Life & Times

Abandoned agricultural machinery 📷

Agricultural machinery

The new feeding station for the birds is open for business 🌱

bird feeding station

Saturday ride

strava route

Listening to From Dreams to Dust by The Felice Brothers on Tidal. I first discovered this band when I was looking for music to play on my Monday Music Mix show on ITfM Radio back in the day. 🎶

What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about?

“This is a mad way to run the country,” confessed a member of the government.

Whether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce.

Bravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, …

What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about?

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Two Fingers by Sea Power

This is the first track released from the new album, Everything was Forever, due February 2022. 🎶

Two Fingers by Sea Power

I’m enjoying using the Argentum Camera app on my iPhone. Here are a couple of images from today’s early morning walk with “the boy” over the fields. 📷 fields

fields

Lest We Forget

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word—
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!

Source: A Choice of Kipling’s Verse (1943)

twin towers memorial, new york

Sony a6300, Sony E 16-70 F4 ZA OSS, …

Lest We Forget

Listening to A Beautiful Life by Heartless Bastards on Tidal. This band had passed me by, but pleased that they’re now on my radar. This album will be high on my “Best of 2021” list in December. 🎶

Listen here

heartless bastards — a beautiful life cover