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XL ๐บ
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The Water Lilies
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Finished reading: Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis ๐
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Very interesting and enjoyable visit to and tour of Llanerch Vineyard, Vale of Glamorgan yesterday for wine tasting and lunch ๐ท
Wine was sampled!
Red
White
Guardian of the Grape
Vines & Poplars
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Location check in ๐บ โ Llanerch Vineyard ๐ท
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@dwalbert Got to get the presentation right ๐
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Favourite breakfast again ๐ฅฏ
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๐ต My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (20 plays)
Furtwรคngler, VPO (17)
Radiohead (14)
Oasis (12)
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott (11)
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Levels of processing.
Halideโs Process Zero
and NordStudioโs Wes Anderson - Inspired
Also posted on Glass ๐ธ
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Joe Root hits a record 34th Test century for England. A century in both innings. England v Sri Lanka, second Test, Lordโs ๐๐
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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 ๐ค
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Currently reading: Techno-Feudalism by Yanis Varoufakis ๐
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Thursday night tapas at Bar 44, Cardiff
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Cardiff gull
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๐ต 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)
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England in a tense run-chase against Sri Lanka in the first Test of the three match series ๐ and Villa playing Arsenal at home โฝ
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Currently reading: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ๐
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The Village Inn, Pontprennau. An hour or so of time to kill ๐บ
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@Gabz Definitely! Going back a bit now, but my first cassettes were Blondieโs Plastic Letters and Ian Duryโs Do It Yourself. Probably 1979. I became a big fan of cassette in preference to vinyl throughout my student years ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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@maique I really like the look of the images so keep posting! Going to have to take a peek at the preset ๐๐
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@odd Unfortunately not! I was there for all of last week and left early morning Friday, the day after he arrived ๐
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@maique My father-in-law went on one yesterday but didnโt use the slide ๐ And my nephews and son were jumping off the cliffs this afternoon from the side you took the photo from. Coincidences!
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@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 ๐
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@maique And that cove looks incredibly like Cala en Bosc, where weโve been staying!
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@maique Enjoy Menorca ๐ช๐ธ
Weโve just spent a week here on a big family holiday (14 of us!) - leaving tomorrow morning ๐ข
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@antonzuiker Some big fans out there - of football and Wikipedia!
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@Burk And we learn that most people pick prime numbers!?
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@pratik ๐คฃ
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@pratik They managed it ๐ซค
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@pratik Definitely! I think South Africa will struggle to reach that total.
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@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.
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@manton Would like to try cross-posting - my Threads username is thedimpause
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@odd I heard a radio program mention the book last week and wanted to read it. Have also been watching some YouTube music videos ๐
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@pratik Really good match - I was glued to it until the end!
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@Munish But the rain has returned with a vengeance ๐
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@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.
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@Gabz Cheers ๐ป
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@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)
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@odd No, not for us, now all voters definitely need a valid form of photo ID for most UK elections.
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@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 ๐ค
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@adam Definitely should have kept hold of the land rights!
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@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 ๐คทโโ๏ธ