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Music fan, comic reader, board game player, and all round (im)mature person
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2018-05-24 08:25
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hockney
health
2020-03-01 11:25
Don't worry about foreign diseases, you're more likely to die of a domestic one
On a group on another social media outlet, a folk club organiser posted about whether concert venues should be doing more to stop the spread of corona-virus. He suggested "deep cleaning" before
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hockney
book
2020-02-11 15:03
Belka, Why Don't You Bark? (a book report)
Trying something different... ! Belka, Why Don't You Bark? by Hideo Furukawa (translated by Michael Emmerich) Synopsis "Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? begins in 1943, when Japanese troops retreat from
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hockney
europe
2020-02-02 17:15
YOU are a FOREIGNER (and so am I)
I was walking to the supermarket on Friday, as the sun set on Britain's last day in the European Union, mulling the nature of xenophobia and the stupidity of labelling people 'foreigners'. "Go back
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hockney
beersaturday
2020-01-17 17:48
#beersaturday: Drinking by Halves
Half a percent, that is! Yesterday, we were in a big Tesco's store far from home and they had a selection of low- and no-alcohol beers. Health and budget are on our minds this year in the Hockney household,
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game
2020-01-12 12:05
The Isle of Cats Board Game - A Review
The Isle of Cats was a ridiculously successful Kickstarter campaign last year, driven by the internet’s core feature of distributing pictures of cats. Of course I bought a copy. The plot involves the imminent
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hockney
music
2020-01-11 15:16
Steem Concert Challenge
The ever-rocking @verhp11 has started this challenge and @steevc nominaterised me in his post, so here goes... First concert: Gillan - Reading Top Rank, 16th December 1981, supported by Budgie Last concert:
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hockney
beersaturday
2020-01-04 15:57
Beer Saturday - return to The Swan
Once upon a time, The Swan was the best pub in Staines. But that was when we first moved into the area nearly 20 years ago. Every few years it suffers a facelift and loses a little more of what made it
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hockney
comics
2020-01-02 18:55
Small but wonderful reward
The other day,@katharsisdrill wrote a post recommending we do many things, including back a comic on IndieGoGo. I followed the link and was impressed enough to put some money in. Yesterday they announced
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hockney
music
2020-01-01 11:24
My Top Ten Favorites Music Albums of The Decade
I blame @gibic. Their 'My Top Ten Favorites Music Albums of The Decade' was at the top of my feed when I didn't know what music to listen to. It's a damn fine selection, but not even close to what I've
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shirtonsunday
2019-12-22 11:46
A Shirt on Sunday: Dweezil Zappa - 4/12/2019 - Royal Festival Hall
My December began with two Frank Zappa tribute concerts. First, the Zappadan Zappajam, wherein various West London Zappa fans perform in a community hall in Acton, and then this - Hot Rats performed by
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music
2019-12-21 16:28
Happy 79th Birthday Frank Zappa
T-shirts from my collection Today is the end of 'Zappadan' - stretching from 4th December, the day Frank Zappa died in 1993, to today, his birthday. FZ was famous for many things, but mostly the poster
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shirtonsunday
2019-12-15 13:13
A Shirt on Sunday: Campaign for Real Ale - 1990s
I’ve been drinking real ale for about 35 years, and been a member of CAMRA for nearly as long. The Campaign for Real Ale was founded in 1971 and is the UK’s largest consumer organisation on a single topic,
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election
2019-12-12 19:29
Trying to maintain an election when all the parties are limp.
I'm in the UK, so today I have voted, but with little expectation of changing the party in power in my electorate. It was tough to decide who to vote for, so I acted as though we were a sensible democracy,
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hockney
shirtonsunday
2019-12-08 10:13
A Shirt on Sunday: Roger Waters - 6/11/2010 - Madison Square Garden
Late autumn in 1979, after school one day, Nigel said we should go to his house because his dad had a copy of the new Pink Floyd album. I wasn’t a Floyd fan - I was just starting to explore heavy metal
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shirtonsunday
2019-12-01 11:52
A Shirt on Sunday: Waco - 9/11/2019 - Hard Rock Hell 2019
In the previous shirt I went through the main stage bands at Hard Rock Hell. The main stage room was low-ceilinged, with a stage that came too far forward and had the ‘VIP’ seating area right in front,
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hockney
shirtonsunday
2019-11-24 12:20
A Shirt on Sunday: Hard Rock Hell 2019 - Great Yarmouth
Two weeks after HRH Prog I was off to my next HRH event, this time in their new holiday camp location on the edge of Great Yarmouth. When I did a holiday camp festival, this at the start of this year,
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life
2019-11-21 20:34
Fighting Aliens, with Furry Feet
When you're fighting Aliens on the Nostromo, it's essential to have the assistance of a stroppy tabby cat. Humphrey and me playing 'Legendary Encounters: ALIEN', one of the finest deck building games out
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shirtonsunday
2019-11-17 12:23
A Shirt on Sunday: Frank Zappa 25 - 1990
“Once upon a time there was a guy who thought that music was important and that rock 'n' roll songs ought to say something different in their lyrics. So he wrote a few hundred of these items, trying to
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hockney
shirtonsunday
2019-11-10 11:29
A Shirt on Sunday: HRH Prog - 26-27/10/2019 - Shepherds Bush Empire
I’ve been to a few HRH events over the last couple of years, but this was different for two reasons - It was in London at Shepherds Bush Empire, meaning we could commute, and Janet came along as well!
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hockney
shirtonsunday
2019-11-03 11:50
A Shirt on Sunday: Delta Blues Museum - 22/5/2014
As part of our driving holiday up the Mississippi, we stopped for a couple of nights in Clarksdale, one of the more well-known crossroads and an excellent base to explore the delta blues region. One of
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