This year has been a year of lots of reading and listening (music, pods), less watching. The Dune universe is by far the biggest highlight, many many prequel and sequel books, F. Herbert’s biography and finally watched David Lynch’s 1984 movie - which is actually pretty good

'tis the season

Few things on the way, spot the Moon

Walking along Blackberry Way (The Move 1968 🎵) #MusicSky youtu.be/xQ9_f_RyPSs

a curled up fox, savouring the warmth of the sun 🦊🌀🌻 The yellow in the painting is mostly turmeric, the purple blackberry ink #whistpr #content

Good morning . Thank you to @kizferg.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay !

Really nice #Jazz guitar piece by Quinn Belice, discovered on substack, musicians do hang out with writers 😀 🎸 #Bandcamp quinnb.bandcamp.com/track/body-a...

There’s expert movie analysis, a dash of military history and lots of fun and guests, a podcast that’s always on the cable car 🚠 @warmovietheatre.bsky.social co-starring @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

With Ajax defeated and Earth now sterilised for millennia it’s onto the Machine Crusade (book 2 of Legends of Dune) 🤺 🤖

A momentous evening 😊 🏆 ⚽️

wet paint

I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.

Watching the Live Aid 40 docs (and Live 8), while there were many flaws, in hindsight everyone was trying to do the right thing youtu.be/zwDjJP_l5AY

guitarpk.bandcamp.com/album/skylig... A few years ago, the amazing and talented @paulkent.bsky.social Kent asked if I could collaborate with him. This is a new version he created

Giving Jimmy Page directions to Selfridges on the way home from work 😀 (and met Robert Plant when working in a nightclub)

4 and a half books 📚 (out of 6) into the original Frank Herbert #Dune epic 🐛, flagging towards the finishing line 😮‍💨

All those science books and podcast listens has paid off in that I know the difference between String theory, the Many Worlds theory of Quantum Mechanics and a physical multiverse theory 😀 🪐🔭

GUITAR PK instrumental #guitars 🎸 #MusicianSky open.spotify.com/album/0VaIz3...

Graham Hansen genius 🪄 #WEURO2025 || #nff_landslag

Bird of the day, via Merlin app (really fun/useful, records bird sounds while you walk 😊 ): merlinbirds.org/species/eurs...

No cheating or play acting, no harassing the referee, it can only be the Women’s Euros ⚽️ #WEURO2025 😀 #NowWatching GER v POL 🇩🇪 🇵🇱

Listening to The Genius Myth by @helenlewis.bsky.social

Fun appraisal and brief history, benefits of the humble #music #cassette by Mary Spender: youtu.be/pSBQC85ZLEE?...

About to watch Dune Prophecy TV show for the first time, so doing some excellent prep with @elysiacb.bsky.social @lukemiddup.bsky.social and David on the WSD #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Often see something scuttling about around here on walks, but not a Fox it seems, looks like a Roe Deer

Always good sounds from Pye Corner Audio 👽 #electronic #ambient #techno #beats music.apple.com/gb/album/whe...

Morning stop off, public library just beyond the trees

#NowPlaying Dreamstate Kelly Lee Owens (2024) #electronic #ambient #dance

Watching Led Zeppelin movie, musically how it all started on the guitar, the early live footage is punk rock, psychedelia, having a ball 😀 🎸

Just a nice walk, that’s it

Hi everyone & Happy Wednesday I hope you enjoyed today's Almost Random on sleradio.com We had Amazing artists like Stepfather Fred @paulkent.bsky.social Mason Stråle UNRAVELING & more.. Next week I am taking a break but hopefully the week after that I'll be back with more Awesome music

In Thorpeness (Suffolk Coast), endless walking opportunities, amazing day for it

It’s arrived! John Harris’s new #music themed #book Maybe I’m Amazed via the Guardian Bookshop by @johnharris1969.bsky.social

A nap disrupted . Thank you ‪@lisawilliams30.bsky.social‬ for today's #FoxOfTheDay

Someone has kindly listed all the #Severance needle drops here, thank you!: www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/se...

God Walked Down, The Allergies – as heard playing out EP2 of #Severance S2 (great beat) #HipHop #Rap youtu.be/LnL-bNrV48o?...

80,000 signatures on our petition to ban driven grouse shooting, we're not far off the magic 100K now 🙌 If you haven't yet signed please do to help us secure a Parliamentary debate on the issue → govpetition.uk/p/700036

Wild walk along River Gipping (Stowmarket), been here about 6 months, reasonably settled, but still not home yet

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

Website nostalgia, Apple home page from the year 2000, via the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org). Can see all my old websites, scary 😬

Jan 1981. Ronald Reagan is President elect, Blondie’s ‘The Tide is High’ is in the top ten, Dynasty is on TV and at Kennedy Space Center space shuttle Columbia is finally on the launch pad. #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

This week finally time for Severance, starting from S1 rewatch, then S2 for a week or so binge. Prime Target (Apple TV) is okay-ish so far, but going to pause subs and start-up Disney+ again 😀

Every few years, we sign up for yet another platform just to keep in touch with our friends. Private platforms have locked users in for too long, causing a lack of innovation & competition in social media. Bluesky aims to fundamentally change this. Live in 20 min with @jay.bsky.team:

It never occurred to me before, but given the right arrangement, this could pass for a Philip Glass piece. on.soundcloud.com/NzfjLX6aswJE...

Little Egret #birds

First international band KLOBA KENT, two members in Chicago and me in the UK, maybe we’ll tour one day 😁 in the meantime new release Skylights soon @dmkloba.bsky.social @oakblood3.bsky.social

First clear evening sky in a while, Venus catching the sun just below the horizon

Binged on Calls (Apple TV) for quantum many worlds theory fans, an audio series (just phone calls), reminds me of Blair Witch, it’s all in your imagination, nice visuals