Postie brought me these lovely things today. With all these and having seen @warringtonruncorn.com on Saturday night, I’m having quite a @castlesinspace.bsky.social week

I’ve been up since 5.20am, I’m on the train home from a day trip to a meeting in Great Malvern, and I’ve got a zoom meeting with Oz & NZ folk at midnight. The sleep deprived glamour of life as an international Buddhist of mystery. Anyway, here’s some #12inchTuesdsy noise #WeekendSingles

There’s a delightful irony in someone indignantly trying to refute an implication of ignorance with a display of ignorance.

Blimin’ ‘eck! Look at the size of that puffball!

On the 13th June 2020 these two pics were my first, tentative contribution to #SaturdaySingles. Since then I’ve spent 100s of hours choosing what to post, photographing, commenting on other people’s, buying things folk have posted, and occasionally buying things just to post. Vive le #WeekendSingles

Here’s a perculiarity I spotted on the FB company sleeves group - one of a very tiny number of Ronco 7”s ever released. I don’t suppose anyone has ever seen one. Very rare - only one has ever sold on Discogs - for £1.50! #WeekendSingles

I recently upgraded my phone, and I’m really appreciating how much better the camera is - especially at low light levels. So, here’s a couple of pics from my trip to Brighton last night to see @warringtonruncorn.com, the blusterous sea and pier, and the quiet night sky when I got home.

It’s a bit late in the day, but here are some #WeekendSingles crackers.

I’ve been wondering for months why this moisturiser had a weird texture. This morning I realised it’s actually shower gel. Always read the small print 🙈

Some Adhisthana morning pics from yesterday. Got home late last night and went straight to bed. It always takes a bit of time to readjust.

Went a bit further than Dave Crosby.

Hello #12inchTuesday & #WeekendSingles folk I mentioned a while back that I couldn’t resist this set of 12”s

my office last week/ my office this week

Realising, in the beautiful low angle light of the autumn sun, that I’m going to miss my quirky little house and garden.

OK, a lazy quick 16 interesting albums from this century. Mostly from artists who only started performing this century, but with a few oldies who were around >25 years ago. #WeekendDingles #AlbumAlmanac I appreciate most of these will be unknown to most folk & I can explain, see alt text for titles.

Right, the nights are drawing in, so I’m going to sign off from #WeekendSingles with a slightly less exotic import, which Markus at Sugarbush Records in Tunbridge Wells offered me at a knockdown price yesterday, and I fell for it like the antifa I am.

So, here’s the not-a-teapot with its new chum, and the rest of the coffee set gang.

Teapot double fail. When I go to Adhisthana I take my coffee making kit: aeropress, filters, milk frother and a pint mug. But I like to start the day with a pot of Earl Grey, and they don’t have teapots at Adhisthana. So I thought I’d look on eBay and see if they had any cheap retro teapots… 1/2

Here’s another treasure from Joel @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social’s recent trip to Japan to kick off my Sunday on #WeekendSingles. The cover sheet and label are just 👌🏼 According to Google the text top left translates as ‘favorite board’ - maybe a literal translation of something like ‘hit parade’?

I miss Barnaby

Finally got around to parcelling up a few things I’d promised to folk, and wouldn’t you know it, the Royal Mail website and app have crashed. Sorry chums, god doesn’t want you to have these records. 😑

OK #WeekendSingles #VinylSky & #MusicSky folk - help me solve a mystery. A knackered acetate & 2 white labels of a song called Sharrabang (corruption of charabanc) has been donated to a local charity shop. Runouts stamped EDEN SP 5 A (&B) Share and search - let’s find out who this was! B side below

A mixed bag for my Sunday #WeekendSingles A genuine rarity and some oldies, donated to the charity shop I help. Some online purchases, some nonsense, and a couple I don’t recall where I picked them up - probably charity shops.

A couple of views from my luifel last week. (My tent is Dutch and has this written on the front poles. Turns out it means awning or canopy & I finally learnt how to pronounce it.)

Obviously not in the same league as @philk282.bsky.social or @halemberg.bsky.social’s Françoise collections, but I couldn’t resist this pristine set of Petula in French eps I found in a chazzer this week. Are there any Pet fans in the #WeekendSingles #VinylSky community who would like them?

After a bonkers 6 weeks of scampering around the country I’m actually going to be at home for a fortnight. To mark it, here are three reggae/ska classics and a classic Ron Grainger TV theme. #WeekendSingles

#WeekendSingles If I hadn’t treated myself to the Screamadelica 12” box set this week, I’d be snapping this beauty up.

Two worlds meet - my magnificent/ridiculous tent at Adhisthana.

*Bristolian accent* Not ahnutherr wonn! Yet more #WeekendSingles picture disc punishment.

Absolutely delightful. 😁

More of those slightly reviled picture discs for #WeekendSingles.

I’m working again, so here’s an old picture disc batch of #WeekendSingles

I’m planning a new career as an impresario. My first artiste will be Brian Emo - noodling ambience over which a teenager complains about having to tidy his room and that nobody understands him. Who will be your star?

It’s been a while since we had some vintage paperbacks, so are here some Richard Brautigan books. I recently read In Watermelon Sugar. It left me wondering ‘if you were to write a book like this, how could you possibly know that you’d finished?’ 1/2

Watching this and repeatedly trying to remind myself “This is not a parody” is seriously twisting my melon.

Much as I love Buddhafield, it’s very nice to come home to a shower, 9.5hrs sleep in a proper bed, and a veggie brunch in my slightly neglected little garden, while the first Fleet Foxes album plays on the turntable.

One of the deliveries awaiting me when I came home contained this. I’m pretty sure I didn’t buy it, in fact I have no recollection of having previously heard of Ryan Martin. Was it a kind gift from someone here? #WeekendSingles. #MusicSky #VinylSky

Just back from 11 days in a field. There have been a few deliveries while I’ve been away 😑 Including one from the splendidly generous @andy-swann.bsky.social This post may feature incipient #WeekendSingles

So, Eengleesh pig dogs*, you want twelf eench seengles for your so-called #12InchTuesday? I geef you mytee twelf eench seengles! *other pig-dogs may also fall in awe at such mytee twelf inchings, and also the corrupt #WeekendSingles running-dogs also very much.

Somebody recommended a music podcast to me this weekend. One episode in, and I’m already adding a Uruguayan psychedelia album to my wants list. 😑

Once again I’m at Adhisthana - and this time I brought my proper camera. Bluesky only lets me post four at a time - there will be rather more on Instagram.

Hi #WeekendSingles and #VinylSky folk I’m at Adhisthana leading a retreat this weekend, but I had a wee look through my pics last night and found this curio, which I thought was worth resharing - Pulp’s Mis-shapes cds, which comes packed as a sewing pattern.

At the Jazz Cafe for the ‘last ever’ Severed Heads gig.

Morning #WeekendSingles gang. I’ve got a busy ol’ July, and I’m off to celebrate an old chum’s 60th, so here are some recent acquisitions to kick off the weekend. I’ve just noticed there’s an inadvertent black & white plus one colour sleeve theme.

I’ve always been very fond of this track - plus the 12” has a fantastic acoustic version This Town on the B side.

Sindy records, cassettes, tape player and ghetto blaster Ghetto blaster won’t lie flat as the there’s a winder on the back which makes the reels on the cassette go round. Sadly no record player in the collection. #VinylSky #WeekendSingles

Trying this again, as I didn’t get much response yesterday #BookSky

Say hello to my brand new T-shirt collection. Find them here gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts Which one’s your favourite?

Looking for some audiobook recommendations. Things I like @davehutchinson.bsky.social’s Europe series @nickharkaway.com esp Gnomon China Mieville @aptshadow.bsky.social esp Children series & Dogs/Bear/Bees @vajra.me Mick Herron Neal Stephenson esp Anathem & Baroque @benaaronovitch.bsky.social