I could be tempted to go with a lovely bouquet of sprouts.
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I could be tempted to go with a lovely bouquet of sprouts.
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Three photos of a me aged about 10 wearing a kilt and playing a set of Highland pipes that look *way* too big for me.
Just found this trio of old photos of me with my first full set of Highland pipes. I hadn't quite grown into them!
Glad you think so! If you have a thirst for more Northumbrian piping, there's loads on my soundcloud! m.soundcloud.com/edric-ellis
There are some similarities of course - bellows-blown, and closed fingering - as well as (hopefully) an evocative sound. There are common ancestor pipes in I think about 1800 or so.
My pipes are Northumbrian smallpipes - you can't play Uilleann pipes standing up!
Northumbrian smallpipes are the best instrument! I grew up playing highland pipes, but NSP are just so much more fun to play.
Lolworth on the A14 near Cambridge regularly stinks of shit.
Looking forward to this tonight!
Was there a "Cedric" in Bede? No, but there was an "Edric". www.s-gabriel.org/names/aelfwy... ...
Backed. Is it too much to hope that for once there's a character named "Edric"? (Yeah, there was one in "Vikings Valhalla" - Streona - but they did insist on pronouncing his name very weirdly)
Camus come back into action at the St Neots Folk Club on 10th Feb stneotsfolkclub.co.uk/events.html
I'm booze free full time. If you like gin, the Adnams "Smidgin" is really good!
200% on the bastard cousin that is the M/D format.
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
Burns Night flyer showing me in a kilt playing Border Pipes
I'm doing some Border piping for Burns Night - Tickell Arms in Whittlesford; Royal Oak in Barrington; Cock in Hemingford Grey. All on the 25th. Yes, I'll be busy!
You are "Playtime Fontayne" off of The Viz, AICMFP
First artists announced and tickets now on sale! Come join us 31 July - 7 August 2026.
Line-up so far: sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/lineup/
Tickets: sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/
Well, they're not mouth-blown pipes...
I'm sure I once heard that "bless you" was necessary because it was thought that your soul temporarily left your body when you sneezed.
Plenty of MPI and CUDA, a little cloud stuff but not much. I had to look up RSE...
I set off the church burglar alarm trying to get a good photo of that chap.
The Bad Pennies will be “Winter Wandering” in December. 6th - Otley / 7th - Coddington / 12 - Middlesbrough / 15 - Bishop Auckland / 17 - Cramlington / 18 - Embleton / 19 - Green Hammerton / 20 - Beetham / 21 - Gateshead (2 shows). Not many tickets left for most of them!
It's almost tour time! Tickets at www.janandjon.com/live
Little did we know until 2016 that it was Lemmy single-handedly keeping the world in order. Once he went... chaos, death, destruction.
New #MATLAB Parallel Computing Onramp Launched!
This free, one-hour self-paced course teaches the basics of running MATLAB code in parallel using multiple CPU cores, helping you speed up your code and write code that handles information efficiently.
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A lot of our December gigs are almost sold out. More seats have been made available for the two Gateshead Glasshouse shows. Details on our website.
M-x yow
Some Northumbrian rants (and an air) from our recent @camusfolk.bsky.social gig in Weston Colville www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoC...
