'City Lights Bristol' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt

I know the BBC are preoccupied, but I've recieved no reply re my complaint about how incompetent the Red Team were on Bargain Hunt (October 26th broadcast). And how they didn't even appear to be taking the game remotely seriously.

Archive photo. Circa 1988 with a Commodore Amiga 500 plugged into a Philips portable TV. Probably playing New Zealand Story or Carrier Command. Collection of shabby plants. Vinyl collection in the background, starting with the Adverts ‘One Chord Wonders’ Always alphabetical. Still have them all.

Now playing: ‘I reach a higher plane when I speak so slow and hardly breathe. They're gonna run out of shapes when they fetch my family. I must confess I'm gonna see that man again. I'm gonna turn back the clock and set foot in Kansas’ youtu.be/66m8dZBe02Q?...

Sunset. 3°C and a cold night to come. A Barn Owl swooping.

Listen to the quiet voice

#NowPlaying Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound (1979) Nelson hand brake turns his career and produces a fine, frenetic, pointilistic, and definitive New Wave LP. Devo & XTC are all manifest influences. Best track, Revolt Into Style, harks back to his guitar pyrotechnic heroics #MusicSky

Greetings from Glasgow. I’m thrilled to be back in the UK for the week. Great people, good food, brisk weather. Can’t beat that!

I can’t resist a laid-back horse with a golf course on his head.

It's Pollen season again.

'Fear of a Blank Planet ' from 2007 one of the very best #PorcupineTree albums. Followed them since hearing 'Up the Downstair' on BBC radio in 1994 #StevenWilson #ColinEdwin #RichardBarbieri #GavinHarrison also guests #AlexLifeson #RobertFripp #nowplaying #DailyVinyl #vinylcommunity #VinylBlueSky

There were 92,400 Lego cutlasses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. This one was found in August by Laura Dale on a beach near Newquay some 28 years after it plummeted into the ocean. Photo: Laura Dale

Bar’s open! Cheers Dears! 🍻

Getting a bit parky out there. Send thoughts and prayers to us arthritis suffers…

Sunday afternoon music. ‘Fires on spires and chimneys of black Fields on horizons with pylons that crack With singing sad wires of council house mystics To apply their statistics And read the tea leaves, Time knows no limits for days such as these….’ youtu.be/mOS6WmQ_TU4?...

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‘Condemned to be a stranger Subway dweller, dead-end danger. Peeking through the dust of friends Who never gave, they'd only lend. Every sneer is thrown away With practised gestures of disdain The outlaw stance is so pedantic Hate the world, it's so romantic Young savage’ youtu.be/necOxH0vRzg?...

Do you ever dream of running away to a cabin in the woods.... sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/6388... #linocut #foresterscottage #printmaking

Been down the charity shop to buy some total crap to sample. #Cassette #Cassettetape #PanPipeDreams

What’s your favourite song about the rain? ‘Checking in every morning To the sound of steam and caffeine The sludge in the bottom of the cup Just like the sludge in the stream. Slag heap keeps growing higher Every morning the sky, it's on fire And it's only 9 AM again youtu.be/lM8vCMJIsuo?...

Sunday lunchtime. Dreich. Endless mugs of strong tea and DB at his melancholic best. ‘Living in lies by the railway line Pushing the hair from my eyes Elvis is English and climbs the hills Can't tell the bullshit from the lies Screaming along in South London’ youtu.be/xHPIAFaKd1I?...

I recently deleted a chunk of muted words and phrases and goodness me, that was a mistake. My feed was *unbearable* for a minute there. Anyway, regular reminder that mute is really good here and you can, and should, mute anything and everything that’s upsetting you. There’s no shame.

The single funniest line in cinema history. You’re welcome.

Sunday night - winding down to ‘Someday World’ by Brian Eno/Karl Hyde.

What Mike said. 👏

Sunday night innit. (Again) Cheers Dears! 🥃😋

Sprints were terrific in Manchester last night. Karla is a sensational frontwoman. See them on tour if you can! The sound downstairs at the Albert Hall is still dead ropey, mind 👎

In a few mins, (and then @bbcsounds.bsky.social) it's our Freak Zone Art Time Punks special on the more experimental end of new wave. Expect Wire, This Heat, ATV, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Patti Smith, Television, Pere Ubu, The Fall and more....

Back to my punk roots. ‘Another close down Another let down Another breakdown Until we wind down. We're just echoes We're reflected Tonight I see the screen With other pictures on it Time to pull out the plugs Time to look above Confused by science? Or just confused?’ youtu.be/NGTggX-uAVI?...

Colour etching by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami (1911-2004) #WomensArt

Netherlands approves ban on consumer fireworks The Dutch Senate has voted to ban the sale of fireworks to private individuals, a measure the government hopes to implement in time for the 2026/27 New Year's celebration www.animanaturalis.org/n/46953/neth...

Some of my photos from Day 1 of JT Soar Fest 2025 at The Old Cold Store, Nottingham with this review by Lewis Oxley for @leftlion.bsky.social Including: TV CRIME , Virvon Varvon, The Plan , Grazia , Stuart Pearce, Ye Nuns and The Monochrome Set leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

Pub?

It's Roy Wood's birthday. I love the Move. I love Wizzard. I love Boulders and Mustard.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru #WomensArt #Autumn

Detoured from a family Flying Scotsman trip on North York Moors Railway to Beck Hole to see the excellent Birch Hall Inn in glorious autumn colours. Inside has barely changed in 100 years and cliches like 'time warp' and 'gem' don't do it justice. Beckwatter brown ale and a pork pie too. Wonderful.

'1985: The Miracle Year catches Hüsker Dü at their most inventive, straddling the line between hardcore ferocity and pop accessibility while revealing a potent mix of raw power, emotional maturity and musical ambition' Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year buff.ly/gNQkSni

Friday music. I would have loved to see The Faces live, but even I’m not that old.😉 So, Cindy – get your coat on Leave the rent with the gent up in the penthouse Turn up your music so loud Let's attract a big crowd And drink a round to this town And bid goodbye (Farewell!) youtu.be/aUoPP1D6Tb8?...

Friday afternoon. Getting dark. Heating on, feet up. Weekend. Cheers Dears!

'The language of Aerial is rapture at the beauty of nature, the extraordinary in the everyday - its musical language as broad, diverse, and beautiful as its subjects would suggest.' Happy Birthday to #KateBush's Aerial, which turns 20 today! buff.ly/C12YtBz

THE ODYSSEY CONTINUES . . . BOOK #7 / BOWIE ODYSSEY 76 PULLING INTO VICTORIA STATION 09/04/26

Autumn.

An Early Morning Wander. 12°C and clear skies. Rabbits.

Chip shop lunch day lads!

Nancy’s Natural Healing Parker, SD

www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/... Fed up with this annual shithousery? I am.

'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt