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If you’re wondering who to vote for in UKs local elections

In case you’re still wondering who to vote for in this May’s local elections, here’s a list of Tory achievements during the last thirteen years:

If you’re wondering who to vote for in UKs local elections

Currently listening to … Fuse by Everything But The Girl.

fuse by everything but the girl

This is the first album from EBTG in 24 years - it was worth the wait! Listen on Spotify 🎶

Despite it raining in Devon almost every day since we moved here in October last year, South West Water is imposing a hosepipe ban on us from 25th April.

south west water hosepipe ban

Since last summer, our region has been in drought. Low rainfall and high demand have stopped our reservoirs from recovering to levels we would …

This made me chuckle. Read the A-Z of Tory sleaze here

a-z of Tory sleaze poster

We need to check the tide times when walking the dog, as it’s easy to get caught on the wrong side of the causeway if we get it wrong.

photo of a flooded estuary end of the road

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

Currently listening to … Multitudes from Feist.

“Feist-Multitudes

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Roon—Not Only For Audiophiles Part 1

Why invest in Roon when Apple’s Music (the app, not the service) and Spotify are “free?”

I wanted to use Apple Music to bring all my music into one place, consisting of over 2,000 albums I’ve ripped or purchased that sat on a Synology NAS and music from Apple’s streaming service. …

Roon—Not Only For Audiophiles Part 1

The walk down into Hope Cove, Devon.

photo of Hope Cove, Devon, UK

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

Listening to … Dub No Frontiers by Adrian Sherwood

This was recommended by i newspaper’s Ian Dunt, who said:

Really well thought-through collection by British producer Adrian Sherwood, who challenges the male-dominated world of reggae with a female-only album. That’s laudable, …

One of the things I really appreciate about roon is the discovery tab that surfaces music in your library that you haven’t listened to for a while. This is today’s:

image of the rise and fall of ziggy stardust from roon

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