Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781399726368

Currently reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781399726368

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Blur (69 plays), Carolyn Sampson; Bach Collegium Japan Chorus; Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki; Olivia Vermeulen; Makoto Sakurada; Christian Immler (13), Callum Allardice (7), Carolyn Sampson; Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki (5), Jorge Bolet (5) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Film log - watched: The Commitments, 1991 - ★★★★½ - Letterboxd link 🎥 ?v=9bbf90c7f6 https://letterboxd.com/thedimpause/film/the-commitments/

Sophia Gardens. 📍

Drinking a pint of Glamorgan Brewing Co 1888 Pale Ale whilst watching Glamorgan v Derbyshire at Sophia Gardens 🏏🍺🌞 http://maps.apple.com/?ll=51.487366,-3.191928

Finished reading: Scarpia by Piers Paul Read 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781408867525

Film log - watched: Flintoff, 2025 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥 ?v=d2ae1f6454 https://letterboxd.com/thedimpause/film/flintoff/

Film log - watched: Living, 2022 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥 ?v=36ad89e0a1 https://letterboxd.com/thedimpause/film/living-2022/

Currently reading: Scarpia by Piers Paul Read 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781408867525

Finished reading: What Remains by Hannah Arendt 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781324090526

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Kinks (36 plays), Jeremy Pelt (17), Stacey Kent (15), Carolyn Sampson; Bach Collegium Japan Chorus; Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki; Olivia Vermeulen; Makoto Sakurada; Christian Immler (13), Leif Ove Andsnes (13) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

Aston Villa last won the FA Cup in 1957 ⚽️

Saturday afternoon - a prawn curry, a pint of Old Peculier 🍺 and watching 📺 Crystal Palace v Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley ⚽️

Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome 🔗

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🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Leif Ove Andsnes (24 plays), Roger Waters (22), Lankum (13), Leif Ove Andsnes, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir & Grete Pedersen (12), Babyshambles (6)

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Film log - watched: Gladiator II, 2024 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥 ?v=0fb2edf525 https://letterboxd.com/thedimpause/film/gladiator-ii/

Birthday lunch at The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd - oven roasted miso cod, wild rice, red pepper & gochujang puree and a kimchi fritter. And a bowl of chips 😊

Also a Weird Dad porter 🍺 https://weirddad.co.uk/

Film log - watched: Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity, 2025 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥 ?v=f383aa095e https://letterboxd.com/thedimpause/film/black-mirror-uss-callister-into-infinity/

My daughter’s birthday today. We were with a mixed clientele in the pub.

The Grace. 📍

Some wax clearance needed 🕯️ http://maps.apple.com/?ll=51.475193,-2.590818