A picture of the book The Umbrella Man And Other Stories by Martin Fitzgerald.

Cheers Martin, its arrived this afternoon.

A picture of 6 vinyl records. Pixies - Live In Newport, Blur -live at the Budokan, K-Pop Demon Hunters Soundtrack, Bruce Springsteen- Live from Asbury Park, Carly Rae Jepsen - Disco Darling, and Fall Out Boy - So Much For (20UR) Dust.

A successful, and also expensive @recordstoredayuk.bsky.social 2026!

Got an email from Waterstones yesterday that it has been posted to me.

2 Space 2 Balls was right there as well.

Still can't beelieve they didn't call it 2 Bee Or Not 2 Beekeeper!

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A busy March of cinema visits, so how'd I rate the new releases?
1 Project Hail Mary
2 Hoppers
3 Arco
4 Ready Or Not: Here I Come
5 Splitsville
6 EPIC Elvis Presley In Concert
7 How To Make A Killing
8 The Bride
9 The Good Boy
10 The Magic Faraway Tree
11 Mothers Pride
12 One Last Deal

129 so far, 39 at the cinema.

Given the release this week of Project Hail Mary how about A Mount Rushmore of live action films featuring non humanoid co-stars.

Conan O’Brien torturing a child into trying to clap at the Oscars.

See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

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Quite a lot of visits to @cineworld.bsky.social in February, so how'd I rate em
1 Sentimental Value
2 Little Amelie
3 The Secret Agent
4 The Moment
5 Have Fun Good Look Don't Die
6 Wasteman
7 Hamlet
8 Send Help
9 Crime 101
10 Cold Storage
11 Wuthering Heights
12 Day The Earth Blew Up
13 Goat

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What a month of cinema visits January was with a fantastic selection of films.
1 Marty Supreme
2 Hamnet
3 No Other Choice
4 Is This Thing On?
5 Rental Family
6 Song Sung Blue
7 History of Sound
8 Housemaid
9 Giant
10 Shelter
11 Mercy

I remember asking my cousin what she thought of the epilogue to The Handmaid's Tale only to find out she didn't realise it existed.

Guessing whoever watched Grave Of The Fireflies wanted to make sure they couldn't possibly be as sad again this year as you are after watching that.

Never mind Stranger Things, I appreciated The Goofy Movie tie-in on Raw

First watch The Six Triple Eight Last watch Deep Cover

Letterboxd 2025 stat showing Willem Dafoe the most watched actor, and Hayao Miyazaki as the most watched director

Director makes sense as I watched every Ghibli film in 2025. Actor was a surprise, suppose it shows just how good and versatile Dafoe is.

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Ending 2025 with the last few new films I saw at the cinema.
1 Eternity
2 Avatar: Fire & Ash
3 Fackham Hall
4 Ella McKay
5 Anaconda

The Robot from Robot Dreams?

I got the shotgun, you got the set piece.

To me, my X-Mas!

Always wondered if they played it as we missed the start of the set.

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November was a big month of cinema visits to cineworld and FACT Cinema
1 Running Man
2 Zootropolis 2
3 Nuremberg
4 Wicked For Good
5 The Choral
6 Relay
7 Christy
8 Now You See Me Now You Don't
9 Christmas Karma

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October was a cracking month of cinema visits to @cineworld.bsky.social and FACT Cinema.
1 Bugonia
2 I Swear
3 Springsteen- Deliver Me From Nowhere
4 Roofman
5 The Smashing Machine
6 Good Boy
7 Good Fortune
8 Tron Ares
9 After The Hunt

A jigsaw of an artwork of Wiener Prater.

Got my dad a jigsaw of Wiener Prater from the Prater museum. Nice to see he's finished it.

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A busy September of cinema trips to cineworld and FACT. Some great new films!
1 One Battle After Another
2 The Long Walk
3 The Cut
4 Spinal Tap 2
5 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
6 Grand Prix Of Europe
7 Downton Abbey 3
8 Honey Don't

Magnets from Austrian amusement parks and Vienna

My magnet merch haul from my short trip to Austria.

It’s their day today 🎶🕺🏻

Wiener Looping at Prater

St Stephens Cathedral in Vienna

Last proper day in Austria today so were able to take it easy popping into Prater when it first opened to ride everything we'd missed yesterday, then a nice afternoon in central Vienna, before a few more hours at Prater mainly taking in the atmosphere.

Bieberberg at Family Park

Bucklbarn at Eis Greissler

Wiener Prater at night

Then today it was three parks. We started at the lovely Family Park, loads of fun rides. Loved the new intamin log flume Bieberberg. Then it was into Eis Greissler an ice cream factory to ride Bucklbarn. Then we headed to Vienna and had a great evening at Wiener Prater. Looked amazing at night.