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As Churchill would have probably said if he’d worked in IT

“Anyone can reverse ferret, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-reverse ferret.”

I was thinking about last week’s Mastodon #JukeboxFridayNight subject, which was #OtherLands, and it crossed my mind how lucky I am to be able to hear music from around the world.

My grandparents' generation would have grown up only really hearing hymns and English folk music and pub songs

I like all that music, but I’m grateful to be able to hear music from the Americas, and Europe, etc.

My Grandad would, possibly, only have been exposed to any of that when he went off to war

I was thinking about last week’s Mastodon #JukeboxFridayNight subject, which was #OtherLands, and it crossed my mind how lucky I am to be able to hear music from around the world.

My grandparents' generation would have grown up only really hearing hymns and English folk music and pub songs

I like all that music, but I’m grateful to be able to hear music from the Americas, and Europe, etc.

My Grandad would, possibly, only have been exposed to any of that when he went off to war

“One day I’ll tell them all about their grandad, and what happened to them, but just not yet”. A very sad line from Patrick Kielty’s stand-up show on the BBC…but the rest is very funny. Information, education and entertainment in every line.

If you’re interested in the politics and history of Ireland, or the UK it’s a good listen

And it’s got a very rude Mo Mowlam joke.

Borderline: A postcard from the edge of the Union

There was a thing in Harry Potter where someone said don’t trust a magical object if you can’t see where it keeps it’s brain.

I feel you shouldn’t trust a website unless you can see how it makes it’s money.

#mbjune micro blog challenge day 11: brick

Two brick-y buildings with musical connections. I’m very much a fan of one, but not the other

📸 #mbjune Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 10: Rail

This is John Betjeman, at St Pancras station

He wrote a poem about a local station, Dilton Marsh Halt

“Was it worth keeping the Halt open, We thought as we looked at the sky Red through the spread of the cedar-tree, With the evening train gone by?

Yes, we said, for in summer the anglers use it, Two and sometimes three Will bring their catches of rods and poles and perches To Westbury, home for tea.

There isn’t a porter. The platform is made of sleepers. The guard of the last train puts out the light And high over lorries and cattle the Halt unwinking Waits through the Wiltshire night”

📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 9: Wood #mbjune

This is a ‘bug hotel’ in Salisbury Cathedral Close

Day 8: travel 📷 #mbjune

This isn’t the most exotic of locations. I was on my way up to the City Ground last season to watch Chelsea, and this is Kettering station. I think the ironwork is rather beautiful

I had a lovely time at the folk festival at the Salisbury military museum today, despite the dreadful weather

This David Mitchell is now my favourite David Mitchell, out of all the David Mitchells.

I took this photo shortly before getting shocked because I hadn’t turned the right switch off for the mains. I’m an idiot.

📷 Day 7: Switch #mbjune

I got over-excited yesterday and posted the wrong photo on the wrong day, so this is wrong too

It’s the Old Mill pub in Harnham, probably taken while out jogging, very, very slowly

📷 Day 06: Reflection #mbjune

📷 Day 5: Contrast #mbjune

📷 Day 4: Nostalgia #mbjune

Fascinating podcast episode about Gabriele D’Annunzio, who Mussolini called “The John the Baptist of Italian fascism”

My friend Tom talks to Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who wrote his biography

The Hated and the Dead - Gabriele D’Annunzio

I took this at Stonehenge on a winter solstice a few years back. The solstice is about sunshine and shadow, but I’d not seen this particular shadow before

#mbjune day 3: Shadow 📸

This is part of the Circus in Bath.

According to Rosemary Hill’s book on Stonehenge the Circus was inspired by Stonehenge, and inspired the traffic roundabout, so it’s a pivotal curve, perhaps?

#mbjune day 2: Curve 📸