Kathryn Tickell and her amazing band The Darkness at Cecil Sharp House tonight. ❤️

"If 'Music Has the Right to Children' bathed us in VHS-warped nostalgia, 'Geogaddi' was its darker sibling — troubled, cryptic, less forgiving. The hooks are there, but they don’t comfort. They haunt. They stick without allowing you to hum them." Boards of Canada's 'Geogaddi' —24 years later:

Going to see Rush next year. 40’ish years since the last time. 🙌🏼

What a fantastic record. Loving it. shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Brompton rear tire change. 💪🏼

A lovely evening in the company of Eliza Carthy, Nick Hart, Angeline Morrison, Graham Coxon, Jon Wilks, Gwena Harman and Rowan Gatherer, and Finn Curran-Carthy. Playing the songs of Martin Carthy who sadly is now unable to travel to perform.

Glorious swim day and a chilly but pleasant 8C in the water. Warm in the sun afterwards.

A rare chance at some time able to read properly on a Sunday afternoon.

Soul cleanse

The amazing churches of Pierre Pinsard No 3: Église Notre Dame de la Plaine, Oyonnax Designed 1965. Completed 1970 #PinsardChurch

Nuts in May on BBC FOUR tonight.

Me on Dial-A-Poem in 2024 in NYC.

Don't often eat breakfast out. This was a lovely treat. I should do it more ofte.

“This morning I discovered the newborn year on my doorstep, begging to be welcomed into the house. I hesitated a moment for fear of what might come in its wake. But it continued to plead until I picked it up, not out of pity, but because I had to.” (‘Autobiographies: A Year in Llŷn’)

What a glorious day for the final swim of the year. Wonderful stuff!

Bardot was a deeply unpleasant misanthrope for decades. Its almost proverbial in France. Makes all the weepy profiles baffling to be honest. I don't think she was a beloved celebrity, more a notorious weirdo.

Watched Stalker FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. Having got the Criterion Blu Ray for Christmas. W loved it.

Hackney marshes and Lea Valley long walk. Lovely.

Chilly swim at the pond. The Heath was quieter than I expected.

Merry Christmas everyone. Wishing you all good health and happiness xx

If you haven't already fallen down a @peteralanross.bsky.social sized sinkwell of wonder and imagination, do yersel a favour. Take some time out this Sunday. The bastard writes like a feverdream.

Avebury Series No. 4 (1973) by Derek Jarman.

I'm sorry, but 'yer da shouts at hotels' is the best sticker ever made

This is a great thread 👇🏼

LIVID at the City of London’s decision to boot out the existing café owners, some of whom have been there over 40 years, and replace them with Daisy “we are not a chain, but a group of independent cafés owned by the same company with the word Green in our name, serving the same £20 burgers” Green

I'm really cross about this. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/city...

An absolutely brilliant read, by Kate Mossman, on a plane crash that never was. Features Bryan Ferry being extraordinarily calm. www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...?

This 👇🏼

Indeed. No-one does. Marvellous.

Glorious swim up at the pond. Sunny, no wind. Cormorant's soaking in the rays on the bouys.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to: Sun Ra Fela Kuti Hüsker Dü Charles Aznavour Schooly D

Well well how about this. arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Finally made it back in the water after four weeks of lurgy and an enforced rest. Glorious day at the pond! Its suddenly got cold too. 6.5C

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

Good God. What the!

Made a cherry and plum vanilla tart. Very tasty.

Wonderful wonderful news @andrewmale.bsky.social. Congratulations to you both!

Orbs of Joy in the oven for later. Red onions, duck fat and chicken stock, braised for an hour. Thanks Fergus H 😋

It's good to see more and more peeps shitcanning the dreadful Spotify and moving to Tidal.

Autumn Hip Hop playlist on Tidal by @andrewmale.bsky.social. The all-timer Liquid Swords served first up of course. Thanks Andrew 👍🏼

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

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a GIF.

Quote with your favourite film and album* from the year you were born

A two- week cold and bad chest, another no swim weekend and I'm on a course next weekend. It'll be a shock when I finally get back in the water in two weeks.

Psyched to announce my new novel, Boyhood, coming April 2026 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social geni.us/Boyhood

Full of a cold, so no swimming today. Instead, a very slow cooked bolognese listening to @backlisted.bsky.social then marking some third-year theory essays.

Lovely autumn swim earlier. W has a rare Sunday off so we had moules et frites and pale ales for lunch. ❤️

Missed you the last weekend. What a glorious day and a nice bite to the water temps.

Swimming in the drizzle to the live sounds of the Jazzberries performing at the annual tea-party.