Corbet Wood, bathed in afternoon sunshine on the last day of 2025 👌 #Shropshire 🌤️🚴

As we're half way through the season, and it's the last one of the year, I'm getting nostalgic today 🧵 🎶 From red Rotaforms in Appledore Drive to burnished green Glasdons, and beehives in Clive - here are a few of my favourite bins 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday #Shropshire 💛💚♥️🖤

Merry Christmas, friends and followers - hope you have a good one (or the best you can)! 🎅🎁🎄

I enjoyed a festive treat at the Gorge Film Club in Coalbrookdale today in the form of the Holdovers. I'll admit, this one passed me by on release (although it was very successful) but that's my loss because this is a modern Christmas classic. Funny, poignant and full of pathos ✅ #TheHoldovers 🎬🎄

🎶 I see bins of green, red ones, too. All full of grit, for me and you. And I think to myself, What a wonderful world 🎶 Season's greetings friends and followers - may all your grit bins overflow with festive cheer! #GritSaltBinMonday ☃️🎄🎅 #Shropshire 💚♥️

A beautiful morning in Salop, and Sabrina is looking surprisingly docile given all the rain we've had recently: #Shrewsbury #Shropshire 🌤️

The Daily Record: for me, you can throw a blanket over everything Bailter Space released between 1989 and '97 (it's all brilliant) but The Aim's wondrous four songs perfectly distil its thunderous essence, with the majestic Shine the ethereal centrepiece. RIP Brent McLachlan 🖤 #BailterSpace #TheAim

🎶 It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunlight on your face. You were content to let me shine, that's your way. You always walked a step behind. 🎶 🥲 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Yorton #Shropshire 💛🚉👸

🎶 Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run. There's still time to grit the road you're on 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Ellesmere #Shropshire 💛

Golden hour at Pim Hill: #Shropshire ☀️🚴

Sad to lose Brent McLachlan, one of the nicest people in NZ music. I first heard him play in 1980, at an early Gordons gig, in an old hall in Hillsborough. I still recall thinking "Are you *allowed* to sound like this?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjDc...

New Zealand's music community has suffered another huge loss with the passing of Brent McLachlan - of The Gordons, Bailterspace and Skeptics - in New Jersey. His Writhe Recording studio (with Nick Roughan)... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/bail...

🚨 NEW Cummings Your Way 🚨 Dan and Lee visit #Tewkesbury, a town of seamless architectural transitions, where whispers of eastern places drift with ne'er a murmur of discord across the aching expanse of summer like a Venn diagram of life on the Worcestershire plain. @cummingsyourway.bsky.social 🦐

🎶 Never going to fall for (Grit salt bin) walks beside me (Grit salt bin) walks on by me (Grit salt bin) gets me to the church on time 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Wellington #Shropshire 💛💒

🎶 And see how his face glows: it's a grit bin! What a surprise. It's a big grit bin! What a big surprise. It's a red grit bin! What a red surprise. Ooooh, what a surprise! 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Wellington #Shropshire 🟥♥️

Coming in 2026 .. #sharethelove #forthecurious #season4 #sygigs #shrewsbury #shropshire #livemusic

The Daily Record: sixty years old today 🎉 Nothing to say that hasn't been said a 1001 times already but, blimey, what an album this is 💥 Listening to John enter his imperial phase, and George's emergence as a genuine songwriting force never gets old. 10/10 #TheBeatles #RubberSoul 🎂

🚨 OK, friends and followers 🚨 Here's a #GritSaltBinMonday challenge for you (and you can blame @shroppiemon.bsky.social for this!): can you change one letter of a band or artist name and make them grit-bin-tastic? I'll start us off... Siouxsie and the Binshees 😕 Apologies in advance 🙏

🎶 Walking down your street. With a love that I can't hide. Oh I've got one thing on my mind. Yeah I'll even sacrifice my pride (ooh, I want grit). 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Grinshill #Shropshire 💛

Frustrating. The first 45 saw some of our most enterprising play of the season (and a superb Luca Hoole strike) but our poor ball retention throughout came back to haunt us in the second term as our attempts at game management floundered in the face of our opponents direct onslaught. #Salop 🔵🟠

Priest's door (with twelfth century ironwork) at St Mary's #Edstaston #AdoorableThursday 🚪 #Shropshire

Light lunch in the Kitchen @ The Castle. Would recommend ✅ #Whittington #Shropshire 🏰🍽️

The Daily Record: if you're going to release an album with song titles like Running Around The White Picket Fence, Smother It In Honey and Maps To Help You Lose Your Way it better be good. This is VERY GOOD. One of the great Australian guitar bands of the last 30 years 🔥 #BluebottleKiss #Patient 🍯

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🎶 It's the end of the grit as we know it 🎶 Bin dereliction at Raven Meadows in Shrewsbury town centre. Sad. #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Shrewsbury #Shropshire 💛🙁

I had a trip to #Coalbrookdale Community Centre this afternoon to watch Ocean with David Attenborough at the bi-weekly Gorge Film Club. Stunning cinematography and a profound message of hope for the future of our seas. Very highly recommended ✅ #Ocean 🎥

One from the back lanes of All Stretton #GritSaltBinMonday

🎶 Stay on these roads, we will grit - I know 🎶 Primed and ready to provide assistance on an icy stretch just outside Yeaton 💪 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Yeaton #Shropshire 💛

Beautiful skies over the Shire this afternoon 🌤️ #OldWoods #Shropshire 🥶🚴

Low winter sun on the River Perry at #Yeaton this afternoon: #Shropshire 🌤️🚴🥶

The Daily Record: ahoy NZ Indie fans! Here's an interesting curio from the hallowed halls of Fog City Enterprises: Robert the Record by, erm, Robert! Guitar, drum and bass-heavy Post-Punk reigns here, with a sound that's somewhere between the Fall and Gordons to my ears... 1/2 🧵 #RobertTheRecord 🥝

'Blending bin'... 🫣 - Grit Salt bin near Stokesay Castle #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #CravenArms #Stokesay #Shropshire

🎶 I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my... message on a grit bin 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Grinshill #Shropshire 💛

Standing sentry 💂 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Clive #Shropshire 💛

Hedgerow Cranesbill was still flowering well in the afternoon sunshine on Pigeon's Rough, near Shrewsbury, last Thursday afternoon: #WildflowerHour #Shropshire 🟣

Anthony Scully's sumptuous long-range strike was the stand out moment of an open-ended but scrappy encounter from which Town deservedly claimed all three points. A MASSIVE victory and, at last, we finally have parity between points won and games played 🎉 #Salop 💙🧡

The 4 stages of a new Cate Le Bon album: 1. Hmmm, not really hearing it with this one, but I'll try again 2. Oh, this is interesting, let's have another spin 3. This is good... where's the lyric sheet 4. INJECT THIS INTO ME - I don't want to listen to anything else! #CateLeBon #MichelangeloDying

Braved Storm Claudia for lunch with a mate at Rhubarb in the Drapers Hall, and very glad I did! The interior is everything you'd expect of a building that dates from 1483 - and the food, service and prices were just as good. I went for a fish finger BLT, which was 👌 #Shrewsbury #Dining 🍴

One of the many old stone quarries in Corbet Wood, its edges having been softened by many years of natural regeneration #Grinshill #Shropshire 🍂🌤️🪨

Late autumn colour on the edge of Corbet Wood this afternoon from the track that winds around past Grinshill village to the stone quarry at the top of the ridge #Shropshire 🍂🚴🌤️

The driveway from Merry Lane to Black Birches in the late autumn sun this afternoon #Shropshire 🍂🌤️

The Daily Record: celebrated Neil's 80th by playing my favourite of his albums while doing the dishes earlier. The musical interplay between him and the Horse on this record is 🔥🔥🔥 #NeilYoung #Zuma 🎂🎈

A mate recently lent me the DVD of this astonishing documentary by Wim Wenders about the life of Sebastião Salgado. It is, at times, harrowing viewing but ultimately a story of hope that brilliantly details the essential contradictions of the human character. Highly recommended ✅ #SaltOfTheEarth 🎥

It's spreading... #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Cheshire 😯

🚨 NEW Cummings Your Way 🚨 Dan and Lee revisit #Shrewsbury, shake off their linguistic prejudices, sag sumptuously, then groan under the weight of ecclesiastica - all to achieve sartorial symbiosis amid the cool pink sandstone of #Shropshire's handsome county town. @cummingsyourway.bsky.social 🐍

🎶 Wait! Oh yes, wait a minute, Mister Postman. Wait! Wai-ai-ai-ait Mister Postman. Mister Postman look and see (oh, yeah), is there some grit salt in your bin for me? 🎶 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #Shrewsbury #Shropshire 💛📮

Forget about the Statue of Liberty scene... it's been superceded! #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️

🎶 You've abandoned me. Grit don't live here anymore 🎶 A picture of rural degradation in Little Ness 😢 #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️ #LittleNess #Shropshire 💛

Common Heather was still flowering abundantly last Thursday lunchtime on the Cliffe (rhymes with 'life'), an area of lowland heath in the Nesscliffe Hills. #WildflowerHour #Shropshire 💜

A very happy half century to this absolute BANGER 💥 #Sailor #GlassOfChampagne 🍾