Sláinte!

Cheers Des. All the best.

A wedding engagement (not mine) keeps me from being at the Vale for today’s @wealdstonefc.bsky.social game against Scunthorpe. But here’s something for Stones fans to be getting on with - picture taken at Northwick Park tube station en route. UTS!

Peonies.

Gwaith Dur Port Talbot (manylyn)
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Stan Getz - Bob Brookmeyer
Recorded Fall 1961
with Steve Kuhn (piano), Roy Haynes (drums) and John Neves (bass).
(Verve Records, 1962).

Morning Des. My local record shop in the 1980s (Discoveries in Wealdstone) was not just a place to buy records but to hang out and catch the up on the latest. Would probably now be called a ‘cultural hub’.

Thank you Chris. My copy of ‘Move Over Darling’ awaits the treatment.

A moment of delight in a dirty old world.

Morning Des.

Better looking by far A personal solution to the inscription conundrum

My latest ‘Hanging Out a Window’ column has just been published and it reflects on a personal solution to the ‘inscription conundrum’. Read and subscribe (free) here: johnearls.substack.com/p/better-loo...

This.
Boots on the Ground.
Massive Attack and Tom Waits
youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

Good morning Des. Wonderful. Enjoy your travels.

Cheers Des.

Morning Des. Taking aim.

We now have a dedicated Mono Media Films Shop in association with the Dirtee Pigeons site.
More info. here - dirteepigeons.com/collections/...
Mono Media Films has spent over a decade telling stories rooted in music, culture and British icons.

Morning Des.

Fabulous performance by Rebecca Lucy Taylor as Millie Frisby in ‘Teeth ‘N’ Smiles’ at Duke of York’s theatre tonight.

Cheers Des. Have a great time.
I’m at the theatre tonight.

Morning Des. Safe trip.

Cheers Des. All the best. And thank you. Always try and have something - no matter how small- to look forward to.

The House That Came Back To Life When we bought the Time Capsule House two years ago, it had been standing empty and looked a little forlorn.

New Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/chrissto...

Art review: Nigerian Modernism and Beatriz González Two fascinating story-telling exhibitions at Tate Modern and Barbican, London

It’s a super exhibition.
johnearls.substack.com/p/art-review...

Gardd
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“…I could fall asleep at night as a rock & roll star…”

Morning Des.

“You know what you’re getting” announces the MC to the faithful when introducing the first of The Necks’ two outstanding concerts today at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social (a venue they have played over 30 times now). Indeed we do. And we are grateful.

Love may conquer all, but this closes on Sunday. If you're around the West End it' s well worth half an hour of your time before it goes back to Berlin. And it's free entry (one in the eye for J*nr*ck).

Thank you so much for the reminder Helen. Popped in to the Caravaggio on my way through town today. Fabulous. Took a wander round the rest of the collection afterwards and inevitably got very happily lost in it all.