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The Water Lilies

Finished reading: Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

Very interesting and enjoyable visit to and tour of Llanerch Vineyard, Vale of Glamorgan yesterday for wine tasting and lunch 🍷

Wine was sampled!

Red

White

Guardian of the Grape

Vines & Poplars

Location check in 🗺 — Llanerch Vineyard 🍷

@dwalbert Got to get the presentation right 😊

Favourite breakfast again 🥯

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

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (20 plays)
Furtwängler, VPO (17)
Radiohead (14)
Oasis (12)
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott (11)

Levels of processing.

Halide’s Process Zero

and NordStudio’s Wes Anderson - Inspired

Also posted on Glass 📸

Joe Root hits a record 34th Test century for England. A century in both innings. England v Sri Lanka, second Test, Lord’s 👏🏏

I may have made some dodgy choices. Sitting in the garden on a warm but cloudy afternoon, listening to cricket, drinking Prosecco and snacking on Scampi Fries 🍤

Currently reading: Techno-Feudalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

Thursday night tapas at Bar 44, Cardiff

Cardiff gull

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

Laf (22 plays)
Lotte Betts-Dean & James Girling (13)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (12)
Sean Khan & The Modern Jazz & Folk Ensemble (8)
Lotte Betts-Dean & Ligeti Quartet (7)

England in a tense run-chase against Sri Lanka in the first Test of the three match series 🏏 and Villa playing Arsenal at home ⚽

Currently reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 📚

The Village Inn, Pontprennau. An hour or so of time to kill 🍺

@Gabz Definitely! Going back a bit now, but my first cassettes were Blondie’s Plastic Letters and Ian Dury’s Do It Yourself. Probably 1979. I became a big fan of cassette in preference to vinyl throughout my student years 🤷‍♂️

@maique I really like the look of the images so keep posting! Going to have to take a peek at the preset 👀😊

@odd Unfortunately not! I was there for all of last week and left early morning Friday, the day after he arrived 😕

@maique My father-in-law went on one yesterday but didn’t use the slide 😂 And my nephews and son were jumping off the cliffs this afternoon from the side you took the photo from. Coincidences!

@maique We had a great time! Four elderly relatives with us so there were limits as to what we could do, but enjoyed good food, sea and sand 😁

@maique And that cove looks incredibly like Cala en Bosc, where we’ve been staying!

@maique Enjoy Menorca 🇪🇸

We’ve just spent a week here on a big family holiday (14 of us!) - leaving tomorrow morning 😢

@antonzuiker Some big fans out there - of football and Wikipedia!

@Burk And we learn that most people pick prime numbers!?

@pratik 🤣

@pratik They managed it 🫤

@pratik Definitely! I think South Africa will struggle to reach that total.

@toddgrotenhuis I think you need to go to the Threads.net Settings -> Account -> Website Permissions and accept the Micro.blog Invitation.

That cleared the error for me.

@manton Would like to try cross-posting - my Threads username is thedimpause

@odd I heard a radio program mention the book last week and wanted to read it. Have also been watching some YouTube music videos 😊

@pratik Really good match - I was glued to it until the end!

@Munish But the rain has returned with a vengeance 😔

@JimRain Superb! I learnt a lot about Aneurin Bevan that I did't know and really enjoyed the production and the performances of the cast.

@Gabz Cheers 🍻

@writingslowly What electoral fraud? And any evidence of fraud that I have seen mentioned with any evidence has been related to postal voting rather than in person.

A total of 9 cases of alleged personation fraud were recorded by police forces in 2023.

(that was 2 in person, 6 postal and 1 proxy)

@odd No, not for us, now all voters definitely need a valid form of photo ID for most UK elections.

@ridwan Yes, me too. I'm sure the turnout for these local elections would be disappointingly low, even without any extra barriers to the ease of voting 🤔

@adam Definitely should have kept hold of the land rights!

@numericcitizen I've used the ApolloOne image viewer for this sort of thing. But only the free version - it also has two subscription tiers and reasonable perpetual licenses, plus a free 14 day Pro trial. I've not needed it enough to buy the full version 🤷‍♂️