Guess the Tory! I purchased this Van Morrison tee from a chazzer this morning, the assistant telling me it was donated by a (former?) Conservative MP who sings in a choir and was caught in the Brighton bombing. Answers on a postcard please! (Secretly hoping for Norman Tebbit)

Shooting chatelaines

Went to an honest-to-god record shop for the first time in years yesterday. Picked up what was probably the most played CD of my teens on LP: Lou B at his most soft-boi and Nick Drake-obsessed. Soundtracked a winter in 1994 like a warm fuzzy blanket.

Aren’t we lucky to be alive the same time as Martin Carthy?

Twitter is now saying if you want child porn, you have to pay for it.

A winter perennial.

Happy turn of the circle

Two fifteenth century faces in stained glass at the church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. They will have seen in over 500 New Years celebrations

Very pleased with his catnip Brussel sprout

Looking forward to the now-annual tradition of being pissed off with Mark Gatiss before midnight on Christmas Eve

On the subject of alternative Christmas albums, this is the one that makes La Monte Young, John Cage and Harry Partch sound like outtakes from Box of Delights:

Exhales…

Nice to see this still doing the rounds over a decade later!

Annual tradition . . . the transporting folk mix by @michaeltanner.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Rewatching the shit out of Victorian Farm Christmas

Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.

Banger album

Forever a favorite!

Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.

The alternative Christmas album that never gets it’s dues.

I didn’t buy this for 3 English pounds

T-shirt is almost 30 years old and never seen an iron

@gregbuzwell.bsky.social is that a Sheila Flinn as your profile pic?

RIP Wycliffe. We once skirmished going for the same discounted pastie in Waitrose, Lewes.

Sad about Mani. Always seemed like the nice one.

Me when I tune to DADGAD

If you’re of a certain vintage, it’s happy big 50 to the eeriest, most evocative piece of music and TV intro of all time. I can hear it wafting in from my parents front room when I was meant to be asleep, the neon bottle floating in to view.

Today’s restoration serving strong Virago Modern Classic energy

Somewhat a fairweather jazz fan, but I very much love this.

It’s that time again.

Still the undisputed changing-of-seasons classic: youtu.be/OjvzjuZ2wcA?...

This years window offering.

It Is Time.

With my first born son. Proud of you, proud of the man you’ve become.

Sole boot sale purchase today. Victorian Taxidermy dome with beehives (and real bees).

Did not have this on my bingo-card. The first LP is a thing of still beauty.

Streamline Jabba

Pick ups this week, tucked in the back of an otherwise hum-drum prog collection. Seasonally appropriate!

Graham Nash!

Today’s insane boot score. Hand/screen printed Westwood Pistols tees (that have definitely lived the life)

Mudlarking Lower Halstow

Mexican votive penance ritual, 1940

Never Forget

Always nice when a single image speaks to your soul

Telescopic view of London (Victorian engraving)

This will be a stunner.

Proper hyperventilating when I bought this today. Original Pen and Ink sketch by Leonard Foujita, the king of cats.

Most of my life was laser-focused around Hastings for one reason or another. Get togethers, break-ups, chips with my folks on the seafront. The old town is a place forever changing but always the same. Roberts felt like it might be the big brass pin holding it all together - I’ll be sad to see it go

Picked up a little Victorian oil today from Scottish landscape painter and ornithologist Edward Hargitt. Two kids teasing their playmate who is stuck in finishing lunch. I love how there’s an unspoken story behind it, like a page Tom’s Midnight Garden, The Moondial or a long lost children’s story.

Boot sale score from many years ago, full of holes and I’m breathing in - not sure I’ve ever seen another though.