Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 9/20

Tom Verlaine died 28 January 2023.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 8/20

Telephone box and post box in Angus.

You know how it is, nip out for bread come back with a book. #booksky

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 7/20

Johnny Marr on Eddie Van Halen: “The main thing I remember is [Eddie] started smiling the widest smile I’ve ever seen, and he never stopped smiling all the way through it…. He was laughing, and it was as if he was like, ‘wow, check out how awesome I am! Are these my fingers? I’m amazing!’"

Paul Newman. Born this day 1925.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 6/20

Buenos Aires, 1971.

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Jutta Koether, Frontage (Well, Show Me Nothing) 1994.

“Football is the ballet of the masses.” — Dmitri Shostakovich. Hmm. I went to see a ballet for the first time today. I have to say, it wasn't as good as Barcelona 2-0 Atlético Madrid 2019. But a lot better than Swansea 1-0 QPR every other year for what seems like a decade.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 4/20

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Acquires Archive of Tom Verlaine. www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...

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Brook burst its banks.

Flash flooding in Aberdeenshire/Angus.

Karpov in 1969 #chess

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 2/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music 1/20

David Lynch. Born this day 1946.

Light reading this morning before work #Karpov #booksky #chess

Another one of sunrise at Arbuthnott Church, Aberdeenshire.

Arbuthnott Church, Aberdeenshire, at daybreak.

Daybreak Bervie Water, Aberdeenshire.

Sunrise at Arbuthnott Church, Aberdeenshire.

Pep Guardiola.

Judging books by covers. I don't think this one has ever been bettered. #booksky

HMS Unicorn. Dundee. A 46-gun frigate built in Chatham in 1824.

I'm officially middle-aged. I bought an alder tree. #plantsky

Michel Platini.

Muhammad Ali.

16 January 1909. Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.

Glenbervie Parish Church. Drumlithie. Aberdeenshire.

György Ligeti. Listening to Études II. My son just asked me if we can switch it off.

Robert the Bruce. Stirling Castle.

Apple Tree Court. Salford. Photo by Professor Richard Brook of Lancaster University.

Kurt Gödel.

Faye Dunaway.

Encapsulates how I view my kids and being their dad. "And I’ll find you when the lights are blinding, And you can’t get home." —Johnny Marr www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNUg...

Brook Street, Broughty Ferry.

The Who. Heat Wave. 1965. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt-L...

Bill Shankly. Liverpool.

Chris Bell, born 12 January 1951. "Every night I tell myself I am the cosmos"

Another shot of Forter Castle, Glenisla, Perthshire, Scotland.