ever end up like Ian McShane slit my throat with a kitchen tool and if I ever end up like U2 slit my throat with a garden vegetable’

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt2 Day 17- An Appliance R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe open.spotify.com/track/4yDacC...

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt2 Day 16- A Hated Fruit Or Vegetable Chris Rea - Auberg(in)e Come on. He meant to call it Aubergine. Look at the colour of the record cover. Not a single human likes Aubergines. Why does nature even grow them? Terrible decision, nature. Terrible.

I know nothing about art other than the, admittedly cutting, 3 pronged analysis of: ‘I like that’ ‘I hate that’ ‘I don’t get it’ Over the week or so, I’ll be assessing Pablo Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ for a thing I’m doing. I know the basic historical pretext, but the thing? Wish me luck.

YNWA ❤️

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt #ScavengerHunt2 Day 15 Body Part( Not Heart Or Eyes) Tchaikovsky- Swan Lake, Op 20, Act 3, Appendix I: Pas De Deux open.spotify.com/track/7hh18E...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 15 - A song with a heavy brass presence Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Geno youtu.be/Dwy8tzGZrYk?...

#SimpleMealsInASongOrMovie Borscht and I - Bat for (Gou)lashes

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt2 Day 14- Something You Read The Comet is Coming - CODE open.spotify.com/track/7mf1jq...

As a Liverpool FC fan, I thought I’d have a bit of fun and create a fictional match of players I’ve personally seen play LIVE for LFC against a team of non-Liverpool FC players I’ve also seen play LIVE Here goes.

Monday, Monday. Be good to me. youtu.be/h81Ojd3d2rY

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge Day 13 Things that make you dirty The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck Arguably, THREE things that make you dirty. The Cramps are an occasional guilty pleasure of a band. I’ll play them in between stuff I REALLY want to listen to. I like them open.spotify.com/track/3EEd6l...

I’ve come to the disappointing conclusion that Rory McIlroy is now a better golfer than I’ll ever be.

#CoversSunday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Cake - I will survive youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU?...

#CoversSunday #GenreRoulette #JazzSunday #MusicChallenge Written by Irving Berlin (1941) First recording by Glenn Miller and his orchestra youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt2 Day 12- Something Sticky Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Stick with me baby In honour of my son who told me this joke when he came home from school… ‘What’s brown and sticky?’ ‘A stick’ open.spotify.com/track/5VZh6X...

I have just unblocked the shower. It seems we’ve had Cousin It staying with us and I hadn’t noticed. I should pay more attention.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 11. A song with a distinctive instrument. Lankum - Go Dig My Grave The droning, keening, dirge like atmospheric sound created by tape loops, slowed down traditional folk instruments and vocal effects. open.spotify.com/track/21gCYJ...

I am setting off to the supermarket. Tourists pay my wages, so I like them a fair bit. I do though wish I could imbue them with a little confidence as they drive the pot-holed, single-tracked, sheep-populated roads of this island, in unfamiliar hire cars with the steering wheel on the wrong side.

Today, I shall mostly be listening to ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’, Tom Waits third studio album. That is all. Carry on with yer day, everyone.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic 11 - Over Seven Minutes Long Paddy McAloon - I Trawl The Megahertz Was this really release TWENTY THREE years ago? Wow. Anyway - 22 minutes plus of jazzyescapism open.spotify.com/track/5SrrNj...

Richard… Thank You, as always. Here are the votes of the my brain jury … 1. Jake Xerxes Fussell - S/T 2. Ye Vagabonds - S/T 3. Offa Rex - The Queen of Hearts 4. Our Native Daughters - Songs of Our Native Daughters 5. Big Thief - Masterpiece #5DebutAlbums1519

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt2 Day 11- An Accessory For Hair Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin open.spotify.com/track/3wBy12...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 11: a song from your favorite genre Yes - And You And I open.spotify.com/track/1SSdWB...

#MusicChallenge #ScavengerHunt2 Day 10- It Has A Lid Survivor - Eye of the Tiger No excuses for picking this. It’s a banger, you love it, and you know you do. You’re air-drumming right now as you read this. You are. Yes. You are. open.spotify.com/track/2HHtWy...

Having been a little underwhelmed by ‘Closing Time’, the first few bars of Tom Waits second album ‘The Heart Of Saturday Night’ kicked straight in on ‘New Coat of Paint’ and convinced me that this was going to be a grittier, funkier ride …. /1

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 10 - A song you like in another language Ye Vagabonds - Siún Ní Dhuibhir open.spotify.com/track/2j7K3S...

I repaired my lawnmower today. It’s the greatest single thing I’ve ever done.

Hands up Billy you’re composure’s gone Hands up Billy got you on the run Fly fly Billy now the bill is up Someone bring another Billy on #FallFriday

#1977AlbumsTop20 17. Wire - Pink Flag

How to get going on a Friday. You’re welcome

I’ve listened to Tom Waits’ debut album ‘Closing Time’ a couple of times, and I’ll return to it in a while, once I’ve gone through his discography a bit more. Two things stood out for me. Firstly, Waits’ gravelly-cement mixture voice is nowhere to be heard, instead its … 1

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge Day 9 - Found under a bed Sonic Youth - Shoot ‘Shoot’ was a 1970’s and 80’s weekly football ( soccer ) magazine which I religiously nagged my Mum to buy for me every week. youtu.be/QmwJ6kyKnlI?...

The problem with having friends over for dinner, is that dinner finishes long long before friendship.

“I don’t get how you arrange your records in that order. It makes NO sense” There have been loads of sentences that humans have said to each other. History has, after all, lasted a heck of a long time. But. These are the worst two consecutive sentences any human has ever said to another. Ever

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge Day 8 - It smells “interesting” Christy Moore - Poitin Looks like water. Absolutely is not. open.spotify.com/track/7Lpt45...

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge Day 7 - Something Square King Crimson - Frame By Frame

Inspired by a kind reply to a recent post I made by @jimmy-bigshoes.bsky.social , I’m going to spend a week or so deep diving into the music of Tom Waits. Any and all recommendations are very welcome.

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge Day 6 - Found in a Toolbox Pulp - Pencil Skirt Try cutting to an accurate measurement without a pencil in your toolbox. Or without wearing a pencil skirt. youtu.be/9VMkg8AlFZo?...

Make this season end. #LFC

#ScavengerHunt2 #MusicChallenge Day 4 - It makes you itch Tom Waits - Cold Water I suffer from cold urticaria, so I carry anti-histamines and an EpiPen with me at all times. If I get hot and then cold quickly, my blood pressure drops and I come out in itchy hives. share.google/e7eUnwedI9j9...

#NowPlaying #Vinyl Jake Xerxes Fussell - Out of Sight It’s early in his career, but this album is the highlight to date. Beautiful guitar playing and a unique vowel-lengthening voice.