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#PlayEverything in my record collection (@ 74%) #MonksMusic currently explores my obsession with Medieval & Renaissance music Here for music and art. #ASD but not in a good way. I post disability stories but avoid politics. Not a monk, don't dance

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Purcell, Songs and Airs, Emma Kirkby, Rooley, Hogwood
A young woman plays a baroque guitar & a young man reads a music book

Purcell, Songs and Airs, Emma Kirkby, Rooley, Hogwood A young woman plays a baroque guitar & a young man reads a music book

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Henry Purcell - Songs and Airs

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Dire

08.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm now seeing a lot of adverts for holidays in the US & Dubai. Two places I'd avoid like the plague

08.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pieter Hellendaal – Six Grand Concertos For Violins Op 3

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Out Now!

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection No 761 (2026 Vol 10)

www.mixcloud.com/upload/Cloud...

7 New LPs of the Week
2 CBQ Items
7 Back Catalogue LPs of the Week
20 Further New Things Into the Library

Grab your pen and paper to jot down top sounds you want to investigate further!

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Having a @gailmyerscough.co.uk kind of afternoon

08.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you hadn't already guessedd, it's a pun on Violins

08.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This, all day & every day

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This week music will be predominantly from this lot

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Willem de Fesch - VI Concerti Opera Quinta

08.03.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Spotify – Web Player

Female composers for the viol for International Women’s Day 2026. Worthy of a celebration!

open.spotify.com/playlist/1Dx...

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Morning Roy

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1

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Rambling on

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Morning Andy

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A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)

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Despite being place for over four years, I'm still surprised by motorists who don't know Rules 8 or 170 of the Highway Code

08.03.2026 10:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

or November

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Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer – Sei Concerti Armonici
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

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Musique of Violenze <p>'Musique of Violenze' ('violins', not 'violence'): Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as something of a dancer (see picture above) and this disc contains a medley of the sort of music which was…

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Year - c.1591
Work - Musique of Violenze
Band - The Parley of Instruments
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_... 1591

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Done all three

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Saturday morning music.

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1

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Vigin Mary praying

Vigin Mary praying

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Missa Nunca fue pena mayor - Francisco de Penalosa

07.03.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or T shirt?

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Illustration of the Toast Rack building in Manchester

Illustration of the Toast Rack building in Manchester

New in - The Toast Rack.

The Hollings Building is a Manchester brutalist icon and now you can have it on your wall.
Available as a print and a greeting card.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...

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They're floating

07.03.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Aren't those normal?

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Annibale Padovano
Missa A la dolc' ombra

07.03.2026 08:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A monochrome β€˜spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

A monochrome β€˜spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please β€˜like’ or share this one?)

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