Parseword #84
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Goodnight Blue Sky

Rope sculptures.

Rope sculptures.

Exhibition in the YSP Weston Gallery was a bit ropey.

Woollen sculpture flowing over the floor of a chapel.

Woollen sculpture flowing over the floor of a chapel.

Three vertical sculptures in a rural setting.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
One of my favourite places on the planet.

Ouch!

www.maptap.gg April 21
97🔥 99🎯 87🎉 69😁 77👏
Final score: 808

Parseword #83
⏱️ 1m15s
⭐️ No Hints
🐑 Secret Found

www.maptap.gg April 20
100🎯 92🏆 71😂 100🎯 99🎯
Final score: 931

Let myself down with Arkansas. Shit the bed in Canada. Damn fine for the rest.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Found a gun in discarded jacket in 1970s Huddersfield.

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On phone to one my team in the Middle East during the Friday protest unrest. As we spoke, the protestors broke through the cordon into the hotel.
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Having beer at entrance to alley in smalltown Arkansas. Six cars, heavily armed cops tackled a guy in the alley.

Lovely piece on Substack about Andy Kershaw in Cuba, and about radio in general.

Jon Cleary, as well as being one of my favourite living musicians, is a super writer.

Don’t know how much will be visible.

open.substack.com/pub/joncleary/p/farewell...

Turns out that the dickhead sitting in my living room drinking tea out of my mug, doesn’t know which large island off the coast of China is Taiwan.

Ok on the US ones - been to both Boston and Connecticut.

www.maptap.gg April 19
100🎯 98🎯 92🏆 74🤗 91👑
Final score: 877

The thing is that the gear: lycra, clip/clop shoes, GPS, is all part of the scene, one needs to be able to buy the high status gear, in order to be able to talk about it loudly to one’s wanker chums.

..the trouble is that cycling has become the next golf for a certain type of man.

An open French Window overlooking a sunny day.

A glorious day. French windows open for the first time this year.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - streaming How to watch "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" on Netflix and other services – including free options.

Found this very moving, drink had been taken (hat tip @gnomeandaway.bsky.social)

www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the...

Why don't Sony cameras come with a photo app called AndShare?

GIVEN that 99.9% of us are incapable of making a record of any description, I think it is grossly unfair that artistes who have achieved a solitary success on the hit parade are insultingly referred to as 'One-Hit Wonders'. Let me assure your readers that, had I written Kung Fu Fighting, I would spend every waking hour waving my cock around and referring to everyone I met as 'no-hit cunts'. Kevin Caswell-Jones, Gresford

This is how I feel about having made the bestseller list at #15 for a single month in February 2020

Any wanking waiters yet?

Just pipped you.

www.maptap.gg April 18
97🔥 97🔥 83🌟 97🔥 99🎯
Final score: 948

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Sorry to hear that my old sparring partner Andy Kershaw has passed away. His eclectic taste in music and enthusiastic promotion of the artists he loved made him a brilliant broadcaster

Loved his Health and Happiness shows on the radio in probably the mid-80s. Hardly anyone was playing music like that on mainstream radio.

A colleague didn’t recognise me in my glasses so I tried to joke “I’m Clark Kent” but accidentally declared “I’m Ken Clarke”

👏👏

In my mid teens if someone had said to me “when you are middle aged, the leader of the opposition is a black woman and the leader of the party polling in third is Jewish”, I really would have had a much more optimistic idea of how the future was panning out.

I love a tall building.
I’ve been up what was, at the time, the tallest building in..
Saudi Arabia
China

The current third tallest in the USA and the current tallest in the world.

As a bonus, also been up Lincoln Cathedral that was the tallest in the world for over 200 years.

Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511   Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127   how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette   Limeraiku   There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku   Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip.   Shakespearean Haiku   Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot.   How to Write a Haiku   The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus.    Brian Bilston  

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.