card — day 03 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

I appreciated the recent Mother’s Day card my wife received from our son 😄

flowers — day 02 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

Garden primroses and heather 🌱

toy — day 01 of the micro.blog april 2024 photoblogging challenge 📸

TOY at the Green Man Festival 2014 🎵

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo (29 plays)

Elbow (25)

McCreesh, Gabrieli, Magdalena Kožená, Mark Padmore (20)

pregoblin (13)

Anastasia Kobekina & Kammerorchester Basel (12)

https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Finished reading: Outline by Rachel Cusk 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9780571346769

View from the bedroom window. Woke up to a little unexpected snow this morning ❄️

Napoleon, 2023 - ★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/03/25/napoleon.html

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Krček, Capella Istropolitana (39 plays)

Mary Lou Williams (24)

Kendrick Lamar (21)

Oscar Peterson (8)

Bessie Smith (7)

https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Currently reading: Turning Over the Pebbles by Mike Brearley 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9781408715963

Dark Encounter, 2019 - ★★★½ https://thedimpau.se/2024/03/21/dark-encounter.html

The Highwaymen, 2019 - ★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/03/21/the-highwaymen.html

Finished reading: Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9780571362929

My bread is trying to escape! 🍞

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Handley, RLPO (13 plays)

Arab Strap (2)

Gong (1)

https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Wordle 1,000 🎉 4/6

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Gong and Ozric Tentacles at the sold out and very crowded Globe, Cardiff, Sunday 10th March 2024 📷 🎵

The two bands are doing their Last Joint Tour, jointly headlining and alternating their set orders. Last night at The Globe Ozric Tentacles played first followed by Gong.

Gong

Ozric Tentacles

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Bessie Smith (44 plays)

Kendrick Lamar (19)

Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson & Don Redman (11)

Bessie Smith & Fletcher Henderson (9)

Bessie Smith & Jimmy Jones (8)

https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Two very close, exciting games of Six Nations rugby today. Two unexpected results for Italy 🇮🇹 and England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. A little compensation for this morning’s cricket humiliation! 🏉👏

Watching rugby - Italy 🇮🇹 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland - and drinking a Dead Canary 🍺🏉

https://www.glamorganbrewing.co.uk/our-beers/dead-canary-ipa-keg

Now listening: Any Woman’s Blues - Bessie Smith

Playlist:

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🔗 Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith 📚🎵

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