How To Be A Werewolf

Current view 🌴☀️ Only a couple more days 😢 Love Sri Lanka 🇱🇰❤️ Don’t hesitate if you get the chance 🙏

Few more pics from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 - Dambulla cave temples and Sigiriya, genuinely jaw-dropping, a unique place 🙏

Some pics from Colombo 🇱🇰, not an attractive city if truth be told! Very different from the rest of SL hopefully. Final ODI 🏏 tomorrow, then the tour of the island begins! 😊

Finally made it to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 for the cricket after COVID scuppered the plan in 2020. It’s quite hot here. A must-win match for England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏏 Just lost the toss 🙄

#NowPlaying “Valentine”, the new album from Courtney Marie Andrews, absolutely stunning, what a voice she has. And touring the UK very soon, excited to be catching her at Bristol Beacon 😊🎶❤️ #LoveLiveMusic

Details for the next Yeofest beer festival👇 Same day as Special Friend at Exeter Cavern, I’ll be going to both, hopefully! 🤞

Just renewed my memberships (Associate and Women) at @somersetccc.bsky.social, dreaming of days in the sun at the County Ground cheering them on! 🌞🏏 Early bird prices available till Feb 1st if you fancy joining me there 👍 somersetcountycc.co.uk/news/club-ne...

Really enjoying the latest Besnard Lakes album “The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation”, thrilling stuff. As heard on @mixless.bsky.social excellent radio show (and learned correct pronunciation of Besnard 😊) - many thanks Ant! 🙏🎶❤️

It has been a very long time since German lessons at school (I must get back into it). One of my favourite words I can remember is Strassenbahnhaltestelle - “street train stopping place”, or tramstop 😊🇩🇪 #ShoutOutForGerman

For completeness: King’s Arms (Teignmouth), Brunswick Arms (Dawlish), Boat House (Dawlish Warren), The Atmospheric Railway (Starcross), Crossed Anchors Taproom (Marsh Barton) and a walk to Topsham Brewery Tap. Bus home, Crème Egg, crap TV with cat on lap, bed. A lovely day out with good friends! 😊❤️

2nd pub, the Ship Inn at Teignmouth back beach, a favourite spot 😊 Gorgeous day at the moment! 🌞

Today I’m doing a pub crawl by train between Newton Abbot and Exeter for a friend’s birthday! 👍🍻 First stop is the Railway, and (even though the sun is far from being over the yardarm) it’s a pint of draught Bass 🔺for me - whenever I see it, I have it! Have a great weekend everyone 😊 #BskyBeer

From the sublime (The Vanishing) to the utterly miserable (Eden Lake). Just got myself a sub to Studiocanal, looks a good selection there. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky

This is really helpful in the Exeter Beer Festival programme, a matrix of style v strength. I’ve never seen this before, well done Exeter & East Devon CAMRA 👍🙏

Today I was at the @camraofficial.bsky.social beer festival in Exeter and got chatting to some lovely people who live in a nearby town. I have a #BskyBeer friend there who I’d never actually met IRL - turned out it was them! A real pleasure to meet you @westy539.bsky.social & H too! See you soon 😊🍻

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Arrived this morning from @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social, many thanks, and to @ronanhession.bsky.social of course. Have made an immediate start. I’m hearing Julia Roberts’ lovely voice as I’m reading it, which is an added bonus! 😊🙏📚 #BookSky

This is on now and let me tell you the first couple of tracks were complete bangers - 1976, what a year! Why not join in 😊👇

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Train to Whimple and a nice walk in the gentle East Devon countryside, excellent lunch in the Talaton Inn. Good to get out in the fresh air 😊

It's Wednesday tomorrow. Which means for the first time this year it's #buyastrangerabook day! What a magnificent distraction from *waves arms about* all of this nonsense. Lovely people buying strangers books. Cos it's a nice thing to do! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... CHECK IT OUT!

Home safe from #RockawayBeach and hope everyone else is too. Such a great time, and it was fantastic to actually meet up with some virtual friends - thanks @clivesnr.bsky.social @ellibin.bsky.social @swatkiss.bsky.social and @peterlatimer6.bsky.social, take care, have fun & see you next time! ❤️😊

Today at #RockawayBeach - Baggio, The Members, Ellur, a tiny bit of Inspiral Carpets and the day’s highlight, Coach Party, magnificent. Also: a seaside stroll in the sun, excellent Sunday lunch at the Fox in Felpham, and booked RB2027 ✅ Really can’t recommend it enough! 😊 #LoveLiveMusic

View from our room at Butlins, Bognor Regis for #RockawayBeach - sun’s out, moorhens scuttling about on the grass, sea view and the spa is open!

Another fine day at #RockawayBeach yesterday: Winter Gardens, Whitelands, Home Counties, Adult DVD, TV Smith, PiL, a bit of Insecure Men and the Moonlandingz, ending up with Chris Hawkins on the decks. Truly enjoyable, love this festival! Going to book for 2027 later today 😊 #LoveLiveMusic

Behind the desk in Reds at #RockawayBeach where Chris Hawkins is on the decks. Hopefully the book next to the mixer is the Holy Bible of sound engineering?

Great start to Rockaway, quite the mix: Prima Queen, Mandrake Handshake, Voka Gentle and Antony Szmierek - all excellent and loads of fun! #LoveLiveMusic

Have just finished Leonard and Hungry Paul on the Beeb and I’m very sad, because it was such a lovely, lovely series. I know it’s the wrong way round but I’ll be reading the book ASAP, just ordered from @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social 📚🙏 All episodes on the iPlayer 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

My Storygraph 2025 wrap: 36 books read, I gave 10 of them ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ including 2 from @nicolaupson.bsky.social, 2 from @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social, @northernmailman.bsky.social’s hilarious “Hunter” (eagerly awaiting the next one Nick!), and @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social’s wonderful memoir 🙏📚❤️ #BookSky

#NowPlaying my AOTY, Disiniblud from Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith on @smugglersway.bsky.social - completely wonderful and I’ve never heard anything like it. And it was such a privilege to see them perform it live at Simple Things in Bristol. Please give it a listen 🙏😊🎶

Pubs, woo-hoo! Pint of Glastonbury Ales’ Liquid Hoptimism in the Pig & Pickle, Exeter. Cheers all! 😊🍻 #BskyBeer

It’s cold, windy, bright and beautiful - have the best day you can everyone 🙏❤️

Love these Witness History episodes on the Beeb, short (only 10 mins) and interesting. This one’s particularly good 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Very much enjoyed this, though darker than I expected. Intriguing interconnected stories exploring Tokyo's “dark underbelly” - “its glory, its shame, its characters and a calico cat”. It’s a real treat! 📚😊❤️ #BookSky

Perfect listening for a festive Saturday morning: Prof Pop’s special edition of (no doubt) excellent music from the long ‘70s - why not join us! 👇🎶📻 #ChildrenOfTheRevolution

Just listened to this, it is fantastic ❤️🎶

Love this at Honiton station #art #hope

Dusk, Topsham.

After a grim day yesterday I was in 2 minds about whether to go see the @mikiberenyi.bsky.social trio at the Cavern last night, but I’m so glad I did! Fabulous performance, just what I needed; music uplifts us and gives us hope! Support those bands and venues people, they are the best - thanks all 🙏

A friend’s funeral today, who was far too young. I’m remembering and celebrating our friendship in a way he would have loved, with a pint of strong dark ale in the pub. Rest easy Jon 🍻

Who could resist a lineup like this, perfect Saturday morning listening 👇🎶😊

Great solo set from @jilk.bsky.social last night at the Exchange, Bristol - not sure how one person can produce such amazing music, loved it! Many thanks 🙏😊🎶 #LoveLiveMusic

Very much enjoying “Outfall”, the new one from @drtechnical.bsky.social - “noisy, droney, feel-bad ambient”, though it makes me feel good! Glad it was released. Get it here👇 lyndonscarfe.bandcamp.com/album/outfal...

10th anniversary tour for Everything Everything’s “Get To Heaven” album, really wonderful gig and an absolutely adoring crowd, what a joyful experience, can’t be beaten!😊🎶 #LoveLiveMusic

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One less Ambient Owl Core volume 4 cassette now! Be quick 😊👇

MORNING! It's Bandcamp Friday!!! Which is the perfect time to grab our new album Fix Your Hearts - jilk.bandcamp.com/album/fix-your-hearts Also this 'name your price' selection jilk.bandcamp.com/album/syrup-house-2025-reissue jilk.bandcamp.com/album/mas-333-why jilk.bandcamp.com/album/mas-444-why

AMBIENT OWL CORE vol 4 Out Friday. This EP has all new wild owls on it recorded in: Mumbles, Southampton, Bristol & Somerset. As well as dawn chorus’ from UK & Spain Follow me here to make sure you don’t miss the physicals or the new tees: kaylapainter.bandcamp.com