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ian mason - @thedimpause in many places - blog at thedimpau.se 🌥️⏳ - more info at https://ianmason.me ℹ️

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2026-03-01 07:21:58 UTC

‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier? 🔗
"An old Dutch ritual of going outside to watch the coming of night – or dusking – is having a revival across Europe. Fans of the practice say it’s a great way to disconnect from screens and find peace"
www.theguardian.com/lifeandst… https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/6248.jpg https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/01/could-daily-dusking-make-us-healthier-and-happier

2026-01-14 17:35:39 UTC

Finished reading: Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket by Stefan Szymanski and Tim Wigmore 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781472992734

2026-01-13 12:53:23 UTC

Finished reading: An Instance Of The Fingerpost by Iain Pears 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781409058076

2026-01-12 22:30:52 UTC

Watched: Marty Supreme, 2025 - ★★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1317288

2026-01-11 10:07:47 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Dove Ellis (10 plays), Mitropoulos (10), Goose (9), Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano (1), Collins, Swedish Chamber Orchestra (1) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2026-01-11 00:30:07 UTC

Watched: Blink Twice, 2024 - ★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/840705

2026-01-09 13:52:25 UTC

Listening and watching in 2025 https://thedimpau.se/2026/01/09/listening-and-watching-in.html

2026-01-08 16:24:45 UTC

Watched: F1, 2025 - ★★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/911430

2026-01-07 21:14:07 UTC

More photos accompanying my last two posts are available at https://thedimpau.se

2026-01-07 17:32:47 UTC

The Fire Doors
The Dublin Castle, Camden
Small venue, sold out and pretty packed
🔗 They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?
Saturday 3rd January 2026 🎵 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/8f0d5be9-c766-4c64-8efe-af88a3107638.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/64af51a3-35d0-410d-a889-abda8debc09e.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/81640dab-6266-4a1c-be1a-e8298287e880.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/af2ce555-cf3f-4ab2-8dff-46b3bce84737.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/e79b10db-5863-48f0-b012-0c9c6c4a822c.jpg https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/19/theyre-among-the-best-in-british-indie-so-why-have-field-music-become-a-doors-cover-band

2026-01-07 13:55:32 UTC

Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens, London
"The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst."
Visited Saturday 3rd January 2026 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/80fe5649-a8ea-4b6f-8968-ff4860819b4d-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/351d979e-ed59-4da5-a55d-d1ccba92df53-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/e9bfdd50-bd6d-4a0b-ae06-374c9d2a6540-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/cca9c2bd-90d2-4310-a21d-5546a84693a5-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/1680b7e8-2efb-4c31-87a4-171657338d6b-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/29dbf8a5-23b3-45b2-bd10-6f9132815d23-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/943fe975-7e12-46a1-bf68-59fc7fe451d8-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/9add3c4e-b65c-465a-9f8d-72dc9f212b84-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/489bd51c-60f1-4aa0-b2d2-11668c5c4e84-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/7e06d060-c7e3-419e-bdab-b2511d018742-m.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/1667df26-0499-4d03-b013-25d39bbf3b4a-m.jpg

2026-01-07 10:35:37 UTC

Currently reading: The Odyssey by Homer 📚
About to start Book 6 of The Odyssey. Progressing - at a fairly slow pace that suits me 😄 - alongside the Instant Classics Podcast Book Club episodes. Emily Wilson’s translation is a pleasure to read.
"Tell me about a complicated man." https://micro.blog/books/9780393356250 https://www.instantclassicspod.com

2026-01-06 22:50:01 UTC

Watched: Pluribus Season 1 📺 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/225171/season/1

2026-01-04 09:16:30 UTC

🎵 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

2026-01-03 23:16:53 UTC

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

2026-01-03 19:01:32 UTC

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

2026-01-03 12:43:43 UTC

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

2026-01-03 08:53:24 UTC

From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance www.theguardian.com/science/2… https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2026/2060.jpg https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/03/from-iron-age-tunnels-to-youtube-time-teams-extraordinary-digital-renaissance

2025-12-30 20:00:56 UTC

Watched: Oh. What. Fun., 2025 - ★★½ 🎥
My compulsory Xmas movie 😊 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1261825

2025-12-28 09:47:06 UTC

🎵 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

2025-12-25 15:54:18 UTC

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. https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/515c2370-cc9e-4a09-93bc-9655940500a8.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/d72af261-f548-443a-938f-aede119b325e.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/43099b5e-a493-4e2e-8162-2fda3b934f0e.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/2e65751e-0a06-442c-b0cb-a729576bb57a.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/2cada0cd-0847-49c3-a3d8-3e032a6e4924.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/a9a7b25e-4327-4ae8-975b-9c0fecec35a0.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/edd488dc-6f1d-42c9-a795-f1520be3243d.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/36689751-dda2-48fa-ab64-8f3ae4845a58.jpg

2025-12-21 18:52:32 UTC

Seventh straight Premiership win for Aston Villa - against Manchester United. Two great goals for Morgan Rogers 🦁⚽️

2025-12-21 08:35:35 UTC

🎵 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

2025-12-17 16:59:48 UTC

Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/652

2025-12-14 07:39:28 UTC

🎵 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

2025-12-11 20:31:07 UTC

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) https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/43e62e1c-31c6-45c2-bfa4-5e9c00f0008e.jpg

2025-12-11 20:30:39 UTC

2025-12-11 18:40:20 UTC

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 🍷 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/9ceae284-abdb-4843-8d68-df38e86e409a.jpg

2025-12-09 22:07:01 UTC

Watched: The Roses, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1267905

2025-12-07 19:44:39 UTC

Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/511809

2025-12-07 06:41:31 UTC

Jalfrezi 🌶️
Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/1ee89f1f-d347-452b-802a-ead0d319b1e5.jpg

2025-12-07 06:26:53 UTC

🎵 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)
embed.music.apple.com/... https://www.last.fm/user/nntk https://embed.music.apple.com/gb/album/national-average/1817130240?theme=auto

2025-12-06 14:30:09 UTC

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 🙉

2025-12-06 14:27:47 UTC

Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game 👏⚽️

2025-12-06 14:00:39 UTC

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 ⚽️

2025-12-06 11:41:43 UTC

Disappointing Ashes 🏏 viewing this morning, dare I watch Aston Villa v Arsenal ⚽️ ?

2025-12-05 17:11:50 UTC

The football World Cup 2026 Draw is on TV now for 2 hours 😮⚽️

2025-12-05 04:24:13 UTC

🔗 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

2025-12-04 04:28:20 UTC

All action in the first overs. Mitchell Starc is England’s nemesis 🏏

2025-12-04 04:07:48 UTC

The Ashes, 2nd Test at The Gabba 🏏
Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/cb68d31b-b128-4bf2-ac5b-e13e9ca44242.jpg

2025-12-03 21:33:54 UTC

Another exciting Premier League match tonight. Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa ⚽️
Villa, after being 2 goals down, then 2 goals up, survive a late Brighton resurgence 👏

2025-12-02 21:15:02 UTC

Fulham v Manchester City match tonight is very eventful ⚽️

2025-12-02 16:11:35 UTC

Watched: It’s What’s Inside, 2024 - ★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1052280

2025-11-30 09:43:48 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), George Xiaoyuan Fu (19), The Utopia Strong (17), sombr (12), Primal Scream (11) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2025-11-29 15:49:37 UTC

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa 🏉
Slightly amusing 🫤 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/e908a9e4-0f01-460e-a578-0b0a6b5f7daf.jpg

2025-11-25 19:43:18 UTC

At the Donald Gordon Theatre to see To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Richard Coyle as Atticus Finch

2025-11-25 19:36:32 UTC

Location check in — Wales Millennium Centre 🎭 🗺 Map of area https://maps.apple.com/?q=51.464838,-3.164053&ll=51.464838,-3.164053 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.4648378856334/-3.164053168190359

2025-11-23 19:30:12 UTC

Watched: The Fantastic 4: First Steps, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/617126

2025-11-23 09:18:04 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Deathline (22 plays), Fretwork & Silas Wollston (22), Primal Scream (19), Mitropoulos (11), Misconstruity (10) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2025-11-22 09:11:18 UTC

Century for Travis Head off 69 balls 👏👏👏🏏
Australia running away with this at a rapid pace.
Probably no early wake up tomorrow!

2025-11-22 07:11:48 UTC

England innings quickly over again. Tea taken. Australia set a target of 205 to win the first Test. A lot now down to the England bowlers 🏏

2025-11-22 03:13:06 UTC

I need another coffee ☕️

2025-11-22 03:08:26 UTC

Shockingly it’s happening again. Crawley out for a pair from Starc’s 5th ball of the first over 🏏

2025-11-22 02:22:10 UTC

The Ashes 2025/26, first Test, day two. Play starting 👏🏏

2025-11-21 17:44:01 UTC

Watched: Malice Season 1 📺
David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall ✔️ https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/244416/season/1

2025-11-21 09:59:16 UTC

The Ashes 2025/26 first Test. Day One Stumps 🏏
Well that was an all-action day of Ashes cricket. 19 wickets and 295 runs. This is not going to be a five day match.
England 172ao. Australia have lost nine wickets and still trail by 49 runs.

Andy Zaltzman - Test Match Special statistician:
"This is the most wickets taken in a day of an Ashes Test since the Old Trafford Test of 1909 where both teams were all out in the same day."

2025-11-21 02:17:25 UTC

Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
First Test 🏏
Successfully woken up at 2am 😅 National anthems underway …

2025-11-19 17:03:31 UTC

Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1E1, Strange New Worlds 📺
Season 1 finally available on a streaming service I have access to (ITVX in the UK) 😊
I enjoyed the first episode! https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/103516/season/1/episode/1

2025-11-16 07:40:25 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sleaford Mods (52 plays), Big Special (41), Devendra Banhart (23), Baxter Dury (20), Claude Debussy (19) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2025-11-15 17:17:14 UTC

Great result, the match flew by! 🏉
England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 33-19 🇳🇿 New Zealand
England’s last victory against the All Blacks was in 2019, their last victory in England in 2012 at Twickenham.

2025-11-14 16:57:31 UTC

Excess power ⚡️ https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/14/excess-power.html

2025-11-14 15:02:08 UTC

Experiencing Storm Claudia in Stratford. It’s wet outside. Spending the whole afternoon in The White Swan bar - Fuller’s beer, wine, chips and some reading 📚☔️😊 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/677cf299-0378-4b47-b9fd-dead907a0979.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/f2eb5142-a91d-451e-b9ee-47b131124574.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/bd3d31c4-3c79-4a7a-ace2-86772694c9e5.jpg

2025-11-13 18:45:41 UTC

Location check in — At the RSC Swan Theatre to see Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, starring Adrian Lester 🎭🗺 Map of area https://maps.apple.com/?q=52.190456,-1.704638&ll=52.190456,-1.704638 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.19045552690466/-1.704638437955654

2025-11-13 17:13:21 UTC

Complimentary Shakespeare Distillery Stratford Dry gin in our hotel room 😀
"Tudor Garden inspired British Gin" https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/616eb70c-7de9-4c76-a8fd-ca957a5df6da.jpg

2025-11-13 17:06:02 UTC

Location check in — White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon🗺 Map of area https://maps.apple.com/?q=52.193557,-1.709535&ll=52.193557,-1.709535 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.19355717137221/-1.709535338064139

2025-11-13 11:44:17 UTC

Follow the Storm 🍺 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/l3bvc3qvnmnhzjiwntytngzkmi00yte3ltg5ymitzjuxndi1yzmzzwe3l3bob3rv.jpg https://glass.photo/thedimpause/6mgy5MA0l63MNpdksQlKH8

2025-11-12 17:08:51 UTC

Watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - ★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/291805

2025-11-12 10:35:30 UTC

Tree cutting https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/12/tree-cutting.html

2025-11-11 16:49:27 UTC

Watched: Now You See Me, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/75656

2025-11-10 22:57:25 UTC

Watched: The Running Man, 1987 - ★★★ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/865

2025-11-09 09:27:31 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Baxter Dury (25 plays), The Doors (19), Florence + the Machine (16), Bob Dylan (14), Kate Bush (13) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2025-11-07 18:07:38 UTC

Watched: The Test S2E1, Own Your Own Space 📺
I watched the documentary series The Test when it was released in 2020. I didn’t realise until today that there have been two subsequent series made, which were released in 2023 and 2024 (although each has fewer episodes than the first). Started watching Series... thedimpau.se https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/07/watched-the-test-se-own.html

2025-11-05 18:05:22 UTC

Watched: The Narrow Road to the Deep North 📺
Superb book by Richard Flanagan, impressive adaptation for television. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/238339/season/1

2025-11-03 16:05:04 UTC

Watched: Zero Dark Thirty, 2012 - ★★★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/97630

2025-11-02 18:34:38 UTC

India win the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 👏 🏏

2025-11-02 15:28:19 UTC

South Africa, batting second, starting their innings, chasing a total of 299 to win 🏏

2025-11-02 08:57:52 UTC

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Final 2025 🏆
India Women 🇮🇳 v 🇿🇦 South Africa Women
Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai, 09:30 GMT
"For the first time in 25 years, a new name will be inscribed on the Women’s World Cup trophy"
🏏

2025-11-02 07:58:00 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Serebrier, Russian National Orchestra, Yang, Romanovsky, Chisson, Serov, Barton-Pine (28 plays), Fretwork & Silas Wollston (22), The Unthanks (22), George Xiaoyuan Fu (20), Electric Light Orchestra (18) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2025-11-01 19:31:15 UTC

Very weird version of Radiohead’s Creep on Strictly. Fantastic dance too 👏 🎵

2025-11-01 19:28:07 UTC

Strictly Halloween Special 💃🎃
Two excellent cheeses and great Italian red wine 🧀🍷 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/ff154c67-f241-40a6-b9c8-a2830edc620f.jpg

2025-10-31 15:06:29 UTC

Grim Halloween weather this afternoon - gloomy with wind and rain - so I’ve watched The Haunting 🎃👻🏚️

2025-10-31 14:46:42 UTC

Watched: The Haunting, 1963 - ★★★★ 🎥
"[…] in the night, in the dark." https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11772

2025-10-30 17:18:02 UTC

India beat Australia and get to the World Cup Final 👏 🏏
That was a fantastic match. India score 341-5 from 48.3 overs, a record run chase in women’s ODI cricket.
Jemimah Rodrigues finished not out on 127.

2025-10-30 16:49:12 UTC

Really exciting World Cup semi-final between India and Australia. 10 overs to go and the result is far from certain 🏏

2025-10-30 09:33:05 UTC

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup
2nd semi-final: India 🇮🇳 v 🇦🇺 Australia
Australia won the toss and chose to bat first 🏏

2025-10-29 16:11:03 UTC

World Cup semi-final: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa
South Africa dominant, victorious and through to the World Cup Final. England, chasing 320, all out for 194 after 42.3 overs 🏏

2025-10-29 14:58:12 UTC

Finished reading: Introduction to Buddhism and the Practice of Zazen: The Teachings of Gudo Nishijima Roshi by Michael Luetchford 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9798849276120

2025-10-29 12:54:54 UTC

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025
First semi-final: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa
South Africa, batting first, have scored 319-7, including a brilliant 169 from their captain Laura Wolvaardt 🏏

2025-10-28 19:10:25 UTC

Watched: Thunderbolts*, 2025 - ★★½ 🎥 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/986056

2025-10-26 16:03:35 UTC

Some great Villa defending in the second half and nice goal by Matty Cash in the first. Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City. Good game 👏 ⚽️

2025-10-26 14:40:30 UTC

Viewing Micro.blog conversation threads in Tapestry is really useful and convenient.
Thank you @iconfactory 👏 https://usetapestry.com/ https://micro.blog/iconfactory

2025-10-26 07:31:26 UTC

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sprints (22 plays), Gary Kemp (20), George Xiaoyuan Fu (14), Miles Davis (11), Cate Le Bon (10) https://www.last.fm/user/nntk

2025-10-25 18:08:46 UTC

Strictly 💃 & Pizza 🍕
Mine was tuna, black olive, caper and jalapeño. With Chianti 🍷 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/26d8b855-dda7-4953-b941-73f4f1f1ede5.jpg

2025-10-25 16:09:17 UTC

Watched: A House of Dynamite, 2025 - ★★★★★ 🎥
Brilliant. A tense two hours flew by. https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/1/7/2/7/8/7/1172787-a-house-of-dynamite-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg?v=9013364dac https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1290159

2025-10-24 11:49:36 UTC

Watched: Drag Me to Hell, 2009 - ★★★★ 🎥
Warming up for Halloween with stylish, old-school horror 🎃 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16871

2025-10-22 18:08:47 UTC

Watched: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, 2023 - ★★★½ 🎥 https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/8/5/3/3/7/8/853378-the-last-kingdom-seven-kings-must-die-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg?v=74ae569bab https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/948713

2025-10-22 14:37:41 UTC

Watched: The Last Kingdom 📺
It’s taken me nearly two years to work my way through all five seasons of The Last Kingdom (set in the 9th century British Isles). Enjoyed them all but my interest did wane slightly after the death of Alfred the Great. I still wanted to finish the storyline though.
To quote The Guardian review from 2015:
"This is not a smaller-scale, less sexy, British Game of Thrones – it’s proper historical drama, and it’s a ton of fun"
The film The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is next 👀 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/63333/season/5 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/23/last-kingdom-vikings-game-of-thrones

2025-10-21 10:41:32 UTC

Retailing 🛍️ https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/l3bvc3qvnzu4mwq5nmutnjzmns00mdk4lwjlzjktotbmnti4zddknmyxl3bob3rv.jpg https://glass.photo/thedimpause/236ic9FVWzGIC5eku0tP32

2025-10-19 17:44:05 UTC

That worked quite well for a first attempt. Slightly soggy bottom my only criticism 😁
Served with garlic roast potatoes, some soy glazed broccoli and samphire. Sunday dinner sorted! https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/ea8dcc12-902d-4939-9f2c-fceb06b8d7ee.jpg https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/9437d708-9ce6-4eeb-a1f2-9087343132db.jpg

2025-10-19 15:32:22 UTC

I have constructed a salmon Wellington. To be baked shortly 🐟 https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/775/2025/93f79237-9399-477f-9c76-5b4766596556.jpg