Cape Town Hammer ⚒️

Managed a few new beers over the course of my visit to the UK 👍🍻

Time to leave the UK again for the sunny southern hemisphere, maybe a bit too sunny if this is what is predicted for Cape Town on my arrival tomorrow morning !!! 🇿🇦☀️ only a 33°C increase on today's temperature here in Basingstoke 🥶

Another win for the resurgent Hammers. This time against Brentford in the FA Cup. 2-2 at the end of extra time, West Ham led twice before a late penalty drew Brentford level. A 5-3 penalty shoot out win gives the Hammers a hone tie against Leeds in the quarter finals #COYI ⚒️🏆😀

Jabberwocky

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Creating a new category for today's tunes, Collaboration Monday ..... starting with the Nolan/Wakeman Jabberwocky from 2021 (my assumption is this arose from a Covid lockdown conversation on Skype!)
open.spotify.com/album/0gTenG...

After meeting up with son for a muddy walk along the Basingstoke canal today I am meeting up with daughter and her family for a muddy walk in Micheldever woods. 👣👣👣👣

A bit of Simple Minds for me at the Marquee 👍

Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify More chilling tune from Sunchild ....
open.spotify.com/album/1egEEs...

Gentō

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Chilling out on a Saturday morning with Bioscope, the collaboration between Marillion's Steven Rothery & Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning ....
open.spotify.com/album/5ov1TW...

Yes for me too :-)

Left the North of England and family there and now down in the South of England at a Green King Inn for the next few days visiting more family before I head back to Cape Town next week.

After yesterday's one-sided T20 World Cup semi-final between RSA 🇿🇦 and NZ 🇳🇿 hopefully today's match between ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and IND 🇮🇳 will more competitive #COE 🏏🏆

In honour of yesterday's win ⚒️😁 #COYI

Yesssssss West Ham finally manage to hold on to a lead ... Fulham 0 v 1 West Ham. A MASSIVE three points... #COYI ⚒️😁

We can finish the Premier League now please #COYI ⚒️😁

OK, not a great start for South Aftica with early wicket loss. Dodgy catch removing the captain didn't help either. Competitive total, 169, posted in the end thanks to Jansen's 50. Early wickets vital in the NZ run chase... #COZA 🇿🇦

Watching RSA 🇿🇦 v 🇳🇿 NZ in 🏏 T20 World Cup ... #COZA 📣

A beautiful day in the North of England 🙂

Woodcut

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify I couldn't resist another (digital) spin of the new Big Big Train album and I have to admit it gets better with every listen 👍 ....
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

Awesome ..... not long until they are playing Minecraft, creating their own world to inhabit 😁🧠☢️ #armagedontime
www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Weekend Project with new Arduino Nesso N1. My go to with any new gadget or gizmo, a weather station. The program connects to WiFi, gets weather info from OpenWeather API and then displays a summary of the current conditions. Button on the Nesso and touchscreen to refresh or auto 10 mins 🤓 #geeksrule

England v Pakistan at T20 World Cup, England being England and making hard work of a relatively low score by Pakistan ..... #COE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Having fun with my new IoT device. Not sure what I am going to do with it yet when I am back in Cape Town 🤓 #geek #nerd #IoT #Arduino

An Hour Before It's Dark (Full Suites Version)

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Back to the Latest Release thread with 2022 epic AHBID from Marillion .....
open.spotify.com/album/5vyd07...

It is a banger to start the album 👍🤘

Favourite track ? For me its "The Old Man And The Angel" 🧓👼

Once Around The World

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify back to more recent times, a paltry 38 years ago for a classic album from It Bites ....
open.spotify.com/album/4mbynq...

Selling England by the Pound (2007 Stereo Mix)

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Back in time after playing some recent releases, a mere 53 years ago ..... more than a lifetime for some sadly ....
open.spotify.com/album/1rZGSW...

I too am easily swayed seeing what others are playing 😀

Dominion

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Continuing the "Latest release" thread with 2025's Dominion from IQ ....
open.spotify.com/album/0jGsa4...

Widdershins

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Kicking off the week with the latest from @gandalfsfist.bsky.social ....
open.spotify.com/album/0FyxRv...