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A cocker spaniel standing beside a large puddle in a field in the bottom of a green tree lined valley, the sun shining down and reflecting in the water

A cocker spaniel walking into the woods with the sun shining down through the trees

Sunshine over a green tree lined valley where a cocker spaniel is walking along a field beside an old mill lodge

Sunshine over a tree lined valley; a cocker spaniel walks on a grassy bank between two old mill lodges

Good morning Blueskies! Beautiful spring day in the Vale, sunshine overhead, flood water and frost underfoot; set fair for an amble this afternoon; in the meantime, boot care and coffee; let’s Saturday!

Sleepy Doggo on the couch with a blue cone on

Probably, I’d say. Robyn is dancing by herself. Bewildering. Bewilderingly great. Wassis next: acquiesce. IDLES. Samaritan. Nos. Da.

The Cure next, Disintegration. Happy Birthday Fat Bob! Feeder are Feeling a Moment now; could well be new walking to work music… the algorithm has given us Ryan Gosling doing I’m Just Ken at th’Oscars; brilliant. As is I Started a Joke by Faith No More; possibly the greatest video ever…?

We were all woken with a bang, Yard Act, who are giving 100% Endurance. Still think of this as their Bill Is Dead, courtesy Lauren Laverne. Moonlight Shadow by Mike Oldfield and chums. Haven’t heard this in a while and it is a choon. Manics. Greatest Rock and Roll Song Ever. #MotorcycleEmptiness

Blooming app lost our draft: we had Drop Kick Murphys Shipping Off to Boston; more classic Americana with My Chemical Romance and their Black Parade; actual Irish music with Zombies by The Cranberries. Keep it Celtic: Kân by Calan, despite Welsh not having the letter K?

Back to music. Kneecap doing Liars Tale, can’t be long till their next album? Yeah Yeah Yeahs Spitting Off the Edge of the World (with world #1 twink Perfume Genius); videotastic; by way of an aside, m’col is snuggled on the couch and has just dropped an air biscuit that is degrading tooth enamel

CMAT doing Stay for Something on Graham Norton now; definitive; would normally have this later but will allow it because: epic; as is This is a Low by Blur. Originally typed Blue there, that would have been a very different song. Break now to listen to Mark Kermode and Bill Forsyth talk Local Hero

Brandi Carlile going Church and State at Red Rocks; one of the great videos: Lion Rumpus by Mogwai. Didn’t even mind they didn’t play it the other week. It was the walking into work music; wonder what the next one will be? Ferocious Dog (and Hazel O’Connor) doing Stay Now. Two weeks away!

It is Friday! And #FridayNightIsMusicNight! Let’s go: The Boss doing Rainy Night in Soho; Idlewild with Stay out of Place; MJ Lenderman with a cracking version of She’s Leaving You; The Stuffies doing Mission Drive; a great ambling song, maybe the greatest: Men-An-Tol by Levellers; chooons!

A cocker spaniel on the woods, a sky of light and cloud viable through the leafless canopy of the trees

Good evening Blueskies! Busy day. Until it wasn’t. Went to bandit country for lunch with manager, bitched a bit, did a handover, and another job over: life is full of new beginnings. And ambles. But gloomy this evening, and damp, and cold, but there were deer and there was us, in the woods.

🎬 Film reveal - 13/03/2026

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Strong on Pegg, strong on the causes of Pegg

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#Llamagrama 333 - Hero Academy
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Pips #207 Hard 🔴
34:28
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Pips #207 Medium 🟡
4:48

Pips #207 Easy 🟢
1:25

Strands #740
“Mountain band”
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That’s not how you etc etc etc

a black and white cat is sitting on a pillow on a bed . Alt: Gif of a black and white kitten setting into a pillow on a bed in a disgruntled manner

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“Great” #Wordle
One of them ones. Yet again.

A cocker spaniel in a grey and blue coat on the bank of an old mill lodge in a green tree lined valley

Good morning Blueskies! Bright and brisk and breezy in the Vale today; bit of winter to remind us we’re not quite into Spring yet; faff today includes a trip to forn parts for handover, and new car! Let’s Friday!

A cocker spaniel wearing a yellow and black coat on a path beside signs saying FOOTWAY AHEAD CLOSED with another sign saying PEDESTRIANS with an arrow pointing to the right below it; the dog has walked past the sign toward some trees

Good evening Blueskies! Busy day. TCMoH’s birthday, hence lateness; today we were mostly being ungovernable.

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Calling bullshit twice on that one, The Grauniad

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#Llamagrama 332 - Rainstorm
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Pips #206 Hard 🔴
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Pips #206 Medium 🟡
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Strands #739
“Out-and-out”
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Murcan!

an older man wearing glasses and a blue sweater is making a funny face . Alt: Bernie Sanders isn’t angry with you, he’s just disappointed

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“Phew” #Wordle
One of them ones, obviously. Again.

A cocker spaniel staging beside an old mill lodge in a green tree lined valley beneath grey skies; he is licking his lips

Good morning Blueskies! Wild windy and wonderful in the Vale today. Day full of faff already, let’s button up, batten the hatches and get through it - let’s Thursday!

A cocker spaniel on a large flat field edged with trees, a line of trees behind the dog, sunset on the horizon giving the grey clouds a golden glow

Good evening Blueskies! Busy day? Kind of. Tidying up and that. Our evening amble was breezy but dry and we had an actual, honest to goodness sunset.