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hockney (62)in #health • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #book • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #europe • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #beersaturday • 4 years ago
#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…
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hockney (62)in #game • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #music • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #beersaturday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #comics • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #music • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #music • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #election • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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’…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #life • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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hockney (62)in #shirtonsunday • 4 years ago
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…
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