🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18 plays), Lily Allen (14), Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble (7), John Coltrane (5), Mitropoulos (4) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk
Location check in — The World’s End, Camden. Pint of London Black.🗺 Map of area https://maps.apple.com/?q=51.539256,-0.142426&ll=51.539256,-0.142426 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.53925550505802/-0.1424256252041406
Location check in — Andy’s Greek Taverna, Camden 🇬🇷 🗺 Map of area https://maps.apple.com/?q=51.537670,-0.139861&ll=51.537670,-0.139861 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.53767025537785/-0.1398610195942659
Location check in — Freud Museum, London🗺 Map of area https://maps.apple.com/?q=51.548335,-0.177220&ll=51.548335,-0.177220 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.54833510765581/-0.1772195059992755
From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance www.theguardian.com/science/2… 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/03/from-iron-age-tunnels-to-youtube-time-teams-extraordinary-digital-renaissance
Watched: Oh. What. Fun., 2025 - ★★½ 🎥
My compulsory Xmas movie 😊 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1261825
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Thomas Dunford, Jupiter Ensemble & Lea Desandre (54 plays), Big Special (26), Neil Young (11), Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble (7), CMAT (3) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk
Xmas dinner from start to end today 🎅
A lot for two but with visitors tonight and tomorrow in mind 😊
Prawn moilee, matter paneer, black daal, rice and roti. 
Seventh straight Premiership win for Aston Villa - against Manchester United. Two great goals for Morgan Rogers 🦁⚽️
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Unthanks (10 plays)
A bit of a lack of scrobbled music 😄 https://www.last.fm/user/nntk
Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/652
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk
BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎵
Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elizaveta Ivanova, flute
Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from) 
BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎵
Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elizaveta Ivanova, flute
Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)
Watching my nephew (red skull cap) playing rugby in the Principality Stadium - Road to Principality: Schools and Dewar Shield Finals Day 🏉
Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷 
Watched: The Roses, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1267905
Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/511809
Jalfrezi 🌶️
Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns 
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), The Utopia Strong (14), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (12), Petrenko, Vasily (3)
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Now going to listen to a couple of cricket podcasts, which is going to depress the mood. The episode title of the first is Darkness Descends 🙉
Watching the second half after catching up with an hour’s sleep. At least Villa v Arsenal is a good, competitive game. A goal apiece at the moment ⚽️
Disappointing Ashes 🏏 viewing this morning, dare I watch Aston Villa v Arsenal ⚽️ ?
The football World Cup 2026 Draw is on TV now for 2 hours 😮⚽️
🔗 Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating ♟️
"Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status." https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/05/three-year-old-chess-prodigy-youngest-official-rating-sarwagya-singh-kushwaha
All action in the first overs. Mitchell Starc is England’s nemesis 🏏
The Ashes, 2nd Test at The Gabba 🏏
Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃 
Greek salad in a freshly baked loaf of bread was really good 😊 
Film log - watched: Elgar: Portrait of a Composer, 1962 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥 
?v=c3b5d97d0c https://letterboxd.com/thedimpause/film/elgar-portrait-of-a-composer/
Tom Norton, on his Glamorgan debut, bowling to Peter Handscomb, having already dismissed Shan Masood as his maiden wicket 🏏 
New candidate for my favourite whisky 🥃
Bunnahabhain 2013 Staoisha
Aged 11 years
Matured in 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butts 
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Manon Mullener (21 plays), Thomas Adès & Ian Bostridge (20), Thomas Adès (19), Van Morrison (14), Carla Torgerson (9) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk
An invaluable article but I’m disappointed that Tesco Finest Lightly Salted Crisps aren’t included. My favourite 😊
🔗 ‘Serve me these with an aperitivo immediately’: the best supermarket salted crisps, rated by Felicity Cloak
"A good crisp should be dangerously moreish – but which were perfectly seasoned and crunchy, and which weren’t worth their salt?" https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/aug/02/best-supermarket-salted-crisps-taste-test-felicity-cloake
UEFA Women’s Euro - Semi-finals - England equalise 5 minutes into added time to make it England 🏴 1-1 🇮🇹 Italy. Cutting it fine. Another half hour then! ⚽️
Sophia Gardens. 📍
Sophia Gardens for County Championship, Day 1 of Glamorgan v Kent 🏏
Asitha Fernando bowling to Jayden Denly. 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.487366&mlon=-3.191928
Sweden 🇸🇪 2-2 🏴 England after extra time. Penalties ⚽️
Jofra Archer bowls Pant! Great delivery, vital wicket 🏏