You’d think adding meaning and emotion to music you already know and love all your life would be difficult? Well it was done with 8 musicians playing #MikeOldfield - extended sections of #TubularBells II and III, and the entirety of TB1. A joy and thrill from beginning to end. #Prog #ProgRock
Some wonderful #JellyEar #fungus stretching high in two lengths of a rotting tree in the #DelamereForest #Mycology #Fungi
Last night's #MIKA gig - The most deafening gig I have been to for audience sing along - about 15,000 people belting out #BigGirl, #Lollipop, #GraceKelly, and others. Very good show. An evening with music about love, affirmation and acceptance. #spinningouttour #hyperlove
So, my transition from the last 15 months of being a #DementiaCarer is well underway. My MIL is now too far gone with #Alzheimers and #VascularDementia for care at home. This equipment collected. Job applications going in, having left my job January 2025 to carry her as far as we can. #Dementia
New video up:
A reminiscence of #TwentyØnePiløts concert in May 2025 for The #Clancy World Tour. Why it was my standout best moment of 2025. And how I went from being someone who liked just one album to a fan of #TylerJoseph and #JoshDun.
#SkeletonClique #TwentyOnePilots
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Thanks John - that’s a really good find. One day I’ll see about another trip out that way to take a look among things
A couple kms of deep sloppy #mud on a walk today. I wasn’t anticipating #this much. Thankfully water draining off fields rinsed the worst off. But dog was still straight into the shower when we got back, and complete footwear change for me and trousers change. #mudmudgloriousmud #winterbornekingston
Looking forward to more time with my own garden this year. A couple hours tidying things today. My BIG #acer flushed with coloured extremities primed for the new season. #WitchHazel with its ribbons, and hazel #Contorta with catkins, and of course, a few #snowdrops. #Gardening
In #Madrid last week, I looked to vary routes as much as possible. It does pay off. On one variation, I looked up and was pleased to see these - turns out to be #Salamanders, though the property is called #CasadelosLagartos (House of #Lizards). It is on Calle de Mejía Lequerica. #Modernism
In #Madrid last week, if having to travel (walk) between the same two points more than once, I looked to vary the route as much as possible to take in views I would otherwise miss by a street or two. It does pay off. Came across this building of #PalacioLongoria - amazing #ArtNouveau building
Spent the afternoon in #MiddleEarth with the director’s cut of The #TwoTowers.
Scene after scene punches with its respective emotion. Theoden grieving Theodred punched hard. Bernard Hill drew from somewhere very real in those moments.
Such a monumental story, magnificent films. #LordOfTheRings
#MonkParakeets - loads of them all over #Madrid. You could hear them squawking. Loved their green plumage. This is in the #ParquedelOeste.
Probably the only statue to the #FallenAngel. The tour mentioned this was 666 metres above sea level. And therefore some have read a lot into this. But much of the park and a lot of #Madrid has this elevation. My phone compass agrees with a small +- error. #AngelCaido #Retiro #RetiroPark
Took a solo day trip to #Toledo midweek. Magnificent #Mediaeval city - will post more on this. Happy day seeking out historic sites and sights (well, the whole place) and some legends. This is the Puente de Alcántara, you can get close to the river’s edge on a path. #Spain
“#SpanishInquisition and Legends of #Madrid” tour, very wet for most of it. The guide, Violeta, was brilliant. Clear enthusiastic communicator. The group was interesting too, four Mexicans and a Russian lady. Good way to finish the last full day. #GhostTour #mythsandlegends #horriblehistories
Bookends of the day, #sunrise and #sunset today. It’s been a beautiful one. 🙏☀️ #Madrid #Amenecer #Ocaso
I’ll never tire of the shifting universe of #clouds and their interplay with light. Always amazes me. #BothSidesNow #FarAboveTheClouds
#Sunset at #TemploDebod in #Madrid. Magnificent vibes.
That’s my wife’s and her colleague’s presentation!
A flyer giving details for a panel discussion at WCQR2026
Panel presentation at #WCQR2026 Critical Incident Semantic Analysis: Advancing Narrative and Identity Research in Qualitative Studies with Digital Tools. See flyer for more details.
www.cisatools.com
@ludomedia.bsky.social
#QualitativeResearch #CAQDAS #DataAnalysis #WCQR
Watched first two released episodes of #StarTrek: #StarfleetAcademy Not at all what I was expecting. Stylistically and tonally very different, but actually VERY good, and very funny. Many Easter Eggs to other #Trek REALLY looking forward to seeing where they go with this.
#Sunrise and #Sunset yesterday. Rise over the site of a huge landfill site with fields which would have had the #HS2 train boring through them. Set at a vast #PeatBog, Once part of miles of Chat Moss between Manchester and Warrington
Cheesy #Swedish electronic #europop? Oh yeah 👍 👊Have given this two plays through today, having discovered the track #Caramelldansen in the last year or so. It’s going to become a go-to feel-good album methinks. Have been persuading myself to listen to this for a while. #Caramell #Supergott
Incredible light during the first hour of daylight today, as cloud drifted across and filtered sunlight into diffuse golden glow. View with my camera, #SelsleyHill in the centre, #RodboroughHill on the horizon. #Stroud #Cotswolds #Sunrise #Moody
The Stroudwater Navigation #canal froze over in last couple days and had covering of snow overnight. This day last year the Frome was flooding into the canal in places! #Stroud #Cotswolds
#Sunrise and #sunset today, first glow and last glow.
#FullMoon #MoonSet #WolfMoon this morning with a bonus #Chimney #Caminology bird and birch
Beautiful morning. View from Doverow Hill down to Ebley, and #Stroud #Cotswolds #SunnyDay
A visit to St Anthony’s Well in the #ForestOfDean. Wanted to revisit as it IS a very special site. The light is glorious. Had it to myself for about 30 seconds before barking dogs, crying toddlers, and bathers needing privacy. No let up in for an hour, so, midweek term time visit required… #HolyWell
Of course 👍. I have no way of checking for sure anyway 🤷♂️🙂
