Never get tired of Malham. Always feels a bit like walking into a surreal dream. Trees that look upside down stuck to the side of the rocks. The colour of rocks changing dramatically with the light. Also feels like Conan or someone should appear at any point…

Never get tired of Malham. Always feels a bit like walking into a surreal dream. Trees that look upside down stuck to the side of the rocks. The colour of rocks changing dramatically with the light. Also feels like Conan or someone should appear at any point…

Now reading - The Russia House (1989) by John Le Carre My 10th Le Carre, I think. Finding him quite comforting to read recently, even with all the cynicism. How might he deal with the dying days of the Soviet system? Let’s find out. Haven’t seen the film, assume it’s bad? #booksky

A few recent non-fiction pick ups. Read any of these? Really enjoyed Posner’s JFK book, so hoping his MLK one is just as compelling #booksky

Now reading - The Russia House (1989) by John Le Carre My 10th Le Carre, I think. Finding him quite comforting to read recently, even with all the cynicism. How might he deal with the dying days of the Soviet system? Let’s find out. Haven’t seen the film, assume it’s bad? #booksky

A few recent non-fiction pick ups. Read any of these? Really enjoyed Posner’s JFK book, so hoping his MLK one is just as compelling #booksky

Penny Rimbaud, later of Crass, receiving records as a prize from John Lennon on Ready Steady Go, 1964 🤯

Perfection was achieved 30 years ago today and it's been stuck in my head ever since

RIP Terry Cox, one of the coolest drummers ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqE...

Penny Rimbaud, later of Crass, receiving records as a prize from John Lennon on Ready Steady Go, 1964 🤯

Dirty plastering deeds, done dirt cheap

Now reading - City Primeval (1980) by Elmore Leonard Gradually working my way through his novels. Helpfully a previous reader has highlighted all the problematic passages #booksky

Love living near Kirkstall Abbey

Now reading - This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of The BBC (2015) by Charlotte Higgins Picked this up on a whim as fancied reading a breezy primer on the BBC. Will see how it is #booksky

A sunny day out in the pubs of Bradford First up - The Fighting Cock, which is absolutely top tier… 🧵

Love living near Kirkstall Abbey

Hepworth's Family of Man, lined up on the road outside the foundry after they were made. I cannot overstate how much I loved this.

A sunny day out in the pubs of Bradford First up - The Fighting Cock, which is absolutely top tier… 🧵

Second tallest standing stone in the UK appreciation #standingstonesunday

Finished this book on Lee Harvey Oswald and would strongly recommend! A few immediate reflections: The assassination definitely marked a major shift in how reality is documented and consequentially understood, a bridge between the old world and the new… Long 🧵 (sorry!) #booksky

🌚 NIGHT TIME PLAYLIST 🌚 I’ve done a playlist of songs I tend to put on at night, usually to wind down. Nothing very obscure but that’s not the point. Featuring ragas, folk, jazz etc. Maybe you’d dig 🤷‍♂️

Preordered this 👇

Finished this book on Lee Harvey Oswald and would strongly recommend! A few immediate reflections: The assassination definitely marked a major shift in how reality is documented and consequentially understood, a bridge between the old world and the new… Long 🧵 (sorry!) #booksky

Rod Serling’s The Night Gallery (1973)

The anti-working from home crowd don’t know the joys of driving 10 mins to get ice cream from a dairy farm on your lunch break and being back in time for the next meeting 🤷‍♂️ Goodalls in Tong, just outside of Leeds - a great lockdown discovery

Playlist for the night owls

The anti-working from home crowd don’t know the joys of driving 10 mins to get ice cream from a dairy farm on your lunch break and being back in time for the next meeting 🤷‍♂️ Goodalls in Tong, just outside of Leeds - a great lockdown discovery

🌚 NIGHT TIME PLAYLIST 🌚 I’ve done a playlist of songs I tend to put on at night, usually to wind down. Nothing very obscure but that’s not the point. Featuring ragas, folk, jazz etc. Maybe you’d dig 🤷‍♂️

Playlist Always end up reaching for The Fall after listening to Beefheart, although Grotesque isn’t my usual go-to That Trouble record rules - the band Metallica could have been… 😉

Playlist 🤷‍♂️ Pink Fairies Kings of Oblivion (1973) rules because it sounds like the perfect mix of SF Sorrow and early Alice Cooper. ‘When’s The Fun Begin’ is a good example of what I’m talking about Left Insane (1990) is under the radar SST-core from members of Flag, Descendents, Saccharine Trust 🤌

Preordered this 👇

Playlist Always end up reaching for The Fall after listening to Beefheart, although Grotesque isn’t my usual go-to That Trouble record rules - the band Metallica could have been… 😉

A rhubarb and gooseberry crumble in three acts 1/3

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Don’t generally go in for viral food trends BUT we tried making that homemade lamb doner using the baking sheet method… Reader, I scoffed it. Slathered in chilli sauce and garlic yoghurt as standard 👨‍🍳 🤌

Yorkshire 🤝 nice weather

Hans has learnt how to climb on to the top of his scratching post, like some kind of cat Simon of the Desert

Hans has learnt how to climb on to the top of his scratching post, like some kind of cat Simon of the Desert

Yorkshire 🤝 nice weather

Second tallest standing stone in the UK appreciation #standingstonesunday

It is happening again

Last time I saw William Mitchell’s murals inside Bradford’s Kirkgate Shopping Centre, 3 years ago Anyone knows what’s happened to these? As far as I can tell, they’re hidden away at the minute but not protected from the imminent demolition?

Stop off at the charity shop paid off Been after The Assassin - O’Flaherty’s The Informer was one of the best things I read last year #booksky

Stop off at the charity shop paid off Been after The Assassin - O’Flaherty’s The Informer was one of the best things I read last year #booksky

Last time I saw William Mitchell’s murals inside Bradford’s Kirkgate Shopping Centre, 3 years ago Anyone knows what’s happened to these? As far as I can tell, they’re hidden away at the minute but not protected from the imminent demolition?

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

What people forget about David Copperfield, beyond the weird Dickens name choice and how easy it is to make a “Cop-a-feel” gag, is the fact he was in the Jamie Lee Curtis slasher TERROR TRAIN (1980) essentially playing himself. Suffice to say, acting wasn’t his strong suit #filmsky

Maybe monetising attention seeking was a bad idea

A hot take, holy shit moment from reading just a few pages of this book - when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested he said “it’s all over now” to the arresting officer Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Short 🧵 on why Dylan’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue is MAYBE actually all about JFK’s assassin… 🤷‍♂️ 😉

Now reading - Case Closed (1993) by Gerald Posner Maybe in retreat from contemporary reality, I really fancied a deep dive on probably the single most contested event in the 20th century 🤷‍♂️ Let’s see how it goes #booksky