Sunday Sea Songs

ONCE AGAIN MY TIME TO SHINE BABYYYY

welp

time to break out the Emotional Support Coal Mining Album again

A photo of Leicester cathedral as seen from the entrance, with a sign on the welcome desk which says "new audio guide available"

Leicester Cathedral has a new audio guide, and l'm delighted to announce that I'm the narrator.

Swing by sometime and let me (well... my voice) show you around!

12/10 humaning here

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You fill out my census
Like a Knight eating porridge
Like a mountaineers sing time
Like a duck named Lorraine
Like a worm eating breakfast
Like a cheap Billy Ocean
You fill out my census
Don’t film me again RS

Baby moorhens, also known as swimming pompoms, seen on the canal this morning. Two adults also in attendance. #UKCanals

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a prince trying to schmooze up a disinterested princess.

Honeyfuggle [HUHN-ee-FUHG-uhl]
*Also honeyfackle, honeyfugle, honeyfogle*
(v.)
-To flatter or sweet-talk to get what you want.
-To wheedle, blandish or cajole; to ballyhoo.

Used in a sentence:
“Oh, sweetie, if you think you can honeyfuggle me with your your mellifluous compliments—think again!”

YouTube video by Jon Boden - Topic Dream of the Ocean

🎶 but how they dreamed of the ocean
the children the clung to the stories we’d told
like a thing they could hold

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#pixelart #artpost

The road sign for the village of Loggerheads

We are at Loggerheads. Literally

got to see the Hookers in Denver over the weekend, and it was an absolute delight as always

y'all should check them out if you don't know them

YouTube video by Blair Crimmins and The Hookers - Topic The Krog Street Strut

🎶now more clearly I can see
I ain't got no need to leave
cos I laugh with the sinners that I used to hear
and I waltz with the demons that I used to fear

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Scorpio: Don't start a garden. Don't dig in your yard. Do not unearth the sins of the past.

YouTube video by Gordon Bok - Topic Jenny in the Roadstead

🎶 Now you're the skipper and your own damn boss, and the boss gets lonely, too
But don't you be thinking that any young buck is the best that you can do

Jenny, let the damn fool go

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YouTube video by Utah Phillips - Topic Larimer Street

🎶 and where will I go? and where can I stay? you've knocked down the skid row and hauled it away

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St Swithun Dreams of Rain Though famously housed in a shrine in Winchester Cathedral, St Swithun left instructions for his body to be buried outside the church, “ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis ex alto rorantibus esset obnoxius” trans: “where it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high” I desired a humble ending: entrusted to the earth, with the sky as a canopy, and drops of rain to wash away my pride. My successors thought otherwise. A Saint requires a marble tomb, central shrine, gold in abundance, they thought. No rain reaches me here. No water from above. When the floods tried to drown the foundations, I prayed they would let them, that the waters would scatter my bones amidst the collapse, that the cathedral would wash away in a swell of rain and I, fragmented as I am, would rest again as I wished, beneath vast and sodden skies.

It's St Swithun's Day, have a poem where he's grumpy about the way he was buried, and was actually really happy when Winchester Cathedral started to sink because it was built without foundations.

been training as a piano tuner and I JUST SUCCESSFULLY SET EQUAL TEMPERAMENT

pianos are silly

I'm so pleased

YouTube video by All Seasons Music Joshua Kadison - Beau's All Night Radio Love Line (Official Video)

🎶 and she says don't get me wrong about you and me
I just can't figure out what we're supposed to be

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An illustration inspired by the Brocken Spectre phenomenon - a figure full of light in the foreground is projected into shadow on the horizon. Or something.

A black and white illustration inspired by the Jonathan Miller adaptation of the M R James story Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, My Lad. A dark figure in the distance pursues a man pictured in silhouette against a sun setting over the sea

A black and white illustration of the Robert Eggars film Nosferatu. The figure of a woman in early Victorian high mourning walks through a snowy graveyard, flanked by two metal cross shaped grave markers

An ink drawing of the side view of a crow cawing

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absolutely bonkers

everything I read about this case is wilder than the last

A wide, disc-shaped robot with a happy face on its edge and four little banded legs on its underside.

310) Coasterbot. Waddles back and forth across the table just below any hovering drinks and catches them wherever they're placed down with a contented sigh as it folds its legs away. #SmallRobotsRemastered

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Scorpio: A close friend will let you down this week. Tell them how you feel. Or silently seethe about it until one of you dies.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Scorpio: Today is a day of good health and fortune (for others; for you, nothing but sorrow).

ok so crokinole

General Hardware is everyone's favorite Morris side, I don't make the rules

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A fish with extremely widely spaced eyes. By François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau - Compte rendu de l'expédition de Francis de Castelnau en Amérique du sud (exemplaire de la bibliothèque patrimoniale de Gray (France)), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11472979

Hey good news, I just learned about this fish

this feels a bit like the beginning of one of your books

(but what a Neat Little Guy!)

Brand new episode out today!

S4/E4 – Roud 34: THE BROOMFIELD WAGER
Historical guest: Brian Peters
Singer guest: @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social

Available from wherever you get your podcasts.